Fall and winter preps

[encorehunter]

We are going to butcher a steer tomorrow. Should be an interesting day. Backstraps and one quarter in the fridge and the rest will be ground and some roasts. It should be a busy day tomorrow.

[encorehunter]

Well, 351 pounds hanging weight along with around 25 pounds of heart, tongue and liver. He was a minature black angus steer, so we were not sure what to expect, but we are quite happy. Now for a 12 day wait to process and package.

[Ah Pook]

How long do you hang the meat before cooking?

[Great-Kazoo]

How long do you hang the meat before cooking?

Hang it to age, then butcher, wrap & freeze.

[Great-Kazoo]

Well, 351 pounds hanging weight along with around 25 pounds of heart, tongue and liver. He was a minature black angus steer, so we were not sure what to expect, but we are quite happy. Now for a 12 day wait to process and package.

getting any stew meat out of it? You have dogs to grind the heart, etc in to food for, or going back to other animals for feed?

[Irving]

Heart is one of the best cuts of an animal. I can't say the same for liver.

[encorehunter]

We are hanging it for 12 days. We kept the heart and tongue for us to eat. I don't want to eat the liver, so it may go to the dogs. I took the rest of the guts and dumped them in a gulley. I fed some to the pigs before, but the wold not eat the stomach and intestines and they stunk up the pen for a few days before I took them and dumped them. I figure 10 lbs of stew to start, then I will cut up round steaks if we need more.
Once we figure out how full the freezers are, we will work on processing another pig.

[tactical_2012]

Everytime we do ours the pigs almost fight over the intestines. We dump the bones by the chickens for a day or two and they almost strip the bones clean.

[Hummer]

2020 Is the Year of the Freezer

https://www.thekitchn.com/2020-year-...eezer-23064079


The Association of Major Home Appliance Manufacturers, which tracks the domestic shipment of appliances, found that 227,000 freezers were shipped in the month of June — a 41.3% increase from the number shipped at the same time last year. Roughly 163,000 of those were chest-style freezers, an 87.1% increase of such freezers sold in June 2019.

[TheGrey]

2020 Is the Year of the Freezer

https://www.thekitchn.com/2020-year-...eezer-23064079


The Association of Major Home Appliance Manufacturers, which tracks the domestic shipment of appliances, found that 227,000 freezers were shipped in the month of June — a 41.3% increase from the number shipped at the same time last year. Roughly 163,000 of those were chest-style freezers, an 87.1% increase of such freezers sold in June 2019.

I can believe that! I've been waiting for our freezer for four months.