To slow cook two ribeye steaks?

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I ordered two rump steaks from Sainsbury’s this weekend. My plan was to slow cook them. Nothing fancy, just the cheap £3 steaks. I get four meals out of it, I slow cook it with stock and tomatoes and it’s gorgeous.

For some reason Sainsbury’s have substituted them for two of their premium ribeye steaks. I don’t eat steak in the traditional way - a slab of fried beef doesn’t appeal to me at all, but I love it slow cooked.

AIBU to still fry them up and slow cook them? It feels like a bit of a waste of such a premium cut of meat, but I think it would be more wasteful to not use it!

It would be a waste imo!

This is kind of how I feel, but I’m not a fan of steak so I think it would go to waste otherwise!

This is a truly terrible idea.

Cook it how you would enjoy to eat it. That’s never a waste.

It’s your steak. You can do whatever you like with it. But I would weep to be part of your household and have to bear witness to such a travesty.

What else can I do with them?! I definitely won’t eat them as normal steaks. I can’t eat steak, and even if I did, my plan was four meals out of the meat not two!

Could you not slice it up very thinly and use it for tacos or fajitas? You can’t braise it or slow cook, it’ll be a sad piece of jerky.

My friend made chilli with sirloin the other day as that’s all she had. Cooked it for less time and it was lovely. Go for it but don’t cook it to death. Personally I’d fry it slice it and serve as a Thai salad….

How about this? We have renamed it bathtub steak…

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/steak-slice-with-lemon-and-thyme

or this

https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient/beef-recipes/marinated-rump-steak

Or beef stroganoff?

Can't you slice it up, pan-fry it and have it with stir fry or something?

What can’t you eat them cooked?

They can be just as tender as they would be in the slow cooker

you could make ribeye fajitas

Don't you have any friends or family who like steak? If you offered them the ribeye for £3 I'm sure that they'd bite your hand off.

I just can’t eat steak like that. I don’t know why, I’ve tried, but slow cooked is really the only way I can eat it.

Would it reheat well if sliced and fried? My plan was to use it for meal prep for the week for work. Obviously Sainsbury’s scuppered that one!

Maybe try it and update us with pic too

If it cooks really slow , falls apart and tastes delicious why is that a waste ?
I can't eat a big lump of steak either but i can eat luscious slow cooked beef.

This was going to be my suggestion too.
Stirfry, taco, burrito, fajita, steak and onion baguette

Great minds!

there’s actually a lot you can do with it OP in between eating it as God intended or turning it into a bit of leather.

Why do people say nonsense like they "can't" eat steak?

You might not want to, but you can eat it! It's delicious!

Do you have the ingredients for stroganoff?

https://www.kitchensanctuary.com/beef-stroganoff/

I'd cook it the way you planned, the fat will combine with the tomatoes to give a beef flavour throughout. I recently did air fried steak.

The problem with a lot of other methods, including frying is drying the meat out by overcooking. Slow cooking removes that problem and captures all the flavour which can be lost with frying

That’s really odd. So you can’t eat it as a slab but can if it’s cut up? Can’t you get someoene to cut it up for you so you can eat it?

Cook it however you want to eat it. It's not that deep.

For a lot of people the chewing and swallowing of fillet type meat is very hard or uncomfortable, try thinking that your experience is not the only one out there and that might help

It’s to do with the texture. Chewing a big slab of steak makes me physically gag. When it’s slow cooked it falls apart and i find it a lot easier to eat.

Slow cooking rib eye will have a completely different result to your slow cooked rump, it will result in a greasy rubbery texture , so it wouldn’t have it in your usual dish as it won’t be very nice.

Rib eye needs cooking at a high temperature to get the best from it , I second the fajita/sandwich/taco suggestions , sliced very thinly, dash of salt and pepper and then pan fried high and quick will produce nice tasty meat.