butcher box or snake river farms

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delivered meat?

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I don’t do outcalls

I deliver the meat.

44 Farms

I like butcher box. It’s reasonably priced and Quality is pretty good.

HEB Bunker Hill blows Dorignac's out of the water.

There are levels to this shite.

You make a good point!! We get used to thinking if a brand advertises on XM or a popular podcast they’re superior in quality to the local guy.

I had Butcher Box for about 6 months but cancelled. I had the beef and pork option plus a package of bacon in every order. Overall, I realized that I could do better by using a local “real” butcher. I could also spend money more efficiently by buying the cuts I really wanted at COSTCO, etc.

Things I liked:
Receiving different cuts of meat I wouldn’t have chosen on my own and also receiving prep ideas.
The quality of the meat was very good.
Customer Service was responsive.
They threw in some reusable shopping bags that are very high quality.

Things I did not like:
They were proud of their algorithm that determined exactly how much dry ice to put in your box so it arrived just as the ice disappeared. The algorithm didn’t account for 100°+ heat in Texas because boxes would arrive with no ice and dethawed products. BB always replaced the items but the follow-up boxes arrived warm in some cases too.

I got a big pork butt at least every other month. That accounted for a significant portion of the shipment’s weight. I don’t think there’s much difference in the quality of one to the next - I always felt cheated when these were included.

The free bacon every month was 9 slices.

The ground beef had a weird consistency and would form small into small balls when I browned it.

Better off with Snake River as their beef will be grain finished choice/prime beef.

Butcher box is grass fed (likely select/ungraded) with no guarantee that you aren’t getting Brahman/tropical breeds.

Try Hassell cattle company , American wagyu, at a reasonable price, honest shipping rates as well, very pleased

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Snake River Farms is particularly poor quality

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Lol. SRF is one of the few wagyu beef suppliers in LA. It is pretty high quality stuff. Not sure about the monthly subscription stuff, but the SRF wagyu at Tramontes is high quality.