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Where would you suggest getting a "good" steak? In my experience direct from farmer beef is so superior to store bought beef that I avoid eating beef bought fr
by war1025 6y ago
Where would you suggest getting a "good" steak?
In my experience direct from farmer beef is so superior to store bought beef that I avoid eating beef bought from a store.
- Afton 6y agoMy experience with buying quarters was 'so-so' enough that I stopped. Even when the meat was good enough, I found that I felt like I was being ripped off. There is just so much opportunity between the farmer and butcher to cheat you, and you don't have any insight. Maybe it's just me. I can really only imagining this working out consistently if you really developed those relationships, and for a purchase I'd make a few times a year at most, it didn't seem worth it.
- war1025 6y agoI guess, yea, do business with people you trust. I've found butchers and farmers to be generally upstanding people. I'm also in the heart of farm country. I would be a lot more leery of people targeting a more urban market.
- samatman 6y agoA good compromise is an actual butcher, the kind who has a relationship with farmers and breaks down primal cuts. I live alone so a quarter beef would be a real challenge to finish off. Instead, I can go to the local butcher and get the usual cuts, and the unusual cuts, soup bones, hard fat for tallow, and so on. Where I live, at least, it's all local, beef, lamp, goat, chicken, doesn't matter.