FRESH, NOT FROZEN
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FROM LOCAL FARMS
FRESH, NOT FROZEN
DELIVERY FREE OVER £70
PICK DELIVERY DATE AT CHECKOUT
FROM LOCAL FARMS
A large French-trimmed, bone-in beef shin centrepiece from native-breed beef. Approx. 4–4.5kg and serving around 8–10, it is designed for long, slow cooking such as smoking, braising or slow roasting.
£68.00
Thor’s Hammer is a whole bone-in beef shin prepared as a large centrepiece cut. The shin comes from the lower leg, a hard-working muscle with plenty of connective tissue. Long, slow cooking gives that connective tissue time to soften while the bone contributes depth to the cooking juices.
This cut is approximately 4–4.5kg and serves around 8–10, making it a substantial centrepiece for a group. Customer reviews consistently highlight the scale of the joint, long smoking or sous-vide cooks, generous leftovers and rich cooking juices.
Because of the size, check the internal dimensions of your smoker, barbecue, oven or cooking vessel before you start. This is considerably larger than an everyday beef-shin portion.
The cut is supplied French trimmed, with the bone exposed above the meat to create the characteristic Thor’s Hammer shape. It remains a whole bone-in shin rather than the smaller everyday shin portions or cross-cut shin steaks sold for other dishes.
Low-and-slow smoking, braising and slow roasting are all well suited to the cut. The aim is to give the connective tissue enough time to soften so the meat becomes tender enough to pull or serve in generous portions.
For general shin technique, see our How to Cook Beef Shin – Bone-In and Boneless guide.
Choose Thor’s Hammer when you want the large whole-shin centrepiece. Our Native Breed Beef Shin is the everyday beef-shin option for braising, stews and casseroles, while Beef Osso Buco is shin cross-cut into thick rounds around the bone.
Approximate weight: 4–4.5kg
Serves: approximately 8–10
Minimum shelf life: 10 days
Delivery: choose your delivery date at checkout.
Daniel Henderson (verified owner) –
An awesome purchase, smoked this on the Webber for 9 hours, the result, rich beefiness with a texture that falls apart under your fork also enough to feed 9 of us. From the delivery to the taste 5 stars.
Great job.
Jim (verified owner) –
This is absolutely huge and much bigger than I’ve seen from other places. Decided was going to cook sous vide for 24 hours. The only issue was that because it was so big had to go and get a larger container to fit this into and it only just fit into my large sous vide bags.
Cooked at 180f for 24 hours and it literally just fell off the bone. Fat had rendered perfectly and meat was rich, juicy and tender. Cooking juices made a beautiful and deep stock and provided enough meat for a week.
Would highly recommend, brilliant special occasion show stopper and very high quality.
Alex Harding (verified owner) –
What a beast this was! Cooked for 8 hours but could have done longer. Loads of. Leftovers I’ve got earmarked for a cottage pie. Much bigger than other options on the market and excellent customer service and delivery. Will use again for sure.