Grill Maestro

WNBC recently wrote about a Consumer Reports “grill” test of two cuts of meat from four online vendors and found that Allen Brothers’ steak took top honors in the strip steak category and Lobel’s took the ribbon in the filet mignon group. The four online vendors were Allen Brothers, Omaha Steaks, Lobel’s and Costco. It’s worth mentioning that the steak from Costco was only available online, not in store.

The testers bought filets mignons and strip steaks, looking for different things in each cut and grading each differently. All the steaks were grilled on iron skillets to medium-rare and then tasted by “expert tasters.” (That’s not a bad job!) In the filets, they looked for beefy flavor and a melt-in-your-mouth texture; in the strip steaks, they looked for tenderness and a “distinct beef flavor.”

Best strip steak was a 10-oz $25 beefy selection from Allen Brothers with Costco taking second with a 24-oz cut that cost only $23. Both only scored Very Good ratings, not Excellent, because they found that they were too chewy to get the top score. As for filet mignon, Lobel’s earned the only Excellent score with their 8-oz. steak that cost a very meaty $30 each.

via WNBC.