My daughter was allergic to so many things that without grass fed beef and chicken she would have had massive asthma attack's. It was hard to find and a little more expensive but worth every penny. The butcher I found was Amish and he knew my daughter and her allergies. He was amazing in helping my daughter as we introduced food that she wasn't allowed to have slowly. Today she has only medication allergies and can eat anything. Grass fed was a life saver for my daughter
@@smelltheglove2038 I have had both grass fed in WI and grain fed in AZ and I can tell you there is even a difference in the scent when it cooks 💯 My taste buds def prefer grass fed lol
I have eaten grass fed beef that was very well marbled and what some call mild; I call tasteless. That $35/pound of locally harvested strip was the last time I will waste my money on anything grass fed. I had the same reaction to grass fed flat iron and a yet another cut. A professional chef friend wasted a lot of money on a grass fed roast he served to his family at a holiday event.
It is so fun to watch a true craftsman doing there job. Even the cutting off the small pieces of fat on some parts without thinking really shows these are people that really know what they are doing and really care.
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(suffering causes suffering) Eating innocent critters is very bad karma --- that comes back to bite us . thank goodness jesus stuck his own neck out to remind us that forgiveness depends on how we treat even the least of our bretheren ... (How would you like it if nobody cared enough to help you get out of the death-trap pits and snares ?) Man wouldn't it be great if someone else would die so that nobody would ever be held accountable for any sins anymore ? --- sure looks like spreading the other cheek further for the pedophile preistclass to rape everything more easily is backfiring big time ... Too bad --- Easy believers make it way too easy for the great deceivers... The last thing jesus wants to see when he returns with a serious vengence is a another death worshipping meat-cult double-cross... B-Less schmuckered yawl ! we best not let anyone try to scare the friggin Be-jesus outta any of us ! even Greater works than these kinda ones like our prince of peace performs super naturally through us faithfull free radical followers --- shall become the new normal ... Become the type of light worker you want to see in this world ... Like the good shepherd likes to say : "my joke is sweet --- and my burden is LIGHT !" for every step in the right direction we take --- the sun of god takes ten more for us ... get ready for G--ZEUS to return outta the clouds with a batta-Lion of starships (and sun dragons) armed to the teeth --- while the vast army of murdalized martyrs and resurrected saints go marching in with a seriously hilarious vengeance ! --- Leaving No ( peace, happiness, and freedom loving ) stoner left unturned into a hero of sorts ... Thank goodness for thee Divine down to earth Principals of : Peace --- kindness Purity --- integrity Ballance --- mindfullness Patience --- trust Strength --- will power Generosity --- forgiveness Encouragement --- joy Wonder --- insight and Enlightenment --- upliftment ... Anyhow --- Less B-Less-ing and More Best-owing to all yawl ! in all ways remember to stay thankfull and Ask thee GREAT spirit And THEE MOST HIGH intelligent designer located in the heart of all creation for guidance on how we can redeem ourselves most effectively --- rather than merely sit around aimlessly waiting for great pumpkin pie lies in the sky to save us ... So take heed --- and hold fast because the cosmic-director don't take too kindly to procrastinating i - do - laters who delay helping themselves realize how to instruct those that oppose themselves from being more brilliantly redeemed and grateful than ever before ... Muchos Grassyass ! And Goddesspeed ! Sure Looks to me Like Empirical evidence of the thee Most High --- blasting out brilliant freedom rock riffs on rainbow coloured guitar strings ! (Guess we'll just have to wait until it dawns on ALL of us !) Lighten up ! And stay positive yet vigilant... And again yawl --- thanks for helping to keep the ideal --- real ! Check out this other stellar alternative cosmic solar weather report : this awesome looking nasa footage of what appears to be a giant black space serpent getting blasted by the sun : ua-cam.com/video/t0jgkoA3Ywc/v-deo.html interesting --- how NASA stands for never a solid answer . the spooks are actively blocking huge chunks of their own data and it's making all the independent space watchers wonder what the heck they are trying so hard to hide ... Be aware of the new age pedophile preistclass deceptacon hex-nut Luciferian transhumanist one world religion however. 5D --- or 5G ? if you think the wages for schmucking the whole world into going to war against everything pure and natural and good are astronomically enormous --- yer darn friggin right ! Watch out for them multidimensional illegal-alien shapeshifter demons trying to use celebutard mouthpieces like meat-puppets to sell us all out on the fantasy 5D Deceptacon hex-nut deception --- of trading in our original divine organic living body soul vehicles --- for Crystalline bodies sure sounds more like more transhumanist hogwash motherschmuckery (to this here proud grateful indigenous earthling) Anyhow --- We best not let ANYBODY try to scare or finagle the friggin Be-jesus outta any of US ! So yeah --- ( i know ) good luck with THAT ! Thee Light of god is written in our hearts . . . so Hold FAST and Goddesspeed yawl !
It’s good to see that some folks are keeping a true art form alive 👍 I worked in a retail store for 25 years and I enjoy seeing you guys work. Hard to find anyplace that still deals with hanging beef. I lost interest in my livelihood with the introduction of boxed beef
This channel and content is amongst the best I’ve ever seen. Tradesmen and artists providing the world with knowledge of their craft as butchers. World needs more of these type of people. They are the American Dream. 🇺🇸
The beef before it goes to lot is sold by the pound. Then it goes to the feed lot. Again sold to the packer by the pound. The it get placed in the package for you to buy, by the pound. This is done as quickly as possible. Can't have cash lolly gaggin around. Verstaen? Even if the beef is not aged, grass fed still does taste better. I remember dad picking out a steer and then butchering it. Then splitting the carcass with my uncle. It is now illegal in Michigan for a farmer to do that without USDA and MI inspectors getting paid to supervise. I guess it was done to protect someone like my dad. Lets see he grew up on a farm. Knew about cattle and farm animal diseases. I mean what else would you do with 640 acres in the country? If you were my mom you would sell it, when the old man died. When I was 14, I had the job of killing , plucking and cleaning 100 chickens every year in August. It only took about 8 hours. I did not have a place to do that when I turned 18. They got packed, wrapped and put in the freezer before the sun went down. Sick chickens got shot and buried, quickly. Yep they do peck on each other when they get sick.
Now just explain to people that all beef is grass feed and the difference is in the grain “FINISH” Or grass “FINISH” I am a rancher that sells to customers direct and they always ask me if my are are grass feed. I have to explain that all cows are grass feed and the difference is the finish. As always great video and appreciate the knowledge and craftsmanship.
The finish is what determines the taste of the fat in beef. Grain finished has a white fat and the grass has a yellowish color to it. Some people say there is a “gamey” taste to the grass finished beef. We finish steers both ways but what kills me is when people try to say the cows are grass fed. All cows are grass feed until they go to a feed lot or the local farmer makes a decision to grain finish the animals. That is all I was getting at.
I cant speak for other countries but in New Zealand the majority of cows graze on grass pastures, year round. In some cases, Feedlots do exist for finishing, but they aren't popular and come under scrutiny from conservationists. Its also cheaper to feed cattle grass in NZ which seems to be the opposite in North America.@@joshuagraves8302
If you're going to have grass-fed beef, talk with your local conservation department, that's what we did, and they helped us at the same time we helped them. We planted native grasses, but we had pastures with cool season native grasses and pastures with warm season grasses. We did mass grazing in pastures sectioned out. It was a great system, a win-win for us and for the wildlife!
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@@frankm5019 they mentioned something about the grass fed beef being finished off with grain available while still being fed or having grass available also. It is interesting how regulations allow certain labels and claims to be made, everything is up to interpretation.
@@frankm5019 they said grass fed is third party verified. I believe American grass fed association. They don’t allow any grain at all. They mention that there are different ways of feeding such as having grain available while animal is also on grass. Then feeding more grain.
@hightyboo I believe they left it up as a matter of preference. Taste is something highly subjective. The grain fed they said was mild beef flavor. The grass fed had a stronger beef flavor, hints of a grassy/gamey flavor. Then there is the health or perceived health benefits related to less fat and the make up of the existing fat of grass fed over grain fed that might sway someone’s purchase regardless of taste. Oatmeal with a cup of brown sugar and lump of butter tastes infinitely better than plain oatmeal but the plain is healthier.
@@justinallmond3855 its not the reduced fat that makes gras fed healthier, its the increased nutrients profile of the beef itself. Grass fed/finished beef is much higher in many vitamins and minerals and has less contamination. Sat fat from animal products is good for us, so thats not a reason why grass fed is better than grain fed
In Mongolia, I tried lamb meat that was raised in the Gobi desert. Its meat had a very different flower smell and the meat was so incredible. They told me such meat goes to market only at the end of the summer as flowers fall. (Grass doesn't grow in the desert much, so lamb eats mostly flower and it is the most expensive meat there and 100% naturally raised without any fence).
My dad was a retail butcher for about 35 years. Watching this guy break down, trim and cut steaks reminded me so much of what my dad used to do day after day in the meat market for A & P . I use to help him bone out a lot of rib sections for hamburger meat .
It's just too bad that most grocers mix all different animals from all different farms from all over the world. They also dye their beef to make it look fresher and more appealing and the cardinal sin they cut their steaks very thin. When buying steaks,Bacon,pork chops or Loins and whole large Hams,whole chickens or Turkeys I will always go to the Butcher over the Grocer. Plus after watching Morgan Spurlocks last documentary about raising chickens to stock a Fast food chicken restaurant I will gladly never eat commercial raised chicken again. I'm a meat eater but it is absolutely disgusting how horribly animals are treated in commercial farming operations. How they grab chick's,Ducklings and piglets by their neck,stab them with large antibiotic needles and throw them on the ground,kick them around and are very abusive to them to the point they step on and kill the babies. I have even seen countless videos of young psychopaths that work for commercial farms punch calves,lambs and baby goats in the face hard AS FUCK and laugh about it!😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬 I understand they are specifically raised to be food, but they can still be treated humanly while they're alive. Also the chickens pumped full of growth hormones to the point their legs break because the chickens put on a ton of height and weight and their legs can't build enough inner density to hold them, so they end up not being able to walk and tons die of heart attacks before it's time to harvest them
@@devingeary455 you don’t know squat, just because you see some examples doesn’t represent all commercial farms. They never go ahead and show the good things. Like giving people jobs and putting food on their tables. Instead we have the radical left acting like they know about the industry. I worked in it for many years and never dyed beef lol
@@moderndaypirate8931 oh... you didn't die the beef. What a saint. At least, you had a job. But so do sex traffickers. They don't dye the beef either. Just one case makes a normal person sick.
There is a narrative in this video. It is that grass fed is superior. They try to stay non bias respectively, but it is obvious; they prefer grass fed.
This was so interesting and brought back so many great memories of my dad. He was a butcher in the 70 and 80's. Seeing you guys handle the meat and the knives , your even built like my dad was. When I was small enough he would throw me over his shoulder like a side of beef and pretend he was cutting me up. When he passed I was able to snag his mesh metal apron and knife belt. I have it proudly displayed! Hey, my husband said he saw you might be on the History channel. You deserve some recognition. All the best to you two bearded butchers!
@H K I mean...there are fields full of them all over the place. Talk to a farmer...maybe they'll let you "hunt" a cow. It won't be very exciting though. 😆😆
@@TheBeardedButchersMy words exactly..Couldn't have said it better as though read my mind. Have just started the carnival diet I'm finding it much cheaper than I would have thought eating meat spent Aus, $200 on mix Supermarket packets cut mixture from pork & Butcher pk, Rissole. & 18 pack lamb chops. Chicken schnitzels + beautiful beef steaks..Have been mist lean" about eating meat the last few years. Now i deeply think is wrong.. meat is best" just asked the ladies.
I know nothing about butchering or how meat is cut but for some odd reason, I found myself watching the entire video. I think it was the knife work that had me hypnotized 😂😂👌🏽👌🏽
Seriously huh! I rarely ever watch full videos longer than 10 minutes, but for some reason I was intrigued. I know that if I can buy grass fed beef, I'll do so because there's just something about the taste. Mmm, getting hungry just talking about it.
" The customer is our boss" Bro... that really hits home for me. It's such a humble and progressive attitude to have in any business. These guys get it. 💪🏾💯
How was that 45 minutes? I watched this whole video. Great stuff. I've bought half a steer that was grass fed recently. My entire family loves it. Never complain about the taste or texture. Will say it is incredibly lean but doesnt lack flavor and doesnt change the texture either. You guys are awesome. Thanks for the video.
I really appreciate the side by side comparison. I would really love it if you guys could do a video with a side by side comparison of grass vs grain of the same breed of cow. Excellent job as always.
The Brasilian churrascaria we frequent barbecues pecanha, and we never knew its backstory. Great to see the cut demonstrated. Also the lack of dry aging explains a lot about the decline in commercial beef quality and value. Thank you.
@@TheBeardedButchers Hey like your vids anyway i have a question do they still pump cattle up with trenbolone you might know it as another name but it's a powerful anabolic steroid thanks.
@@TheBeardedButchers Nevermind you answered the question in the video no steroid growth hormone or anything like that i doubt that's true in all cases and i always thought they use a quick acting ester of trenbolone so its out of the system by the time its butchered i think that's better bigger beef and it won't be consumed by people.
I used to help my husband dress out the deer and elk he got. He had a friend who had bagged his first deer but didn't have a clue about cutting it up. I went to help him cut and wrap the meat. It's one of my best memories. Thanks for your video
Thank you for this most excellent video oh Great Bearded One! This really is Top Notch, Grade A, Organic, Grass Fed! 😋 For me, it's all about avoiding the GMO grains that are stuffed into our food supply, not to mention the grains are sprayed with glyphosate. I had to give up all grains while I'm healing my thyroid from Hashimotos (Yes, I turned Japanese) and as I don't eat GMO grains, I also don't want to eat anything that ate GMO grains. Farmers and Ranchers are not paid by nutritional content. They're paid by the bushel or by the pound. My DC (a real doctor) always repeats the quote, "Nutritional excellence has never been easy."
I only just learnt that farmers do not buy GMO grains as they use RoundUp (glyphosate plus other chemicals) to “dry” (kill the plant) the grains before harvest. That fact shocked me to the bone (literally). So even though I love the cost, higher fat content of grain fed, reducing (eliminating) chemicals is number one in importance for me. This was a top article by the BBs as I never knew the size (in particular) and colour was different.
@@martinlang9615 Thanks! I also just recently learned that GMO grains are sprayed with glyphosate after harvest to assist in drying and kill bacteria; which is Exactly what it does to your gut biome as well - kill the bacteria. "All disease begins in the gut " Hipocrates
This is one of those videos that I put on in the background while I do other things. (In other words, something I expected to not be too interesting/distracting.) Bad idea. This video was absolutely fascinating. You are one of the best presenters that I've seen in any type of documentary program. Great camera work. That guy with the knife is an artist!
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Thanks guys! I learned a lot! You make butchering look so easy! My uncles both had dairy farms and so I was familiar with the milking process and the taste of fresh milk. One of the uncles began to raise Charolais beef and the steaks were amazing but could never find it in the grocery stores. Glad we have choices now! Yes, more expensive but well worth it!
As a cattle producer, I love what you do and glad my brother bought your seasoning variety pack last year for Christmas. the seasoning is awesome! Thank you!
Watching you carve that carcass was like observing someone create a painting. The handling of that silver skin on the tenderloin was flawless, and here I am trying to pull it off with a paper towel for grip.
I can relate to some of the comments here. Grain-fed was damaging my health until I switched to grass-fed/finished. Now we do our own hunting. Worth it.
Hey guys thanks for this awesome video my grandfather earned his living with his own butcher shop and my father was his helper every holiday for many years we’ve raised our own beef for a long time and enjoyed having home raised grass fed beef and lamb! I have shared your video with all my children so they can see the knowledge and skill it takes to be an excellent butcher you guys rocked it👏👏👍
My wife and I farm here in south central Missouri on a farm that's been in our family since 1865. We raise cattle, hogs, and chickens. We sell directly to the customer and use about a half dozen local meat processors for our business. While all of them do a good job with our animals I would most DEFINITELY bring our business to your place if it were possible. Your video is outstanding (count us in a new subscribers!). About a dozen years ago I bought into the grass-fed/grass-finished school, giving much of the credit to Joel Salatin's enthusiastic teachings. I thought I was doing the best for my farm, my animals, and our customers. But as the years have gone by I have changed some of my thinking. I still believe raising animals on pasture, not using chemicals on my fields, and giving them as stress-free a life as possible makes a superior product. But it's been my experience dealing with the public that most prefer their beef to be finished with grain for the flavor/tenderness. Your video here points out some of the salient differences and I will now start using it as a reference point for our customers that want to see/know more about what they're eating and feeding their families. Excellent job and thank you! DLFarms Dave and Larkin Busby
I was just going to ask about that in the comments - but you've brought it up now. I was raised on a farm and all the food animals around were pasture raised and grain finished. My mom (the cook) always said that a grain finish gave the meat the marbled fat it needed for a good flavour. I've tried 100% grass fed, and to me it is a bit too gamy - you can taste the green, so I feel as if it should be stewed with onions. And for the price you pay for grass-fed I'm not going to do that. I need to listen to the rest of the video to see if they say anything about that. But their meat looks good, eh?
It take more skill to cook such meat and make it tender. Wagyu has it's own issues too but pastured Wagyu is really interesting to cook with since it has the fat without needing to grain feed it. The marbling is different then typical as well. It is really hard to find though. I do have one source for it.
My goodness. Just looking at the difference in the video, I can “see” how much tougher & compact the grass fed is. I can certainly say I’d probably prefer the texture / tenderness / etc of the grain fed. The public likes to say noble things. But when time to put hands in the fire, you see what people actually “do”.
I started letting my deer sit in the fridge in quarters for 5 days this Year. My wife demanded her refrigerator back or it would have sat for 7 days. The difference, even at 5 days is incredible. Much more tenderness and amazing flavor to the meat!
I watched Dr Antony Chaffee use the whole fridge to put his meat in... As he says to leave it. I think he leaves his two weeks. I am learning so much recently about beef.
Food Network is terrible these days. Once they lost Emeril and a few others, they went on their own tangent and now have crap like Iron Chef where all they do is invent stupid and waste food. The talents these days is long gone !
Great video! One thing I would like to point out with the grain fed beef that was not mentioned here! Those concerned with the genetically grown grains are also trying to avoid glyphosate..These grains lead to digestive problems in animals as well as people..They are not fit for either to consume from a healthy standpoint..If we took care in raising grain from a healthier approach and not using glyphosate as a desiccant for drying grains before harvest..The Omega fatty acids as you mentioned in the grass fed beef is more in the ration that support human health..Thank you for a most informative video where all of us learn together and ultimately thrive together eating healthy raisedbeef and grains..
Just saw a recent study on glyphosate and it’s not found in red meat as the animal processes it and excretes it. It’s mostly found in the grains and vegetables that humans consume.
Great comparison, side by side is a great visual example, these guys are great for explaining all that we all want to know, have nothing but the utmost respect for doing what they do for us
I don't understand why someone would dislike this. The lads are very honest about their work and totally know what they're doing/talking about. Very informative and beautiful work. thank you guys. You've earned my humble sub.
I've never seen grain-fed beef before as grain feeding doesn't really exist here in NZ. They do use dry grass and also palm as supplementary feeds but that is more for dairy cattle I believe.
you dont want to eat grass beef as steak, they are tough to chew. because they have less fat, more lean, and less marbling. they are better for soup, strew, because they have a stronger flavor.
My family has raised beef for our food for 40 years and we also sell a few every year. Ours are free range on decent size acrages .And I know that grain gets them tasty! So we will pen them and grain them before butcher somtimes. To be honest I hadn't looked into the differences as deep as this video. Goes. Good vid.
The difference is astounding. The grass fed tends to be leaner, the redness (I can only presume that's the muscular myoglobin fibers) is much deeper and redder, and then the size itself is drastically different from the grain fed. Very good to see these stuff up close. Great video.
And then the same people go out and buy veal. Lol. They have no idea how anemic a veal calf is being raised in the dark, cramped stalls. That is why the meat is light colored and tender.
My husband still doesn't listen to me when I tell him we have to let the meat rest after cooking, he just wants to cut into it right away. Love your knife skills and knowledge, thanks for the videos!
The education I get from watching you two guys is unbelievable. Just purchased your Black seasoning for a Rib roast for my Kamado. But I also saw a youtube of Alton Brown on how he uses dry aging for a roast covering it with cheese cloth. He noted the same, better flavor, more tender. Thanks for taking the time to show us this. Oh, yea, that view of your farm from the air is awesome. So clean.
Honestly, your mastery as craftsman when you're conducting butcher cuts and carving is beautiful, and you educate naturally! Well done gentleman, great channel, got a subscriber, thank you!
I live on a grass-fed beef farm. Next to me is a dairy farm, and down the road there's a big sheep farm. Love it here; lots of fish with the Atlantic a few miles away. Best country in the world.
I grew up in NZ where all our beef was (and mostly still is) grass fed. When I was 22 I travelled to USA and tried grain fed steak for the first time. I was amazed at the difference, not better, not worse, just different. Until that time I never knew it could be so variable.
I was with them on everything they did except for the seasoning.I feel a real beef man just needs salt and pepper and let the meat speak for itself.However that black seasoning they have is a great combo of flavors.It really all depends on preferences.I really enjoyed it guys!
Love the video Fellas! I have always wondered what the difference between grass fed and grain fed was. My grandpa was a ranch hand and a cowboy back in the early 1900's and my great grandpa owned a huge cattle and sheep ranch in the late 1800's ..... Grandpa told me years ago that he would bring a nice steer in for a month or so before slaughter, and then feed them out on rolled oats and molasses for the last month of it's life, and would not give them any more grass at all. He said that the oats and molasses would give them a nice fatty layer and sweeten the meat slightly. I had always wondered if it really had an affect on the meat. This is probably the most educational example on 'You get out of them, what you put into them', that I have ever seen. Thank you for a great video!
@@canndo1 I am a recovering hog farmer. The market has kicked my butt for fifteen years. I never made any money at it, but I've had a lot of compliments on the pork. Thank You Grandpa!
Excellent video. Grew up with grass fed off a ranch in the Chilcotin, British Columbia. We knew the best butcher I've ever seen. Proper aging, superb cutting, and careful cooking. Can't beat it. The nephew is learning the trade at a local top organic butcher, including local wagyu. Wants to work with hunters up country.
I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. I do love grassfed beef, but usually stew it because of the more intense flavor. No need to add broth; it makes its own. Thanks for the informative video, guys!
I typically cook grassfed at cooler temperatures, without the fat to protect it the meat cooks more quickly. The grassfed that I get is from my brother-in-law, he doesn't have any grain-fed cows so it's a pretty sure bet when I buy from him. But yeah I agree on the intense flavor, I got spoilt and find myself scoffing at the grain fed sometimes, when I want a piece of beef I want it to taste like beef.
Me too, grassfed beef tastes a whole better. The fat also has more flavor. I like beef from Dallas, Texas, when I visit my cousin house. We cooked beef noodles, and the flavor was so good. It was grass-fed special ordered, too.
What a waste to stew a good steak. Maybe you need to switch suppliers. For really good grass fed beef, you need a little older animal, they need to mature before they start putting more fat on, maybe 2 1/2 or 3 years old instead of 18 months.
@@John-xb2nl I don’t stew steak. I’m not a BBQ master, so I’ve not attempted to grill steaks of any kind myself. I could say that you waste lovely beef flavor cooking your steak alone!
Nice that you highlighted your grass fed as being raised on the pasture. For those novice customers who want to maybe buy a cow to process. It's not enough anymore to ask "is it grass fed?" You've got to ask whether its "grass fed and pasture raised?" Ranchers can and do feed grass in their feed lots, with all the same crowd diseases, and in the same way as those big commercial feed lots feeding grain...
I grew up in New Zealand. All beef/lamb is grass reared/fed. I milked cows after leaving school. Years later when I moved to the UK someone said grass fed dairy cows was known as the New Zealand system. I still struggle to get my head around cattle cooped up in pens and fed grain. Let them roam free and eat grass.
We do actually let them do that in the States too... They roam and eat grass with 10,000+ acres... and we also feed them out with alfalfa, hay at times. When they're sold to the market, then the buyers typically fatten them up with grains, etc. That's how our ranch does it. Others have a bit different system.
"Grain Fed" beef is only fed grain and kept in small pens for the last couple weeks to bulk them up. They literally live the same exact lives on open pasture as grass fed except for the last few weeks. Its like having a stay at home vacation where you can just sit, around, be lazy and eat without worrying about wild life coming to rip your throat out. (Well, at least as far as the cows know lol)
Guys! Thank you from beginning to end I saw endless insight. I'm almost zero on actual butchering. Super cool to see the breakdown. Obvious illustration on Grass vs Grain and, at end, enumeration of taste variations. I learned a lot about distinct cuts of beef as well as potential variances in grass and grain fed. I'm hungry! Thawing my t-bone because of you. I'll shop your site.
I was raised on grass-fed beef on cattle ranches. Give me grain fed any day. There are a lot of misconceptions about grass fed beef. First, the marbling (fat in the meat fibers) is what give the meat its tenderness and flavor. In order to get that marbling from grass fed beef they need to be more mature. A grain fed beef will typically go from birth to slaughter in about 15-16 months, grading high select to high choice. In order for grass fed beef to match that they need to be 19-22 months old. Too many people slaughter grass fed beef too soon, which results in meat so tough it can't be grilled. In this video if they mentioned the age of the slaughtered animals to get the shown carcasses, I missed it. I suspect the grass fed one, to get the fat cover, is older. Of course, breed and individual genetics have some effect on this as well. Shorthorns tend to mature earlier with smaller carcasses, while the Continental breeds need to be older. Angus and Hereford fit in between. I have raised show steers, fed cattle for slaughter, and been a livestock judging coach for years, so I am not new to this. There is more to the issue, but I am trying to keep things relatively understandable to the layperson.
I appreciate such an informative and well written comment sir! Also if you might help, I would like to ask a question about the Halal certified beef; as you know, during slaughter they cut the vessels first and wait some time to let the heart pump all the blood out of the body and after that they finish the neck and cut the spinal cord, which causes the heart stop right there. The advocates claim that this way helps with the quality of the meat as blood stasis in capillaries and arteries are kind of lowering the texture, taste and tenderness etc. I just wanted to have your comment and whether you have been curious to test and compare that technique in a controlled fashion. Thanks again!
But which had the beefier taste.LOL.made me laugh when they said it had a beefy taste.Now if it was a crocodile and they said it had a chicken taste.i would understand.I had a freind once who like you knew about beef.After about half hour i had to politly ask him to shut up.I had to ask him again to shut up .when i asked him his favorite beef cut or dish .
This is very informative thanks ! In Arizona I ate all grass fed beef and it was delicious ! I found the fat was not rubbery and and flavorless like regular beef. I actually enjoyed eating the fat on the grassfed. now I've kids it's harder to afford grass fed so its nice to be able to literally see the difference
I Like the Knife Work - I ran a Franchise butchery in NZ and my Master butcher not only differentiated between Grass and grain but whether it was Dairy Beef, Store Beef (i.e non dairy) and whether it was Heifer, Cow, Bull, Ox - or Cull. There was a lot of differences between animals and breeds
Just ordered 1/2 cow grass fed, your cutting skills are amazing and I'm glad to see the difference between the two types of meat. Very excited for mine to come in.
Yeah buddy, I drive from Toledo to patronize their retail shop. Best butchers in Ohio! Ohio farms are some of the best in the world, since their locally sourced...uh...YEA. I just wish they had some type of distribution agreement with a local shop so I didn't have to drive, although I don't mind it because it's worth it.
It would be about a 6 hour round trip for me. I just may make that into a day trip sometime next spring, or if I get a chance before the snow starts flying here in Michigan. 😁
Real butchers, doing a real butcherjob. Not Selling water like the meat Industry. 🥰 As a real Ships Cook I’ll say I absolutely love it. Thats what makes steaks thats 1. Class
@Redneck Hillbilly No it doesn't. Some water is necessary. Like cleaning the birds and all that obviously. Most of that isnt even water. It's actually Paracetic Acid (PAA) or Chlorine. What he is talking about is what they don't show you. Many plants have huge chillers the birds go into that cools them. They are tanks of water that are designed to cool the birds, and pump the birds full of water weight. They have pressure valves that make the chillers literally push water into the birds for about an hour and a half. And these birds are butchered right there. It takes maybe 15 to go from being hung live, to going into these chillers. 15 minute to go from live, stunned, killed, picked feathers, cut oil gland, insides pulled, USDA checked, oil glands removed, and into the chiller. Super fast process.
@Redneck Hillbilly Yeah in the supermarket process. It does sit around and shit. Way more food spoils in transport. I was talking about the processing itself. It takes the course of a couple hours to be killed and packed nice and neatly in boxes.
Remember my dad talking about grain fed and grass fed. Dad grew up in Fairbury, NE in the 10's and 29's Being young it went in one ear and out the other. These guys are obviously professional. They know what they do and they don't talk down to the viewer. They are on so right. It's all about the customer. Really impressed.
I'm wondering how you can do a taste comparison between the grass fed and grain fed when you're seasoning with extra flavors like coffee and molasses. In Brazil, you just don't season "flavor" picanha like that. Salt only. 😉
Spot on... I did my University thesis 20 years ago in raising cattle in arid land. Part of the thesis dealt with the difference between grain vs grass feeding process. This video blew my mind with the differences... thank you very much.
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Extremely informative seeing the entire processfrom carcass to final cuts. The comparison between grass-fed and grain-fed is explained, and shown, very clearly. If I'd watched this video 3 weeks ago, I wouldn't have spent $250 elsewhere and not gotten what I thought was totally grass fed beef. The artistry with the knife was very impressive - I would have lost a few finger bits doing it.
This is just super! Now, I can really see and understand why there is a large cost difference between grain-fed and grass-fed. It also explains the difference in taste. I find I prefer the grass-fed. Thanks so much for posting.
@@sardarde5144 grain fed. Nothing beats the tenderness from intramuscular fat (marbling). The flavor is debatable but grain fed has a huge advantage over grass fed right from the start. There's a reason people like Ribeyes more than Sirloin.
I've processed lotsa meats, mostly goat, mmm mm mm, I so appreciate watching a professional. Gawshdang you make it look sooo pretty. the differences between " backyard" proper Vs. PROFESSIONAL proper. Thank you both for the education and entertainment. you rock.!!! but I'm not too bad at WHAT i DONE... LOL
@Meta Morphea And also I love to see how sharp those knives are. I'm an old line cook and I want to share something with you. Have you ever tried a spider steak. It is absolutely delicious . It's part of the hip muscle area. I liken it to somewhat similar to skirt in texture and flavor. Definitely look in to it.
@Meta Morphea what is your favorite cut of beef? For me it's a possible tie with brisket and short ribs, but if it's steak types it is definitely ribeye.
Thanks for this. I learned a lot. The grass fed looks so much better. Having found a great butcher at my local farmers market this year who raises great grass fed beef and then dry ages it. The chuck roasts have become my favorite, it cooks in like a quarter the time of the same cut from the big grocery store. The flavor isn't even in the same ballpark, and I usually just salt it and cook it. It's good to see other great butchers offering thier peeps such great quality. I'm more and more convinced that we've got to get back to shopping local, ESPECIALLY for our food.
100 percent agree and I love the "gamie" flavor of grass fed...just tastes like it's real lol if that makes sense. I'm all for buying from local butchers and farmers, I also hope that they all stay afloat during these times because we need em.
@@woodsmark0 Yes I'm telling anyone who is interested about the great foods I've found at the farmers market. My baby sister checked it out on my reccomendation, her family was having issues with store bought beef eggs and diary. Now they eat all they want of all three from the farmers market with zero issues. She's got her inlaws coming, too. I think the guy who owns the shop I get kratom and cbd from is going to buy half a cow from him. We were chatting and he's been looking for a better place to buy. LOL I guess I've gotten a little passionate about it.
@Mandie Winberry haha dang that's awesome! Especially the fact that you're helping multiple people by spreading the word and also keeping the family fed...does the farm your talking about have an online store or is it strictly local? Asking for myself lol.
Should also mention how long something is on grain. We used to grain our steers for 30 days but some feedlots do 60 days to 4 months. It was a really flavorful steak with some marbling. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
Great and thorough video! The color difference was very apparent as well as the less fat content on the Grass Fed. The added health benefits from Grass Fed beef is also an important note as it has far higher levels of DHA and EPA (Omega 3) and higher Vit C, E and Niacin (B-3). I eat both but when I can I buy and eat grass fed beef.
@@fryertuck6496 best to eat grass fed if looking for health reasons. Personally, I like 40-60 day dry aged grain fed (finish) for its taste.... too expensive for every day eating.
@@dapper00000 I have been experimenting with short term dry ageing in the fridge. I'm currently making a dry curing chamber to set beside my ageing chamber. However I have found that 2.5 days in the fridge salted and in a rack, then 1.5 days in the fridge in a sealed container with not much air space, creates a great taste in a short term. When I get the ager finished I'll have a pipeline of joints in there, but for now that 5 day thing is wonderful. I have some fat that I rendered dry aged trimmings. I cook the steaks in that and brush it on. Bloody fantastic taste!
@@TheBeardedButchers I'm 67 now. I used to hunt rabbits, squirrels and quail. I would cut them up and cook them. They were nothing compared to your job. That is a real skill you have there. It's more involved than I had imagined.
Thank you for pointing out the differences between grass fed and grain fed animal husbandry practices. Grain fed cattle are only on grain for about 90 days.
@@jackreacher4297 Well funnily they did interview a cannibal tribe once and they said Asians taste the best and they have the most natural diet. I cant verify it since I cant find the source so I might be wrong however.
As it turns out, I've asked for grass-fed for the wrong reasons the whole time. What I actually always wanted was pasture-raised. Thanks for introducing the term in my vocab. I think most omnivores actually care about the animal's well-being, and most wouldn't be able to stomach seeing high density feedlots... that is until they see the hit on their wallet. Thanks for the awesome video.
I didn't realize I could watch someone cut beef for nearly 45 minutes and be so fascinated. Awesome job guys!
Me either
I saw this and looked up at how long the video was. And was like damn me too lol.
Same
Me either " interesting
Same here. Totally enjoyed it.
My daughter was allergic to so many things that without grass fed beef and chicken she would have had massive asthma attack's. It was hard to find and a little more expensive but worth every penny. The butcher I found was Amish and he knew my daughter and her allergies. He was amazing in helping my daughter as we introduced food that she wasn't allowed to have slowly. Today she has only medication allergies and can eat anything. Grass fed was a life saver for my daughter
Not to mention that grass fed just tastes better. That's wonderful your daughter doesnt have those struggles anymore. Hats off to your butcher💯
@@MidWestLife2022 I don’t know about that. I’m a chef and know plenty other chefs who also think it’s not as good.
@@smelltheglove2038 I have had both grass fed in WI and grain fed in AZ and I can tell you there is even a difference in the scent when it cooks 💯 My taste buds def prefer grass fed lol
Could she only eat meat? Im confused
I have eaten grass fed beef that was very well marbled and what some call mild; I call tasteless. That $35/pound of locally harvested strip was the last time I will waste my money on anything grass fed. I had the same reaction to grass fed flat iron and a yet another cut.
A professional chef friend wasted a lot of money on a grass fed roast he served to his family at a holiday event.
I remember my grandpa used to say save money on whatever you want but when it comes to food buy the best you can
Your grandpa is a very wise man, Joe! 😁
Quality food is definitely our family's largest expense.
You are what you eat for sure
Very intelligent man your Grandfather
That doesnt mean that the people who didtribute our food can rack up the prices and call it good, especially when its not organic, or Non GMO
It is so fun to watch a true craftsman doing there job. Even the cutting off the small pieces of fat on some parts without thinking really shows these are people that really know what they are doing and really care.
My dad is mid 50's been butchering his whole life recommended me to watch these guys. That's some high praise from him kudos
Cool of your dad to recommend us! Thank your dad for us for the kind words. 😀
Grandma's family had a butcher's shop. So many different sausages! Sadly, they closed when no-one wanted to take over.
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a.k.a. GOD
Wow --- far out !
And down to earth .
Now everything makes more perfect sense !
Thanks for thee head's-up yawl !
however
Talk about corruption !
Don't just sit there neutralized by blissful ignorance !
"Beware of the genetic-molesting 'leaven' (artificial sugar-coated lie bull HOOKS) of the so-called 'authorities' and scribes trying to sell us all out to the highest bidders."
Actually jesus flipped out on the diabolical barbaric practice of selling innocent critters to be kosher slaughtered on the altar in the temple --- as a bogus way for schmuck human-cattle to have their 'sins' forgiven. the original sin was being schmuck enough to eat the forbidden fruit eggs and critters like snakes do .
(suffering causes suffering)
Eating innocent critters is very bad karma --- that comes back to bite us . thank goodness jesus stuck his own neck out to remind us that forgiveness depends on how we treat even the least of our bretheren ...
(How would you like it if nobody cared enough to help you get out of the death-trap pits and snares ?)
Man wouldn't it be great if someone else would die so that nobody would ever be held accountable for any sins anymore ? --- sure looks like spreading the other cheek further for the pedophile preistclass to rape everything more easily is backfiring big time ... Too bad --- Easy believers make it way too easy for the great deceivers...
The last thing jesus wants to see when he returns with a serious vengence is a another death worshipping meat-cult double-cross...
B-Less schmuckered yawl !
we best not let anyone try to scare the friggin Be-jesus outta any of us !
even Greater works than these kinda ones like our prince of peace performs super naturally through us
faithfull free radical followers ---
shall become the new normal ...
Become the type of light worker you want to see in this world ...
Like the good shepherd likes to say : "my joke is sweet --- and my burden is LIGHT !"
for every step in the right direction we take --- the sun of god takes ten more for us ...
get ready for G--ZEUS
to return outta the clouds with a batta-Lion of starships (and sun dragons) armed to the teeth --- while the vast army of murdalized martyrs and resurrected saints go marching in with a seriously hilarious vengeance ! --- Leaving No ( peace, happiness, and freedom loving ) stoner left unturned into a hero of sorts ...
Thank goodness for thee Divine down to earth
Principals of :
Peace --- kindness
Purity --- integrity
Ballance --- mindfullness
Patience --- trust
Strength --- will power
Generosity --- forgiveness
Encouragement --- joy
Wonder --- insight
and Enlightenment --- upliftment ...
Anyhow ---
Less B-Less-ing
and More Best-owing
to all yawl !
in all ways remember
to stay thankfull
and Ask
thee GREAT spirit
And THEE MOST HIGH
intelligent designer located in the heart
of all creation
for guidance on how we can redeem ourselves most effectively --- rather than merely sit around aimlessly waiting for great pumpkin pie lies in the sky to save us ...
So take heed ---
and hold fast
because
the cosmic-director
don't take too kindly
to procrastinating
i - do - laters
who delay
helping themselves
realize how to
instruct those that oppose themselves from being
more brilliantly redeemed and grateful than ever before ...
Muchos Grassyass !
And Goddesspeed !
Sure Looks to me
Like Empirical evidence of the thee Most High --- blasting out brilliant freedom rock riffs on rainbow coloured guitar strings !
(Guess we'll just have to wait until it dawns on ALL of us !)
Lighten up !
And stay positive
yet vigilant...
And again yawl --- thanks for helping to keep the ideal --- real !
Check out this other stellar alternative cosmic solar weather report :
this awesome looking nasa footage of what appears to be a giant black space serpent getting blasted by the sun :
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interesting --- how NASA stands for never a solid answer . the spooks are actively blocking huge chunks of their own data and it's making all the independent space watchers wonder what the heck they are trying so hard to hide ...
Be aware of the new age pedophile preistclass deceptacon hex-nut Luciferian transhumanist one world religion however.
5D --- or 5G ?
if you think the wages for schmucking the whole world into going to war against everything pure and natural and good are astronomically enormous --- yer darn friggin right !
Watch out for them multidimensional illegal-alien shapeshifter demons trying to use celebutard mouthpieces like meat-puppets to sell us all out on the fantasy 5D
Deceptacon hex-nut deception --- of trading in our original divine organic living body soul vehicles --- for Crystalline bodies sure sounds more like more transhumanist hogwash motherschmuckery
(to this here proud grateful indigenous earthling)
Anyhow --- We best not let ANYBODY try to scare or finagle the friggin Be-jesus outta any of US !
So yeah --- ( i know )
good luck with THAT !
Thee Light of god is written in our hearts . . .
so Hold FAST
and Goddesspeed yawl !
My mom was a butcher also. I was 5. I grew up in the butcher shop in the 50s untill the 70s
How good is it to watch a tradesman, a master at his craft.
We appreciate that, Brian!
It’s good to see that some folks are keeping a true art form alive 👍 I worked in a retail store for 25 years and I enjoy seeing you guys work. Hard to find anyplace that still deals with hanging beef. I lost interest in my livelihood with the introduction of boxed beef
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They produce a beautiful product, he would get fired in a supermarket. It's all about keeping cost down not quantity.
This video was helpful and BA
This channel and content is amongst the best I’ve ever seen. Tradesmen and artists providing the world with knowledge of their craft as butchers. World needs more of these type of people. They are the American Dream. 🇺🇸
This is legendary. Thank you!
@@TheBeardedButchers No…thank you!
The beef before it goes to lot is sold by the pound. Then it goes to the feed lot. Again sold to the packer by the pound. The it get placed in the package for you to buy, by the pound.
This is done as quickly as possible. Can't have cash lolly gaggin around. Verstaen?
Even if the beef is not aged, grass fed still does taste better. I remember dad picking out a steer and then butchering it. Then splitting the carcass with my uncle.
It is now illegal in Michigan for a farmer to do that without USDA and MI inspectors getting paid to supervise. I guess it was done to protect someone like my dad.
Lets see he grew up on a farm. Knew about cattle and farm animal diseases. I mean what else would you do with 640 acres in the country?
If you were my mom you would sell it, when the old man died.
When I was 14, I had the job of killing , plucking and cleaning 100 chickens every year in August. It only took about 8 hours. I did not have a place to do that when I turned 18.
They got packed, wrapped and put in the freezer before the sun went down.
Sick chickens got shot and buried, quickly. Yep they do peck on each other when they get sick.
@@warrenpuckett6134 What are you rambling about?
“Tradesmen” and “artists?” Lol. Wow… such inaccurate ways to describe murdering psychopaths
Now just explain to people that all beef is grass feed and the difference is in the grain “FINISH”
Or grass “FINISH”
I am a rancher that sells to customers direct and they always ask me if my are are grass feed. I have to explain that all cows are grass feed and the difference is the finish. As always great video and appreciate the knowledge and craftsmanship.
Isn’t certified grass fed free of hormones and antibiotics tho and the rest are not, or is that incorrect ?
@@howliboy1 that’s a different certification. But a lot of GMO free meat has to do with the corn. And usually the issue is with glyphosate
Just curious, why does the finish matter?
The finish is what determines the taste of the fat in beef. Grain finished has a white fat and the grass has a yellowish color to it.
Some people say there is a “gamey” taste to the grass finished beef.
We finish steers both ways but what kills me is when people try to say the cows are grass fed.
All cows are grass feed until they go to a feed lot or the local farmer makes a decision to grain finish the animals. That is all I was getting at.
I cant speak for other countries but in New Zealand the majority of cows graze on grass pastures, year round. In some cases, Feedlots do exist for finishing, but they aren't popular and come under scrutiny from conservationists. Its also cheaper to feed cattle grass in NZ which seems to be the opposite in North America.@@joshuagraves8302
These guys are not just butchers, they're artists. Thoroughlly enjoyable to watch.
Most people who are great at what they do are.
Not just butchers and artists, they're strong mofos...never realized you need to have some strengths and stamina to be a good butcher.
Like watching This Old House.
@@jerryarcher6916 it SO was. Thanks for giving me the complete expression of why I enjoyed it so much.
These guys have put in the time and gained the right knowledge of butchering, well done guys.
Thank you very much, Ron!
What knowledge? They're not real carnivores or omnivores. This is all made up. Real carnivores and omnivores are not worried about any of this.
@@TheBeardedButchers I agree but have one question, why does the mortar between the bricks in the air chiller look so dirty?
@@Protopious that's Wilde marinade!
A lot of great tips. I wouldn’t expect any less from someone so experienced.
If you're going to have grass-fed beef, talk with your local conservation department, that's what we did, and they helped us at the same time we helped them. We planted native grasses, but we had pastures with cool season native grasses and pastures with warm season grasses. We did mass grazing in pastures sectioned out. It was a great system, a win-win for us and for the wildlife!
How did they help you save time, just saving you research of which plants to use?
Well, it depends on how much space you have as well
But overall, are there also Advantages to the other?
Glad you eat beef
People shouldn't be eating people
The Universe said "Eat dinner. Don't unzip your groceries. "
4x the cost of everything and you make less per cost of living than your first day on the job 22 years ago, welcome to 2024!
That's because 30,000 people come over illegally a month and take your jobs and breed in free housing you pay for, for their current and future kids diapers, food, and housing, and you with with them. If you did that they'd call you a rat
Make it illegal to hire illegals again
Fine employers 10,000 or illegal worker, economy and crisis solved. Grow your politicians coke in a wharehouse yourself
Don't give them free housing or take away food from America's children to feed them, and guess what, they'll go back
They whine about pills for those who don't want to be here, now you can stop starving the ones that want to be here, and if the 45-65 percent of the world that wanted to be gone gets to go, then half the world won't die from natural starvation and they won't have to do a 3rd World War for the same reason as the others (they were all depop.ulation, people were just to scared of uprising if they told anyone, so out of the depression they went home, unzipped their flies, and bred like, crazy) The world could be full of only people that want to be here, the world would double its available wealth and resources to people, sickness and suffering hunger and starvation and cannabilism will be stayed off, there will be a LOT more peace, and the average poor person will have 2 houses, 2 cars, a cow, ice cream on top, clean water and oil to last the planet, or they will probably unleash every fever causing virus at once to prevent all the bad stuff and wipe the whole world out in a week for you
Keep forcing people to be hehe who don't want to be here, it's also why you starve your children to feed prisoners their favorite mashed potatoes
People eat other peoples relatives. Bad people. Just kidding, you have no idea
They're over 1500 bio capable Iabs, so you realy think they're gong to let much more of this go on, it only takes 1
The world needs a brainstorming department if it wants to save itself
It really should be having a party, it owes it to all the Kings and Queens ; )
It's 2024, maybe the world can become a party now? And you could have fun, in a fun place
Ultrasounds heart human tissue, including brain tissue in tiny fetuses, and cause cavitation, or the tissue is being heated and the moisture is turning into gas, also causes neurological damage. Leonardo DaVinci didn't get a single one, now Einstein and they turned out genius. We smoke everyone with electronic radia.tion x rays etc
Why so many with metal slowness? Time for another zapping
WW2 was a depop.ulation war
The Polish were killing German villagers and their bodies disappeared before they were invaded. They were dinner
Germans were eating stale bread soup, with a rabbit if they caught one. Otherwise just bread. No one sent food, no one invited or took in the Jews, they ands their children were going hungrier too
The US sent Germany bullets, it was much more compassionate than letting everyone starve to death, everyone dumped off their extra. They had less than half the food and the world's population grew a lot
We've doubled the world's population since WW2, we get more per farm acre, but we're about to have half the crops due to droughts and fires. Don't tell them it's a depop.ulation war again, or they won't unzip their flies and breed like them.
The Mayans and Aztecs were ki.lling and eating each other and then they invaded and killed the Native American Tribes while Christopher Columbus invaded from the North in the Nina , Pinta and Santa Maria; he left his Spaniard General in charge while he went back to the Queen fire more solid, he promised more gold: There was none. His General cut the hands off of Native 5 year old Indians for not finding gold
Not a good world to bring more into
@@uganda_mn397There are advantages to using native grasses. It's more used to the climate of the area, as well rain amounts for the area.
Best 45 minutes spent on the web learning meat cut and difference between grain an grass. Well done!
@@frankm5019 they mentioned something about the grass fed beef being finished off with grain available while still being fed or having grass available also. It is interesting how regulations allow certain labels and claims to be made, everything is up to interpretation.
@@frankm5019 they said grass fed is third party verified. I believe American grass fed association. They don’t allow any grain at all. They mention that there are different ways of feeding such as having grain available while animal is also on grass. Then feeding more grain.
@@lfrias78 that was the grain fed beef. Grass never gets grain.
@hightyboo I believe they left it up as a matter of preference. Taste is something highly subjective. The grain fed they said was mild beef flavor. The grass fed had a stronger beef flavor, hints of a grassy/gamey flavor. Then there is the health or perceived health benefits related to less fat and the make up of the existing fat of grass fed over grain fed that might sway someone’s purchase regardless of taste. Oatmeal with a cup of brown sugar and lump of butter tastes infinitely better than plain oatmeal but the plain is healthier.
@@justinallmond3855 its not the reduced fat that makes gras fed healthier, its the increased nutrients profile of the beef itself. Grass fed/finished beef is much higher in many vitamins and minerals and has less contamination. Sat fat from animal products is good for us, so thats not a reason why grass fed is better than grain fed
In Mongolia, I tried lamb meat that was raised in the Gobi desert. Its meat had a very different flower smell and the meat was so incredible. They told me such meat goes to market only at the end of the summer as flowers fall. (Grass doesn't grow in the desert much, so lamb eats mostly flower and it is the most expensive meat there and 100% naturally raised without any fence).
Oh wow, that sounds amazing. You'll know it's especially good if it's only available in a certain period of time. o🤤
My dad was a retail butcher for about 35 years. Watching this guy break down, trim and cut steaks reminded me so much of what my dad used to do day after day in the meat market for A & P . I use to help him bone out a lot of rib sections for hamburger meat .
It's just too bad that most grocers mix all different animals from all different farms from all over the world. They also dye their beef to make it look fresher and more appealing and the cardinal sin they cut their steaks very thin. When buying steaks,Bacon,pork chops or Loins and whole large Hams,whole chickens or Turkeys I will always go to the Butcher over the Grocer. Plus after watching Morgan Spurlocks last documentary about raising chickens to stock a Fast food chicken restaurant I will gladly never eat commercial raised chicken again. I'm a meat eater but it is absolutely disgusting how horribly animals are treated in commercial farming operations. How they grab chick's,Ducklings and piglets by their neck,stab them with large antibiotic needles and throw them on the ground,kick them around and are very abusive to them to the point they step on and kill the babies. I have even seen countless videos of young psychopaths that work for commercial farms punch calves,lambs and baby goats in the face hard AS FUCK and laugh about it!😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬 I understand they are specifically raised to be food, but they can still be treated humanly while they're alive. Also the chickens pumped full of growth hormones to the point their legs break because the chickens put on a ton of height and weight and their legs can't build enough inner density to hold them, so they end up not being able to walk and tons die of heart attacks before it's time to harvest them
@@devingeary455 that was hard to read 😪 but thanks.
@@devingeary455 you don’t know squat, just because you see some examples doesn’t represent all commercial farms. They never go ahead and show the good things. Like giving people jobs and putting food on their tables. Instead we have the radical left acting like they know about the industry. I worked in it for many years and never dyed beef lol
@@moderndaypirate8931 oh... you didn't die the beef. What a saint. At least, you had a job. But so do sex traffickers. They don't dye the beef either.
Just one case makes a normal person sick.
There is a narrative in this video. It is that grass fed is superior. They try to stay non bias respectively, but it is obvious; they prefer grass fed.
Thank you for helping keep the reality of our vital beef source alive. I am touched by your ethical and intelligent natures.
This was so interesting and brought back so many great memories of my dad. He was a butcher in the 70 and 80's. Seeing you guys handle the meat and the knives , your even built like my dad was. When I was small enough he would throw me over his shoulder like a side of beef and pretend he was cutting me up. When he passed I was able to snag his mesh metal apron and knife belt. I have it proudly displayed! Hey, my husband said he saw you might be on the History channel. You deserve some recognition. All the best to you two bearded butchers!
Thank you for sharing it with us, Elizabeth! Hearing your father's story is very wonderful!
Never realized watching someone repetitively cutting steaks was so satisfying
Thank you so much! What kind of meat would you like us to cut in the next video? 😁
@@TheBeardedButchers could you compare wild hogs and farm-raised in this style? And whether market demand can help control their population.
Agreed
@H K I mean...there are fields full of them all over the place. Talk to a farmer...maybe they'll let you "hunt" a cow. It won't be very exciting though. 😆😆
@@michaeloxlong "2 minutes into my exotic hunt, I finally have the elusive beast in my sights. I dare not miss this shot."
You can ALWAYS tell when people are MASTERS of their craft, the make the complicated look so easy.
Thank you for this excellent lesson! I am 66 yrs old and this was all new info to me. Simply delicious educational experience!
Glad it was helpful!
@@TheBeardedButchersMy words exactly..Couldn't have said it better as though read my mind.
Have just started the carnival diet I'm finding it much cheaper than I would have thought eating meat spent Aus, $200 on mix Supermarket packets cut mixture from pork & Butcher pk, Rissole. & 18 pack lamb chops. Chicken schnitzels + beautiful beef steaks..Have been mist lean" about eating meat the last few years. Now i deeply think is wrong.. meat is best" just asked the ladies.
I agree so much knowledge here. Iam very thankful for this honest educational videos.
I know nothing about butchering or how meat is cut but for some odd reason, I found myself watching the entire video. I think it was the knife work that had me hypnotized 😂😂👌🏽👌🏽
Jedi mind-trick, actually. 👀
The ‘right’ knife. A ‘sharp’ knife. It was magical watching the skill/experience involved. 👍🏽
@@ablanccanvas Victorinox Fibrox
Seriously huh! I rarely ever watch full videos longer than 10 minutes, but for some reason I was intrigued. I know that if I can buy grass fed beef, I'll do so because there's just something about the taste. Mmm, getting hungry just talking about it.
Nah it was the really neat beards
I just learned more about beef than I had learned in my 75 years on this earth, 'Thanks very much!!!
Hope you enjoy, Rich!
Watching these guys perform their craft is... well it’s art. There is no other way to say it. It’s so cool to watch.
" The customer is our boss" Bro... that really hits home for me. It's such a humble and progressive attitude to have in any business. These guys get it. 💪🏾💯
How was that 45 minutes? I watched this whole video. Great stuff. I've bought half a steer that was grass fed recently. My entire family loves it. Never complain about the taste or texture. Will say it is incredibly lean but doesnt lack flavor and doesnt change the texture either. You guys are awesome. Thanks for the video.
It means a lot that you shared it with us, so many thanks! Also, we appreciate your continued support of our channel.
do you find you need to cook lower and slower?
helping the Watch time the algorithm appreciates you lol
Any meat we can purchase in stores is just not the same! I feel like I am in starvation mode, even right after dinner!
Do you cook it ? Or eat it raw
I’ve seen sourdough artisans, mushroom farmers and now this 😊 Life is great and I’ve got so much respect for crafts folk.
Wow, thank you!
....and god bless those sourdough artisans!
I really appreciate the side by side comparison. I would really love it if you guys could do a video with a side by side comparison of grass vs grain of the same breed of cow.
Excellent job as always.
The Brasilian churrascaria we frequent barbecues pecanha, and we never knew its backstory. Great to see the cut demonstrated. Also the lack of dry aging explains a lot about the decline in commercial beef quality and value. Thank you.
Good luck!
@@TheBeardedButchers Hey like your vids anyway i have a question do they still pump cattle up with trenbolone you might know it as another name but it's a powerful anabolic steroid thanks.
@@TheBeardedButchers Nevermind you answered the question in the video no steroid growth hormone or anything like that i doubt that's true in all cases and i always thought they use a quick acting ester of trenbolone so its out of the system by the time its butchered i think that's better bigger beef and it won't be consumed by people.
I used to help my husband dress out the deer and elk he got. He had a friend who had bagged his first deer but didn't have a clue about cutting it up. I went to help him cut and wrap the meat. It's one of my best memories. Thanks for your video
Felt like I just watched a masterclass. Thank you guys!
Thanks for attending our masterclass, Mark!
Thank you for this most excellent video oh Great Bearded One! This really is Top Notch, Grade A, Organic, Grass Fed! 😋 For me, it's all about avoiding the GMO grains that are stuffed into our food supply, not to mention the grains are sprayed with glyphosate. I had to give up all grains while I'm healing my thyroid from Hashimotos (Yes, I turned Japanese) and as I don't eat GMO grains, I also don't want to eat anything that ate GMO grains. Farmers and Ranchers are not paid by nutritional content. They're paid by the bushel or by the pound. My DC (a real doctor) always repeats the quote, "Nutritional excellence has never been easy."
Thank you...very helpful info...so I'm guessing you can't eat chicken?
I only just learnt that farmers do not buy GMO grains as they use RoundUp (glyphosate plus other chemicals) to “dry” (kill the plant) the grains before harvest.
That fact shocked me to the bone (literally).
So even though I love the cost, higher fat content of grain fed, reducing (eliminating) chemicals is number one in importance for me. This was a top article by the BBs as I never knew the size (in particular) and colour was different.
@@martinlang9615 Thanks! I also just recently learned that GMO grains are sprayed with glyphosate after harvest to assist in drying and kill bacteria; which is Exactly what it does to your gut biome as well - kill the bacteria. "All disease begins in the gut " Hipocrates
@@martinlang9615Exactly why I choose grass fed over grain/conventional beef.
I’ve been in the meat industry for 30 years and I absolutely enjoyed watching you guys process the carcass thank you for a great video
Wow, it's an honor -- thank you! 😀
This is one of those videos that I put on in the background while I do other things. (In other words, something I expected to not be too interesting/distracting.) Bad idea. This video was absolutely fascinating. You are one of the best presenters that I've seen in any type of documentary program. Great camera work. That guy with the knife is an artist!
Wow, this is so nice to read, Shyam! We'll make more videos!
I put this video on to listen to while I drive home... sat in my driveway for 30minutes watching.
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@@lauraonline3251 Not in the market. Thanks anyway.
Me: "Forty-five minutes- are you kidding? I'll just watch a couple minutes"
45 minutes later..."That was really interesting."
feel it
That's what I was thinking. I ended up watching every minute and sub'd too
Crap I didn't realize it was 45 minutes. Great stuff.
lol
Agreed
Thanks guys! I learned a lot! You make butchering look so easy! My uncles both had dairy farms and so I was familiar with the milking process and the taste of fresh milk. One of the uncles began to raise Charolais beef and the steaks were amazing but could never find it in the grocery stores. Glad we have choices now! Yes, more expensive but well worth it!
Never imagined the day I subscribe to a butcher's channel.
I just did and definitely not going to have regrets! Love this : ))
😂😂😂👏🏿👏🏿 I know right. I just did too. 👍🏿
👍 Yup .... Amazing .
Ctfu me either but here we are.
Haha, same! They are awesome!
As a cattle producer, I love what you do and glad my brother bought your seasoning variety pack last year for Christmas. the seasoning is awesome! Thank you!
Do you guys also sell?
can u mix a cow on grain and grass to bulk it but get a darker red meat?
Watching you carve that carcass was like observing someone create a painting. The handling of that silver skin on the tenderloin was flawless, and here I am trying to pull it off with a paper towel for grip.
I can relate to some of the comments here. Grain-fed was damaging my health until I switched to grass-fed/finished. Now we do our own hunting. Worth it.
I have no idea how this ended up in my recommended videos, but it was so fascinating to watch.
This was in my recommended section. Really have no idea why.
But, now I’m hooked. Interesting as hell.
Another job well done, UA-cam Algorithm! 🙏
Ditto😂
Ditto I was raised on a farm, never knew a lot of this. Thank you UA-cam.
Sharp knives are always a show stealer
Hey guys thanks for this awesome video my grandfather earned his living with his own butcher shop and my father was his helper every holiday for many years we’ve raised our own beef for a long time and enjoyed having home raised grass fed beef and lamb! I have shared your video with all my children so they can see the knowledge and skill it takes to be an excellent butcher you guys rocked it👏👏👍
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Thanks so much for making this video, and explaining the difference between the meats! Really appreciate it.
Thanks for watching, we are glad it was helpful!
My wife and I farm here in south central Missouri on a farm that's been in our family since 1865. We raise cattle, hogs, and chickens. We sell directly to the customer and use about a half dozen local meat processors for our business. While all of them do a good job with our animals I would most DEFINITELY bring our business to your place if it were possible. Your video is outstanding (count us in a new subscribers!).
About a dozen years ago I bought into the grass-fed/grass-finished school, giving much of the credit to Joel Salatin's enthusiastic teachings. I thought I was doing the best for my farm, my animals, and our customers. But as the years have gone by I have changed some of my thinking. I still believe raising animals on pasture, not using chemicals on my fields, and giving them as stress-free a life as possible makes a superior product. But it's been my experience dealing with the public that most prefer their beef to be finished with grain for the flavor/tenderness.
Your video here points out some of the salient differences and I will now start using it as a reference point for our customers that want to see/know more about what they're eating and feeding their families.
Excellent job and thank you!
DLFarms
Dave and Larkin Busby
I was just going to ask about that in the comments - but you've brought it up now. I was raised on a farm and all the food animals around were pasture raised and grain finished. My mom (the cook) always said that a grain finish gave the meat the marbled fat it needed for a good flavour.
I've tried 100% grass fed, and to me it is a bit too gamy - you can taste the green, so I feel as if it should be stewed with onions. And for the price you pay for grass-fed I'm not going to do that.
I need to listen to the rest of the video to see if they say anything about that.
But their meat looks good, eh?
It take more skill to cook such meat and make it tender. Wagyu has it's own issues too but pastured Wagyu is really interesting to cook with since it has the fat without needing to grain feed it. The marbling is different then typical as well. It is really hard to find though. I do have one source for it.
Sounds nice. I gotta get out of California. It's a hellhole. Even tho we have great farms too.
Have you heard of Regenerative Farming? Dr. Zach Bush is a smart guy and he talks about it - seems like a good way to go.
My goodness. Just looking at the difference in the video, I can “see” how much tougher & compact the grass fed is. I can certainly say I’d probably prefer the texture / tenderness / etc of the grain fed.
The public likes to say noble things. But when time to put hands in the fire, you see what people actually “do”.
I started letting my deer sit in the fridge in quarters for 5 days this Year. My wife demanded her refrigerator back or it would have sat for 7 days. The difference, even at 5 days is incredible. Much more tenderness and amazing flavor to the meat!
Didn’t they get cold?
I watched Dr Antony Chaffee use the whole fridge to put his meat in...
As he says to leave it.
I think he leaves his two weeks.
I am learning so much recently about beef.
Just buy a second fridge for the garage, a cheap one. Plug it in when you need it, hunt more often, happy days
Wish they sold venison in grocery stores. Where I live we don't have any farmers markets that sell meat 😢
I'm a Carnivore guy and this was my version of the Food Network. Nice work guys.
Wow! We're honored!
Food Network is terrible these days. Once they lost Emeril and a few others, they went on their own tangent and now have crap like Iron Chef where all they do is invent stupid and waste food. The talents these days is long gone !
What shocks me is how much respect I immediately feel for these guys every time I watch one of their videos.
Who would have ever thought it would be so satisfying and entertaining to watch a cow being processed?!?!
Yeah, it's satisfying for some reason. 🤷♂️ Thanks for watching!
cuz were not tree huggers,remember your thinking is just that yours
It's your caveman part of the brain being satisfied
Found another moment of Zen: watching a burly dude slice up a beef carcass. Seriously. I was mesmerized and it was so peaceful.
like watching a mistro :-)
hilarious
Gay
I found the hacksaw of the rib section quite exquisite
That knife was freaking sharp... sliced right through it like butter...
Great video! One thing I would like to point out with the grain fed beef that was not mentioned here! Those concerned with the genetically grown grains are also trying to avoid glyphosate..These grains lead to digestive problems in animals as well as people..They are not fit for either to consume from a healthy standpoint..If we took care in raising grain from a healthier approach and not using glyphosate as a desiccant for drying grains before harvest..The Omega fatty acids as you mentioned in the grass fed beef is more in the ration that support human health..Thank you for a most informative video where all of us learn together and ultimately thrive together eating healthy raisedbeef and grains..
Just saw a recent study on glyphosate and it’s not found in red meat as the animal processes it and excretes it. It’s mostly found in the grains and vegetables that humans consume.
@@briank5877 yes it is found, on lesser dosses but its there.
Like obviously, if its all cows eat their entire lives.
Great comparison, side by side is a great visual example, these guys are great for explaining all that we all want to know, have nothing but the utmost respect for doing what they do for us
I don't understand why someone would dislike this. The lads are very honest about their work and totally know what they're doing/talking about.
Very informative and beautiful work. thank you guys. You've earned my humble sub.
They are probably vegan.
@@KennyG81 Nailed it.
I just subbed as well, very informative, and love watching you guys work :).
Don't mind them, they're grass fed.
@@lucassolomon1079 LOL, good one!
The color of the grass fed just looks amazing.
I've never seen grain-fed beef before as grain feeding doesn't really exist here in NZ. They do use dry grass and also palm as supplementary feeds but that is more for dairy cattle I believe.
With Zero Marbling lol.
you dont want to eat grass beef as steak, they are tough to chew. because they have less fat, more lean, and less marbling. they are better for soup, strew, because they have a stronger flavor.
@@jackli8088 I like the flavor. lots of people who come to america think our beef has no flavor lol.
Bangladeshi beef cutting so amazing system.
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My family has raised beef for our food for 40 years and we also sell a few every year. Ours are free range on decent size acrages .And I know that grain gets them tasty! So we will pen them and grain them before butcher somtimes.
To be honest I hadn't looked into the differences as deep as this video. Goes. Good vid.
The difference is astounding. The grass fed tends to be leaner, the redness (I can only presume that's the muscular myoglobin fibers) is much deeper and redder, and then the size itself is drastically different from the grain fed. Very good to see these stuff up close. Great video.
makes me think about my own muscles. I rather be like the grass fed cow than the grain fed
I grew up with grass fed beef love it..
And then the same people go out and buy veal. Lol. They have no idea how anemic a veal calf is being raised in the dark, cramped stalls. That is why the meat is light colored and tender.
My husband still doesn't listen to me when I tell him we have to let the meat rest after cooking, he just wants to cut into it right away. Love your knife skills and knowledge, thanks for the videos!
Divorce him.
@@aaronm.1998 😂😂😂
@@aaronm.1998 Divorce for that? Funny 🙂
its a man thing.. he probably needs more food
then he will be more patient
Do a taste test.
Prove it and have fun while you show him.
Wager?
The education I get from watching you two guys is unbelievable. Just purchased your Black seasoning for a Rib roast for my Kamado. But I also saw a youtube of Alton Brown on how he uses dry aging for a roast covering it with cheese cloth. He noted the same, better flavor, more tender. Thanks for taking the time to show us this. Oh, yea, that view of your farm from the air is awesome. So clean.
Honestly, your mastery as craftsman when you're conducting butcher cuts and carving is beautiful, and you educate naturally! Well done gentleman, great channel, got a subscriber, thank you!
I live on a grass-fed beef farm. Next to me is a dairy farm, and down the road there's a big sheep farm. Love it here; lots of fish with the Atlantic a few miles away. Best country in the world.
I grew up in NZ where all our beef was (and mostly still is) grass fed. When I was 22 I travelled to USA and tried grain fed steak for the first time. I was amazed at the difference, not better, not worse, just different. Until that time I never knew it could be so variable.
Thanks for sharing Matthew!
I'll bet you I've watched nearly all of your videos and yet I've never NOT learned something new when I watch the next one; yoiu guys rock.
I was with them on everything they did except for the seasoning.I feel a real beef man just needs salt and pepper and let the meat speak for itself.However that black seasoning they have is a great combo of flavors.It really all depends on preferences.I really enjoyed it guys!
@Kevin Bane; A lot of the seasoning is to make them juicier also, not just taste!
"KEEP ON KEEPIN ON"!
Salt, pepper, and olive oil on my ribeye... Sometimes no olive oil. On picanha, I definitely do some more seasoning. Perfecto
Wow! Just discovered your channel and found it very informative when I shop for beef! Thank you
I started watching for the grass fed v grain fed and stayed for the knife 🔪 skills cutting through the beef🥩 like butter 🧈 😮😍🤤
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Love the video Fellas! I have always wondered what the difference between grass fed and grain fed was.
My grandpa was a ranch hand and a cowboy back in the early 1900's and my great grandpa owned a huge cattle and sheep ranch in the late 1800's .....
Grandpa told me years ago that he would bring a nice steer in for a month or so before slaughter, and then feed them out on rolled oats and molasses for the last month of it's life, and would not give them any more grass at all. He said that the oats and molasses would give them a nice fatty layer and sweeten the meat slightly.
I had always wondered if it really had an affect on the meat. This is probably the most educational example on 'You get out of them, what you put into them', that I have ever seen.
Thank you for a great video!
Makes sense to me. The Hawaiians feed pigs on pineapple and have very sweet pig roast luaus
@@canndo1 I am a recovering hog farmer. The market has kicked my butt for fifteen years. I never made any money at it, but I've had a lot of compliments on the pork.
Thank You Grandpa!
That is why people gain fat when they eat grains
Excellent video. Grew up with grass fed off a ranch in the Chilcotin, British Columbia. We knew the best butcher I've ever seen. Proper aging, superb cutting, and careful cooking. Can't beat it. The nephew is learning the trade at a local top organic butcher, including local wagyu. Wants to work with hunters up country.
Hands down the best explanation I've seen from curing to cooking and comparisons. Thank you for your time.
I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. I do love grassfed beef, but usually stew it because of the more intense flavor. No need to add broth; it makes its own. Thanks for the informative video, guys!
I typically cook grassfed at cooler temperatures, without the fat to protect it the meat cooks more quickly. The grassfed that I get is from my brother-in-law, he doesn't have any grain-fed cows so it's a pretty sure bet when I buy from him. But yeah I agree on the intense flavor, I got spoilt and find myself scoffing at the grain fed sometimes, when I want a piece of beef I want it to taste like beef.
Me too, grassfed beef tastes a whole better. The fat also has more flavor. I like beef from Dallas, Texas, when I visit my cousin house. We cooked beef noodles, and the flavor was so good. It was grass-fed special ordered, too.
What a waste to stew a good steak. Maybe you need to switch suppliers. For really good grass fed beef, you need a little older animal, they need to mature before they start putting more fat on, maybe 2 1/2 or 3 years old instead of 18 months.
@@John-xb2nl I don’t stew steak. I’m not a BBQ master, so I’ve not attempted to grill steaks of any kind myself. I could say that you waste lovely beef flavor cooking your steak alone!
@@tumblebugspace Don't worry about BBQ, the best way to is to pan fry with tallow in a cast iron or mild steel pan. I am working on the alone part.
Nice that you highlighted your grass fed as being raised on the pasture. For those novice customers who want to maybe buy a cow to process. It's not enough anymore to ask "is it grass fed?" You've got to ask whether its "grass fed and pasture raised?" Ranchers can and do feed grass in their feed lots, with all the same crowd diseases, and in the same way as those big commercial feed lots feeding grain...
I grew up in New Zealand. All beef/lamb is grass reared/fed. I milked cows after leaving school. Years later when I moved to the UK someone said grass fed dairy cows was known as the New Zealand system.
I still struggle to get my head around cattle cooped up in pens and fed grain. Let them roam free and eat grass.
We do actually let them do that in the States too... They roam and eat grass with 10,000+ acres... and we also feed them out with alfalfa, hay at times. When they're sold to the market, then the buyers typically fatten them up with grains, etc. That's how our ranch does it. Others have a bit different system.
"Grain Fed" beef is only fed grain and kept in small pens for the last couple weeks to bulk them up. They literally live the same exact lives on open pasture as grass fed except for the last few weeks. Its like having a stay at home vacation where you can just sit, around, be lazy and eat without worrying about wild life coming to rip your throat out. (Well, at least as far as the cows know lol)
@@e.t.2914 So...sort of like staying at home during lockdowns? And they thought there was an obesity problem before covid came around.
UK ain't a big enough country union to be letting cows roam around.
@@doubledee8677 haha I thought the same
Guys! Thank you from beginning to end I saw endless insight. I'm almost zero on actual butchering. Super cool to see the breakdown. Obvious illustration on Grass vs Grain and, at end, enumeration of taste variations. I learned a lot about distinct cuts of beef as well as potential variances in grass and grain fed. I'm hungry! Thawing my t-bone because of you. I'll shop your site.
I was raised on grass-fed beef on cattle ranches. Give me grain fed any day. There are a lot of misconceptions about grass fed beef. First, the marbling (fat in the meat fibers) is what give the meat its tenderness and flavor. In order to get that marbling from grass fed beef they need to be more mature. A grain fed beef will typically go from birth to slaughter in about 15-16 months, grading high select to high choice. In order for grass fed beef to match that they need to be 19-22 months old. Too many people slaughter grass fed beef too soon, which results in meat so tough it can't be grilled. In this video if they mentioned the age of the slaughtered animals to get the shown carcasses, I missed it. I suspect the grass fed one, to get the fat cover, is older. Of course, breed and individual genetics have some effect on this as well. Shorthorns tend to mature earlier with smaller carcasses, while the Continental breeds need to be older. Angus and Hereford fit in between. I have raised show steers, fed cattle for slaughter, and been a livestock judging coach for years, so I am not new to this. There is more to the issue, but I am trying to keep things relatively understandable to the layperson.
DAMMIT BOY! That was a VERY informative comment.
I appreciate such an informative and well written comment sir! Also if you might help, I would like to ask a question about the Halal certified beef; as you know, during slaughter they cut the vessels first and wait some time to let the heart pump all the blood out of the body and after that they finish the neck and cut the spinal cord, which causes the heart stop right there. The advocates claim that this way helps with the quality of the meat as blood stasis in capillaries and arteries are kind of lowering the texture, taste and tenderness etc. I just wanted to have your comment and whether you have been curious to test and compare that technique in a controlled fashion. Thanks again!
This is better than the video! Great information
But which had the beefier taste.LOL.made me laugh when they said it had a beefy taste.Now if it was a crocodile and they said it had a chicken taste.i would understand.I had a freind once who like you knew about beef.After about half hour i had to politly ask him to shut up.I had to ask him again to shut up .when i asked him his favorite beef cut or dish .
I grew up on deer meat. I prefer the grass fed. Much more lean and less fat is what I like.
This is very informative thanks ! In Arizona I ate all grass fed beef and it was delicious ! I found the fat was not rubbery and and flavorless like regular beef. I actually enjoyed eating the fat on the grassfed. now I've kids it's harder to afford grass fed so its nice to be able to literally see the difference
I Like the Knife Work - I ran a Franchise butchery in NZ and my Master butcher not only differentiated between Grass and grain but whether it was Dairy Beef, Store Beef (i.e non dairy) and whether it was Heifer, Cow, Bull, Ox - or Cull. There was a lot of differences between animals and breeds
That's the display of a true business acumen for a devotion to the local customer.
You cannot replace a master butcher. I definitely love having a local butcher...
Hi, I'm a beef farmer from Quebec. Really liked the way you compared the 2 types of animal. You really know your meat
This is a great video! As small farm commercial beef raisers, momma cows, we are always explaining grain vs grass-fed. Perfect vid.
Just ordered 1/2 cow grass fed, your cutting skills are amazing and I'm glad to see the difference between the two types of meat. Very excited for mine to come in.
Hi Joshua. How many people will you be able to feed with a 1/2 and for how long?
@@tension-ie5ik should be looking at around 400 8oz portions +/-
Mouth watering to watch
@@joshuakeys1596 how much did that cost?
@@dewilew2137 $1400
He mentioned Wooster Ohio and my jaw dropped. Turns out I only live 30 minutes away from their shop. How exciting.
What a 'cow'-incidence. Drop by our store the soonest! 😀
@@TheBeardedButchers yeah! I HAVE to. Get me some picahnas 😂
Lucky!
Yeah buddy, I drive from Toledo to patronize their retail shop. Best butchers in Ohio! Ohio farms are some of the best in the world, since their locally sourced...uh...YEA. I just wish they had some type of distribution agreement with a local shop so I didn't have to drive, although I don't mind it because it's worth it.
It would be about a 6 hour round trip for me. I just may make that into a day trip sometime next spring, or if I get a chance before the snow starts flying here in Michigan. 😁
I appreciate how enthusiastic you guys are about your craft! I hope to get some beef from you all on the west coast. Thanks guys.
Real butchers, doing a real butcherjob. Not Selling water like the meat Industry. 🥰 As a real Ships Cook I’ll say I absolutely love it. Thats what makes steaks thats 1. Class
True on the water part. Lol.
Amen brother
@Redneck Hillbilly No it doesn't. Some water is necessary. Like cleaning the birds and all that obviously. Most of that isnt even water. It's actually Paracetic Acid (PAA) or Chlorine. What he is talking about is what they don't show you. Many plants have huge chillers the birds go into that cools them. They are tanks of water that are designed to cool the birds, and pump the birds full of water weight. They have pressure valves that make the chillers literally push water into the birds for about an hour and a half.
And these birds are butchered right there. It takes maybe 15 to go from being hung live, to going into these chillers. 15 minute to go from live, stunned, killed, picked feathers, cut oil gland, insides pulled, USDA checked, oil glands removed, and into the chiller. Super fast process.
@Redneck Hillbilly Yeah in the supermarket process. It does sit around and shit. Way more food spoils in transport.
I was talking about the processing itself. It takes the course of a couple hours to be killed and packed nice and neatly in boxes.
They do push that black rub a lot though.
Remember my dad talking about grain fed and grass fed. Dad grew up in Fairbury, NE in the 10's and 29's
Being young it went in one ear and out the other.
These guys are obviously professional.
They know what they do and they don't talk down to the viewer.
They are on so right. It's all about the customer.
Really impressed.
Bro! watching you cut those steaks is pure art. A masterpiece!
I'm wondering how you can do a taste comparison between the grass fed and grain fed when you're seasoning with extra flavors like coffee and molasses. In Brazil, you just don't season "flavor" picanha like that. Salt only. 😉
You can still taste meat flavor difference.
The one thing I wish they would have done. Leave one skewer of each unseasoned to really get the flavor difference.
Oddly satisfying to watch a professional who loves his craft work.
Great video!
Thank you very much!
Spot on... I did my University thesis 20 years ago in raising cattle in arid land. Part of the thesis dealt with the difference between grain vs grass feeding process. This video blew my mind with the differences... thank you very much.
Do you mind sharing the thesis name and if it is available for consult
@@GustavoHernandez1 After the video I was looking for it but couldn't find it, as a friend also requested it. Once I find it, will let you know.
@@ferspano73 thanks a lot man, I'd really appreciate it
If you can make your manuscript available & accessible online, that would be great!
Lots'a love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from tropical Philippines!
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First I've heard of you guys. You just gained a sub and since you are only 40 minutes away you have also gained a customer.
Woohoo! Double the blessings -- thank you! 😀
Extremely informative seeing the entire processfrom carcass to final cuts. The comparison between grass-fed and grain-fed is explained, and shown, very clearly.
If I'd watched this video 3 weeks ago, I wouldn't have spent $250 elsewhere and not gotten what I thought was totally grass fed beef.
The artistry with the knife was very impressive - I would have lost a few finger bits doing it.
This must be why I struggle finding the picanha steaks....the butchers eat them at lunch!!
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On my area the picanha seems to be called the tri tip. Never mind... it's the other side.
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The picanha steaks are still being smoked and grilled. Picanha steaks are just being served on skewers.
@@JohnTheRevelat0r Actually Picanha is the cap on top sirloin. It's compared to filet mignon because of tenderness but the flavor is better.
This is just super! Now, I can really see and understand why there is a large cost difference between grain-fed and grass-fed. It also explains the difference in taste. I find I prefer the grass-fed. Thanks so much for posting.
Can you please tell me in one word which one is better I can watch full video tnx
@@sardarde5144 depends what your clients want to see/taste and what they value in their food quantity vs quality (technically) 😅
@@sardarde5144 grain fed. Nothing beats the tenderness from intramuscular fat (marbling). The flavor is debatable but grain fed has a huge advantage over grass fed right from the start. There's a reason people like Ribeyes more than Sirloin.
@@sardarde5144 grass fed has more flavor but grain fed is more tender. Take your pick
@@oceanwaves83 grain fed tastes like water. The flavor is not debatable. You are absolutely right on tenderness though
I've processed lotsa meats, mostly goat, mmm mm mm, I so appreciate watching a professional. Gawshdang you make it look sooo pretty. the differences between " backyard" proper Vs. PROFESSIONAL proper. Thank you both for the education and entertainment. you rock.!!! but I'm not too bad at WHAT i DONE... LOL
I wasn't looking for an education.
But thanks so much to the Bearded Butchers for giving me one when I wasn't asking.
Chef to butcher. It is a beauty to see your knife skills.
Wow, we're honored! Thank you! 😁
Very interesting i enjoyed this
@Meta Morphea And also I love to see how sharp those knives are.
I'm an old line cook and I want to share something with you. Have you ever tried a spider steak. It is absolutely delicious . It's part of the hip muscle area. I liken it to somewhat similar to skirt in texture and flavor. Definitely look in to it.
@Meta Morphea what is your favorite cut of beef? For me it's a possible tie with brisket and short ribs, but if it's steak types it is definitely ribeye.
@@todderschannel4705 Smoked brisket, a classic.
Thanks for this. I learned a lot. The grass fed looks so much better. Having found a great butcher at my local farmers market this year who raises great grass fed beef and then dry ages it. The chuck roasts have become my favorite, it cooks in like a quarter the time of the same cut from the big grocery store. The flavor isn't even in the same ballpark, and I usually just salt it and cook it. It's good to see other great butchers offering thier peeps such great quality. I'm more and more convinced that we've got to get back to shopping local, ESPECIALLY for our food.
100 percent agree and I love the "gamie" flavor of grass fed...just tastes like it's real lol if that makes sense. I'm all for buying from local butchers and farmers, I also hope that they all stay afloat during these times because we need em.
@@woodsmark0 Yes I'm telling anyone who is interested about the great foods I've found at the farmers market. My baby sister checked it out on my reccomendation, her family was having issues with store bought beef eggs and diary. Now they eat all they want of all three from the farmers market with zero issues. She's got her inlaws coming, too. I think the guy who owns the shop I get kratom and cbd from is going to buy half a cow from him. We were chatting and he's been looking for a better place to buy. LOL I guess I've gotten a little passionate about it.
@Mandie Winberry haha dang that's awesome! Especially the fact that you're helping multiple people by spreading the word and also keeping the family fed...does the farm your talking about have an online store or is it strictly local? Asking for myself lol.
@@woodsmark0 they're all strickly local as far as I know. If you happen to be in north Mississippi...
@Mandie Winberry :/ No, I'm in Las Vegas. Kinda far from farmland.
Should also mention how long something is on grain. We used to grain our steers for 30 days but some feedlots do 60 days to 4 months. It was a really flavorful steak with some marbling. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
AMEN!!!
Great and thorough video! The color difference was very apparent as well as the less fat content on the Grass Fed. The added health benefits from Grass Fed beef is also an important note as it has far higher levels of DHA and EPA (Omega 3) and higher Vit C, E and Niacin (B-3). I eat both but when I can I buy and eat grass fed beef.
I like the flavor of over 30 ideally 40 day dry aged corn fed beef
I read that a cow that spends 2 weeks in a feeding lot looses all of it's omega 3.
Fat is good for you. Medical doctors lie.
@@fryertuck6496 best to eat grass fed if looking for health reasons. Personally, I like 40-60 day dry aged grain fed (finish) for its taste.... too expensive for every day eating.
@@dapper00000 I have been experimenting with short term dry ageing in the fridge.
I'm currently making a dry curing chamber to set beside my ageing chamber.
However I have found that 2.5 days in the fridge salted and in a rack, then 1.5 days in the fridge in a sealed container with not much air space, creates a great taste in a short term.
When I get the ager finished I'll have a pipeline of joints in there, but for now that 5 day thing is wonderful.
I have some fat that I rendered dry aged trimmings.
I cook the steaks in that and brush it on.
Bloody fantastic taste!
I've been a vegetarian for 45 years. I used to love eating beef. This video made my mouth water.
Wow, 45 years! Respect! 😉
@@TheBeardedButchers I'm 67 now. I used to hunt rabbits, squirrels and quail. I would cut them up and cook them. They were nothing compared to your job. That is a real skill you have there. It's more involved than I had imagined.
As am I
Thank you for pointing out the differences between grass fed and grain fed animal husbandry practices. Grain fed cattle are only on grain for about 90 days.
I grew up on a ranch eating grass fed beef. The flavor difference is huge.
Imagine what a grass fed human taste like compared to your grain-fed humans. Don’t eat your Cheerios 💥
@@jackreacher4297 Well funnily they did interview a cannibal tribe once and they said Asians taste the best and they have the most natural diet. I cant verify it since I cant find the source so I might be wrong however.
@@Wogix26 We probably taste gamey as shit
@@getmeoutofsanfrancisco9917 ive heard humans taste like pork. Hence the term long pig.
Which one would you say tastes better I've never actually done a direct comparison?
As it turns out, I've asked for grass-fed for the wrong reasons the whole time. What I actually always wanted was pasture-raised. Thanks for introducing the term in my vocab.
I think most omnivores actually care about the animal's well-being, and most wouldn't be able to stomach seeing high density feedlots... that is until they see the hit on their wallet.
Thanks for the awesome video.
Anyone else digging how sharp their knives are? RESPECT!
As a fellow Carnivore you guys take pride in your work. Love seeing the passion.
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Either do it passionately, or not at all! 😉
@@TheBeardedButchers You got that right.
@@TheBeardedButchers not all all would be better.
Do u sell your beef to family
@@thetruthrover Nobody lives free.