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.

I did beef today. Seared it and put it in the slow cooker with carrots.onions & celery salt pepper Worcester sauce and beef stock. Left it in low all day. I just served it with a giant yorkshire, gravy & horseradish. It was bloody good.

YABU. Turkey is the worst of the roast dinners. It’s only saved by all the extra bits you get at Christmas.

Beef is a top tier roast dinner. But you have to have a god piece of beef to do it well.

Off topic but I remember being invited to meet a boyfriend's mum, years and years ago. We rocked up for Sunday lunch, the beef had been in the oven since the night before 😱. Shoe leather would have been an improvement!

I'm really not fond of roasts at all , but if I have to have one it would be chicken. We alternate between chicken and pork as other stuff is too expensive . DH and DS love a roast though and at least DH cooks it.

I love a really nice roast chicken or slow roasted lamb shoulder.

Whenever I have roast beef it's fine but the taste is quite bland to me - a nice background for some mustard, rich gravy and Yorkshires but on its own just "nice enough".

Pork can be very up and down.

Chicken is my favourite.. but if l have beef l prefer brisket in the slow cooker..more tasty and not dry.
Or a rib of beef.

Most supermarket beef is far too lean. When that beef is overcooked, nobody should be surprised that the joint. is tough, dry, tasteless & grim.

With beef, the succulence & flavour is in the marbling. Buy good quality, well-marbled beef, give it a really good sear then cook it rare or at most medium rare, rest it properly and it will be delicious.

i hate roast beef, it is so meaty
absolutely hate roast lamb - brings back bad memories, awful when left to get cold
i can eat a small portion of steak if cooked well

i have cooked a roast beef twice in my life
the first time for dh when i didnt eat meat
the second time for the family and most of us apart from dh and ds, hated it, bloody

This. It would be my death row meal. With proper homemade Yorkshire pudding. Yabu op.

I cannot eat beef at all since I worked in our local butchers as a teenager cleaning up all the bloody trays in the evening after school to make pocket money. Just hate the sight of blood. I love a chicken roast dinner too.

I love it with horseradish too but I don't think the beef itself has an actual taste

Some of the beef can be disappointing.
Before 1980s The animal would have been older and larger say 2+ years old at least. Since Mad Cow disease they are only about 18 months old I think.

Beef is the best roast. Then lamb, then chicken. I am partial to a goose too.

Roast pork belongs in the bin. With the crackling too. And gammon 🤢(I do like sausages though?)

DC love my winner winner chicken dinner though and request it every Sunday. With Yorkshires AND stuffing.

I will add that to get a nice bit you have to spend lots though.
I made a beef Wellington a few years back which cost me well over £60.
Was bloody lovely though!

A good cut of beef cooked med rare is very good, but unless you cook it to around 55 degrees C and then let it rest for around 20 mins, it’s not so good.

I prefer chicken too

Beef joints are so expensive and quite often disappointing, so I just buy sliced beef from the deli and warm up with some lovely gravy, add yorkshires, veg, roasties and horse radish et voila! Less washing up too 😉

Whaaaat you can mix gravy and peppercorn sauce? My two favourite wet things?!

I think a roast dinner is all about the veg and trimmings to be honest. I was a vegetarian for about 20 years and do not eat much meat, but all if cooked well with the appropriate sauce (horseradish for beef) are lovely. Except gammon- DC love it but just horrible.

@ZenNudist

Chicken is a treat food for DD and me, though I love beef, I can't really afford it, so I make do with beef stew, or on the rare occasions I'm out for lunch, a steak pie.

We have roast chicken maybe four or five times a year, and that includes Christmas lunch.

Neither of us eat any other kind of meat.

I'm with you OP.
Whilst a good steak is great, roast dinner preference is:
Lamb
Chicken
Pork / Beef

YABU.

Everybody knows this is the roast dinner meat superiority order:

• Lamb
• Beef
• Trio (Beef, pork, chicken)
• Pork
• Chicken

This is a hill I am willing to die on.