Vic. wrote:I thought I was getting a reasonable price adm, these are meaty spares, around £2.80/kilo
My missus came back from Waitrose on Saturday with four surprise racks of baby backs which averaged out about £2.20 a rack. They were surprisingly good - so much so that I'll stick them on the regular Ocado order. Plenty of meat for BBs and nice and fresh too. Too much packaging though - plastic wrapped and then vac packed on top.
Personally, I normally get untrimmed (and very meaty) spares from my local butcher. I've known him for 30 years or so, so I don't know what he charges me per kilo, but they're no more than a couple of quid a rack. Maybe he's just doing me a favour (as I do spend an awful lot of money there...) and if I wanted them in commercial volumes the price would go up.
I'd have thought for selling them commercially though, you'd want baby backs - it seems to me that that's what the general public would prefer for convenience sake (and probably thinks of when they think "ribs"). I like the untrimmed spares myself, but I can see that all the cartilage and extra fat might put joe public off.