What are beef smelts?

I have seen smelt fish and I guess they either recycled the smelt fish packaging or an inadvertent error instead of smelt fish became beef smelts. Never seen or eaten beef smelt . Since its from an Asian market, you can deep fry, stir fry, steam or boil *

It is unknown as a meat product here, so if it is an Asian product it could be anything and without a description on what they look like it is even hard to guess.

If I couldn't recognise what it probably is I would have a taste test. It may be some fish in some kind of sauce to give it the flavour.

Whatever it is I would just flash fry some as a test and see what it tastes like and then decide what to make for the rest.

Think about the price, at $1.99 lb it is at the very bottom of the line for beef or fish here and is likely to be very low in quality

Dune

Hi Yuki,

No *real* idea—however, I can guarantee that there are NO parts of *any* common food animal called "smelts" in English.

If the Asian grocer was scrupulous enough, he/she might have turned "stinco" into "smelt"...just one idea...I've seen MUCH worse translations (some humorous and others quite disgusting) on menus and frozen food products in Asia. (Ox tongues; pig guts; sliced vagina of beef...)

"Stinco" appears to be Italian and French for the 'shank' (butcher-speak) or 'shin' (supermarket and restaurant lingo) of beef. The good stuff, in Australia, used to come with a lot of meat attached and most of the lovely marrow-bone, with the centers exposed by the butcher's band-saw.

I've just had a weekend of long, slow cooking of (gyuu-gara) beef-bone stock and ragu bolognese, so I'm a bit 'up to speed' on this question.

Hope this helps!

I think the grocer's English was not very good, and something got lost in translation.

There is no such cut of beef as "smelt".

A better description for beef smelt is "Tant"

Is it smelt or melt?

Beef Melt is beef pancreas.

That's probably something you should have asked before you bought it.