23 июн. 2018 г. · Find out some butchers' best tips when it comes to buying meat, including their most essential piece of advice (page 10).
What do butchers do with leftover meat?
Butcher shops and meat departments can sell (for a very low price) their bones, fat, and other inedible meat scraps to rendering companies that will turn the unwanted waste into proteins for pet food and other industrial uses. This is circle-of-life stuff; the kind that maybe you don't want to know about.
How long do butchers keep meat?
Sausages, mince, diced meat, chicken pieces approximately 2 days. Whole chicken, steaks, roasts (boned and rolled) approximately 2-3 days. Roasts (bone in) 2-3 days. Roasts (bone out) 3-4 days.
What happens to meat that is not sold?
A portion of it is inevitably thrown into the garbage and ends up in landfills. But a surprisingly amount of it finds a second home. Some is given away to food banks, some sold to salvage stores, and the rest taken by people who scrounge outside supermarkets.
Do butchers get the whole animal?
Some restaurants buy all the pieces after they've been cut by a trusted butcher. Many places instead buy a surplus of popular cuts for most of their meals, but do some entrees as whole animals or special events, such as whole pig roasts.
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