Overpriced a lott of fat

I have been really impressed with the quality of beef cheek meat at Sam's. There is very little waste or fat to trim compared to other sources. After some minor trimming, I marinated the cheek meat in taco beef seasoning overnight in a large ziplock bag. Then I put it in my smoker for 5-5 1/2 hrs at 225 degrees, the last two hours covered, until i got an internal temp of 205 degrees. Only used smoke the first hour, hour and a half. It came out beautifully, and fall apart tender! Will definitely buy it again! great price, too!

The first 2 beef cheeks I pulled from the package looked like their photo. Clean. No skin. No fat. Trimmed great! Beautiful color. From that point on, the remaining 6.5 pounds were awful. Half the package contained fat, gristle and skin. Useless! I ended up with maybe 3 pounds of edible meat. What a lying scam!!!!!!

I should have listened to reviews, but though, ehhh it’s just people complaining. This package was over 50% fat! From the outside it looked fine, but once I opened it and started trimming, I was extremely disappointed. I am usually really happy with the meat from Sam’s Club, but this one will unfortunately start getting purchased somewhere else..

I was very excited to find beef cheek meat at such a reasonable price locally. Unfortunately, it is pretty much fat. No trimming at all. So you think you're getting a bunch of cheek meat and then you realize that a good 60 to 70% of it is fat. Avoid.

Beef cheeks are delicious, especially pressure cooked. All the people talking about all the fat on the cheeks are WRONG! IT IS NOT FAT! Beef cheeks have a ton of collagen and connective tissue which many people will confuse for fat but is collagen. Look it up yourself if you don't believe it! Beef cheeks are actually lean meat.

I read some of the negative reviews and considered that they may not be familiar with this cut of meat, so decided to try it. I lived in Texas 15 years, though, and have prepared barbacoa before. The quality of this cheek meat is non-existent, and it costs too much to be this bad. We got about 2 pounds of marginally edible meat out of the 7-pound package we bought.

If you are unfamiliar with cheeks, whether beef or pork, you may not like this but it looks like there is lots of waste. In fact, you cook the "connective tissue" as well as the meat, trimming off the fat only. I had very little waste because I have eaten cheeks my whole life and know what to cook and what to pitch. The meat is very rich and full of flavor. I put it in a dutch oven, browned it thoroughly, added broth (I had chicken), 2c dry red wine, onions, potatoes, carrots, thyme, bay leaves and put it in the oven for 6-8 hours on 275F. They were so tender, I cut them with a spoon. Immediately after cooking, I emailed all my family to check their local Sam's Club for them. Next time I will buy a case.

This is my second time trying this product. There won't be a third. I weighed it out this time; 7.25lbs total product, 4.05lbs waste. That works out to almost $9/lb for usable meat. I might as well buy chuck and save some money and not spend the better part of an hour trying to trim out the unusable bits that ended up as a pot of broth.

Today I purchased 7 packs of beef cheek meat to make barbacoa. Each pack weighs approximately 7 lbs but I had to remove a lot of fat from the meat and I am losing about 3 lbs per pack. Why is the Sam’s accepting this from their supplier? This is bad quality.