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My brother butchered and he gave me the “oxtail” as a joke. Wife browned it and pressure cooked it for 50 minutes. Served over potatoes with gravy and it was amazingly good. Fell the bone/tail with great flavor. Anyone else have experienced it?

yes, eating oxtails 50 years.

My Mom used to make in the 70's as a throw away cheap cut of meat

great texture, mouth feel and taste

now expensive

Good recipe and use often

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1013460-jamaican-oxtail-stew

Had a friend that cut meat for a local farmer that sold his beef cut.

Ask what they did with the tails, "nothing"?


For a number of years we ate a bunch of them, then they started to get popular
with the foodies, now we do t get them.


Same thing with tongue. Used to have them given to us or buy them for nothing.
The hip people figured out how good they are, now the are harder to get.

I was at the Stanley Hotel is Estes Park Colorado a couple of years ago and one of the specials at their restaurant was oxtail stew. I had to find out what it was like. It was very good. They made it mixed in with some kind of thick, flat pasta.

My Grandma used to make an “ox tail stew” that was always good.

My wife makes oxtail soup or as the butcher says Flyswatter soup.Good stuff with a rich broth.

It has gotten expensive for sure but is worth the price.

Makes a fine spaghetti sauce.

Ate it a bunch ..lots better cuts with out there ..not at 7 bucks a pound...

My mom used to make it in England, prob’ly was a cheap cut back then, very good.

Like shanks and flank steak, no longer an inexpensive protein addition to the menu unfortunately.

Tongue, heart,tail and in birds add the gizzard.

Constantly moving. Different kind of muscle. Great flavor.

Ate that crap when I was a kid, now if I’m eating beef it is steak, same with lamb shanks, I’m eating it’s ass, not it’s ankle

Not for soup!

I've had it before, it was really good.

If you've gotta eat ass, it's pretty good ass to eat.

Love it.

use it in caldo, mexican soup.

I like oxtails. Saw some in the store this week. 10 bucks for just over a pound. I put them back.

Same thing happened with veal shank. Used to be a poor man's cut, because it required hours of braising to make it tender. Then it became popular in fancy, northern Italian restaurants, following which it became a foodie item, and now it's an expensive cut at the butcher.

Ox tail Soup been eating long as I can remember....with fresh vegetables from the garden potatoes, carrots, leak, green and yellow beans, tomatoes, peas in the pod....with fresh bread still warm from the oven and real butter....

I lived in England in the late '60's-early 70's thanks to Uncle Sam. Oxtail soup is a staple dish as is steak and kidney pie for Limeys. You wouldn't give either much thought while eating them, tastes like beef whatever, the descriptive names just throws you off a little.