Every now and then you can catch beef tenderloins at a reasonable price. Here lately I've only been able to find it at $17 a pound. Anyone know where you can find the whole loin on sale?

Oxner would be posting his tenderloin pic.

Call around to smaller butcher shops. Will likely get better quality stuff even if they are a little higher than what you found.
I buy the clearance filets at $6/lb and have a great dinner!

Aldi

Sam's is the best place. Bonus pic...

For quality, buy at Costco.

It ain't cheap, but

Looks like JP in the background

That’s the only thing I miss about not being a mod was the JP parties…Pretty sure he got those from Sams, I been buying them there ever since, they have great meat. I have not bought from Costco.

$17/lb is not a bad price for choice and a very good price for prime.

I saved his Tenderloin picture long ago and been waiting for the opportunity to use it. Here you go. You asked for it.
I always thought it looked like boiled meat anyways. LOL.

Oxner likes filets.

That’s nice in middle, but not enough caramelization on the outside. I bet Bill would agree with me. Cooked this couple weeks ago in Taos, on the caramelization ..

Prime always best…



Salt and Pepper all you need…



A hot well seasoned caste iron skillet with some canola oil..



Finish it off with a little butter..and swirl it all around..



Liven the dream..

I get the whole tenderloin at Walmart and slice it in steaks, It was $10.82/lb a few weeks ago. Grilling about a 6-8" chunk is really good, it's really good cold the day after too.

That looks great Guy. Will have to get some.

Costco is better meat than fancy Walmart

Thanks for saving. I remember he always used to post it.

While I do enjoy a filet every once in a while, I refuse to pay $18-25/lb for it. With no marling or fat it does not have the flavor of a ribeye, porter, T, or center cut prime sirloin. Proper aging, cooking, and cutting can rival any filet. I buy Prime whole sirloins at Sam's or Costco for $6-8/lb and break them down. Remove all silver skin, gristle. And most fat and you have major epicurean delights ahead of you!!!

Every 5-6 months I split a half cow with my parents. Comes out to about $6 a pound. We love it

I found some beef cheeks at Wal-Mart today, Kinda looks like tenderlions, but about 4 times cheaper.

Gonna give it a try on grill and see how they taste this weekend. It does look very good in the package.

I haven't seen JP in person since I was fishing a two day Tournament at Bob Sandlin about 10 years ago, back when he lived in Grapevine he used to stop by my house every once in while he had a fishing partner BazzTex live around the corner from me, I used to go to his condo in grapevine for Christmas a few times.

Cheek meat needs to be slow cooked - it is a very tough muscle that gets lots of use (complete opposite of the tenderloin). It is definitely NOT anything like tenderloin.

I figured there was some kind of catch like that, meat looked awesome and was priced pretty cheap and I like fatty meat.

I like to get my grill like 500 degree and cook my ribeyes 2 minutes each side and eat it very rare

I guess this beef cheek will be very chewy, since I am gonna grill it on high heat and eat it rare

It will be inedible if you grill it. Low and slow is literally the only way to cook it.

I am a very rare steak person - but cheek meat isn't steak and it won't grill like you're thinking. It's not even going to be chewy/tough in the sense that skirt steak is if it's not trimmed or cut properly. It's going to be inedible.

I will slice it super thin and give it go then on the grill, I don't know how to low/slow on grill, but doing the thin slice should help.

Thanks for the input, I bought it since I had never seen beef checks for sale and it looked delicious