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Whether you call it a meat shop or a butcher’s shop, this type of specialty store has been a mainstay in most towns throughout the west for centuries. The classic butcher’s shop is where people go not only to buy specialty cuts of meat for special occasions, but also where the best meat is sold.
With a butcher, you’re getting the expertise and skill needed to give you the best bang for your buck. When you shop at a supermarket, for instance, or off the back of one of those freezer trucks, you’re just not getting quality or pricing options that are as good.
Negatives of Shopping Outside of a Butcher’s Shop
1: Lower Quality
Supermarkets and those freezer trucks are all about quantity, not quality. The grade of their products is automatically going to be lower. When you pick up meat from these locations, you’re dealing with meat that’s older, tougher, and while you might think you’re saving money, you’re really just sacrificing quality.
2: Fewer Options
Outside of a butcher’s shop, you’ll find plenty of options for beef, chicken and pork, but that’s about it. A butcher’s also provides you with duck, quail, lamb, and a variety of other meats. You also get better cuts, like crown roasts, rib roasts, Frenching, and other options that only locations like Boutique Meats Best Butcher can provide.
3: Freshness in Question
How long has that meat has been on the shelves at the supermarket? Probably for a long longer than at the butcher’s. At the butchers’ shop, the animal carcass is freshly separated to order. And when it comes to those freezer trucks, you might be dealing with meat that’s been frozen for a year or more. Only a butcher’s shop can provide you with meat that’s as fresh as possible.
4: Less Taste
Supermarkets and those freezer trucks get discounted, factory-farmed meats, where the animals are kept in cages, fed the cheapest feed, and are just pushed through a production line. Butchers’ shops typically deal in free-range animals that enjoy better diets. This means food that ends up tasting a lot better. Anyone can tell the difference between, say, a store-bought frozen chicken and a fresh, free-range chicken from a butcher’s.
5: No Trust
Butchers’ shops are smaller and more local and they deal with local farms. Supporting your local shops means you’re supporting local farmers, so that in itself is a huge benefit. Though there’s also trust there. Who at the supermarket knows your name? Do you know their names? At the butcher’s, you know who’s cutting your meat. There’s trust there. Even in something as seemingly simple as labeling cuts of meat, supermarkets and freezer trucks will mislabel things as loin, porterhouse, etc, and use cheaper cuts to make a buck. Butchers’ shops just have more trust there.
Take Pride in What You Eat
Most people out there shopping are feeding not only themselves but also their families. It’s understandable that you might want to save some money, and so the supermarket and/or freezer truck seems like a good deal on its face. But you should also take pride in what you eat, and feed yourself and your family food that you know is tasty, safe and comes from reputable sources. With supermarkets, you can never tell how fresh the meat is, or even if it’s quality or not. It’s even worse with those freezer trucks that deliver meat to your door. You have no clue how long that stuff’s been frozen. You also have no clue how deeply the meat has been discounted before it made its way to you.
So the next time you have to purchase meat for you and your family, make sure you take the pride and care necessary to purchase meat that’s of a higher quality. A butcher’s meat is fresher, cleaner, safer, better tasting, and you’re going to save more in the long run and be much better off.
The Only Way to Eat
There’s a reason butchers’ shops have been around for centuries. For canned goods and bread and milk, the supermarkets are great places to shop. Though when you want quality meats that taste better and are better for you, it’s time to shop with a butcher.
I am Bhagwati Suthar, Founder of Jobiba & TezLife.com. I am a Blogger, Affiliate Marketer and a Digital Marketer from Udaipur, India. At JobibaBlog, We share articles about Blogging, Marketing & Advertising, Business and Tech Tips.
