Hey all! I sous vide some sirloins that I had vacuum sealed for about a month. I sous vide them from frozen for 3 hrs at 135. Anyone seen this happen or know what it is?
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Th3Batman86
Look up “mechanically tenderized”
Ok_Wedding5376
I’m guessing these steaks were precut when you bought them. A lot of places will mechanically tenderize steaks by stabbing them with a tool similar to this.
As others said, it’s mechanically tenderized. Avoid buying meat if you can that has been mechanically tenderized as it can introduce harmful bacteria that usually only lives on the surface of the meat into the middle. Meaning if you like your steak rare/medium-rare/medium you’re at greater risk of foodborne illness.
Edit: But hey some people eat burgers medium-rare, so you do you.
blkhatwhtdog
Most all grocery store meats are saline injected. I was disappointed to learn that Costco was one of them.
Of you go to an independent butcher you are likely to get unmanipulated meat…and pay 20 to 30 percent more
ColHannibal
Costco?
They Blade tenderize their meat.
JonDuValle
Termites is my guess!
Vast_Replacement_391
I saw a TikTok while back where they showed some labels at Costco or elsewhere to show how to check if it has been blade tenderized because it isn’t always so readily known and people behind counter might not know. Now I wish I remembered it.
This steak still has marks where the jockey was hitting it.
SnotRocketeer70
Footprints 👣
frodeem
I am not sure why it looks like that. A lot of folks have said it’s because of mechanical/blade tenderizing but a blade tenderized meat looks no different than non blade tenderized meat.
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Look up “mechanically tenderized”
I’m guessing these steaks were precut when you bought them. A lot of places will mechanically tenderize steaks by stabbing them with a tool similar to this.
https://preview.redd.it/3xt63tin78fe1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ac74a5446f78690cc9b0bfb75652b9c1a8ace5b2
beefworms
As others said, it’s mechanically tenderized. Avoid buying meat if you can that has been mechanically tenderized as it can introduce harmful bacteria that usually only lives on the surface of the meat into the middle. Meaning if you like your steak rare/medium-rare/medium you’re at greater risk of foodborne illness.
Edit: But hey some people eat burgers medium-rare, so you do you.
Most all grocery store meats are saline injected. I was disappointed to learn that Costco was one of them.
Of you go to an independent butcher you are likely to get unmanipulated meat…and pay 20 to 30 percent more
Costco?
They Blade tenderize their meat.
Termites is my guess!
I saw a TikTok while back where they showed some labels at Costco or elsewhere to show how to check if it has been blade tenderized because it isn’t always so readily known and people behind counter might not know. Now I wish I remembered it.
https://preview.redd.it/ei3pfiqye8fe1.jpeg?width=1076&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d3747e3ba83520b7aab033b46022204895b89b37
‘blade tenderized’
This steak still has marks where the jockey was hitting it.
Footprints 👣
I am not sure why it looks like that. A lot of folks have said it’s because of mechanical/blade tenderizing but a blade tenderized meat looks no different than non blade tenderized meat.
How sad. That cow must’ve been a junky.
Speed holes.
They make the steak go faster.