How many here has been through a full cut bone in round sale, There were weeks when some markets I've been in would go through 50 to 60 whole rounds on a sale.
Each of the whole rumps came off and was tied. They would put Rump roast on sale trying to keep up with all we had off the rounds. You didn't make cube steak out of them, that was a no no, all cube came off your trim.
How many here has seen a young cutter cutting full cuts on the saw and getting a wedge on it going into the heel lol
I have cut a few of those with the bone in but it became standard pratice to cut the bone out before we cut it. I always cut them with a knife. yep I do
also keep in mind we used to beable to price those a hell of alot cheaper than we can now. Which is why most stores don't even carry them anymore . They sell the sections seperately now so you can pick the part you like the best I guess. even as recently as the mid 90s it was alot easier to sell meat because the prices we so much lower. When i started we were pushing ground chuck at 89cents per lb. now its 2.99. WTH? Things that I used to push at 1.49 are now 3.99. Meat prices have gone up with the gas prices. I reemmber when i was filling up as recent as 97 at .99 cents a gallon of gas now its 3.89 a gallon. I would really like to see prices down again. I miss those days. I know we all do.
-- Edited by fdarn on Sunday 25th of November 2012 05:31:19 PM
When I joined the Marine Corps in 1998, I was paying $0.67/gallon. I remember at one point paying near $0.60/gallon at a service station along a highway when I still had my old 400-cubic inch, 4-speed, Chevy Nova. Too expensive to drive a beast like that now!
I have cut a full round steak. I have even cut a flat iron roast from the full round. But, only once. So, if I had to do it again, I'd probably destroy our margins.
Cutting full cut rounds were ceaertainly labor intensive, and to make your margins you really had to merchandise the devil out of them. That was why it is much easier to buy the primals. I would be willing to bet most young butchers do not know what a roll3ed rump roast is. I know that I get alot of comments from my customers when they ask for certain cuts of meat that we used to merchandise years ago most meat cutters do not know what they are talking about. Speaking of gas, I started driving when it was 29.9 cents a gallon
We have F.C. round sales every once in a while still for something different. Usually only 1 or 2 a day though. But I have worked places where we cut 30 a day when they were on sale. Lots of boning and trimming for stew and cube etc... wish I had back then the knives I have now, would have been a whole lot easier!
As a young cutter during full cut round sales it was my job to bone out all the shanks, some would be cut for soup bones but most were bone out and froze in chicken part boxes for bull meat later.
I think at the west end A&P store we cut 85 whole rounds in one week in 69. they were going out the door at 129 cents a lb
