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34 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 27 Apr \ on: Carnivore hack: how to buy meat without spending a fortune HealthAndFitness
When I was doing carnivore back when we lived in California, this is exactly what we'd do. Our local Safeway was the best source of deals. They also only stocked choice grade meat, which was the grade we preferred.
We'd request entire sides of ribeye or strip from the butcher, still in the package they receive before cutting it into steaks, when it was on sale and freeze them whole. They'd look at us like we were crazy at first but eventually got used to it. During Ramadan, they'd have 10 pound tubes of ground beef for a $1.99 so we'd buy those. When t-bones or porterhouses were on sale, we'd stock up on those too. We'd also get pork shoulders or spare ribs when they were on sale.
We had a pretty small chest freezer, but it was enough. Nothing would stay frozen too long and we didn't notice a difference between frozen or not.
These days, even though I lack the discipline to do carnivore these days, we still buy whole sides of ribeye from costco for meat for the week.
So you'd freeze the sides of ribeye whole, and then I guess you have to thaw and then cook them as a big roast?
I'm definitely no expert on cooking the big roasts, I just have memories of Christmas dinners, where my mother-in-law would stress about everything.
The temperature of the oven, exactly how long to leave it in and then let it rest, and all the different meat thermometers, which ones are accurate and which ones are not. It seemed like it was tough to get right.
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Oh no, we’d cut them into steaks ourselves by hand as we wanted them and store the rest of it whole in the fridge in the original package (one end is cut open but we’d roll it on itself and clip it like a bag of chips). It keeps well for a couple weeks like that which I learned having done some wet and dry aging experiments with whole sides in the past.
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Ah, okay, that makes sense. I'm learning that meat actually keeps pretty well in the fridge.
I've actually had really good experiences (on a car camping trip) with having pre-cooked ground beef patties just in a cooler. They lasted for about 3 or 4 days, even though the ice had melted.
I deliberately keep on eating these beef patties past the point of where more cautious people would have stopped because they may have gone bad. I think it was on the 4th morning, after eating it, I did get some diarrhea, nothing too serious but enough that I stopped eating them.
I'll write up a post soon about another method of having great meat, without needing refrigeration - shawarma.
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