What's a good online source for buying bulk beef?

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: Dirigible

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
My wife and are buying bulk beef next month. It's an organically raised cow. Kill weight is 900lbs, hanging weight is 600. 1/3 of that is lost during the butchering process. Price is 3 bucks a pound hanging weight. The butcher also charges something like 30 cents a pound for his part. Works out to about 7 bucks a pound by the time the beef has aged and it's all said and done. We're splitting it with 2 other neighbors so we'll have about 150 lbs each, give or take.

Most of it is roasts. Chuck roasts, shoulder roasts, round roasts, bottom roasts. We'll also each get 1 or 2 Porterhouse cuts, 6 or 7 T-bones, 7 rib eyes, 8 lbs or so of short ribs a bunch of cube steaks and a bit of brisket too along with various other cuts.

The problem with buying bulk is that it's all the same cow. If one cut sucks they all do. We're keeping our fingers crossed that it's good beef, though the guy has been selling cows for this purpose 21 years.

Did any of this transaction occur via online means? IF NOT THEN YOU, SIR, HAVE NO PLACE IN THIS THREAD! I BID YOU GOOD DAY!

iow, where's the beef?

Nope, this did not occur online at all. Most cattle ranchers are good ol' boys and wouldn't know what to do with a computer.

The reason for posting it was to provide a reference point for buying bulk online vs. straight from a rancher. Most of what you can buy online in bulk is coming through wholesalers who purchase the cattle from various ranches, process the beef, and keep it in large freezers until shipment. Quality will vary since they are using various ranch stocks. One of the few exceptions to that rule is Big Sky Ranch.

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Whole, half, and quarter bulk beef packages can be ordered as well as special package configurations that they have.

If someone wants a larger quantity of a specific cut than what a grocery store normally sells then their best bet it to go to their store or butcher shop of choice, make friends with the butcher, and arrange a special order of that cut. If people want to order from a place like Big Sky then you should probably try one of their affordable packages first to make sure that the quality of the beef meets your expectations before dropping a bundle on a 1/4 or larger bulk beef purchase.

Is that post more to your satisfaction, SIR?

OH MY GOD, IT'S THE FUCKING MOTHERLOAD!! :thumbsup:

MISSION COMPLETE!

OMG, an answer....

My life feels empty now.

It's not an answer until it's confirmed and official. Who will step up to the plate with an order to find out if the site is legit? Who will rescue us from this thread?

I have just sent them the following email:

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have been directed to your site by a current customer of yours. I'm sure you will be pleased to know that people are hearing about your site through word of mouth, but here is where it gets interesting; Your site has been selected as the answer to a long standing question, posed at one of the worlds largest internet forums, regarding bulk beef procurement.

The thread in question, titled "What's a good online source for buying bulk beef? (Like 10lbs.)" has been in progress with little to no progress for over a year and a half. Only when your site was linked, by a loyal customer, was the mission considered complete. However, in course of this quest, some questions were raised regarding bulk beef and its supply. Could you please answer the following for our faithful members?

1) It has been discussed that 10lbs is not bulk. Can you confirm this and help us with your definition of 'Bulk beef'?

2) Many members have requested, rather than weight, certain size cuts of beef. Can you confirm if you supply cuts that are approximately the size of 1-An alternator(F250 or similar), 2 - A radiator (Civic sedan or similar)

Thanks in advance,

XXX XXXXXX

aka DivideBYZero

Link to thread:

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...AR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear

 

[waggy]

hahah Dividby zero thats great!



but if you want a lot of meat just notify Topps. they have somethinglike 28million pounds i am sure they will sell ya cheap!

 

[ognabor]

oh snap. i cant wait to see how fast they completely fail to respond to that.

however, it'd be cool as hell if they did respond!

 

[everman]

Literally LMAO here, we finally found bulk beef online!

 

[yankeesfan]

Excellent. I await the answer with much anxiety.

 

[Squisher]

So, now that we have an answer, should this thread be stickied in Hot Deals?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: everman
Literally LMAO here, we finally found bulk beef online!

It's like the return of the messiah, the dawn of a new age, the epiphany of all mankind.

 

[Gothgar]

Originally posted by: hjo3
10 lbs. isn't bulk.

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[SpeedEng66]

omg thats alot of cow!!

 

[intogamer]

How much bulk beef should I buy so I can de-bulk them for resale?

 

[Alistar7]

Originally posted by: intogamer
How much bulk beef should I buy so I can de-bulk them for resale?

Depends, will you be selling your de-bulked beef online?

 

[intogamer]

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: intogamer
How much bulk beef should I buy so I can de-bulk them for resale?

Depends, will you be selling your de-bulked beef online?

ebay... so yes

craigslist too... will that change anything?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: intogamer

Originally posted by: Alistar7

Originally posted by: intogamer
How much bulk beef should I buy so I can de-bulk them for resale?

Depends, will you be selling your de-bulked beef online?

ebay... so yes

craigslist too... will that change anything?

This thread is for Bulk only. Please start a new thread for un-bundled non-bulk online distribution.

 

[AmpedSilence]

so no answer yet DivideByZero?

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
so no answer yet DivideByZero?

No.

 

[yllus]

They're probably busy reading the thread. It takes a while.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Although I didn't get the bulk beef online this time but I figured I'd post about it here anyway rather than start a new thread (pics are below).

I drove to Plant city this morning along with my neighbor to pick up our order from the Hoof-n-Horn slaughterhouse. We ordered half of a steer (about 2 years old, because apparently beef is a lot like women in that the younger ones are more tender) that had been slaughtered for us about two weeks ago and was butchered last weekend. After finally finding the place we pulled up to the slaughterhouse. It was a family run operation and 3 generations lived on about 50 acres of land where the slaughterhouse was also located. It was a nice little spread of land they had. The slaughterhouse itself was very clean but you could tell it had been around for a while.

After we met what seemed like the entire family they opened the walk-in freezer and brought out our order. We filled 6 full-size coolers and took off back to Orlando. Back home I put a tarp on the garage floor and seperated all the beef according to cut.

Here's a pic of the beef laid out:

Bulk Beef

Once we had each divided up our share I put the beef in the Freezerator, kept out a few cuts that I plan on using soon, and put them in Seal-a-meal bags. Here's a pic of those:

5 Cuts

The 5 cuts above, in clockwise order starting from top left are:

1) Porterhouse

2) Boneless Ribeye

3) T-Bones

4) Short Ribs

5) Brisket

The Porterhouse is thawing out for tomorow night. Since there was only one rib roast my neighbor took that and I took both Porterhouses and an extra pair of T-Bones. Everything else split up pretty evenly. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with all the hamburger though. There were thirty 2 lb packages for each of us. Looks like family and friends are going to have some hamburger given to them.

So there you are. Bulk beef.

 

[ognabor]

you got some nice meat there

 

[GenHoth]

I can't believe we've found bulk beef and they are simply ignoring the faithful!

 

[AmpedSilence]

ah! it's back!

 

[altonb1]

Originally posted by: AmpedSilence
ah! it's back!

I can not believe this thread has not gone away.

 

[Xylitol]

I have bulk

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: intogamer
How much bulk beef should I buy so I can de-bulk them for resale?

Will you be cutting it with lesser meats?

And will you sell it in at least alternator sized chunks? Or is that not bulk, I keep forgetting...

 

[Flammable]

wow....

 

[Hyperlite]

dear god...