Omaha Steaks (good deal for them) $75 shipped

4 (5 oz.)Filet Mignons
4 (5 oz.)Top Sirloins
4 (4 oz.)Boneless Pork Chops
2 (4.5 oz.)Stuffed Sole with Scallops and Crab
4 (4 oz.)Omaha Steaks Burgers
8 (3 oz.)Gourmet Franks
10 portions Potatoes au Gratin

Free at checkout: 6 Burgers, Cutlery, Cutting Board

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This is more or less their standard sale price and even then it's not a good deal.

OS is not popular on FW dude... And for a good reason.

billybabe3883 said: realexm said: OS is not popular on FW dude... And for a good reason.

What is the reason?? Please

They think FW users are cheats, scammers, thieves who prey on pricing errors and deals that are too good to be true... and those are the good parts. Then they have 2 trolls slide in and condemn folks on these forms. Sad, very sad.

I have purchased from them twice when they've had some truly hot deals. But after that, never again. I don't care to be unsulted by a company who takes my money.

Semarin, you just beat me to it while finding the old thread. Yup, read that and you'll never give OS a dime.

billybabe3883 said: realexm said: OS is not popular on FW dude... And for a good reason.

What is the reason?? Please
Read through this thread as to why FW members don't really care to do business with a company like this anymore.

Nubbins said: I bought this last week and I had the sirloins last night. Small portions, but very tasty. At this price, I'd have to say that the value is very good. You can get quite a few decent meals out of this for around $75. When I think about how much you can spend on pure garbage at Mickey D's or BK, this is not bad at all. Definitely go for it. Just don't go for it for the free knives and cutting board. I didn't know such poor cutlery even existed. Bon apetite!

I have no complaints about their quality, but as it has been pointed out in the threads referenced - you can do as good or better at Costco or the local butcher shop or higher-end market. And that won't be frozen.

yum frozen food

Thanks for linking that thread from the past.

OS has these "deals" constantly. None of them are really deals, per se. The meat is alright, nothing spectacular, and the whole "how much would this cost you if you ate it at a restaurant" arguement is valid, but I can get the same prices (and usually better) just shopping at the local market, butcher, or dare I say it ... discount food chain.

We used to order from them pretty much every other month. We'd also order from them around this time of year for Holiday gifts to business associates and family out of state.

After reading that thread long ago we stopped all together. Haven't ordered a single potato or cube of meat from them.

One person doesn't effect a business enough for them to feel it but if a handful of people backed away from them maybe they took notice. I hope the peons in that thread that worked for OS got fired for mouthing off as reps for the company and soiling their image.

"<< We have been laughing at you people all of yesterday as well as today. How smart is a group that actually commits fraud and then publishes what they have been doing. All of your customer service calls are follwed by reading your comments and then deleting your orders. It been a hoot! Keep it up, we need more laughs!!"

There's really nothing else to say.

I order from them once every 30 to 45 days or so and have always been happy with the results.

You're right. You can probably do as well at Costco. You'll just have to buy a package of 50 hamburgers, 25 steaks, 40 stuffed soles, and a 150 pack of hot dogs. By the time you get a quarter of the way through all of that stuff, it'll be white and freezer-burned. It's funny how disappointed people get when they hear about a deal or coupon code and the company tells you it's not valid. It's like you took their birthday away.

No offense but if I were a business I would probably want to avoid fatwalleters as well. Who needs customers who constantly pull pricematching scams and exploit pricing errors? Half the time fatwalleters actually manage to snag items below cost. I certainly wouldn't want customers that were buying from me below cost.

Those representatives certainly were rude though, very unprofessional and should probably be fired.

ragnacor1234 said: Half the time fatwalleters actually manage to snag items below cost. I certainly wouldn't want customers that were buying from me below cost.


that's what we're good for! FEAR US!

I have had relatives send me OS as Christmas gifts. Each time this happens, my dogs smile from ear to ear. Personally I think their steaks/burgers suck but my dogs seem to like them a lot.

I can promise that as a whole FW makes money for retailers. It's clearly all a game. Most of us don't get upset when a PM gets shot down at CC for instance. Most of us don't cry when that item at Amazon with the pricing mistake magically becomes out of stock. What's irritating is when companies cancel valid orders simply because their promotion worked too well. Even more so when said company comes to FW to gloat about the cancellations and calls us all stupid theives. Almost as bad as Best Buy publically calling us "Devil Customers."

sklar said: In one of the old threads I posted links to two separate independent taste testings of mail order/premium/supermarket meats.

Omaha came out at or near the bottom even vs supermarket meat. The main one I remember was from Cooks Magazines "Test Kitchen". They found the expensive wagyu beef tops, the local markets premium beef "coleman" brand right behind it, plain old supermarket meat a step behind that, and listed Omahas beef as chewy/rubbery/not very flavorful.

I've bought it and its not bad, but its not worth the price. For a couple of the deals where you got a package for half price with free shipping it was fine for some quick easy meals. The cooler they ship it in is the best part of the deal; I have two of them and they're my main coolers.

I buy all my beef from Costco or Sams Club. And no, you dont have to buy 50 or 150 of them as indicated above. You can ask the meat counter folks to repackage anything any way you want, in any amount. I regularly buy two or three steaks or a half dozen burgers from both my local sams and costco.

To make things even cheaper and better, buy the whole 'primal cut' rib eye, strip or filet mignon for a buck or two less a lb and cut it yourself. Primals tend to be fresher as they were cut and packaged quickly at the main plant and little exposure to handling or air has taken place.

For the strip and rib eye, trim away excess fat and slice into steaks or roasts. For the filet, pull the two major muscles apart, trim excess fat and silverskin, and slice into steaks or roasts. Alton Brown on "Good Eats" did an excellent show on how to cut up your own filet mignon called "tender is the loin", with a followup show "tender is the loin 2" with more recipes. For all of them, pull out any smaller bits or pieces of meat from the fat trimming and cutting and use it for a stir fry, beef stroganoff or chili.

Take your time with it the first time, look up some diagrams and better instructions on a few web sites, after that first experimentation you'll find this takes only 10-15 minutes (tops) to slice bag and freeze a whole primal cut. For about the price of this Omaha deal you can buy a primal cut and get 8-12lbs of steaks, roasts and stir fry meat out of it.

sweet stuff sklar! thanks for all the tips! man, i think i'm gonna stop by costco on the way home tonight! btw: do you have links to more info on those videos or good websites for 'primal cuts'?
also, isn't a primal cut pretty *huge*? how big is it if you get, for instance, a primal cut filet?

jplee3 said: sweet stuff sklar! thanks for all the tips! man, i think i'm gonna stop by costco on the way home tonight! btw: do you have links to more info on those videos or good websites for 'primal cuts'?
also, isn't a primal cut pretty *huge*? how big is it if you get, for instance, a primal cut filet?

A tenderloin primal cut tends to run in the 4-7lb range. My local warehouses run about $9-12 a lb for the tenderloin, so you're looking at a $35-70 price. Some instructions and an excellent video are here on cutting http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/beeftenderloin1.html

asically in the tenderloin what you want as a finished product is no fat, no connective tissue, no silverskin...just red meat. Sharp knife and using your hands a lot is the key. Make sure to cut a nice 4-5" 'roast' from the large end of the larger piece of the tenderloin and look up a recipe for "chateaubriand". In short, you brown it in a heavy pan, then roast at high heat, then wrap it in foil and allow it to stand for about 15-20 minutes. You end up with a nice rare-medium rare pink roast throughout, carve at the table into think slices for 2-4 people. Then look up alton browns "steak au poivre" recipe for your steaks.

The strip and rib eye primals run around $6-7/lb around here. They tend to be about 9-12lbs. These are easy to cut. In fact, if you're not so sure about this process, get one of these, sharpen up the biggest knife you have and cut it right through the plastic case it comes in however thick you like your steaks. Cut from the top until you hit the plastic on the bottom and then stop. As above, cut a thick 4-6" 'roast' from either end for a 'boneless prime rib roast'. Rub this with a paste of italian herb seasoning, salt, pepper, crushed garlic and olive oil and roast at 400 degrees until a meat thermometer says its medium-rare, then let stand. You'll need to resharpen your knife after this cutting method as the plastic will dull it a little, but you'll get very uniform thickness steaks out of it as the plastic holds the whole thing together while you cut. You might want to hand trim some fat away from the steaks when you're done, but they're probably trimmed well enough at the main plant to not need it.

The strip is the easiest to deal with because its thin and has little fat. The rib eye is a little harder because its a thicker cut and has more fat to deal with. The tenderloin your first time through will be a bit more work but once you get the hang of it its pretty simple.

Since these primals have limited air exposure, they keep a long time in their original plastic shell in the coldest part of the fridge...sometimes for weeks. The steaks you cut from them will have the freshest beef smell and nice redness without spray on colorings or carbon monoxide packaging some markets use. They'll also keep longer in the refrigerator than supermarket steaks.

Seal the extra steaks and/or roasts into freezer ziplocks, squeeze out any extra air, and toss in the freezer.

I got to say earlier this year my dad got me a sample pack from OS. I thought is was good, convenient. I looked up the price and thought it was ok, but didn't really know so I checked here before ordering. After reading all the stuff about OS, I "took the challenge" and went to Costco.

1st...you don't have to buy 50 hamburgers at a time. That is just silly. You can buy in fairly small quantities or you can buy in bulk. At least my Coscto has a large selection of packages with four or even three steaks.
2nd...each steak was a lot bigger then each steak from OS. But I have found, especially when grilling, bigger is better. With the Costco steaks I just cook 2 and cut in half after cooking (after several minutes of rest). The size is fine for all four of us. Yummy.
3rd...the price per lb is cheaper at Costco. Maybe you like the convenience of the small individual portions, then you might want to check with a butcher. Figuring "per pound" and you see the OS is not that good of a deal. Yea, it is not terrible, you can do better both in $$ and quality.
4th...I experimented by buying a large portion of steaks at Costco. I then separate, wrapped individually in heavy foil then put in a freezer bag and froze. The last one I ate was about 3-4 months old and it was fine. No freezer burn or anything. So if you really want to save on price per lb, you can do it like OS yourself.
5th...finally I talked to the butcher at Costco. He told me that while it does change, he let me know when new shipments come in if I was at all concerned about freshness. However, he did point out that they sell so much, freshness is not an issue for them.

ragnacor1234 said: rhk0327 said:
Who needs customers who constantly pull pricematching scams and exploit pricing errors? Half the time fatwalleters actually manage to snag items below cost. I certainly wouldn't want customers that were buying from me below cost.

Those representatives certainly were rude though, very unprofessional and should probably be fired.

Pricematching is scamming? I know companies don't actually expect people to follow up on pricematching, they just put there to help ease the mind (and $$ ouf of the wallet) of first impulse buyers. They can't really complain (e.g., Bestbuy) when people actually call them on it and expect stores to follow their own written policies. All stores want to make as much $$ as they can from consumers, that's their job. All consumers should be spending as little as possible for their items, that's their job. Of course the don't want fatwalleteers, who actually research for good deals.

Actually most of the time fatwalleters attempt to pull pricematching with rebated items which are usually excluded in most retailer pricematching policies. The deals are usually YMMV based on the fact that sometimes you can pull a fast one on a dumb CSR. Sometimes the CSR actually knows not to let you pricematch. Sometimes you end up with an item free after rebate. Plus fatwalleters constantly try to use coupons and promotional codes not intended for them.

Anyways my point is not to bash fatwalleters but to play devil's advocate a bit. I can certainly understand why some businesses would choose to react so negatively to such customers. And no I don't work for Omaha Steaks lol, the portions are usually tiny and overpriced, but pretty tasty though.

Maybe so, but I was one of the people who got the nice email from OS, and I didn't try any of those things. I never tried them before because their prices are way out of line with what I can find locally. At their advertised price, however, I was willing to give them a try to see what the hype was all about. I didn't try anything funny, simply clicked on the link and placed an order. For my effort, I got an email reply stating that my order had been cancelled and calling me a thief and many other unflattering terms. They said they checked where I linked from, saw Fatwallet, and didn't want to deal with "our kind". No problem, the feeling is mutual.

Excellent job of taking the post way out of context. Read the post again..he never bashes FWers but he does say IF he was a business he probably would not want the business of FWers. IF HE WAS A BUSINESS..got it?

I've not been impressed with Omaha's quality and pricing although their apple tarts are amazingly good.
For a great fillet, porterhouse, or t-bone try www.kansascitysteaks.com Not cheap but a better deal than
Omaha and the steaks are delicious. They are also available in larger sizes for big appetites.
Their vidalia burgers are about the best I've tasted...