Munchkin
Full of Fairy Dust
You all know I am cheap. So why am I telling you about an expensive product? Because it was so darn good I don't think I can go back to buying at the store.
Here's the why. I have been disappointed in hamburger from almost all the local stores. Seems like you start out with a pound and end up with not a whole lot left after you cook it. Seriously, I think it's that pink slime stuff that cooks away to nothing. And hamburger is mighty expensive if you have to buy 2 pounds for a 1 pound recipe because it all cooks away.
So I decided to try Zaycon foods hamburger. I had read lots of good reviews. They use no pink slime and it's from cows that were alive just a couple days ago. No hormones, grass fed, and all that other happy stuff. Never frozen. You have to buy at least one 'unit' and that's 40lbs packed in long plastic 10lb tubes. And it was $139.00. Not cheap. Plus I had to get some good quality freezer bags.
I bought it on their website and was told I would get an email telling me where and when to pick it up. I did get the mail giving me a date, a location(church parking lot), and a 30 minute window for pickup. I had just enough time to work on the necessary real estate in the freezer. I showed up on the appointed day and time and there was a guy with a rental truck in the parking lot with my meat. Strange but true!
Anyway the meat was amazing. It smelled and looked so good I even tried some raw. And a pound cooks up to the volume a pound of ground beef should have. It's like the ground beef your grandma used to buy from a real butcher. 40lbs of hamburger that is really 40lbs of hamburger. I can rationalize buying again because I no longer have to use 2lbs ground beef for a 1lb recipe. And OMG the Sloppy Joe's are the best!
If you want to try it just google Zaycon Foods. They have a lot of products and I haven't heard anything negative at all. The ground beef is the only one I have tried so far. I keep hoping they will start selling chicken thighs!
Here's the why. I have been disappointed in hamburger from almost all the local stores. Seems like you start out with a pound and end up with not a whole lot left after you cook it. Seriously, I think it's that pink slime stuff that cooks away to nothing. And hamburger is mighty expensive if you have to buy 2 pounds for a 1 pound recipe because it all cooks away.
So I decided to try Zaycon foods hamburger. I had read lots of good reviews. They use no pink slime and it's from cows that were alive just a couple days ago. No hormones, grass fed, and all that other happy stuff. Never frozen. You have to buy at least one 'unit' and that's 40lbs packed in long plastic 10lb tubes. And it was $139.00. Not cheap. Plus I had to get some good quality freezer bags.
I bought it on their website and was told I would get an email telling me where and when to pick it up. I did get the mail giving me a date, a location(church parking lot), and a 30 minute window for pickup. I had just enough time to work on the necessary real estate in the freezer. I showed up on the appointed day and time and there was a guy with a rental truck in the parking lot with my meat. Strange but true!
Anyway the meat was amazing. It smelled and looked so good I even tried some raw. And a pound cooks up to the volume a pound of ground beef should have. It's like the ground beef your grandma used to buy from a real butcher. 40lbs of hamburger that is really 40lbs of hamburger. I can rationalize buying again because I no longer have to use 2lbs ground beef for a 1lb recipe. And OMG the Sloppy Joe's are the best!
If you want to try it just google Zaycon Foods. They have a lot of products and I haven't heard anything negative at all. The ground beef is the only one I have tried so far. I keep hoping they will start selling chicken thighs!