Halal Bone Marrow & Beef Bone-In Cuts

Roast them hot and briefly. At about 220C, 15 to 20 minutes is usually enough, and they are ready when the marrow has softened and is just beginning to bubble at the edges; leave them longer and it renders out into the tray. Marrow bones come whole, in 160-180g chunks, or as the Halfs Boats and Quarter boat options on the cutting selector, so the format is decided before anything is cut. Scooped out of a roasted bone and beaten into softened butter, the marrow is what most bone marrow butter recipes are after. Shin bone-in is the other one worth browning first, since a hard sear before a long braise deepens the finished sauce.

Marrow bones for a rich stock, shin bone-in when you want meat in the pot as well. Marrow bones give up their fat and gelatine quickly, which suits a short stock or a base you intend to reduce hard. Shin bone-in carries the shank meat and the connective tissue that turns to gelatine over two or three hours, and it is cut as Osso Buco at three dice grades for exactly that job. Short ribs sit between the two, and are the better pick when you want bone and a good deal of meat together in one pot.

A marrow bone is a piece of beef bone that still holds the soft marrow inside it, which melts as it heats. Ours are British Angus marrow bones, Red Tractor Approved, and the cutting selector sets the format: whole, diced at 25-30g or 50-60g, chunks at 160-180g, or the Halfs Boats and Quarter boat options. Shin bone-in is the related cut, with the bone left in and the shank meat still on it. Both are sold at 500g, 1kg, 2kg and 4kg, and both are cut on the day the order is dispatched.

Here, in four forms. Marrow bones are the ones to roast or to build a stock on; shin bone-in is the braising bone; short ribs give you bone and meat together; and Thor's Hammer is listed whole at 2-2.5kg. Our suppliers are halal-certified and the meat is non-stunned; Noori Halal Ltd buys it and the certificates are published on our halal certificate page. Marrow bones start at 500g and run to 4kg, so a first order and a freezer fill are the same product at a different tier.

Across East London we deliver on our own vans, Monday to Saturday, in an 11:00 to 20:00 window with the order held at 0-3C. Everywhere else in the UK it goes by DPD, which delivers Tuesday to Saturday after next-working-day dispatch. You can also collect from our East Ham shop between 12:00 and 18:00. Marrow bones, shin bone-in and Thor's Hammer are handled the same way whichever of the three routes you use.