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If you're cooking sous vide then try a lower temp like 57/58C for like 1 and a half - 2 hours. It's so good!
Buying meat online
- Thread starter Rexxar
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After using musclefoods for a while, and being happy with the price/quality, I got chatting to someone who said the local butcher is always keen for new customers etc.
Went into his shop when passing the other day and he was happy to match Musclefood prices, obviously saving me delivery etc.
So quality is superb on the chicken, mince and steaks I've had so far. Can't beat a local butchers.
Went into his shop when passing the other day and he was happy to match Musclefood prices, obviously saving me delivery etc.
So quality is superb on the chicken, mince and steaks I've had so far. Can't beat a local butchers.
Soldato
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Where online does a good quality black pudding? Or should I just gamble with the local butchers?
why is skirt steak so hard to find and secondly.
why isn't there a butcher online that basically offers every cut. could easily say shipping in x-days/weeks, if its an od cut they need to do to order.
thirdly can we have a world wide organisation that unifies cut names and what they actually are.
why isn't there a butcher online that basically offers every cut. could easily say shipping in x-days/weeks, if its an od cut they need to do to order.
thirdly can we have a world wide organisation that unifies cut names and what they actually are.
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Soldato
Any local indie high class butcher will do what you want. The cheap places are only interested in stuff they can sell loads of fast.
Soldato
Has anyone any experience with Farmers Choice?
I've stumbled across them tonight, and at first glance they seem ideal for me:
They also do a scheme whereby you pay in a set amount every month and is stored in your account for you to order from, or save up. Enrolling in this can net you cheaper delivery too.
£20 discount for new customers too.
I've stumbled across them tonight, and at first glance they seem ideal for me:
- Good selection (& free range) of both your typical cuts as well as offal or other lesser used cuts
- Reasonably priced
- Reasonable delivery
- Non butchery products/produce available
They also do a scheme whereby you pay in a set amount every month and is stored in your account for you to order from, or save up. Enrolling in this can net you cheaper delivery too.
£20 discount for new customers too.
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don't none of you have local butchers ?
it will mostly be fresher better than most online products.
Yes, but both are more expensive that Westin Gourmet / Musclefood and the quality isn't any better than Great British Meat Co.
I use Westin Gourmet/Musclefood for bulk packs depending what one has the best offer at the time and Great British Meat Co. for better quality stuff (burgers, brisket, rib eyes etc).
Fresher is also debatable as most butchers will still be using stuff from a freezer - same as one of the online butchers above.
Soldato
don't none of you have local butchers ?
it will mostly be fresher better than most online products.
I only have a couple of local butchers. One of them imports a lot of their meat so they can sell bulk packs cheap, the other only has common cuts (mince, steaks, chicken) and have said it's not worth their while to get me anything different. I'd have to drive ~20-30 mins to get to a decent one and even then I'd likely have to order in anything other than the usual cuts.
I would love to have a proper local butcher, but they just can't exist around here as nobody is interested unless it's 3 chickens for a tenner from Tesco
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Caporegime
Where are people ordering from now that Westin Gourmet has gone / been taken over by Muscle Food?
Caporegime
Westin Gourmet has always been owned by them, 2 brands, 1 over all company, many of the products were shared across them.
Guessing Westin wasn't as protifable, hence the restructure.
Anyhoo, I buy pretty much exclusively from Great British Meat Co (their monthly boxes tend to be great value, and they always have trade cancellations for massive discounts), and Donald Russell if I want something specialist that GBMC don't stock.
devon rose is good.
turner and george is also great. and if you switch from cheap chicken breasts to thighs, you can still get it at £5 per kilo. http://www.turnerandgeorge.co.uk/poultry/herb-fed-oyster-legs.html
turner and george is also great. and if you switch from cheap chicken breasts to thighs, you can still get it at £5 per kilo. http://www.turnerandgeorge.co.uk/poultry/herb-fed-oyster-legs.html
The devon rose site at least specifies where the chicken comes from unlike the muscle food site, which has both Rspca freedom food and Red Tractor Branding on the web-site home page both of which do not seem to apply to their chicken (although red tractor means British it does not imply very high welfare - just an A4 sheet per chicken)
could soon be sold Russian chicken - maybe it will be good quality.
(look at the cowspiracy film too re: beef - have not found full film)
could soon be sold Russian chicken - maybe it will be good quality.
(look at the cowspiracy film too re: beef - have not found full film)
Caporegime
The 'premium' Musclefod chicken has always been Lithuanian for me. They have other more expensive chicken that is UK and Red Tractor.
Soldato
Haven't used Musclefood for a while but the meat has always been excellent for me. Always enjoyed the chicken sausages 
Caporegime
Haven't used Musclefood for a while but the meat has always been excellent for me. Always enjoyed the chicken sausages
Those are the worst things I've ever had from them, tough, rubbery tubes of 'meat', gross as hell!
I actually just unsubbed from MF's emails, their marketing strategy has started to annoy me (just exaggerate everything guys, it will work, I swear!).