Picanha on the left, ribeye on the right. Split roughly halves with my wife. Chopped it up because apparently that's what all the internet people do these days.
With some garlic mushrooms and (devil's food) air fryer sweet potato fries – skin on potato chips for me – but she took a better photo.
The rib eye flattened and shrunk noticeably during cooking, which made it a bit thin and more medium than I'd have liked.
I've got no idea how they claim these as "Wagyu", the Picanha was £6.49 and the ribeye £8.49. Felt like a lot of the price went into the packaging, which was very nice and to be fair had good cooking instructions which I followed to the letter for review purposes to produce these results.
The Picanha had a really nice flavour and texture you could get your teeth into, which I know some people dislike but was very satisfying. But I'd say the ribeye, even though it ended up slightly overcooked to my taste because of it's unfortunate flattening, was the winner. Great fat marbeling, soft texture and taste. Wish it was thicker. Served with flaky Maldon salt which we applied liberally during eating.
Got no idea if this shit is even close to actual Wagyu, maybe one of the cows got shown a picture of a Wagyu bull while it was being inseminated or something because it doesn't seem close to the real thing and the price isn't right, but not bad overall.
That said, I feel like I'd either spend a few £ less and get a cheap and cheerful cut I could chop up and throw over some (proper) chips with a good sauce, or a few £ more for a steak I know is better to serve as an actual steak.
But if you've got £15 to spend on a steak night, you can definitely do worse.
by No-Garbage9500
Dining and Cooking