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Old 04-27-2016, 06:10 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by SIKSUKR View Post
The price of $14.99 is actually higher than that because they vacuum marinate their tips which gain weight from the marinade. I don't know exactly what their weight gain ratio is but when our meat processing plant injected hams we would add 20% or more before cooking.
To Siksukr's point, I nave never seen steak tips shrink so much when cooking. I have not weighed them before and after, but they shrink. We usually cook them to medium.

They are very tasty, but we usually had to buy more than usual to cover the shrinkage loss.

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