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What Is Wagyu Beef

Wagyu, the finest beef there is. Find how to become a member, education, and resources for members here.
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Not only is it a gastronomic delight, but it’s healthy for you too. Health experts have discovered the mono-unsaturated to saturated fat ratio is higher in Wagyu than in other beef. And the saturated fat contained in Wagyu is different, forty percent is in a version called stearic acid, which is regarded as having a minimal impact in raising cholesterol levels. The profile of marbled Wagyu beef is more beneficial and healthier to human health.

Wagyu is also higher in a type of fatty acid called conjugated linoleic acid (CLA). Wagyu beef contain the highest amount of CLA per gram of any foodstuff – about 30% more than other beef breeds – due to higher linoleic acid levels. Foods that are naturally high in CLA have fewer negative health effects.



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There's a 17 minute video about Wagyu at the link
 
Kontradiction said:
No, but I need to. At that price per pound, you know it will be absolute fire. Are you thinking about buying some?
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If you're going to drop crazy money on beef hoping for the life experience, wait until you're traveling in the Orient. Hit Japan and get some Kobe beef. The Wagyu you can get in the states is nice, but don't settle for such lesser versions, unless money's an issue.
 
Deus Irae said:
If you're going to drop crazy money on beef hoping for the life experience, wait until you're traveling in the Orient. Hit Japan and get some Kobe beef. The Wagyu you can get in the states is nice, but don't settle for such lesser versions, unless money's an issue.
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Some of the American Wagyu is pretty damn good - but real A5 from Kobe is insane.

If I had to describe it - take the best aspect of the perfect porkchop, that edge fat that is crispy and rendered. It's not greasy, it's silky smooth. Now, make it beef flavor and weave it throughout your steak that has a lean part a few degrees short of mush. It still has that steak bite, but almost dissolves when you chew it.

It is that good.
 
 
 
 
I took a look at some Wagyu prices. That's all I'm doing though. Stuff is expensive!!!!

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King of the Grill

The ultimate Vermont Wagyu collection! Our best-of-the-best, the crown jewel of steak collections. Be the unchallenged King of the Grill with this assortment of our crown jewel steaks and burger. What's Included: 1 Large Ribeye Steak, 1.21 to 1.40 lbs, serves 2-3, extremely well marbled and...
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If you want to buy an incredible steak go here, they are out of Lowell and have a great reputation. They also have Japanese and Australian Wagyu

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One of the best things about ordering pizza for dinner is having it for leftovers the next day. However, while pizza may seem like the gift that keeps on giving, there are some things you may not want to think about when you snag a less-than-fresh slice — for example, how long that pizza has been sitting out in the first place.

“Leftover pizza has taken on a mythical status that it is somehow above making you sick even if it’s left out on the table overnight,” Brian Labus, an infectious disease epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, tells Yahoo Life. “Unfortunately, that is just not true. Pizza carries the same risks as any other food and needs to be handled safely.”

He adds: “No one would eat a piece of cheese or a slice of pepperoni that has been sitting out on the counter all night, but turn them into pizza and people think they are OK to eat.”

While foodborne illness is a possibility when it comes to leftover pizza, it’s not all doom and gloom. There are plenty of ways to ensure you can still enjoy that cheesy, saucy goodness safely. Here’s what experts want you to know.

How long can pizza stay out on the counter? Can you leave it overnight?​

Let’s say you’re having a party, and you leave the remaining slices of pizza in the box on the counter until you’re ready to clean up for the night — or worse, until you remember it’s there the next morning. Can you still enjoy a slice?

Labus says standard food safety rules apply here: It’s important to keep foods out of the temperature danger zone — between 40°F and 140°F — which is where bacteria grows and thrives.

“According to the USDA, food can stay in this zone for two hours, but only one hour if the temperature is above 90°F,” says Labus.

Bryan Quoc Le, food scientist and author of 150 Food Science Questions Answered, tells Yahoo Life that while ingredients like pepperoni may be able to stay stable due to preservatives like nitrites, “tomato sauces and cheese can readily breed bacteria, some of which can cause foodborne illness.”

With pizza, Le says it’s particularly important to pay attention to food safety guidelines because there are few outward signs that it’s gone bad.

The consequences of eating pizza after it’s grown bacteria? Not so fun. The biggest concern is that you could become sick with a gastrointestinal illness, which can cause vomiting, diarrhea and potentially a fever, says Labus. “Bacteria like Salmonella, Shigella and Campylobacter are among the most common, and they cause diarrheal illnesses with a fever a couple days after you eat them,” he explains. “Other bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus or Clostridium perfringens multiply on the food and can leave a toxin behind, which causes vomiting a few hours after you eat them.”

As Le points out, our food supply is generally safe and proper cooking should kill the pathogens that make us sick — so there shouldn’t be bacteria on the pizza that can make us sick in the first place. However, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pay attention to food safety by leaving pizza out overnight, he warns.

“The system isn’t perfect and things go wrong sometimes,” Le says. “The odds of getting sick might be very small overall, but the consequences can be serious if you do get sick. And you might have gotten sick from that leftover pizza in college but didn’t realize that is what caused your illness.”

What’s the best way to save pizza?​

Pizza is great the next day — and you can even keep it in the fridge for up to four days, per the USDA’s regulations on leftovers.

Labus says it’s important that you store your leftover pizza away from other contaminants in the fridge. (So don’t let any raw chicken drip on your plated pizza or any other food in your fridge.) If you want the best taste, he says you should avoid tossing the pizza into the fridge while it’s still in its box. “The pizza will dry out pretty quickly and might pick up odors from other foods,” Labus notes. “It won’t be unsafe to eat, but it also won’t be very good.”

For the safest method that also makes for the best leftovers, Le recommends wrapping pizza “in plastic Saran wrap, followed by wrapping it in aluminum foil, to limit the contact points with the atmosphere in the fridge.”
 
LordSensei1958 said:
One of the best things about ordering pizza for dinner is having it for leftovers the next day. However, while pizza may seem like the gift that keeps on giving, there are some things you may not want to think about when you snag a less-than-fresh slice — for example, how long that pizza has been sitting out in the first place.

“Leftover pizza has taken on a mythical status that it is somehow above making you sick even if it’s left out on the table overnight,” Brian Labus, an infectious disease epidemiologist and assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, tells Yahoo Life. “Unfortunately, that is just not true. Pizza carries the same risks as any other food and needs to be handled safely.”

He adds: “No one would eat a piece of cheese or a slice of pepperoni that has been sitting out on the counter all night, but turn them into pizza and people think they are OK to eat.”

While foodborne illness is a possibility when it comes to leftover pizza, it’s not all doom and gloom. There are plenty of ways to ensure you can still enjoy that cheesy, saucy goodness safely. Here’s what experts want you to know.

How long can pizza stay out on the counter? Can you leave it overnight?​

Let’s say you’re having a party, and you leave the remaining slices of pizza in the box on the counter until you’re ready to clean up for the night — or worse, until you remember it’s there the next morning. Can you still enjoy a slice?

Labus says standard food safety rules apply here: It’s important to keep foods out of the temperature danger zone — between 40°F and 140°F — which is where bacteria grows and thrives.

“According to the USDA, food can stay in this zone for two hours, but only one hour if the temperature is above 90°F,” says Labus.

Bryan Quoc Le, food scientist and author of 150 Food Science Questions Answered, tells Yahoo Life that while ingredients like pepperoni may be able to stay stable due to preservatives like nitrites, “tomato sauces and cheese can readily breed bacteria, some of which can cause foodborne illness.”

With pizza, Le says it’s particularly important to pay attention to food safety guidelines because there are few outward signs that it’s gone bad.

The consequences of eating pizza after it’s grown bacteria? Not so fun. The biggest concern is that you could become sick with a gastrointestinal illness, which can cause vomiting, diarrhea and potentially a fever, says Labus. “Bacteria like Salmonella, Shigella and Campylobacter are among the most common, and they cause diarrheal illnesses with a fever a couple days after you eat them,” he explains. “Other bacteria like Staphylococcus aureus or Clostridium perfringens multiply on the food and can leave a toxin behind, which causes vomiting a few hours after you eat them.”

As Le points out, our food supply is generally safe and proper cooking should kill the pathogens that make us sick — so there shouldn’t be bacteria on the pizza that can make us sick in the first place. However, that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t pay attention to food safety by leaving pizza out overnight, he warns.

“The system isn’t perfect and things go wrong sometimes,” Le says. “The odds of getting sick might be very small overall, but the consequences can be serious if you do get sick. And you might have gotten sick from that leftover pizza in college but didn’t realize that is what caused your illness.”

What’s the best way to save pizza?​

Pizza is great the next day — and you can even keep it in the fridge for up to four days, per the USDA’s regulations on leftovers.

Labus says it’s important that you store your leftover pizza away from other contaminants in the fridge. (So don’t let any raw chicken drip on your plated pizza or any other food in your fridge.) If you want the best taste, he says you should avoid tossing the pizza into the fridge while it’s still in its box. “The pizza will dry out pretty quickly and might pick up odors from other foods,” Labus notes. “It won’t be unsafe to eat, but it also won’t be very good.”

For the safest method that also makes for the best leftovers, Le recommends wrapping pizza “in plastic Saran wrap, followed by wrapping it in aluminum foil, to limit the contact points with the atmosphere in the fridge.”
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Thank you very much for this article. After having read this, and taking everything into consideration, I will continue to leave my pizza out overnight most of the time, as I have since childhood. But I do think that people should have as much information as possible to inform their decisions.
 
I’m just learning some basics for cooking for myself. Got a pressure cooker last week and made some beef stew tonight. So good. Home-cooked feeling, very filling.

-Beef broth
-Stew meat (I think chuck)
-White sweet potatoes
-Yellow Onion
-Beets. The key ingredient…also I couldn’t find real beets at the store so bought canned ones and they did the trick.
-I also put in a small amount of Worcestershire sauce and added some corn starch at the end for more texture.


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Next week I want to try making borscht.
 
Ice_Ice_Brady said:
I’m just learning some basics for cooking for myself. Got a pressure cooker last week and made some beef stew tonight. So good. Home-cooked feeling, very filling.

-Beef broth
-Stew meat (I think chuck)
-White sweet potatoes
-Yellow Onion
-Beets. The key ingredient…also I couldn’t find real beets at the store so bought canned ones and they did the trick.
-I also put in a small amount of Worcestershire sauce and added some corn starch at the end for more texture.


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Next week I want to try making borscht.
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Nothing like a good homemade soup or stew. I typically save these meals for the cold months but yeah winter time = all the comfort foods.
 
I'm making this right now, except I don't have fresh herbs, and I'm using 90% angus ground beef. Also no homemade sauce, I bought a jar of marinara for like $8, it's delicious. I'm impatiently waiting for the sauce/balls to finish up, need to stew a bit longer to reduce down.


View: https://youtu.be/tuSll6pBJm4?si=MuyJ8PJXB5cEZmba
 
This is absolutely true in my family:



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This is yet another example of why "the science" is never settled, and should never be above questioning (As a one off, to date, it's also an example of something that should, itself, be questioned, even as it questions "the science"):


Nick Norwitz, a doctorate student at Harvard University, found that contrary to the beliefs of many experts, his cholesterol levels actually dropped.

After the month-long experiment that saw him eat the equivalent of 24 eggs per day his low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels, or 'bad' cholesterol, fell by 18 percent...
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I ate 700 eggs in a month as an experiment - what happened to my health went against everything I'd been told
 
We've been doing a sort of "Holiday meal preview" for the past few days:

Sunday - Corned beef and cabbage
Monday - Large ham
Tuesday - Turkey



Leftovers are going to dominate the menu after tomorrow.
 
Deus Irae said:
We've been doing a sort of "Holiday meal preview" for the past few days:

Sunday - Corned beef and cabbage
Monday - Large ham
Tuesday - Turkey



Leftovers are going to dominate the menu after tomorrow.
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Corned Beef and Cabbage becomes Corned Beef Hash the next day ... With two over easy, rye toast ... Man's breakfast right there.
 
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