Some nice offers on roast meats at Coles next week.
Good for this cooler weather.
Lamb is on sale for 2-weeks.
Enjoy!
Lamb Whole or Half Leg Roast $11/kg (Was $15/kg), Pork Leg Roast Boneless $8/kg (Was $12/kg) @ Coles
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This is LAMB, not Beef!
"Coles' decision to use Bovaer is part of its broader commitment to sustainability and reducing supply chain emissions, particularly within its Coles Finest certified carbon neutral beef range."
there are no known instances of its use with sheep in Australia.
Genuine question, what’s the issue with bovaer? And what happened to CSIRO furturefeed, that was apparently the future 2 years ago
furturefeed
A seaweed based cattle feed additive, designed to reduce methane emissions and improve feed efficiency.Remember reading about positive results with seaweed use in cattle - from newspaper in 2009, while on flight in China! Research is a slow costly process, with no guarantee of success.
Guess the chemical based Bovear was cheaper, easier & quicker to get into production. furturefeed will likely be more expensive.
As with any change, consumers may unnecessarily fear Bovear. Mainly used in feedlot production of more expensive beef, whereas most beef here is free range.
But, many consumers tend to demand lower prices over better production practices. Which is likely to make furturefeed a niche production practice. Time will tell, with both possibly in use in future cattle & dairy farming.
The reality is there are no issues with Bovaer. The same groups peddling conspiracy theories about Bovaer are very similar, and related, to anti-vax groups.
Bovaer is manufactured and owned by DSM-Firmenich (a big Dutch multinational that does a lot of R&D and production of human and animal health and nutrition material).
The way Bovaer works is that in a cow/sheep/goat etc., rumen, microbes help break down their food. These microbes release hydrogen and carbon dioxide and within the digestive process for the animal an enzyme combines these gases to form methane which is then expelled by the animal (through classic belching).
Bovaer, when consumed as a feed additive by the animal, targets the production of the specific methane producing enzyme in the animal's digestive process. During this process, the Bovaer is processed and broken down by the digestive process into various other naturally occurring compounds that a ruminant animal naturally consumes.
Bovaer, in a feedlot scenario, knocks down methane production by the animal by between 60-90%. Bovaer is available in around 70 markets currently, has been studied for about 2 decades, and does not present in residue samples of animal products (milk, cheese, meat, etc.). There are somewhere between 70-100 independent scientific studies, many sponsored by Government regulators, that have all confirmed the safety of the product. No study has yet identified any animal or human health impacts associated with Bovaer.
It's a great sustainability tool for agriculture.
Regarding CSIRO FutureFeed programme. That absolutely is still underway. They're working with a number of research and industry partners.
Not putting the boot into CSIRO, but they're famous for projecting a date for a project and to still be working on it 10 years later - that's how research goes, and its a good thing.
If I recall, in naturally harvested Asparagopsis (the specific type of seaweed they were targeting) they discovered alarmingly high levels of bromoform (which is bad), they've also really struggled with the scope of their work. It's a long story, but I believe CSIRO and "Future Feed" (as intellectual property) have received over $350m in funding to date and they still have struggled to properly commercialise the work, including large-scale animal trials.
They keep doing ad. hoc small trials of a few dozen animals and one formulation. A hundred animals and another formulation. Some tests in feedlots, others in grass-fed rangeland cattle. Some tests in dairy cows etc. etc. Always these small micro trials without a lot of macro trials. This means they're constantly in a state of ending up with different results. Tons of different methodologies, formulations, etc.
There's a really good article about it here that I read last year
Also
Bovaer is a cattle feed additive, specifically designed to reduce methane emissions, and is not used in pork production.
Lamb… any cheap beef soon?
yeah what about cheap beef?
Where's the beef? (gratuitous US reference on an Aus site)
i thought beef would be cheaper now with all those ridiculous tariffs. I hope this equals the best bits for us, including lobsters. Let us enjoy the premium stuff, and don't export and leave us with the less desirable stuff.
hmmm, well just because Queensland lost a couple of cattle, doesn't mean we can't once again get cheap Western Australian lobsters like during COVID.
give me some recipes
Half lamb leg in slow cooker with a cup of veg stock, garlic, a thinly sliced onion and some rosemary. Cook on low for about 8 or 9 hours.
Spuds, carrots and pumpkin with a spray of olive oil and a sprinkle of vegie stock in oven at 180c for about 1 hour 30 minutes. Microwave sugar snap peas for a few minutes.
Put lamb in air fryer at 200c for 15 minutes to crisp. Use the liquid and the stuff from the slow cooker to make gravy.
Carve lamb, add the vegies and gravy. Enjoy.
yep this is what i do as well. slow cooker is such a convenient thing to have
Slow Cooked Lamb Obsession - The pictures aren't great on this recipe for some reason - but it is an amazing dish and we reserve a lot of the gravy and freeze to use later on pies and roast dinners..
Boneless lamb roast is $15/kg right now.
You lose about 1/3 to the bone depending on the cut you get so it’s about the same, plus no need to debone if you’re going for kebab meat or other cuts.
Does any one know anything that can cut these into medium size pieces for curry or something?
ThanksI always do that boneless and trim fat then freeze them in portions
debone it and then use a slicer to shave it semi-frozen, beautiful for hot pot!
Definitely. I do this. Buy a boneless lamb, cut the fat off, dice it and freeze it
I mostly use it in a slow cooker to do a curry. Another thing I do though, is use Lee Kum Kee Mongolian lamb sauce with two or three sliced onions and some diced carrots in the slow cooker, and serve with garlic mashed potatoes
As per my comment above, buy the boneless lamb leg roast and just cut with a knife. No need to debone, which is super handy for those who aren't as dexterous or don't want the hassle.
Cumin Lamb Recipe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4ljL3KBNyA
Lamb shoulder is better.Which lamb, beef, pork, or chicken is healthier?
Username definitely doesn't fit.
Not sure if I accidentally turned it off but flybuy app seems to add new features that allow to switch $10 on and off. The screen had no popup message for me today at Coles. Now I turn it back on.
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