If you do this would look into a freezer that isn't frost free...as the frost free cycling impacts the meat if stored for a significant timeI have a small group of friends looking into buying 1/2 a butchered cow, with everyone getting a proportional share.
''Is this worth doing, or is it just a hassle with little cost benefit?
I have a small group of friends looking into buying 1/2 a butchered cow, with everyone getting a proportional share.
''Is this worth doing, or is it just a hassle with little cost benefit?
I bought half a pasture-raised pig and 1/4 of a pasture-raised cow. Great quality meat.
We have a chest freezer, not frost free.
But by the time I finished the meat, it was not as tasty. Some freezer burn, and loss of moisture in the meat.
We had some great parties finishing the meat.
frost free freezers have a freeze/thaw cycle that slightly thaws the edges of the meat...and then refreezes it...Why is frost free a problem?
Flip a coin? You can either get the head or the tail (but you have to call it in the air.)How are you going to split the head?
I have a small group of friends looking into buying 1/2 a butchered cow, with everyone getting a proportional share.
''Is this worth doing, or is it just a hassle with little cost benefit?
I bought half a pasture-raised pig and 1/4 of a pasture-raised cow. Great quality meat.
We have a chest freezer, not frost free.
But by the time I finished the meat, it was not as tasty. Some freezer burn, and loss of moisture in the meat.
We had some great parties finishing the meat.
Our family did the same in the 70s, when there were eight kids living at home. I still remember getting the forms with the parts of the cow circled and broken down into the different cuts and products from each.My dad did this back the 70's 80's. We had a large freezer in the garage. Had it butchered as we requested, burgers, various steaks, roasts etc. I recall he considered the meat to be better than the grocery store, and it was cheaper as well. But you need the storage capacity.
It could have been the equivalent of driving an unruly child past an orphanage just to get a point across.These people are just cruel. They took their cow for a ride and brought him to lunch at McDonalds.
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I bought a football once.I have a small group of friends looking into buying 1/2 a butchered cow, with everyone getting a proportional share.
''Is this worth doing, or is it just a hassle with little cost benefit?
Take the cheeks, leave the rest for the partners.How are you going to split the head?
It could have been the equivalent of driving an unruly child past an orphanage just to get a point across.