Omaha Steaks enjoys a pretty good rep ... is it deserved or is it hype?

Anybody have experience with them ??

Good but overpriced in my opinion... 😟

A nice gift to send to someone tho... 😟

Got some a couple of Christmas ago...was alright, but if you can find a local butcher you are probably better off (but yes, they make it easy to send as a gift).

Ditto the above comments.

For the Omaha steaks I tried, I thought that while they were good, they were about the same as what I can get at a high end market, and I can easily get better quality from a local butcher shop.

Concur with all of the above. Good gift....dependable quality.....would never buy for myself

Frozen, overpriced meat in the mail vs. locally sourced, custom cut butcher shop.


Take your pick....

a cut above Trump steaks, tho

well, when ya say it like that...

I personally would never send those to anybody.

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NOW it's fixed

Expensive, yes, if you buy only one box of something, but if you work the sales and bonuses, you can get the price down to what you would pay in a supermarket or possibly a local butcher shop. Problem with that is, you have to make a fairly large purchase to achieve those savings.
We don't use Omaha Steaks as our primary meat source, but we usually make a couple of "stock up" trips a year, to the tune of around $150 - $200 per trip. It's not all spent on steaks.
There are other things in their inventory that we like too.

If I'm not mistaken, their steaks are "flash frozen" as soon as they are butchered. The meat in a local butcher shop does not get frozen until YOU, if you are so inclined, freeze it. Something to think about, is how long has that meat been "aging",
(for lack of a better word), from the time it is slaughtered in the slaughterhouse, then gets sent to a major distributor, then possibly gets sent to smaller distributors before it winds up at your butcher shop, where they do the final cutting to go into the display case. I guess it depends on what your perception of "fresh" is.

Personally, we have never been disappointed with what we've bought at Omaha Steaks, over the years. Of course, we only buy the "top end" cuts, such as Delmonicos and Rib Eyes, so THAT may play into it. *lol* (for Frankie T )

Just my $.02

jes

No, but I know someone who ate Obama's steak...

That's a pretty broad brush you're painting with.

Local butcher shops supply lines vary greatly. The one I use has their own USDA licensed kill shop and processing facility in their building. Besides their own counter sales, they sell direct to other local shops and restaurants. So the delays of which you speak do not exist. Actually, that kind of arrangement of slaughterhouse direct to butcher is not uncommon at all for almost the entire northern half of this state.

My shop also does a 30 day dry age on all beef, so I'm totally ok with that aging. 🙂

Not a fan. And when I'm in Omaha I rarely eat steak.

Grocery stores here have much better let alone meat lockers

I hope you meant the Shaun that spells his name with a u and not Shawn. I like the choice or prime steaks I can get at Sam's or Costco.

Very difficult to find a "butcher shop" any more. Aside from the meat departments in grocery stores...

Yup. It's already happened. Our "local" butcher has great meat....err. Beef. And pork. And seafood. And exotics if you're into that

In his defense they were Kansas City steaks. Good eating too!

I have been underwhelmed