I bought a piece of eye filler steak. Approx 250grams.
It looked good. It was a nice shape but when I started to cook it, well it fell apart. It ended up in about 8 different pieces and after cooking hundreds of steaks over the years. I’ve never had steak break apart when turning over in the fry pan.
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Probably. Would anyone be surprised at this point?
Maybe it was just tired
I wouldn’t be surprised if they do.
I’m sure they do, but that’s not an eye fillet anyway based on the size of it (unless that’s a tiny pan).
Deconstructed Steak.
Buy meat from your butcher. By the time you account for the liquid loss that seems to happen with supermarket meat, you’re actually paying less per kg in most case.
My hubby was a master butcher, he said that is classic meat glue. It falls apart when cooked. Also, that is not eye fillet in anyone’s view. They have used other cuts and Frankensteined it.
From my view as a home cook, the sinew “vein” is the give away. Unless you have to eat it, take it back.
ETA – or keep wrapper and receipt and go to the service desk to complain. That was not what was advertised on the label and not acceptable.
Absolutely they do, we stopped buying meat from Colesworth a few years ago
Woollies meat produces so much liquid when I cook it. It’s fucked. The butcher produces next to nothing
Call them, complain, get a free gift card
Yes
Yea should not do that. I’d be annoyed even if there isn’t anything actually wrong with meat glue it’s not what you paid for
That is not an eye fillet if thats what u bought u need to get a refund
Yeah you’re right, as no cut of steak falls into pieces like that.
We haven’t eaten much red meat for years, and certainly not steak. Just bought a hunk of bulk rump from the local butcher for a decent price per kilo. They sliced it up for us, and I think we have steak for the next few months now. Husband just grilled some on the bbq and we had almost no water loss, and it had lovely flavour. Plus we aren’t tossing a pile of supermarket plastic to landfill. We will do this from now on, interspersed with other meat of course.
Yes, meat glue.
from your description they must be….. never seen that when cooking before
Thank you!
That’s literally not an eye fillet though?
I don’t EVER want to hear the term “meat glue” ever again
We no longer buy meat or fruit/veg from Colesworth. The quality is terrible.
I once saw a documentary where the supermarket meat uses meat glue. As some said in the comments, the meat from the butcher has less water content and like said, you are paying more from the supermarket because of the water content.
Oh wow. Seems like they ‘made’ it look good. I bought steak from woolies, opened it and what was hidden under the label was rubbish just falling apart. I wonder of that’s someone’s job, to package up shit meat hiding bits under the label. Woolies, is it?
Sorry to see that. Personally I have switched to one of the meat wholesalers that delivers to order. Much better quandary at least half the cost.
If they had really used meat glue you wouldn’t know about it
Sigh. The comments on this post are enlightening. I need to find a good local butcher.
Stop buying from the dawgs
Never buy meat from the supermarket
Butcher only.
You need to learn how to cook steak lol
I personally have only had good experiences with woolies meat and find the quality better than MY local butcher (not saying all butchers). With that being said, I only buy the grass fed steak from woolies. I’ve never had a steak fall apart like this though. I’d request a refund to be honest.
Butcher of 17 years here, that isn’t glued eye fillet its off cut and a butterflied tail of eye fillet. Woolworths don’t use meat glue. Butcher shops use it quite commonly but only to glue eye fillet tail back into the middle to get a nice roll that is even in circumference all the way through, its always used at food service place serving restaurants because chefs need portions that are the same weight and thickness which is impossible with eye fillet without massive waste
Shop at your local butcher if you want quality meat
No, you’re watching too many tiktoks of North Americans ‘exposing’ supermarkets for gluing steaks together
Real eye fillet doesn’t fall apart!
Let’s all make a deal and stay away from the supermarket giant crooks.
Support out locals. Deal? Deal.
I have stopped buying steaks from Woolworths. I have been a woollies diehard for as long as I can remember however the quality of their steaks has been on the decline for about 2 years now and the price has also somehow went up over that time to the point that now it is not fiscally responsible to buy steaks from there any more.
I’d buy steak less often but buy it from a proper butcher if I were you