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Soy, your comment made me think of this:

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Just got our quarter of beef today. After paying the farmer and butcher, came out to $4.64 per lb. Got 114 lbs of beef in the freezer now. I think hanging weight was around 160. Pretty excited, as this is the first time ever doing it, and my wife is adding up and comparing to if we bought it all in the store.... talk about a huge savings.
 
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Crone_sl said:
Just got our quarter of beef today. After paying the farmer and butcher, came out to $4.64 per lb. Got 114 lbs of beef in the freezer now. I think hanging weight was around 160. Pretty excited, as this is the first time ever doing it, and my wife is adding up and comparing to if we bought it all in the store.... talk about a huge savings.
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Not sure i mentioned it before, so forgive me if I'm repeating: we got a 1/4 cow and a 1/2 hog for Xmas from my in-laws. The only real problem is freezer space, because we've got a kid on the way and will need to store breast milk as well.

But fuck yes, it's so much cheaper.
 
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Did you really need to run the numbers to know you were saving huge? I doubt there is a single cut of that beef that would have cost you LESS than $4.64/lb at a grocery store. And here you are getting ribeye and tenderloin and all that other good stuff at that rate.

The real problem is how the hell are you going to eat 114 lbs of beef between the two of you before it gets freezer burned?
 
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lol ground 80/20 starts at 4.64, pretty sure that's about as cheap as it gets, also kinda scary. when you get a cow like that do you also get the bones? you know for stews or ox tail, dear lord ox tail is awesome.
 
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I'm still trying to figure out how to eat 114lbs of beef by myself.

I have a foodsaver, but the thought of vacuum sealing 100+ lbs of meat seems too tedious.
 
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Most butchers will give you the bones if you ask for them. Some people get them for their dogs.
 
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lanx_sl said:
lol ground 80/20 starts at 4.64, pretty sure that's about as cheap as it gets, also kinda scary. when you get a cow like that do you also get the bones? you know for stews or ox tail, dear lord ox tail is awesome.
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This is a jimmy rustler for me. They used to practically give ox tail away, and now you have to pay steak prices for it.
 
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Ox Tail is pretty great indeed. Girlfriend made it a few weeks back in what I guess is the traditional Roman style? I don't know, all I know is it was like a stew and it was delicious. I remember her complaining it was getting harder to find/get. Was my first experience with it.
 
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Gravy_sl said:
This is a jimmy rustler for me. They used to practically give ox tail away, and now you have to pay steak prices for it.
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Yeah, same thing with things like cheese whey. Used to be thrown in pig feed, now it's a billion dollar industry. Supply and demand, dude!
 
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The kicker is, we actually got 3/4ths a beef, in a house of 5 adults... Wife and I are staying with family as a temporary thing, and we got 1/4th, and other family in the house got 1/2.

For those that have experience with this, how well wrapped does it come from the butcher to fend off freezer burn? It call came wrapped and frozen, but should we do more to it, to protect it?
 
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We've bought 1/4 and 1/8(split a 1/4 with inlaws) of a cow a few times, and the cuts of meat have always just come wrapped in a small piece of plastic(like the small sheet of plastic that someone at a butchers counter/shop would use to handle a steak that you picked out) and then wrapped in butcher paper. Nothing that is air-tight by any means. I always re-wrap the good cuts (ribeyes, strips, filets, etc) in foil before freezing. Anything that is destined for a crock pot or soup/chili type meals I don't worry about at all.
 
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Khane_sl said:
Ox Tail is pretty great indeed. Girlfriend made it a few weeks back in what I guess is the traditional Roman style? I don't know, all I know is it was like a stew and it was delicious. I remember her complaining it was getting harder to find/get. Was my first experience with it.
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fyi, you will always find ox tail in asian markets/grocers, where ever you live, in case she/you can't find any.
 
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