What's the deal with grass fed beef? Does it taste different (better?) than grain fed?
>>7308097
Grain fed cattle is bred to be fattened up as quickly as possible for market. Grass fed are usually older cattle, leaner and a little tougher. The flavor difference depends on more than just grass v. grain (e.g. hormones & antibiotics, method of slaughter, etc.)
>>7308097
Here's a link to a taste test:
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/shopping/2006/11/raising_the_steaks.2.html
it's hard to explain the taste, but it's usually more "meaty" (not gamey, you can just really taste the beef flavor, especially in a nicely cooked steak), I prefer the texture as well. all in all it's delicious, but I think I notice the taste difference a lot more with free range poultry
>>7308195
>Slate.com
Into the trash it goes.
>>7308225
Schatzker is pretty spot on as a food writer. You may not agree with him, but discounting his opinions outright is just silly.
>>7308257
No, I discount Slate's pulp. As far as Schatzker is concerned, this unrepresentative "test" was an excuse to buy himself and his friends a bunch of premium dry aged beef on the company dime. Not a bad strategy from such a bad writer, but the end result is clickbaity bullshit.
>>7308097
I think grass fed tastes heaps better, like the beefiness is way more intense.
>>7308300
One could say every taste test or restaurant review is that. I understand trying to discount food journalism because food writers sometimes say things you don't like. That doesn't change the fact that Schatzker is a reasonably well respected writer on the strength of the Dorito Effect alone.
Yeah his flaws are obvious - he writes like the internet. That doesn't mean the substance of his work is as easily dismissed as some of his prose.
>>7308097
>grass fed
what else?!
I wonder if it tastes anything like deer.
I had a deer shank cooked for me once and that flavor of all the grass and flora they eat was wonderful. I ate it for days.
grain fed: more marbling
grass fed: more flavor
take your pick
>>7310906
Make me
>>7310906
Amount of marbling depends a great deal more on the breed of the cattle. The quality of marbling is determined by the type of feed.
>grass-fed wagyu
>>7311091
breed and feed are both very important
i guarantee this isn't fed grass.
