What is a Porterhouse Steak - T-Bone Steak, Filet Mignon & Strip Steak

In this video we'll explore the question, what is a porterhouse steak? If the porterhouse steak looks familiar, that's because it's very similar to a t-bone steak but this incredible steak features a couple other well known cuts as well!

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[Redmeatlover]

Let us know what cut of meat you struggled with learning when you first got started! We'd love to hear it.

[joannaa.israel]

As a newbie I was totally clueless of all the knowledge in this video. I knew about different ounces of Steaks & the different names. But I never knew to this extreme detail what to look for, what part of the cow it comes from, knowing your portions, etc. Now I know when I go to pick out my steaks or go out to eat what I’m getting & how to order my steaks! I feel like a expert! Thank you Joey, appreciate you!

[angelasisneroz]

Man, I was confused 😕 between porterhouse and t bone, filet mignon. This video helped

[gheerock]

thank you for the clear explanation. I usually buy a T Bone steak at my local walmart or buchery store, but man...the filet minion that i got from Costco is the best tasting steak I've ever consumed. I'm heading back to Costco soon and get some more filet minion.

[mvs]

Here we call what you call Porterhouse a T-bone steak. Your Strip steak is our Porterhouse steak. Fillet the same. Regardless of what you call it..you must braai it (or barbeque in your language). Cheers from South Africa...PS..You have the best logo I have ever seen.

[Echowhiskeyone]

I just had this discussion yesterday. I am no expert, but I did get it right.

[treysean]

Keep your eyes out for big sales folks and load up! I just vacuum sealed 20 lb of strip steaks for $4.99/lb!

[nirvanacrown]

Thanks. And wow I didn’t know porterhouse pork chops existed until a friend gave me a few

[redrock]

UK you see sirloin, fillet, ribeye, rump and T-bone. Frying steak is very thin and I don't really count that as steak. A T-bone comprises of one side of sirloin and the other fillet( fill-it over here rather than fill-ay in the US.

Took me a while to realise a pork butt was actually a pork shoulder 😂👍

[russellwood]

It’s really simple to tell the difference between a T-bone and a porterhouse . You simply measure the width of the fillet . For it to be a porterhouse you measure from the bone across the fillet and it has to be 1 1/4 inches or more if it is not it is a T-bone steak. This distinction comes from the department of agriculture.

[doddsy]

In Australia all the cuts have different names to the USA so on holidays i had no idea what they were offering, here the 3 cuts would be filet, t bone and porterhouse

[peachyqueenie]

Thank you for the thorough explanation. I purchased myself a filet mignon steak for the first time to enjoy with 2 baked potatoes. I hate I didn't get a salad but oh well, I'll cook some broccoli instead. But again thank you very much.

[darylmixan]

The most underrated of all steak cuts is a Tri-Tip steak... I'm from Omaha so I grew up hearing and learning about beef... when I moved to the Bay Area, California people were making Tri-Tip roasts, and they were fabulous. (This was before googling everything) I just thought it was a common roast that had a sister name to something I've eaten in Nebraska... I asked my dad over the phone, and he didn't really know... So the next time I went to the store I looked at them, and a tri tip was a cut I knew I never seen, the beautiful marbling... I asked the butcher and he sorta explained the origins and blah blah (how they are a very local Oakland thing) I

[jenniferhagen]

Very nice way of explaining this piece of meat.

[Blaydrnnnr]

I'm pretty sure the difference line between a porterhouse and T-bone is the actual size of the tenderloin portion. I think the USDA says once the fillet part of a Porterhouse is smaller then2.25" it's considered a T-Bone?

[professsorgriff]

Thank you very much for the clarification!! 👊🏾

[malafunkshun]

Very interesting discussion!

Aloha 😊🤙🏼👏🏼

[Tipytao]

Very helpful thanks! I would like to see where the cut comes from the actual cow though. My mother in law gave my wife and i half a cow, and neither of us know anything about cooking meat. 🤷

[txblueh]

The skirt steak was the most confusing that led me to research different cuts of meat!

[markcarey]

I've never butchered a cow but as a hunter I have butchered some deer and even a pronghorn antelope. As a complete novice to butchering I get confused by the official terminology for some of the cuts. I refer to most of them as "this big hunk over here, and that big hunk over there." When you are describing the porterhouse steak, the section that is referred to as the New York strip… Would that be what we hunters refer to as the backstrap?