I massage my meat too. Bet it is better. LOL.
Kobe is a scam and the whole lot of that kind of beef is just too marbled. Fine for carpatchio or kibbe but not much else. Good aged grass fed free range beef has so much more flavor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWglRdmuM-k
Dont throw away the leathery stuff. Great in stews.
“”Good aged grass fed free range beef has so much more flavor.””
Our cows are considered grass fed and free range just like all the others who claim the lofty title. They’ve got 42 square miles of ranch. They eat anything they can find including weeds, forbes, prickly pear cactus, cholla cactus, yucca’s and mesquite beans. If it get too cold or dry we supplement with round bales and range cubes. Interesting part is actual grass (very little in west Texas) is a rare part of their diet. Any cow raised on a ranch falls into that category.
I worked down in Venezuela in the '80s and had my epiphany at a local supermarket's meat department. All the meat on display looked "funny" - a deep burgundy and no or little marbling. I was used to the scarlet beef in the U.S.
Ate out at a restaurant and nearly swallowed my tongue over the flavor and tenderness of a steak. The owner said they get all their meat from Argentina - all grass fed. Have yet to find a U.S. meat as flavorful.
Not sure I agree. Local butcher shop does an American Kobe corned beef. Most delicious corned beef ever.