On Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:09:11 -0400, George >
wrote:

>Lou Decruss wrote:
>> On 21 Jun 2009 14:09:37 GMT, "Michael \"Dog3\""
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Lou Decruss >
>>> : in rec.food.cooking
>>>
>>>> Since I started grinding my own again I've not noticed a savings.
>>>> Just a drastic improvement in quality.
>>> I grind my own quite often. I'm fond of using chuck. I've never tracked
>>> the savings end but the taste of the burgers are better than the usual
>>> supermarket ground beef. Besides, I can control the fat content when I
>>> grind my own. Straub's is definitely not your usual supermarket. Not by
>>> any stretch. Their meat department is a butcher shop, not the assembly line
>>> set up most supermarkets utilize.
>>
>> I don't know about Straub's but I'm sure it's like several places here
>> that do the same. I can think of two that have a window to the back
>> and you can see them grind it for you. My question would be how often
>> the grinder gets cleaned. Once a day isn't enough.
>
>I have seen how my buddy operates their market and what my nephew told
>me how the large market he worked at operates. When they grind chuck or
>sirloin etc thats what they actually grind. Then they clean the grinder
>and run another batch when necessary. They also make great sausage too
>and its also done the same way. It isn't made from a pile of junk.

Don't tell sheldon someone does it right.

> There's a chain
>> in northern Illinois/southern Wisconsin called Woodmans. They were
>> advertising 5 pound tubes of ground beef dirt cheap. It was packaged
>> like breakfast sausage in a plant somewhere. There's no way I'd buy
>> that. But a place like Straub's or the one's I'm familiar with I'd
>> buy from. But I'd still rather grind my own.
>>
>> Lou
>Doesn't take much imagination to know thats were all of the trimmings
>and junk go.
>
>If you want to see disgusting there is a local plant that makes various
>packaged beef products. Their most popular being a "steakum" type
>product. My buddy owns a commercial refrigeration business and I get to
>see various locations where they may be working. The plant sells under
>its own brand and makes various other labels for big box. They use real
>beef to make their version. The big box version is made from big frozen
>cubes of "meat and meat by products" that they buy from somewhere. It
>has a weird pink color and doesn't really look like meat.

Ugggg..meat "by products" How nice.

Lou