Whole Animal Butchered Cuts

[doc holiday13]

Just bought a full cow, up from a 1/2 cow. Saved me a good bit of money. Came out to about $4.50 # after butcher fees. I'm generally all about getting fun, but useable cuts. I bought from a different farmer this go around. So I got a different butcher, and I wasn't as happy about the cut. Turns out they don't give back the fat, the big bones, heart, liver or tongue unless you specifically request it...... I thought that was standard practice

Still trying to figure out how I want everything cut up. What are some the fun ways of getting your cow? My next go around I'm going to specify i want beef cheek whole, cubed round steak, whole skirt, whole bone in ribeye, short ribs, T-bones, square cut the chuck, cross cut shanks, whole brisket, ox tail, and probably have the remainder ground.

Still burns me they didn't give me any fat back even though i did ask for it.

When I get a whole pig, i get it barely past primals. Picnics whole, shanks ground, bone in chops, rear hams whole, short ribs, whole bellies, whole jowls, grind the rest

 

[Steve300xcw]

Fun?

 

[doc holiday13]

Fun?

Fun is anything that you don't normally find at a typical grocery.. Bone in whole ribeye.. FUN... Beef cheek... FUN

 

[wapitibob]

Fun?

I spent about $100/lb on a Pronghorn this year, that was fun.

 

[jolemons]

Get oyster, flat iron, Denver, skirt, flank and hanger steaks so they don't get ground up. Not all butchers will have skilled enough labor to know how to get oyster, flatiron and Denver.

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[ozyclint]

Butcher it yourself for $0 per #. You get exactly what you want and you get 'all the cow back'.
My family has always butchered our own meat and game.

 

[doc holiday13]

Butcher it yourself for $0 per #. You get exactly what you want and you get 'all the cow back'.
My family has always butchered our own meat and game.

Unless you're a butcher by trade, I don't think you understand the difficulty of butchering an entire cow....

Pig is as big as I'll do myself but it only cost me $120 to get my pig how i described in my first post. My butcher fee for an ENTIRE cow was about $400 which is kinda worth it

 

[ozyclint]

I'm not a butcher, my Dad isn't a butcher but we butcher our own meat. It's not that hard. Mistakes (happy accidents) get turned into grounds. Then you learn and you don't make mistakes.
If it was worth it, what are you complaining about then?
If you give a butcher a cow you'll always have the problem of not getting the entire thing back.

$400 @$4.50/lb?

You got 88lb's back from a whole cow?

 

[doc holiday13]

If it was worth it, what are you complaining about then?

I've used about 4 different butchers over the years and this is the first that didn't give me the fat

 

[NRA4LIFE]

Make sure you get the hanger steaks.

 

[Macintosh]

I always thought tomahowk steaks were cool. Anything bone-in is always better. I'd be getting as much bone-in as I could cut THICC ( or not at all), shanks for osso bucco and the like, flanks and skirts whole, sides of ribs, etc. If you're going for gourmet meat, a gourmet butcher makes a huge difference.