Where to buy Brisket. - Page 2

Stephanie86 wrote on Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:00pm:

Much meat in Spain is cut and vacuum packed and delivered preprepared to retailers, butchers etc. A small amount of research has returned a couple of speciality butchers in Salamanca and Madrid who would supply it. However, it does not appear to be particularly inexpensive here, ranging upwards f...

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...rom 35€ kilo. It seems to be known mainly as an American cut, and is supplied with most of the layers of fat removed, perfectly cleaned and used for slow barbecuing.

It is also known as Aleta de ternera.

Mrmike wrote on Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:17am:

I have lived in Europe since the mid 70s and meat used to be tasty. From about 1995 I noticed in Germany that many restaurants were advertising that no European meat was sold in their establishments. In Poland then, the meat was very tasty, I happened to meet a French guy on the train from Warsaw...

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... to Katowice one afternoon and I mentioned the good quality of the meat in Poland.

He said he worked for a company that produced the chemicals that the animals were treated with before being slaughtered. He said that the meat would change in the coming couple of years becoming tasteless like the rest of Europe. Being based in N Italy everyone raved about Piemonte beef. Bland!  An Argentinian acquantance imported some beef from Argentina, Super! I have worked in various Arabic countries and the meat has always been excellent (Including Pork from Egypt) In Sanaa our local lunchtime restaurant would get freshly slaughtered lamb and barbeque it. Superb!

Here we buy no beef or lamb from the supermarkets or expat butchers , overpriced cardboard!  We go to Elche to the Halal butchers on the High street, Good tasty meat and half the price of the supermarkets. The Halal butchers in Torrevieja are not very clean and try to push mutton and poor beef cuts. Prices are Ok but keep your eyes open and watch what their local customers are buying. Many of our friends now buy their lambchops and steaks from these butchers.

Buon Appetito

M

Stephanie86 wrote on Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:33am:

You can buy perfectly good ternera para guisar in most supermarkets etc. Its usually shin if bought as that. I don’t buy it because I have always hated shin, hidrous memories of boarding school

Stephanie86 wrote on Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:01pm:

Pechuga usually refers to chicken breast. As I said earlier, called Pecho or Aleta de ternera. But however, different regions name cuts differently!

Alison J wrote on Wed Mar 13, 2024 5:51pm:

We buy lovely brisket from an Essex Butchers in Los Montisinos, Calle last Salinas.