This was a $7 “choice flat iron” I have never seen anything like it!

by Wisco-sportsguy

44 Comments

  1. 11bangbang317

    Despite the marbling, I have a feeling this’ll still be a tough chew

  2. Disastrous-Heron-491

    This should be tossed. As others have said it’s steatosis

  3. basheep25

    Steatosis, will probably be hard as fuck when you eat it. I’d bin personally

  4. MetalWhirlPiece

    There’s a few cheap tough cuts that you can easily find with that sort of intense, wagyu-like marbling, for example flanken-cut short ribs, and the marbling is still full of the tough collagen.

  5. ToeJamOfThe40s

    If it wasn’t for this sub, I would think it was wagyu as well. I’m thinking steatosis but maybe consensus will say otherwise.

  6. Imaginary_Budget8152

    “Mom, can we go out for wagyu steak tonight?”

    We have wagyu at home:

  7. AlternativeBeing8627

    Steatosis would not cause that kind of marbling. Refer to any picture of a steak with steatosis.

    I’m curious what cut this is.

  8. Hansel_VonHaggard

    If that’s flat iron they didn’t trim it. That’s all inedible sinew basically. I’ve butchered enough flat irons to know this won’t be a good steak nor is it wagyu. You won’t be happy with it

  9. Stunning-Ad-7745

    The underside looks similar to some hamburger I got from Walmart last month that turned out to be pretty bad.

  10. AdvancedImportance83

    Lot of Wagyu cattle are being harvested right now. The commodity cattle are tight and the packers are chasing the high grade.

  11. Potato_body89

    Op came here with hope only to be met with the bitter reality of a steak with something I’ve personally never heard of. I’ll pour one out for ya op

  12. medium-rare-steaks

    no and not steatosis either. its just a normal flat iron

  13. Logical_Detective736

    So is the way to tell by feeling it and the fat is like hard on the outside compared to soft? Hard being steatosis

  14. mrvarmint

    But did you sear a strip of it? And how did it taste?

  15. The amount of people answering steatosis incorrectly is mind blowing. Nice find OP!

  16. Dazzling_Side8036

    That’s what a decent flat iron looks like.

  17. ImpossibleShoulder29

    That looks like flat iron aka top blade. Can be chewy AF. Tasty AF.

  18. algoated666

    you should cut off a piece and sear it, i bet it’s amazing !

  19. gamejunky34

    Definitely steatosis, but i wouldn’t throw it away. It’ll still taste like meat… because it’s made of meat.

  20. _LrrrOmicronPersei8_

    In case anybody doesnt know, OP seared a piece and its amazing.

  21. Desperate_Mention682

    Nice flat iron steak! One of my fav steaks!

  22. Then-Ring-3586

    I do butchering at a grocery store, when we cut off the end of shoulder clods for these steaks they’ll look like that. Most of the time not that marbled but they do get close frequently

  23. Captain-Codfish

    I don’t care if you cut off your penis and it was amazing, that steak has steatosis

  24. CompoteStock3957

    Looks like American Wagyu for the price

  25. Senotonom205

    regardless of what the issue with this cut is, just becuase something has good marbling doesnt mean its waygu. The same way you can get good marbling on a choice steak. There are other factors involved in grading

  26. Alternative_Kale_903

    walmart doesn’t have any wagyu 😭, enjoy the steatosis, probably would taste amazing after cutting a piece and searing it tho!

  27. LiabilityAUS

    Either wagyu or something “normal” with awesome marbling! Either way it’s good marble so should be a good eat if cooked properly

  28. I can’t tell what’s funnier, that people think this is steatosis† or the suggestions to throw it away. Steatosis is not an infectious disease. This guy was just a fat git. OP, ignore the suggestions to do so, the people repeating this have no idea what they’re talking about, they’re just repeating it to sound smart. You absolutely can eat steak where the animal had steatosis, as long as you don’t yourself have a relevant health concern. But this isn’t that.

    †no, that’s when the fat content is so high, the fatty tissue becomes dominant. Where you normally have meat with some fat marbled through, with steatosis you have fat with meat marbled through.

  29. AncientAd6500

    It’s steatosis. Slice of a strip and sear. Maybe it’s awesome.

  30. AshInMyCoffee

    It was $7 dollars. Let OP do what they want with it. Maybe they found a diamond in the rough, but I doubt it. No way a random slab of wagyu made it into the choice section. Just common sense at this point.

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