Beef...

[Nufy]

Anyone priced it out lately...getting freaking pricy to enjoy a nice new york strip these days...

Anyone have a contact for purchasing a quarter / half cow butchered and wrapped ??

Gotta be cheaper then Co-op prices...

[Regulator75]

Originally Posted by Nufy

Gotta be cheaper then Co-op prices...

Everywhere is cheaper than Co-op prices.

[blankall]

Don't have a contact in Alberta, but I go in with a bunch of other people every 6 month-1 year. Works out to about $6.00 per pound for grass fed organic beef. You pay more for ground beef, but considerably less for steaks.

I'd highly recommend getting 5-6 people together and buying a quarter to test it out.

[REDVAN]

Everyone always talks about how Costco/Superstore/Walmart food (meat in general) is way cheaper.

But then you go eat it, and you regret not paying the extra 2 bucks for better meat.

Applies to all cases of meat.

[Bertuzzied]

Superstore has surprisingly good beef and it's prob the cheapest in town.

[Puppet Guy]

Costco's usually got decent-priced beef.

[undercoverbrother]

A buddy used these guys:

http://www.rdlmeats.ab.ca/

We got some of the meat. It was wrapped in butcher's paper, and last forever in the freezer. No idea on cost thou.

Should mentioned buddy sources the cow himself, he did not get it from them.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Nufy

Anyone priced it out lately...getting freaking pricy to enjoy a nice new york strip these days...

There's two things in life that can increase in price without bothering me. Gasoline and beef. I'll always love motorsports, and I'll always love steak.

Originally Posted by REDVAN

Everyone always talks about how Costco/Superstore/Walmart food (meat in general) is way cheaper.

But then you go eat it, and you regret not paying the extra 2 bucks for better meat.

Seriously? Costco has some of the best meat around IMO, short of going to a butcher. Buy the whole works for about $100 and cut it up at home. Fantastic beef.

[InSutterWeTrust]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

Everyone always talks about how Costco/Superstore/Walmart food (meat in general) is way cheaper.

But then you go eat it, and you regret not paying the extra 2 bucks for better meat.

Applies to all cases of meat.

Costco has had one of the best reputations for meat out of the big grocery stores for years now, at least in Alberta anyway.

Superstore and Walmart - absolutely, you get what you pay for. Not the same quality you would get at Co-op, Safeway or Costco.

[FLAMESRULE]

Only ever bought beef of these fine folks (family friends). Grass fed + finished, only get anti-biotics once as a calf, hung for 21+ days (iirc), and its local. Honestly the best beef I've ever had. You can get it cut to order as well (for 1/4+).

http://www.ljranch.ca/

Oh yeah, its delivered to your door for free, and they offer working ranch horse rides if that floats your boat (ranch is out by Cochrane).

[BlackArcher101]

Originally Posted by REDVAN

Everyone always talks about how Costco/Superstore/Walmart food (meat in general) is way cheaper

Woah... did you just lump Costco in with Superstore and Walmart in respect to meat quality?

Costco is by far the best place to buy mass-produced meat. Only a butcher has the chance of beating it.

[Derek Sutton]

Originally Posted by blankall

Don't have a contact in Alberta, but I go in with a bunch of other people every 6 month-1 year. Works out to about $6.00 per pound for grass fed organic beef. You pay more for ground beef, but considerably less for steaks.

I'd highly recommend getting 5-6 people together and buying a quarter to test it out.

Don't do this, you don't know what you're talking about. 1 hind 1/4 split 6 ways would give you approx, 3- 3/4" T Bones, 2- 8oz sirloins, 1- 1" tenderloin, 3- 3lb roasts and >5lb's of ground beef and cost $150+/-. I couldn't stand it when customers would come in and insist on getting a side cut and wrapped for over $1000. If you walked the meat counter and spent a $1000 you wuold get an excellent of beef steaks, chicken breasts, and pork chops/ ribs.

For the most part everyone just wants steaks, so go to Costco and by a whole striploin or a whole boneless prime rib or wait till they go on sale at Sobeys, keep it cryovact. Take it home and put it in your fridge for an ADDITIONAL 12- 14 days then slice it to desired thicknesses and package to suit your needs. I do 1 @ 1 1/4" for myself and 1 @ 3/4" for the Mrs and pack them together. The tastiest $100 bucks ever spent.

[Robotic]

I just recently bought a full cow with the father in-law and it ended up being $1,800 for the full cow wrapped. I got a full side and it worked out to be about 220 lbs of beef for $900. I got all the cuts, and specified how thick I wanted my steaks, size of the roasts, and any special requests. I think I got a good deal, grass fed + finished, and no antibiotics/hormones. Only catch was that I had to drive out a hour north of Edmonton.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Derek Sutton

Don't do this, you don't know what you're talking about. 1 hind 1/4 split 6 ways would give you approx, 3- 3/4" T Bones, 2- 8oz sirloins, 1- 1" tenderloin, 3- 3lb roasts and >5lb's of ground beef and cost $150+/-. I couldn't stand it when customers would come in and insist on getting a side cut and wrapped for over $1000. If you walked the meat counter and spent a $1000 you wuold get an excellent of beef steaks, chicken breasts, and pork chops/ ribs.

For the most part everyone just wants steaks, so go to Costco and by a whole striploin or a whole boneless prime rib or wait till they go on sale at Sobeys, keep it cryovact. Take it home and put it in your fridge for an ADDITIONAL 12- 14 days then slice it to desired thicknesses and package to suit your needs. I do 1 @ 1 1/4" for myself and 1 @ 3/4" for the Mrs and pack them together. The tastiest $100 bucks ever spent.

Your way takes a lot more expertise with cutting and aging. Those are arts in themselves. The way me and my friends do it, we just get small packages wrapped in butchers paper. You throw them in the freezer. They last at least a year.

$6.00/pound. You just pull out a package a day or two before you need it. Also, tastes much better than Costco meat, which isn't bad. This stuff is on a whole other level though.

I think the issue is you're talking about buying from a butcher. You get it much much cheaper when you buy from the source. No way it's cheaper to go to a meat counter.

I agree you don't get just "Steaks", but part of the fun is researching and experimenting with the different kinds of cuts. You end up expanding your cooking skills and recipe repetoir several fold.

I also get some piece of mind in knowing where my steaks come from, who grew them, how the animals were treated, that they weren't transported very far, etc...

[Dan02]

Originally Posted by Robotic

I just recently bought a full cow with the father in-law and it ended up being $1,800 for the full cow wrapped. I got a full side and it worked out to be about 220 lbs of beef for $900. I got all the cuts, and specified how thick I wanted my steaks, size of the roasts, and any special requests. I think I got a good deal, grass fed + finished, and no antibiotics/hormones. Only catch was that I had to drive out a hour north of Edmonton.

mind pming me some more info??

[Robotic]

Originally Posted by Dan02

mind pming me some more info??

PM sent

[EVERLAST]

BACON ....is the new beef...its its own food group

[Bertuzzied]

Originally Posted by fotze

Ya but your asian, so "suprisingly good" means "really cheap and the maggots have not yet arrived"

Well your dog only lasted 3 meals so superstore it is.

[Robotic]

Just an FYI with anyone planning on getting a large amount of meat and freezing it. You'll need a true deep freezer. If you have an auto defrost freezer (typically a fridge freezer, one that doesn't produce ice on the sides) it will freezer burn and make the taste go bad. Even vacuum sealing won't make it last longer than a couple months.

[ricoFlame]

Contact any of the local 4H beef clubs.