How To Make Sure You are Buying The Best Prime Rib

By Anita Frogel


Six Ways to Make Sure you        tenderized by the butcher, but
are Buying the Best Prime Rib    once again that is another    
Available                        error. When the butcher       
                                 tenderizers the prime rib or  
The best grade of rib or any     any beef he beats and pierces
type of beef is of course        the meat. Any piercing allows
prime grade. The problem comes   the natural juices and        
in when trying to buy prime      flavorings to escape. This    
grade beef, there is only 20     will not only leave your meat
percent of prime grade beef in   un-flavorful but it will also
America cut and most of this     be tough.                     
grade of beef finds its way to                                 
those fancy restaurants. Some    4. Next is how the prime rib  
prime rib can be found in        is aged. The best method of   
your local grocery store and     drying your prime rib is dry  
some in the butcher shop. If     aged. . Dry aging is when the
you are lucky enough to find     meat is taken from the bag    
prime grade then you will        that it arrives in to the     
still need to know how to make   butcher and is hung in a      
sure you are buying the best     cooler for a certain amount of
prime rib available. Here are    time to dry out. This method  
some things to look for and      allows for the meat to shrink
some to steer away from.         naturally. Most meat you find
                                 in your supermarket has been  
Now, you know what prime rib     cut beside the slaughter      
is but did you know that that    house, wrapped in plastic and
the rib cut includes cuts like   has aged on the way to the    
the Rib Roast, the Rib eye       store in a Styrofoam packaging
Steak and the back ribs and is   and plastic. This is for sure 
the least tender of all the      not the way to get a great    
other sections. So, when you     tasting prime rib. You can    
begin to look at the prime       talk with the butcher at your
ribs in the store you will       supermarket and ask him about
want to seek out the more        the aging process used if he  
flavorful and best you can       knows. If not and you desire  
find in order to prepare a       the best prime rib around,    
delectable meal. With this       then you should go directly to
guide you should be able to      a butcher shop and talk with  
make sure you are buying the     them.                         
best prime rib you can find.                                   
                                 5. Not only should your prime 
1. Always look at the date       rib be bright red but it      
the prime rib was packaged.      should have some fat. This is
This is an indicator as to how   called marbling. The fat      
long it has been sitting         should be in thin lines and   
around in the store. Look at     distributed evenly throughout
the color of the prime rib; it   the prime rib. The marbling   
should have a bright red         will give your prime rib more
color and no dry or brown        flavor.                       
edges. Check for any damage to                                 
the packaging and wrapping.      6. You also want to buy prime 
                                 rib that is cut close to the  
2. Buying prime rib that has     bone or with the bone still   
been injected with flavorings    intact as much of the         
is also a very bad idea. Many    flavoring also comes from the
people believe that this         bone marrow.                  
process will ensure that their                                 
prime rib is flavorful and       With these few tips you       
juicy but that is not the        should know how to make sure  
case. Usually the flavorings     you are buying the best prime
will cause the meat to break     rib.                          
down and become mushy. This                                    
can produce a tougher prime                                    
rib.                                                           
                                                               
3. Several people also search                                  
out prime rib that has been                                    

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Hans is author of
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