Best eating beef breed

[Netherfield]

And me

 

[brigadoon]

I agree the SC fat does little to nothing for flavour directly.
But with the lean cattle that you have killed, how do you get them to hang for 4 weeks weeks without drying out and going dark.

You don't - once they start to go dark the proportion of trimming goes up - the butchers I use insist that around 3 weeks is as long as it can stand without a lot of trim and then it needs good fat cover and must be hung on the bone so anything OTM with spine cut out will not hang as long

 

[brigadoon]

Dexter Beef is also good. But we need to rear it very much and also we need to do it correctly.

I will also vote for Dexter but we have also had excellent results outcrossing Dexter Cows to Galloway and Angus bulls - we currently have a WHBS bull but have not yet killed a steer out of him and a Dexter

 

[Wolds Beef]

Sorry @yellowbelly !! Been a bit preoccupied. I am upset that they did not put Lincoln Red on the list. I will not vote until they do!! Not only has the Needham family done very well in the Smithfield ribs competition but F E Read and Son(Michael Read) has won champion or reserve a time or to. Lincoln Red has also graced a royal table @ Gatcombe Park. It has been exported to Hong Kong by Direct Meats who buy from the Mann family in Suffolk and has found its way on to the Meat counter at Harrods.
WB

 

[davidroberts30]

Sorry @yellowbelly !! Been a bit preoccupied. I am upset that they did not put Lincoln Red on the list. I will not vote until they do!! Not only has the Needham family done very well in the Smithfield ribs competition but F E Read and Son(Michael Read) has won champion or reserve a time or to. Lincoln Red has also graced a royal table @ Gatcombe Park. It has been exported to Hong Kong by Direct Meats who buy from the Mann family in Suffolk and has found its way on to the Meat counter at Harrods.
WB

If I've missed any breeds out its because they arnt well own about here

 

[Wolds Beef]

There are some herds of Red's in Wales including one that has bought 'Winceby' Animals!!
WB

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Holstein / Frisian

they have evolved to store fat within the muscle as an energy source for milk production. for me milk comes in a bottle but but when fed well taste very very good??. its just hard to convince someone that some hat rack dairy breed will taste better than the picture off the Coleman advert.

this is of course only when all the simmental beef has sold out due to popular demand

I wouldn't even feed holstein to my dog let alone let anyone eat it , there only good for Mc Donald's.?

 

[tinsheet]

What's the breed that's most eaten world wide?
Surely that will give us the answer to the op's question if not why not?

 

[Northeastfarmer]

What's the breed that's most eaten world wide?
Surely that will give us the answer to the op's question if not why not?

The Brahman...

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

The Brahman...

Followed by the Holstein!!

 

[beltie2001]

What's the breed that's most eaten world wide?
Surely that will give us the answer to the op's question if not why not?

If it is eaten the most world wide, it must be a highly commercial animal, and in most peoples experience the highly commercial animals are not the best eating.

 

[tinsheet]

The Brahman...

Thought it might be the Nelore!

 

[yellowbelly]

I wouldn't even feed holstein to my dog let alone let anyone eat it , there only good for Mc Donald's.?

Have a look at this........

.......eating quality can be affected much more by how it's treated than by the breed it's from.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Have a look at this........

.......eating quality can be affected much more by how it's treated than by the breed it's from.

Might have to get the freezing works to bump up the schedule for the retired 12-15 year old Jersey/Jersey cross cows , eh

 

[egbert]

It's extremely difficult and very expensive to carry out beef-tasting tests that would stand up to even the most lax scrutiny.

What is clear, as others have pointed out, little or none of the variation in eating quality can be attributed to the actual breed or cross.

I do eat, and make comparisons, between progeny of most/all my galloway bulls. the best eating , one for one, was a rakey old goat of a Riggit bull -the infamous well travelled Park Badger'.

The South Devons that I've helped devour -my sister does a lot for her beef round, killed on the same line-, have a much bigger grain/fibre than the galloways. I prefer Galloways.

And there's a big caveat with that.
I raise Riggits/Whites/Bellts. not Blacks...they've been turned into something else recently, like many native breeds, and I'll wager beef quality is not on the check list.
As posts show, some people think a well shaped high yield beast is best, and fatstock shows judge on how 'nice' a rib looks.....none of which relates to eat quality.

and there's more. Yield is relative, as heavier beasts have proportionately heavier bones. Don't know what others get, but we get 66% saleable product from hung carcase weight.

 

[M-J-G]

Followed by the Holstein!!

I'm not sure it is, I've read several times that the Simmental is the 2nd most common breed in the world at around 40 million.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Followed by the Holstein!!

Maybe for milking...I’d say Angus would be second for beef

 

[essexpete]

I do eat, and make comparisons, between progeny of most/all my galloway bulls. the best eating , one for one, was a rakey old goat of a Riggit bull -the infamous well travelled Park Badger'.

The South Devons that I've helped devour -my sister does a lot for her beef round, killed on the same line-, have a much bigger grain/fibre than the galloways. I prefer Galloways.

And there's a big caveat with that.
I raise Riggits/Whites/Bellts. not Blacks...they've been turned into something else recently, like many native breeds, and I'll wager beef quality is not on the check list.
As posts show, some people think a well shaped high yield beast is best, and fatstock shows judge on how 'nice' a rib looks.....none of which relates to eat quality.

and there's more. Yield is relative, as heavier beasts have proportionately heavier bones. Don't know what others get, but we get 66% saleable product from hung carcase weight.

So that would be 66% of dw which would in turn be 55% of lw? From a save the planet argument those figures do not look good. Would some of the waste be used in any form?

 

[davidroberts30]

ive always worked on a 1/4 of live weight to useable meat

 

[unlacedgecko]

So that would be 66% of dw which would in turn be 55% of lw? From a save the planet argument those figures do not look good. Would some of the waste be used in any form?

There is no waste when cattle are slaughtered. It's all used for something. There is an infographic about somewhere that shows what the 5th quarter is used for.