Fresh Cut: 4 Meat Secrets from a Real Butcher 

I have over forty years in the retail meat business. Most of what this guy says is total Bullshit. Larger supermarket chains are much more food safety conscience than small privately owned butcher shops. Most of the issues he talks about happen in privately owned shops. How often do you see marked down meat in a privately owned meat shop? What happens to it? Could it be the steaks covered in marinade or seasoning? Do they turn unsold meats into ground meat? Larger chains cannot accept the risk of selling unsafe meats. They have policies in place that include termination of workers violating them. Small business owners are at a disadvantage when it comes to shrink or loss dollars. In a low margin business even a small dollar loss is a bigger percentage of the total sales. What’s in your meat purchase? Look at the label. The USDA states that ANY additives to a retail meat product be listed on the label. Organ meats, eye balls?, will be listed as an ingredient. I do agree with his point about cleanliness. Look under the displayed meat for a good indication of how often the display case is cleaned.

I have over 41 years in the concrete industry, I also watched a butcher show on AE and became an expert, and I am a registered vegetarian, and I can tell you that everything he said is 100% true.

This is still true today more than ever.

I can tell you as a butcher from Hyvee....we cut our meat fresh and if I don't think it's a good enough quality I'll toss it in the trash. I don't sell anything I wouldn't eat myself

very helpful video. Thanks

i work at a super market in canada and we dont add blood in our ground meat. it's fresh everyday.

As a butcher, I must say everything he said is true. As a butcher who has worked for three major meat companies, I have never seen this. As a butcher, my respect rechtub talking smack selling your product. Show these tnucs how its done.

People pay top dollar for "aged" beef that hangs in a meat locker until it has penicillin growth. Three weeks or more. The penicillin is then trimmed and ready to cook. The reason for this is that the meat is breaking down and tenderizing itself over time.

I say #4 about a lot of things in our society.

Maybe this guy does this crap but out of the three markets I've worked in, two supermarkets and an independent butcher shop. None of them have done any of this!! Now everybody is going to think every shop is like this, good job buddy. Fuck over everybody else's business just so yours can have a jumpstart.

It's even better if the beef is raised and fed correctly before it gets to the butcher makes a world of difference if it's been put on a good feed program. It's actually cheaper to raise one that way you know what you and your family are eating. Then find a good butcher make sure it hangs for at least 21 days. All your Prime Cuts dry aged even longer. Then it's all on you not to mess it up when you cook it and you will appreciate it that much more

There's nothing wrong with cow's tongue meat... actually it's a delicacy.

Its on the tv so it must b true...piss poor journalism

The age of the cow also matters unfortunately we do not have enough regulations on meat but I get it mah freedom

This guy is an apprentice!

Some Farmers are selling Directly to Consumers Cut out Middle Man.

Wait?! So everytime a customer wants ground beef I gotta make it fresh in front of them?

I've been hunting for a good butcher in the san jose,ca area for a while now

As someone who works in a grocery chain as a butcher for 4 years even one of these things he said people do would get you fired on the spot I haven't even heard of half of this nonsense that he came up with. Redating product is a fireable offense if caught and proven. He is simply trying to get people to come into his shop and I get it, but don't peddle bullshit then tell me to buy from you.

My grandfather was a German butcher, he drank a cup of fresh blood every day. You should know beef doesn't need to be bright red to be good.

buying half or the whole cow will get you the best deal and you know whats in your burger!

None of this is dangerous.

Number one thing customers see is the color of the meat, that's why we have to use meat paper especially for steaks , otherwise it'd look brownish

The pipe fitter-awards & the village people

Wow

I am butcher I now this cutting do. You have any wark for me

You're actually more likely to be taken advantage of at a local butchers shop than a grocery store. Bigger grocery stores (not supermarkets) have strict standards and policies to follow and people who check to withhold those standards because a lawsuit or a bad review will affect everyone top to bottom. Little local shops can and will get away with murder and charge extra for it. That doesn't mean humans won't be humans in stores it's just far less likely as the consequences are greater for each individual involved.

your all talking about the dude.. but no date labeling?? 0:53 WHAT THE FUCK?? that is crazy..

This guy knows nothing he's star struck

He knows because he used to do those things.

Great vid. Anything I don't butcher myself or have done at a shop, I don't eat. I won't serve my kids or even dogs that prepackaged crap.

good luck !!!!

Walmart < if it's brown mark in down.

The pipe-fitter awards & the village people

This guy is completely full of s*** I've worked in grocery stores in three states in the West Coast and I have never seen any of this done!!!!! The only thing shady I have ever seen done is people seasoning darker colored Stakes or adding a couple days to something that still looks good which I completely do not agree with

that voice crack tho

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Meat glue is banned in the United States same with mixing blood in with meat

Most Chain food Groceries stores have Pre Season Meats folks in Hood dont Buy it.

Rancid death smell? Has he ever opened up a shortloin? It usually goes away in the cooler after a few minutes. Noob

clearly he lacks experience in the field or he would not recommend asking to have beef ground personally as a professional courtesy in a store that sells 200+ pounds of ground beef each day it would be ridiculous to grind for even a quarter of the customers individually

Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying , Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. But he answered and said unto them, why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded saying, “honor thy father and thy mother” and He that curse the father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, it is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightiest be profited by me; and honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. He hypocrites, well did esaias prophesy of you, saying This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. And he called the multitude , and said unto them, hear and understand: not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which comets out of the mouth; this defileth a man. Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended , after they heard this saying? But he answered and said , Every plant which my Heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted up. Let them alone; they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. Then answered Peter and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the drought? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man; but to eat with unwashed hands define the not a man. Then Jesus went thence, and departed into the coasts of Tyre and Sidon. And behold, a woman of Canaan came out of the same coasts, and cried unto him, saying, Have mercy on me, O Lord, thou son of David; my daughter is grievously vexed with a devil. But he answered her not a word. And his disciples came and be sought him, saying Send her away for she crime the after us. But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Then came she and worshipped him, saying, Lord help me. But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it to dogs. And she said, Truth, Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their master’s table. Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman Great is thy faith; be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour. And Jesus departed from thence, and came nigh unto the Sea of Galilee; and went up into a mountain, and sat down there. And great multitudes came unto him, having with them those that were lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and cast them down at Jesus’s feet; and he healed them. Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see; and they glorified the God of Israel. Then Jesus called his disciples unto him, and said I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat; and I will not send them away fasting , lest they faint in the way. And his disciples ay unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, seven and a few little fishes. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And he took the seven loaves, and the fishes, and gave thanks , and brake them, and gave to his disciples,a nd the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled; and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.l And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children. And he sent away the multitude, and took ship , and came into the coasts of magdala.

Right ON :)

What a good butcher would say is look for a USDA approved of it has that then you can trust it

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This narrator has the harshest fucking voice I’ve ever heard.

This guy seems to be trying to pull one over. I'd like to hear from a better butcher

As a new butcher, honestly I'm very much " WHat the fuck, what is the US smoking". If you did any of this shit you should be fired, even as am in Canada, I've never heard of this shit. Horrifying and degusting

Seriously, "Gypped?" Very offensive.

because people don't buy slightly old but edible meat, so butchers think of ways, supply demand folks

Of course he is going to exaggerate he is advertising for his own business.

Is dis in az

This guy basically said a dairy cow can't be hamburger? I dont think he knows what he's talking sbout

Takes care of them meat thieves that steal over $300 in one go and then leave $200 on a warm shelf then get thrown away later.

That's why I hunt my own meat. Deer, elk, bison, ducks and cougars.

Bad video nobody in any respectable grocery store puts red dye on there meat to keep it red.

The reporter is a little over enthusiastic about just talking about meat.

The List need to verify facts before putting out this type of content.

I want to go vegan! Now.💯🙈

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Why is this guy crapping all over his own industry? Half of these ‘tricks’ are bull, only meat glue (transglutaminase) is something I’ve actually seen, its not bad for you and it’s application was mainly to make whole eye fillets keep a shape for bacon Mignons. This guy is throwing shade at his whole industry at a poor attempt for boosted revenue. I mean look at the porterhouse at 2:44!!! Guys a hack.

fool me

You lost all credibility when you referred to it as “blood”. It’s myoglobin

guy has the exact same name as me lol

And styrofoam and plastic is most definitely not good for us, I will never buy meat from a mainstream supermarket chain again, boi I been wrong all these years!!

This why I don't eat meat no more because things like this

Live in Europe everything is regulated

This is why I dont eat meat....also cruelty to animals, Two good reasons.

and politicans wondered why EU citizens did not want TTIP ^^ ...well perhaps they did not but were payed off.

The narrator is cringy af

Disgusting

That butcher is fine!!!!

Easy solution to these problems. Just stop eating dead bodies. **shrug**