Meat Meets Vacuum; Results in Big Savings

When I was in California over the holidays I found and bought possibly the most valuable kitchen tool anyone can have in their arsenal: a Foodsaver.

Foodsaver with filet

Yeah, I know, the filet looks gross, like a giant Alien baby, but consider the alternative: this untrimmed filet, which worked out to about ten pounds and, at $23.99/kg, cost me $89.09 untrimmed, versus the trimmed version, without a visible shred of fat on it, which was $41.99/kg. 

I got fourteen 1.5"-thick steaks out of my filet, which works out to about $6.42 per steak (imagine how much each approximately 1/2-pound filet mignon would have cost at a decent steakhouse . . . maybe $30, minimum? So I saved about $330). If I'd bought the trimmed filet, each steak would have cost me about $11.75 . . . simply because some butcher removed about one pound of fat and trimmings. But that's still saving $20 or so off the cost of a steakhouse steak!

14 filet mignons ready for the freezer!

I also bought about ten pounds of chicken thighs, ten pounds of drumsticks, ten pounds of stew meat (for grinding later), ten pounds of top sirloin (for curry or boeuf Bourgignon) for about $20 each, and a HUGE Grana Padano, which I've Foodsavered nicely . . . won't have to buy meat for another 6 months all for around $200. That's $33/month!

It's very worth the cost of the Foodsaver ($110). Get one today!


(By the way, I'm selling my Foodsaver Professional II. If you identify yourself as being a reader of this blog I'll cut you an even better deal on it than it already is.)