What is A5 Wagyu? Long story short a5 wagyu is a grading scale used to grade the quality of wagyu. There is a Japanese grading system used ONLY for wagyu that is imported from Japan. Secondly there is the American Wagyu grading system which is used for full blood wagyu raised in the USA, as […]
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Buying Japanese Wagyu Beef Online can be an expensive and sometimes confusing endeavor. We are trying our best for your experience with us to be neither one of those. If you want to learn some more about Japanese Wagyu beef and American Wagyu beef online, read some of our informational posts before making that purchase! […]
Wagyu fat, like Wagyu beef, is different. Wagyu has the good fats. Go ahead, Google it. You will find it is common knowledge. Wagyu beef has been likened to olive oil and salmon in terms of its health benefits. It has up to 300% more monounsaturated fat than normal beef due to the high marbling […]
Why is Wagyu beef so expensive? Products called wagyu in any way are priced far above what most people would see in a grocery store. Ground beef in a store will go on sale for around $3.50 per pound these days. Ground wagyu beef will range in price from $10 to more than $250 per […]
Today I got the kind of phone call any carnivore loves to receive. It came from someone who didn’t buy their beef from us but had read a post we wrote months ago about grilling Wagyu. He wanted to know how to cook the steak he bought. His wife prefers well-done steaks and he likes […]
The picture associated with this post is of a common brisket we had for dinner the other night. What is uncommon about it is the marbling you see in the picture. You simply cannot find that kind of marbling in a supermarket, a local butcher or from 90% of the websites online selling beef. I […]
Grass fed beef is all the rage in healthy beef eating. But before you splurge on a grass-fed only cut of beef or before you insist on ordering a fully grass fed steak in a restaurant there are some things you need to know. What your Wagyu eats matters. Years ago I worked for a […]
On the phone the other day a customer expressed great dismay to learn that the wagyu he has been buying isn’t really wagyu at all. He’s been buying his so-called wagyu from a snake-oil salesman who tries to pawn off American wagyu as the real deal. It is a common thing. But just as common […]
It’s barbeque season and a time of a happy marriage of beef with fire. We know that when folks eat Wagyu they want to best eating experience possible. Unfortunately, not everyone is a master with the grill. BBQ’s are quite nearly bipolar in debate and in practice. There are, first of all, those who argue […]
If you love beef there is a lot you need to know about Wagyu. This ain’t your Mama’s garden variety meat stuff. Wagyu is the good stuff. The hardest part of Wagyu is just finding the stuff. It is not available in stores. It is hardly available online. It is very pricey. And you just […]