We get omaha when they're having one of those fatwallet deals where you apply two coupon codes and hack the URL to give your order free shipping, and consider it only a middling deal at that.
The beef is just ok. Cooks Magazine did a taste test of supermarket beef vs the mail order vs kobe beef. Of course Kobe won, followed quite closely by store bought Colemans beef, which is very expensive here (about $16-18 for a rib eye or strip steak). In fact they said if you really want to treat yourself, get a coleman steak and put the other $80 you saved over buying the kobe into your pocket.
Omaha and another fru fru mail order steak company came in dead last...off flavors, watery meat, chewy. Beaten out handily by standard choice quality beef from the stop and shop.
It is very convenient though, the packages I usually get have some burgers, some pork, couple of kinds of steak, their hash-browns, some stuffed fish filets, etc. Pull a few packages out of the freezer in the morning and theres your quick dinner. But this is when i'm paying ~$35 for 6 small steaks, 6 burgers, 4 pork chops, 4 stuffed fish filets, 10 hash brows, hot dogs and a bunch of other stuff.
Although the thickwall foam cooler it comes in is VERY handy, and the dry ice is fun to play with. Dry ice in a bucket with water is very mystifying to a dog.
I had a HUGE omaha order my girlfriends mom bought us about 10 years ago, came in a cooler big enough to hold a case of beer with ice and it was about 3" thick in the sidewalls. You could sit on it.
Heres the package I usually get, although I wont pay $59 for it like these guys did...omaha appears to have gotten wise to people pulling the multiple coupon deals on them
http://www.fatwallet.com/forums/mes...hreadid=466033&highlight_key=y&keyword1=omaha
About the best beef I get? I go to sams or costco, and buy the whole strip, whole rib eye or whole filet. Honestly i'm not that big a fan of filet mignon...tender but not very beefy. Not big on the strip either. Rib eyes, top sirloin and chuck all have better flavor. The sirloin and chuck have a very beefy flavor and are quite tender if you dont over cook them, plus they're inexpensive.
These are boneless slabs o' beef. I leave them in the heavy plastic sleeve they come in. Take your biggest sharpest knife and cut about 4-5" off one end right through the sleeve...thats a roast, and the sleeve keeps holding the rest of the slab together. Then cut every 1-2" through the sleeve to make steaks and leave the last 4-5" as another roast. Bag 'em in freezer ziplocs, squeeze out the air and freeze what you arent eating.
Its AMAZING how fresh and beefy these whole cuts smell and how good the meat is, given that it hasnt been cut and left in a styrofoam plate for a week in the supermarket cooler, or sprayed with reddening agents.
Most of the sleeves I get are stamped "USDA choice" although I occasionally find one labeled "USDA prime". It may be a mistake but I'm thinking its a major no-no to put non-prime beef in a prime package like that. One sleeve of rib eyes labeled 'prime' were absolutely the best steaks I ever ate.
Your knife will need sharpening after cutting through that heavy plastic, but its really helpful to hold the whole thing together while cutting so the steaks are nicely even. I use the end caps as roasts because they're usually a little rounded at the ends and would make a 'half dome' steak if cut as such.