10/15/2025
If you are on TikTok, I’m sure you have seen the videos where they go into Costco or Sam’s and buy an entire loin of New York strips, ribeyes, etc. They then show the price per pound and how much you can save by buying the whole loin. What they usually fail to show is how much waste there is on an entire loin. I was curious so I cut up a loin of New York strips today to see how much you would save compared to buying a single steak out of the meat case. I weighed up the loin in the package at $9.99 a pound which is what price they showed in the videos. I then cut and trimmed the steaks and put all the fat in a tray and weighed it on the scale. I then put the 17 steaks on the scale and weighed them. Here are the results.
Total price of the loin at $9.99 lb was $173.03
Total amount of fat that I trimmed off was $41.96!
Total price of the 17 steaks at $13.99 was $181.17
Total savings of buying the entire loin was $8.14
That is a little under 48 cents a steak.
Really not worth the savings for the amount of work and tying up $173.03 of your money for $8.14.
So if you want to save $8.14 come on in and I’ll sell you a loin for $9.99 lb and I won’t even charge you a membership fee. If you want to save time, come in and grab one out of the case.
