Big Beef ... Finally
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Finally, some good boiling beef.
Comments (4)Oh thank God I am in a beef-raising county and there are little local abattoirs. Several of them show up at Farmer's Market on Saturdays, but in wintertime...you gotta drive there. Your post got me to drooling. There is a richness to meat simmered with the bones in, and it comes from the marrowfat of the bone. I used to be able to identify how good a cut of meat was at a market by looking at the slice of bone in it. Now, if one goes to a supermarket, the evidence has been surgically removed! When I get the creatively cut roasts home I ask my dh the butcher and often as not, the store meat cutters have hedged a little moving down the muscles to include parts they shouldn't and leaving out parts they should have included. He just got back from a visit with his 80 something year old uncle who also worked many years in the family abattoir. They both tilt over sideways in the same direction and they have come to the conclusion it was from decades of hoisting halves of beef carcasses over one shoulder in the days before cryovac and primal cuts. Enjoy your booty....See MoreSupersonic vs Big Boy vs Big Beef
Comments (11)I've grown all three. You asked for taste as the basis of comparison, and of the three choices, I vote strongly for Big Beef. I now grow it every year as the hybrid beefsteak of choice, because it is realiable, productive, and most of all, tastes very good. I also grow a couple of Better Boys (rather than Big Boy), I think they are similar to Big Boy, but more disease resistant. The Better Boys are more productive, and good, but not nearly as good tasting as Big Beef, but I grow them because I know I will get a lot of good looking, better than average tomatoes, whatever the weather or pest and disease situation. Supersonic is a popular tomato in the Northeast, where I live. I don't think it is better than Big Beef, and I've given it up to make room for more heirlooms, but there is nothing wrong with it....See Morebig beef seed
Comments (9)George, I love, love, love Willhite, and partially because they were on local seed racks in stores when I was growing up in Fort Worth, so of course I have a certain emotional attachment to them that likely is part nostalgia. Also, their seeds have never let me down. I even found them on a seed rack in Ardmore once years ago but haven't seen them since. I think they have changed ownership sometime in the last few years and a watermelon disease issue that is widespread in the seed industry almost drove them out of business, but they are still hanging in there and I still am and always will be a customer of theirs. Once, when I really wanted some seeds in a hurry (and now I don't remember why), I drove the hour or so from our house in Fort Worth and ordered the seeds at a counter in the office. They took my order, pulled the seeds from the warehouse, and I was out of there in about 10 minutes. The people there could not have been any nicer. I will occasionally order from Burpee to get Brandy Boy and Fourth of July tomato seed and Biker Billy jalapeno pepper, though last year I found Biker Billy on the Burpee seed rack in a store in the D-FW metro area. I've never seen it on a seed rack here. I like some of their new seed varieties this year but likely never will try them. Their prices per packet are so much higher for brand new items than I am willing to spend. I loved Park and Thompson and Morgan bothlong, long ago and ordered from them regularly for years, but rarely, if ever, buy from them any more. I used to order County Fair cucumber (only pickling cucumber variety I've grown that seems 100% resistant to bacterial wilt) from Park but have since found it at a couple of other vendors. It still is hard to find, so I'm going to order a fairly large quantity of County Fair sometime this month and put most of it up in the freezer. If they ever stop producing County Fair, I'll have to switch to growing cucumbers under row covers in order to keep the cucumber beetles from spreading bacterial wilt and killing the plants. I cannot imagine the beetles won't fly in while I have the plants uncovered in order to harvest, so I hope they never drop County Fair. I also have had pretty good luck with Eureka and H-19 Littleleaf, but they are not as tolerant of bacterial wilt as County Fair is, and here where I live, bacterial wilt on cucurbits is about as common as ticks on a boar hog. I just don't have the time, patience or money to waste on seed companies whose seed germination rates are unimpressive or whose germination is incredibly slow, or whose shipping costs or seed costs are high compared to others or who take weeks and weeks to deliver your seed order, and then when it finally arrives, half the stuff is missing because it is on back order. I still order from at least a dozen seed companies over a 2-3 year period, but have weeded out tons more that aren't as good as they used to be. Johnny's Selected Seeds is higher-priced than many others, and their shipping is high, but both their customer service and the quality of the produce is second to none, so I do still buy from them from time to time. I do not mind sometimes paying more for a very high quality product, and Johnny's quality is undeniably high. Dawn...See MoreBig Beef ... Finally -(2)
Comments (23)I'm glad you were able to acquire both versions and compare, although I wasn't expecting the OP to perform so poorly, it would get removed. In other words, the OP pleaded "no contest" and I can eliminate the curiosity of locating seeds from my tomato growing bucket list. That's OK as I can get a pack of F1 seeds for $1.25 which will last a few seasons. There have been times I've said, "next year I'm going to grow nothing but Big Beef and forget about the rest". Of course, that won't happen. Too many other varieties I hope to try in the future. Big Beef OP won't be one of them. Thanks for your reports on the OP. Austin...See MoreSeysonn_ 8a-NC/HZ-7
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