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This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. How to Choose between Prime vs Choice vs Select? Joe Gorgone. Quality Grade: Beef is graded on two scales, and one is meat quality.
Tenderness, juiciness, and flavor determine the ranking for the quality grade. Fat content, age at slaughter, farming practice, and source can affect the quality score.
Yield Grade: Graders also measure the yield, or the usable lean meat on the carcass. Now it is all from one geographic area, the same climate, same feed, same processing plant," says King. Some programs or brands, like Niman Ranch and CAB's "Natural" label, also incorporate drug-free and natural raising practices into their standards.
Nonetheless, while more consistent quality is a good thing, consumers still have no practical way to distinguish between the three marbling scores within Prime. So little "high Prime" exists that none of these brands have integrated higher marbling requirements into their standards for Prime beef. The Choice grade, however, is a very different story. There is no real USDA program for high Prime, but there are many private, branded programs that offer the consumer "high Choice"—and this may just be the best buy in red meat.
The Choice grade spans a wider range of quality and encompasses three possible USDA marbling scores, though, as with Prime, you can't find those on labels. The three scores, from best to worst, are "Moderate," "Modest," and "Small. Just as with Prime, the private, branded programs for Choice seek to control the age and breed of the cattle they sell in order to achieve better consistency.
This effectively guarantees that the consumer is getting high Choice. The original Schedule G private label, CAB Choice is now the best known and most widely available of these options, seen on better menus and in supermarkets.
The CAB brand was created by a cooperative group of ranchers specifically to differentiate high Choice: "When this brand was founded, meat scientists saw a big difference in the consumer eating experience between Choice beef above and below the Modest marbling score. We have a lot of data that shows that consumers cannot differentiate low Choice, or what we call 'commodity Choice,' which is more than two-thirds of all the Choice out there, from Select, and that's really important," says Mark McCully, VP of production for the company.
CAB's Prime version came about later, along with its Natural line, which guarantees no drugs or animal by-products and is available in both Choice and Prime. Other industry terms for high Choice include "upper Choice" and "hand-selected Choice. Ranchers weren't getting the recognition they deserved for raising a better product, so they created their own standard and got the USDA to certify it.
Chef after chef agrees that for consumers, branded high Choice is one of the best options. And it's certainly a better value. It's the most bang for the buck. High-Choice branded products are excellent alternatives to commodity Prime for the most popular, high-demand steaks—ribeyes, strips, T-bones, and filets. But you might still do well with Prime for less popular cuts that are unlikely to be snapped up for top dollar by steakhouses and high-end butchers.
Walzog points out that a Prime grade means "the whole animal is Prime, not just the ribeye," and recommends seeking out Prime short ribs. They are great values and great meat.
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List of Partners vendors. The texture of choice beef is a bit more coarse. Choice is still a quality steak especially if it is cut from the loin and rib areas of a carcass such as the tenderloin filet or rib steak. Choice beef is sometimes sold in grocery store meat counters and can be served at nice steakhouses and restaurants as well. The lowest grade of beef is Select. USDA Select beef is what you will typically find in grocery store meat counters and restaurants across the county.
Select beef has the least about of fat marbling and is distinctively less juicy and tender. You will find Select beef to be tough and less flavorful than Choice or Prime beef. USDA Select beef is much less enjoyable and desirable. We pay a representative from the USDA to come to our meat processing facility to grade our carcasses before they are cut in to steaks. Our beef grades Prime or Choice and is well-marbled, tender, juicy and flavorful.
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