"Olivers" > wrote in message
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> JE Anderson extrapolated from data available...
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>
> >
> > Actually that is a fallacy, at least in Alberta. I pay about a 10 -
> > 20% premium for buffalo meat at my butcher. I can get it for less
> > from a direct supplier. T-bone buffalo is about $23.00/kilo, T-bone
> > beef is about $19.00/kilo on an average day. Not counting grocery
> > store sale prices on the beef of course.
> >
>
> "Everyday" TBone (the standard "sto-bought" market grades below prime)
> rarely exceeds $7 a pound (about the equivalent of your $19 a kilo
> considering lower Canadian dollar), and can be bought on sale for as low
as
> $3.99 a pound. I've not seen buffalo in local markets but a local premium
> meat service carries it frozen and like everything lese including the
> better sins it can be bought in Austiin....TBone in the $12-15 a pound
> range with tenderloin appreciably higher.

That definitely is a huge price difference! I realised as I read your
answer that I appeared to be challenging your price experiences - sorry
about that. We are so used to it being relatively cheap here that I forget
it is not so available elsewhere. We can buy almost any cut at the butcher
(frozen unfortunately) and the local Save-On Foods grocery store carries the
ground meat on a regular basis.

>
> I "harvested" a surplus one with a friend from a nearby ranch last year
and
> got a hindquarter, tongue (smoking) and section of the hump, great for
slow
> barbecue. Because buffalo, at least around here, walk more, the
hindquater
> was pretty sinewy compared to your basic year old fattened calf called
beef
> sold at the market.

Lucky, lucky you! How did the tongue turn out? Did you brine it first? I
have only ever experience corned tongue which I enjoyed greatly. Buffalo do
spend a lot of time roaming up here as well and I imagine a great portion of
the carcass goes for stewed or braised product than on a steer. I grew up
relatively poor and am used to eating cheaper cuts and lots of braised or
boiled beef, perhaps that is why I prefer buffalo now...

> TMO

Thanks for the clarification on your market prices.

Janet