Beef has arrived
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Butchered a steer a couple weeks ago, freezer is a bit over stockedInvalid Link Removed
Nice!
Smont
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Ooooo, the beef has arrived lol. On a serious note, I'm super jealousButchered a steer a couple weeks ago, freezer is a bit over stocked
. If you don't mind me asking, what's the cost for something like this. I have a nice butcher shop 20min from my house but I've never looked into buying a cow and having the whole thing butchered. Honestly I probably could only fit a half cow in my chest freezer. I've seen them advertised half cow 7.75lb, 250-300lbs, but it dosent say if that's the price to buy the half cow or I'd that's butchering it and packaging all inclusive? No clues
akboom87
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I did a quarter of beef this spring from local rancher. With cutting and wrapping and buying the beef it came out to 3.50$ a pound.Ooooo, the beef has arrived lol. On a serious note, I'm super jealous
Smont
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That's nuts, If I could find it for that price I would stop buying beef from the grocery store. Even picking up cheap cuts I'm paying 3.99lb for 85/15 ground and 5.99-9.99 for the lower end steaks that need a lot of tlc to make tender.
akboom87
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Oh yeah way better deal and far better quality meat. And you can get it cut and mixed how you like it.
Dustin07
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My wife gave me a mandate to put more venison in the freezer this year because she liked the last whitetail I got (I don't think she'd like mule deer as much)... which means wife approved hunting trip! LOL
Ooooo, the beef has arrived lol. On a serious note, I'm super jealous
Slaughter was $120, cut/wrap/hang/processing was $1.25/lb which is higher than the guy I used to go to ($.9-1.15/lb) but I know this guy from High school and he did a way better job. better wrapping, cleaner, and far better cuts of meat!
the steer itself was sorta free... since mom and dad still raise cattle they haven't actually charged me but my boy and I will be out there in the 95F this weekend bucking a few hundred hay bails for them. we plan to get them some sort of thank you gift....
Yeah I give my wife the cut sheet and have her tell the butcher how she wants it all processed. I love ribeye (she doesn't) but we both agree that brisket needs to be BIG to low and slow smoke it right. Other than that I have her just pick out any cuts she wants and workout the quantity with the butcher based on how he's able to process the animal tons of hamburger lol.
I sorta wanted this whole cow but my wife's friend was interested so we split it with her which works cause as you can see, only half even fit in my freezer! so my half is $460 and there will likely be a lot of ground beef in my breakfast in the near future lol
Smont
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Ok, makes sense. I looked up the number goes the butcher and his prices are for the finished product. So if I want a half cow it's 250-300lbs finished and the finished product butchered and wrapped breaks down to 7.75 a lb. So I'm looking at 2 grand for a half cow. Can't do it right now. 7.75 with all the ribeye and strip steaks and everything is well worth it but I can't put that 2g down right now and probably won't have the room to store it.
Sometimes I get venison $5 a pound finished product, back strap, steaks, ground and the heart. All depends if the guy shoots more then he needs tho. Technically it's illegal to sell your venison? So he "gives it" to me and I pay 5$ lb for the butchering lol. At least that's what he says. He's paranoid.
Sometimes I get venison $5 a pound finished product, back strap, steaks, ground and the heart. All depends if the guy shoots more then he needs tho. Technically it's illegal to sell your venison? So he "gives it" to me and I pay 5$ lb for the butchering lol. At least that's what he says. He's paranoid.
Dustin07
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yeah we find that it's hard to come across venison or elk meat out here since it's illegal to sell game meat, but even being farm raised I think elk is the cleanest tasting red meat there is.
on the beef, ours is technically "organic/grass fed" even though I don't believe in organic and refuse to buy organic produce, the grassfed part is 100% true, we don't grain our cattle and it does taste totally different from grained beef at safeway (although I think costco sells the best flavored steaks IMO).
You might be able to find a better price if you poke around out in the sticks. See if you can find an auction house. a guy out here recently was selling yearling cows for like $400ea........ add slaughter and $1.25/lb processing and you come in under that 2g price.
I wouldn't spend $9.99/lb+ for grass fed expensive **** at the store, but knowing that our beef is "worth" it, makes that price we pay of a couple bucks /lb seem like a better bargain.
plus I'm a redneck. I sorta take great pride in having my freezer stocked with my own meat and fish lol
Dustin07
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haha I know. some of the cuts we got are awesome too. HUGE frigging brisket, tons of new yorks, filet mignon, I'm pumped!
akboom87
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Nice!! I’m saving my brisket for either thanksgiving or Christmas. I did enjoy smoking that chuck roast a while back, might need to do that again. I’m waiting for it to get down to 30 degrees and this year going to cold smoke a bunch of cheese for the winter.
Dustin07
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I still haven't tried cheese! I need to try salmon on my new smoker too. Just had some smoked salmon my brother got me and it was freaking amazing, like butter in syrup with mild salmon flavor, I've never had anything like it.
winter time smoking... If I go for that I'll try something smaller first. when it gets super wet and cold out here I still run my grill all year but it gets a lot harder to control temp since I'm running old school fire and charcoal style still.
akboom87
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Oh yeah for sure mine sucks the pellets winter time. Dude I wish I could get some fresh salmon or halibut here lol. That is probably the best there is!