You're wrong 

No I am Not.  Do NOT waste my money on flash frozen who knows where came from ?Meat?

We generally delve into burgers at a local Ice Cream and Deli shop here, nothing better than Local Fresh Beef.  Have several shops that specialize in butchering and smoking meat so they are go to for other type sandwiches.  On the Road we do NOT use FF, find a REAL Food Shop.

Thank you for an informative reply Wayne !! Sadly, is a guinea in the poultry family  ??

Shame, is there a Hardees /Carl Jr's ?  We have several "here" and they both suck 

Hardee's Original Angus Burger is up there also but my local Hardee's closes at 2:00pm due to staffing issues, I get off work at 4:30. Burger King's Whopper tastes good at first but a 1/2 hour later I am burping/belching up the "Flame Broiled" taste.

Hardee's Original Angus Burger is up there also but my local Hardee's closes at 2:00pm due to staffing issues, I get off work at 4:30. Bugger King's Whopper tastes good at first but a 1/2 hour later I am burping/belching up the "Flame Broiled" taste.

A co worker loves the BK whopper, but it exits him in a different manner within 2 hours 

Best one I ever had was in a local bowling alley.

Buy one from a local farmer. Would last us a year. $1000 total. That was when it was cost effective. Not so much anymore. Bought a half a beef at the start of covid. $2200 and that was a good price.

No more steaks now. Buy burger in bulk and package it myself.

Eat more chicken and pork on sale.

Smoked a pork shoulder last weekend. Been 10 years since I did that. I still have the touch seems from what the wife said.

Beer can chicken was my specialty when we raised meat birds.

Fixer, holy crap, somebody bent you over for that half beef.  We should plan on meeting half way this winter, you could pay for the $5 gas and still come out ahead.  Me and the other beef guys around here haven't jacked up the price NEAR that amount.  Heck, I'd even buy lunch and a beverage of you choosing.

I did split it up so the grown kids would have some anyway.

The way it was, it's done.

Only wife and I these days, seems cousins, Nieces and nephews cannot get out to visit for a meal and BS time so we just do not buy much these days.  1/4 will last us near to a year, 1/4 hog same and six to eight whole processed chickens(Local Grower too) six to seven months as we thaw and cut up later.

As for taste, well, I followed up with on of the last guys, since he was a former customer and hadn't ordered in a few years.  "Just had a porterhouse you could eat without teeth, and the burger is awesome.  Don't know why I ever quit getting your meat."

We've had HUNDREDS of family cookouts over the decades with frozen beef patties from multiple sources, ALL of them were great burgers  !! 

Your numbers don't add up in any sense.

First of all, 200 pounds of meat out of a quarter would be an ENORMOUS steer.  You get about 60% hoof to hanging, another 60% hanging to packaged.  These are "rule-of-thumb" numbers that stand the test of time.  So, let's back figure that.  200 lbs / .6 = 333 pound hanging quarter.  333 lbs x 4 =1333 pound hanging whole critter.  1333 / .6 = 2222 pound critter on the hoof.  So, unless your farmer is butchering mature bulls for beef....

Then, 200 pounds x $1.25 per pound = $250, but you said $650?

So I'm lost.  You probably get charged for 200 pounds, but 200 pounds hanging weight, approximately 120 pounds in the package.  That's about a perfect size animal to butcher.  

As for your price, well, I've had a few customers tell me I'm an idiot for charging "only" $2.65 per pound hanging weight, that I could get a lot more.  So if true, I guess your farmer is 2x the idiot I am.  No offense, just sayin'!

How do you know WHAT we get from the FF places? They ALL offer salads and Wendys has an AWESOME chili 

You guys "ASSUME" too much and it makes an A$^ of you 

$1.25 per pound for live weight is about right usually.

Now, 1/4 of that in the freezer is 1500/4 x.6 x.6 = 135 pounds of meat.

$1.25 x 1500/4 = $470 approximately.  $470/135 pounds of meat in the freezer = $3.47 per pound.  You're getting a decent deal.

No way in H E double hockey sticks you're getting 200 pounds of meat in a quarter of a 1500 pound steer, it just don't work that way.  That's your hanging weight, probably what the butcher is basing his cost on.  $650 - $470 = $180.  $180 /200 pounds = $0.90 per pound for kill/cut/wrap.  That's pretty high, but believable.  If this is the case, then $650 / 135 pounds in the freezer is $4.81 per pound.  That's a little higher than what my sales work out to be, but very much in the ballpark.

Unless you're talking about some of those boneless buffalo wings

Your too cheap Tbone.. raise you price $.50  !!

Ok, he packs it himself.  But if you're going to compare your costs to buying it elsewhere, you should still do it on a packaged basis.  You lose another portion when you go from hanging to packages, you keep about 60%.  More or less depending on what all you take, like soup bones, short ribs, how much fat you use, etc.  So take that 225, x 60%, = 135 pounds packaged meat.  $650 / 135 = $4.81.

$$$/pounds in the freezer is the only way to compare apples to apples.

And yeah, I'm too cheap!  

The wrong assumption most of us keep making is you our a SOMEWHAT NORMAL human.  But your  questions do keep it interesting.

You keep telling us what good FF you had. So no assumption on our part.  I guess thinking you not lying is an assumption, so you lying to us? 

Now he says " you assume to much"... maybe i am eating salad and chili !!  

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 I think his main goal in life is to piss off as many people as possible.... but i DO enjoy the posts.... You cant PAY for his kind of entertainment !!  

YES !!!

The wrong assumption most of us keep making is you our a SOMEWHAT NORMAL human.  But your  questions do keep it interesting.

You keep telling us what good FF you had. So no assumption on our part.  I guess thinking you not lying is an assumption, so you lying to us? 

How am I lying ? The salad comment is just my observation on the menu, the Wendys chili I HAVE had and it's AWESOME !!!

The conscious from you guys is that ALL FF is "BAD", IMO, it's not

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I DID NOT SAY YOU WHERE LYING.  I said I used what you have told us of buying burgers and fries, fishy sandwiches, and other delectable delights of the FF industry. But if you are not partaking of FF then you lied to the people here.  

I have never read a nutrition expert say FF is good nutrition. They also like to fool people and some of the salads end up being super high calories. A classic of that is the Taco Bell salad in the eatable torta bowl.

Have a good time deciding which burger joint to give your money to tonight as you wife is on a budget. According to your own words. Oh if you want to eat cheaper and better food (less of the ingredients you cannot pronounce) bulk rice and beans will keep you going a long time real cheap.