johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

All she wants for Valentines Day is a really good cut of Kobe Ribeye!!!

My youngest daughter and I take ours rare and my wife and oldest daughter like them medium. All in all I think I won in life

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UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT

Do not make her angry, Tony, this one is a find!

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

You know the struggle is real Mike. I was completely suffering with every bite....

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Personally, I am not all that fond of steak as a whole steak. I prefer my beef in thin strips stir fried, or ground in burgers, meatballs, chili, etc. Perhaps once per year a BBQ'd or Broiled T-Bone or NY Steak. I guess my issue is I hate the fat in beef so the marbling in most steak bothers me. So we usually use Top or Bottom Round Steak for stir fry.

As far as my wife. She is in part a keeper because for Valentines Day she is happy with a large Container of Peanut Butter M&Ms and a Herbie Handcock CD (this year). This bigger issue is she supports my Photography Hobby and usually agrees to equipment and even encourages me to buy what I need as long as we can budget it. Back when she was still just my girlfriend (<1984) she bought me a new Gitzo Tripod as a gift! I now have a second set of legs and three additional heads, but those were all purchased used! We have also gone on many photo trips or vacations. Occasionally I can persuade her to use one of my cameras as well. She even sometimes get better captures than I do or ones that I can not tell apart from my own. Could be because we have been together so long or because we both had the same photo teachers at various times.

Cute But With A Temper! Ca. 1979.

lukevaliant Loc: gloucester city,n. j.

rare baby

JimBart Loc: Western Michigan

Help me out... I’m dumb. What is so special with this beef that one pays 30.00 a pound. Prime grade beef at Fresh Market tastes the same, goes down the same and comes out the same So why the high price

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Oh fully agree with her supporting my hobby as well. She knows that apart from drumming, photography is my second escape and doesn't give me too much grief...LOL

As for the meat selection, we tend to use leaner cuts of beef and mostly chicken and ground turkey in our regular diet. But when we have steak, we spoil ourselves with a well marbled Wagyu cut. But I can understand why it's not for everyone.

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

johngault007 Loc: Florida Panhandle

Kobe, which is a Wagyu beef derives from four specific breeds of cattle from Japan. While Japanese Wagyu is much more expensive, the cuts in the OP are from a certified New Zealand ranch. There are American cattle ranches that are certified to raise one of the four breeds of this cattle, and it is slightly cheaper.

What makes them worth that price? Well, if one likes a well marbled steak, Wagyu steak has finer striations of fat dispersed throughout the meat which provides more flavor and tenderness. I find beef such as Tomahawk and Black Angus a little tougher and less flavorful than Wagyu.

If you ever get a chance to compare it side by side our typical american beef breeds, you can visibly see the difference.

Of course, it's not for everyone, and it's all subjective to one's taste, so if the prime cuts found in Fresh Market suite your tastes, then that is all that matters.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

I understand the needs of support from family for musicians. A good portion of our personal friends are musicians, amateur and professional. Listening to recorded music is a big part of my life. And I actually spend more time listening to music than doing photography. She is a music fan too. We have 6,000 some LPs and CDs!

These days we eat little Beef or Pork of any sort. Mostly Chicken, Ground Turkey, Fish, and Plant Based Fake Meat. And real Vegetables and Grains. Weight, Heart issues for me. But like I said, when we did eat beef steak it was lean Top or Bottom Round. Sirloin can be lean but I find it too tough and chewy. So in the "beef days", lots of leaner Ground Beefs.

Us, when MUCH younger. Tripoded Pentax, Plus-X film. Messed up scan color!

Monochrome Film Image 1977-1980, color way weird.

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

For me, it's secondarily subject to taste! Primarily, it's subject to budget, and overwhelmingly out of any possible consideration!!!

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

sumo Loc: Houston suburb

My wife says i spoiled her
Because she like only prime tenderloin. So i buy only prime tenderloin for steaks or any other meat dish or stir fry that calls for beef

BTW. Ive been to Baguio Also liked the old pictures posted above

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

I moved to the PI in March of 2016 - in Baguio - and love it! It's the only area in which I could live, because of the climate. --- Also -- Happy belated Birthday (same as mine, though many years later, I'm sure!)

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

sumo Loc: Houston suburb

My birthday is probably way before yours. My birthyear is 1941

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

That year I was in the 8th grade at La Cumbre Junior High in Santa Barbara, CA; I was born in 1928 - in Santa Barbara. I'm on Facebook - though I almost never use it - : Loren Varner. Some Baguio pictures there, and on one of my (fledgling) websites at https://www.rlvphoto.com/ - (also pictures my wife took in her province in Bais, and others of mine from Bohol. The third picture in "Bohol" is me with my photographer daughter, and the last is my wife.)

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City