Beef Processing Services

Helpful Hints on Choosing Your Cuts of Beef:

To help you in choosing your cuts of beef! These are our standard cuts and the things you need to tell us about each. There are as many cuts of beef as people to imagine them. So, if you want something else done, please let us know. 

Brisket: whole or cut in half. There is one brisket on each 1/2 of beef.

Soup Bones: These are for you – not the dog. They are meaty. We will be glad to save you a few “dog bones” if you like.

Stew Meat – Standard is 4 or 5 1# packages per side

Arm and Chuck Roast are off the front and are more moist due to fat marble. Excellent for crock pots. Rump and Pikes Peak Roast are off the rear (boneless) and have good flavor but with less fat so be careful or you might dry them out by overcooking. You can make extra round steak or minutes from Rump and Pikes Peak or put it into your grind. We need to know what weight roast you need. We are glad to cut them very small or very large.

Rib Steak is on the bone. Ribeye is boneless. Same cut of meat. How thick do you want it and how many per package?

Same with T-Bone and KC Strip (from large side of T-Bone) and filets (small side of T-Bone). You may have either. How thick and how many per package? 

Ribs can be cleaned off and put into grind if you don’t want them.

Our Sirloin is deboned unless you request otherwise. How thick and how many pounds per package? If you don’t care for Sirloin Steak then you might want to try Sirloin Roast. You could get spoiled. 

Round steak can be tenderized or not. You need to choose how many pounds per package you would like. Minutes come from the same area, are about palm size and tenderized 4 or 5 times. How many per pack? You may have all rounds, all minutes, half and half, or whatever you will use. If you don’t like rounds and minutes it can all go into your ground beef.

We do make ground beef patties – quarter pounders or third pounders. Our standard is 4 to a package with papers between them but we can do more. If you are grilling – throw them on frozen and you will have better luck. They will cook fine and won’t fall through the grate like they would if you thaw them.

We can package your ground beef in 1#, 1½#, or 2# packages. We always aim for getting ground beef approximately 85/15. This allows for moisture and flavor without a lot of fat. If you want it extra lean we can try hard. About the best we can do on a good grain fed beef is 87 or 88% lean. A grass fed beef or young bull will be leaner than a grain fed beef, but you will be sacrificing some marbling and moisture in your steaks and roasts. 

If you have never done this before – relax – we will talk you through it.