Need some advise from y'all...
During our weekly outing at the grocery store, I was waiting in line to ask for thick cut pork chops, when some nice looking steaks labeled "Porterhouse" caught my eye. Not being totally versed in what makes a porterhouse a porterhouse (I pretty much thought they were just bigger t-bones), I switched tactics and picked one up for dinner tonight. It was 11.99 a pound, bout an inch and a half thick, and cost me about $17 all told. The marbling's good, and the steak was better than many I've had, so I'm not mad about the purchase, but I did some research and found out that it was not in fact a porterhouse. There's a picture attached, during the reverse sear. I didn't trim it at all.
Some background, this is a small grocery store chain. 3 locations in the immediate area and that's it. I shop there almost exclusively, I just like it better than the local big-box... Their meat department definitely isn't exceptional, and I'm also fortunate enough to have a butcher shop in the area that I usually get my bbq cuts at, but for the staple meats (chicken breasts etc) they're not any worse than anywhere else.
I want to know if anyone else has ever had this problem. Like I said, the steak was tasty, and I tend to think "buyer beware" so I'm not personally pissed, but it definitely isn't proper and I feel a need to do something about it, maybe talk to the manager of the department? I don't know...
EDIT: I looked at the label again after reading my post over. It was 11.99/lb. I don't know where 3.99/lb came from...
During our weekly outing at the grocery store, I was waiting in line to ask for thick cut pork chops, when some nice looking steaks labeled "Porterhouse" caught my eye. Not being totally versed in what makes a porterhouse a porterhouse (I pretty much thought they were just bigger t-bones), I switched tactics and picked one up for dinner tonight. It was 11.99 a pound, bout an inch and a half thick, and cost me about $17 all told. The marbling's good, and the steak was better than many I've had, so I'm not mad about the purchase, but I did some research and found out that it was not in fact a porterhouse. There's a picture attached, during the reverse sear. I didn't trim it at all.
Some background, this is a small grocery store chain. 3 locations in the immediate area and that's it. I shop there almost exclusively, I just like it better than the local big-box... Their meat department definitely isn't exceptional, and I'm also fortunate enough to have a butcher shop in the area that I usually get my bbq cuts at, but for the staple meats (chicken breasts etc) they're not any worse than anywhere else.
I want to know if anyone else has ever had this problem. Like I said, the steak was tasty, and I tend to think "buyer beware" so I'm not personally pissed, but it definitely isn't proper and I feel a need to do something about it, maybe talk to the manager of the department? I don't know...
EDIT: I looked at the label again after reading my post over. It was 11.99/lb. I don't know where 3.99/lb came from...
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