DomainLore Auction Butchers.co.uk + .uk

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Auction finishes 3-57 pm today

 

[Bailey]

nice one on the final price - guess it will get a DNjournal mention next week. Always looks better in Dollars

 

[atlas]

Agree with Bailey - great sale.

 

[Murray]

I would have thought Butchers were something you went to locally, not searched on the internet, are meat subscriptions a big thing now?

 

[Adam H]

I would have thought Butchers were something you went to locally, not searched on the internet, are meat subscriptions a big thing now?

There is quite a lot of options now whether your targeting farm fresh cuts like these :

http://www.independent.co.uk/extras...d-cole-riverford-donald-russell-a6963391.html

Or whether your targeting the fitness / lean meats like musclefood.com ( probably many more angles too but musclefood is one I order and its got a huge following ) . Its big business.................but I would agree I would imagine the term would be localised and bigger players would be branding rather than generic usage.

 

[Bailey]

Plenty of on-line meat suppliers these days including for the Restaurant and for the wholesale trade. the amount of exotic meats from the Global market is also well established on our shores. Plus you never know it could end-up just as a very memorable business name/ association to the Name Butcher

 

[martin-s]

I would have thought Butchers were something you went to locally, not searched on the internet, are meat subscriptions a big thing now?

The value of a domain isn't only how well it appears in search engines Murray, you know that

Memorability and brandability are valuable too. And we often order a meat box from our local butcher online

 

[Murray]

The value of a domain isn't only how well it appears in search engines Murray, you know that

I wasn't so much talking about search, just peoples meat buying tendencies in general, offline vs online, and if it's usually an offline thing then it doesn't help the value of the domain

Saying that, I'm sure most peoples weekly online shops at supermarkets include those types of products.. just I suppose they aren't going out of their way to buy them

 

[Bailey]

It's Very Much On-line these days for the Very best from the Global Market

 

[martin-s]

If you're still buying meat at the supermarket, you're missing out. Likewise the giant difference between fresh and dried pasta

 

[Bailey]

If you want the best of Beef (wagyu) And seafood (King Crab legs etc) nope it's not available local. Only online. A full count (4) Japanese Wagyu fillet (Top to Chateaubriand) will cost you the price of Butchers.co.uk alone (15 steaks at best)

 

[Murray]

If you're still buying meat at the supermarket, you're missing out. Likewise the giant difference between fresh and dried pasta

I remember being a young teen and my mum buying us tesco burgers, they were truly awful, I said to her one time about it, the next shop she got "tesco finest burgers"

It tasted exactly the same apart from it was double as thick and when I bit into it about a cup full of grease squirted out

Horrific

 

[Bailey]

You wait until you've tasted the best of Japanese Beef - (lots of Not-bad attempts to replicate) we are talking about £10 an ounce for the very Very best or about half that for London Restaurant served - yep £100+ plus for your steak. I'd love to go in and ask for WELL-DONE - just for the laugh -
mind you it'll probably end up the size of a toe-nail

 

[Murray]

You wait until you've tasted the best of Japanese Beef

I've been vegetarian for the past 7 years, don't think I will ever eat red meat again so I will never know

 

[Bailey]

Only 7 years- Nothing wrong in being Converted (I just hate the bitter taste of Leafs)
But, Back to Butchers.co.uk. I Still think it was a good buy - depends where it goes - should be a very good investment

 

[Edwin]

Actually the best wagyu is A5 rank - no idea if it gets exported, but I had some on a tiny handful of special occasions when I was living in Japan. Fabulous, melts on the tongue. But you're probably talking £200+ a head for the meal, especially with the very strong yen...

BTW while some people use the terms "wagyu" and "kobe beef" interchangeably, Kobe wagyu is just one of the three top recognised wagyu cattle strains/lineages (not sure of my terminology) along with Matsuzaka beef and Yonezawa beef - from memory, it was the cheapest of the three, though it's all relative, like trying to split three types of precious gems!

 

[Bailey]

I think I've learnt the count Edwin - (not a 100% sure) authenticity , marble , fat , colour, and there's the minus count to take care of - And that's Just Looking at the Stuff. It's a bit of a novelty for the frivolous UK market - But why Not ?? - Besides only takes the 'slightly below' average chef to kill its indulgence stone dead anyway.

Yep I'm qualified and worked C&G 706/1/2

 

[Edwin]

Nope, definitely A5 is the top (though there are sub-grades of perfection within A5). Here's a site that breaks it down
http://wagyu.gourmet55.com/en/whats-wagyu

A4 is much "cheaper" and shows up in many supermarkets in Japan at the priciest end of the butcher's counter. But A5 only tends to turn up in specialist shops, top end restaurants or around special occasions like the year-end holidays, when consumers are more willing to push the boat out.

Incidentally, there doesn't seem to be much gourmet tourism in the UK, I think? It's a niche that doesn't really show up. People will travel specifically to eat super-special stuff in Japan, like going to the Yonezawa region to eat the beef, or Kagoshima for pork.

Not for nothing does the Tokyo Michelin guide have more starred restaurants than anywhere else on the planet (and they've only covered a small fraction of the city, like only reviewing restaurants in the West End, Chelsea and Knightsbridge if we were talking about London - most of the capital has passed their reviewers by)

 

[Bailey]

Edwin - you know the Japanese market better than I ever could - one day i'm going to hopefully visit.
So What's your Opinion on the Butchers.co.uk sale - Don't sidetrack .

 

[Edwin]

I don't think the buyers overpaid if they have a plan to use it. There are still many thousands of butchers, even if the numbers are down since their heyday, and quite a few seem to be adventuring into online sales so it's a great way to lay claim on the space with the #1 domain...