A barley-fed Australian Black Angus sirloin steak from Omugi Beef, produced by NH Foods Australia — a company that has been supplying premium beef to the Japanese market since 1988. Over 35 years of refinement have gone into the proprietary barley-based feeding programme that gives Omugi its distinctive character: a clean, sweet flavour, fine-grained marbling, and a lighter, more refined fat than standard grain-fed beef.

Sirloin sits between fillet and ribeye in character — leaner than ribeye, with more flavour and structure than fillet. Cut from the loin along the back of the animal, it is a working muscle without being heavily worked, which gives it the best balance of tenderness and beef flavour of any steak on the carcass. The barley-fed fat renders cleanly through the cut and produces a steak that is tender, juicy and clean-finishing, with a sweet, well-developed flavour and the fine grain that is the signature of Omugi beef. The fat strip along the edge crisps beautifully when properly rendered, and provides one of the great pleasures of a well-cooked sirloin.

The cattle are pasture-raised before being finished on the custom barley ration, and all beef is graded by Meat Standards Australia (MSA), which evaluates marbling, maturity, breed, meat colour, pH and acidity for consistent eating quality. The beef is cut and blast frozen IQF in-house by FINE & WILD to −28°C before vacuum sealing.

Producer: Omugi Beef (NH Foods Australia), Australia · Cut and frozen in-house by FINE & WILD

Breed: Australian Black Angus

Feed: Pasture-raised, finished on a proprietary barley ration

Grading: Meat Standards Australia (MSA)

Ingredients: Beef (sirloin)

Storage: Store frozen at –18°C or below. Defrost in the refrigerator for 12–24 hours before cooking. Once defrosted, use within 2 days. Do not refreeze.