Rare Meats - Your thoughts

[doug8796]

Bison Filet:
P/C/F

100g 5.7g/0g/28.1g -- 171 Calories

Ground Bison:
P/C/F

100g 18.7g/0g/15.9g -- 223 calories

Ground Ostrich:

100g 20.2g/0g/8.7g -- 165 Calories

"Ostrich | Everyone's familiar with chicken, the low-fat bird that's dense in protein and extremely low in dietary fat. It's a red meat alternative. Here's another: ostrich. As a protein food, it's on par with chicken and it's also low in fat. However, it has a nutrition profile similar to red meat--more creatine, iron and B vitamins than poultry, but with drastically less dietary fat and calories than red meat.

You can eat ostrich as a staple, several times a week. Eight ounces of ostrich top loin (precooked weight) has about 50 grams (g) of protein and only 7 g of fat. (The same precooked amount of lean beef tri-tip has a few less grams of protein and three times the fat.) With its lower fat content, ostrich cooks faster than red meat."

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...3/ai_n14706827

[dumac]

buffalo meat is great. its low in fat and high in protein. it costs a little bit more then beef but when you cook it you lose less mass because there isn't a lot of fat to lose.

edit: by the way what are the average market prices for the meats. I know that at restaurants buffalo and ostrich tend to cost more

[skinnyboipgh]

Bacteria which might b problematic lives only on the surface of the steak, it doesn't penetrate the interior. So make sure u sear the entire outside of ur steak, either on a hot fire in ur grill, under a hot broiler, or in a hot frying pan & then ur good.

However u choose 2 cook (or not cook) the piece of meat from there on, there won't be a food safety issue, even if u choose 2 eat it more or less raw.

[Shion]

Bacteria which might b problematic lives only on the surface of the steak, it doesn't penetrate the interior. So make sure u sear the entire outside of ur steak, either on a hot fire in ur grill, under a hot broiler, or in a hot frying pan & then ur good.

However u choose 2 cook (or not cook) the piece of meat from there on, there won't be a food safety issue, even if u choose 2 eat it more or less raw.

I think that by rare he meant less common.

[mcdbb]

Around me the only butcher who gets ostrich regularly sells it for $14 a pound. Needless to say if you can afford it it's terrific but otherwise...