My daughter is at a college where you are forced to participate in the meal plan even if you live off campus.
This used to result in a shit load of unused meal points being gobbled up by male friends or just lost. They are use it or lose it. Since COVID they began a policy called "bulk purchase" where they allow you (at mob level markups) in the final month of the school year to use the remaining points and purchase industrial sized food items. A couple years ago she had a ton left and I got two full ribeyes, a couple beef loins, and more.
This year I got a box of 60 1/3 pound hamburgers, a couple industrial sized bags of meatballs and a whole NY Strip. It's about 12 pounds.
The Ribeye I cut into about 10 good sized steaks and froze them in groups of 2 so I could use what I wanted and left a good sized roast. And I smoked the roast. It was awesome.
Should I do the same with the NY strip (some steaks and a roast)? or should do all roasts and smoke them? All steaks? Not sure how a NY strip roast would be. probably awesome - there's probably a name for it.
thank you for the advice, in advance to anyone who replies
the NY strip looks like below.
I think this is what I'm going to do.
Thanks.
Yeah, it is just a microcosm of the bigger racket that college is in America.
short video about the end cut and how it's different than the part that is usually better for steaks - ( New Window )
Appreciate the replies.
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What a racket
Yeah, it is just a microcosm of the bigger racket that college is in America.
Not to drag the thread too far into left field, but THIS.
I went to a small school in Saratoga Springs in the late 1980s that was $14k per year with everything factored in, and that was considered a rich-kid school at the time. That same college is now $60k per year, which I can't even wrap my head around. Are there that many families who can afford to drop 1/4 million bucks on an English or Sociology BA degree...?
Good question. I hadn't even considered it. I felt like it was lost money in the first place so salvaging some bulk meats out of it was a win, lol.
wet age is a benefit for most beef. that is a select strip(a grade below choice) so it is gonna need some extra love to get tender. you can go longer, too. google wet aged beef.