To think beef is the most disappointing roast dinner?

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I much prefer chicken with stuffing or lamb. We had beef last night for a change and it was well cooked but just not as tasty.

Beef is the best.

The end 😛

You clearly didn’t have a rib roast as that is the best cut of beef for a roast dinner!

The cut you had would have been better cooked in the slow cooker for 6 hours on low sat on top of an onion!

Go to an old established independent high street butcher - not a chain.

I think the best roast is porchetta or belly pork.

I find half the thing with beef is to not have it cut in those thin slivers that people often do. When you get a good thick slice its delicious. Cut so thin you can practically see through it, it seems to lose something.
It is fantastic cold in sandwiches the next day with mustard.

The secret to good beef is a bloody good butcher and the very best meat. At Christmas we had rib roast from local Lincoln red cattle, well hung. Absolutely incredible but you bloody pay for it. Worth every penny!

YABU. Chicken is dull. A nice rare joint of beef is juicy and delicious.

I love roast beef, hate turkey so Christmas dinner is my bête noire 🤢

Depends entirely on the beef. Poor ingredients will give you a poor result. Good, the opposite.

Beef is the The King of Roast Dinners.

You don’t eat cows, you eat cattle. Cows are for breeding and often sent for pet food as they tend to be quite old when they are culled.
Good roast beef is the best roast.
(biased wife of a beef farmer)

Chicken is fine, it's just a bit boring. Turkey tastes like leftover chicken from the fridge. I don't eat lamb; DH loves it but even the smell of it makes me gag.

Beef can be lovely if it's cooked perfectly (medium rare for me) but usually it's served chewy, grey and tasteless - even at restaurants.

The only choice for a Top Tier Roast Dinner is pork. I will die on this hill.

Completely depends on the cut. A rib roast is phenomenally tasty. Some cuts labelled ambiguously 'beef roast' have no flavour

Totally depends on the cut. A rib roast is marbled and best med to med rare. A rump roast can be med rare to rare. You have to know the cuts.

Anything but pork - bleurgh!

All the people on here making how rare they eat beef their personality... weird

Well there’s no right or wrong, it’s just what you like.

We had a beautiful joint of rolled rib, from a local farm shop, perfectly cooked (by me!) and it was lovely.

I love all roasts.

I like chicken roast dinners but don't like roast beef, lamb or pork- I would honestly rather have something like Toad in the hole or a really good cottage pie or a really great top quality meat pie

Beef is a brilliant roast, it should be moist and pink in the middle, with onion gravy, sprouts, carrot and parsnip mash, and big Yorkshires.

This. Absolutely this.

YABVU. Beef is the only one where you can have Yorkshires (I know people do include them with other roasts, but that's just wrong) Plus there is nothing better than a really superb joint of beef.

No. Pork is the most disappointing

Same

I absolutely love roast beef but agree that it is often disappointing. I very rarely cook it myself (less than once a year). There's no point normally because it's just my husband and me at home now and he likes it well done. whereas I don't. I also think it's always better if you have a big joint.

Perhaps because I don't often cook it, I tend to think beef is quite high risk for guests, so I always avoid it. I'm good at chicken, turkey, lamb or ham, so it's safer to go for one of them.

I always avoid pork too, but that's mainly because I don't really like it.

Indeed beef, especially at Sam's Riverside!