I came across this in Veggy's on 240/19. They have a good selection of meat there, not cheap but some very good stuff.

$42 a kilo. That's an awful lot of bone for that money. Total weight is 1.2kg and costs $53.


Nice and thick.

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 12:31 pm It is a rip off at those prices. Rather buy actual meat.

I've bought tomahawk at $25 per kilo before here, but I guess it got fashionable since.

I agree. Of the 1.25kg, I bet at least 500g is bone and the fatty stuff surrounding it. And that makes it a 750 g ribeye at about $70 per kilo. That's getting on for wagyu beef prices.

As all this meat is imported, whether its meat or bone, you're gonna being paying full meat price for it. They could of imported a prime cut in place of that large bone and someone is going to have to pay for it. And that means the customer. Plus the shape of the thing is such that it probably doesn't pack efficiently, so wasted space plus bone make it an inefficient import.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 1:24 pm
As all this meat is imported, whether its meat or bone, you're gonna being paying full meat price for it. They could of imported a prime cut in place of that large bone and someone is going to have to pay for it. And that means the customer. Plus the shape of the thing is such that it probably doesn't pack efficiently, so wasted space plus bone make it an inefficient import.

Frozen Meat from far away (OZ, NZL) is probably imported by container ship. Transport costs per kg are nearly negligible in such cases. Dunno about import duties/tariffs, they are often by the kg and not by value.