Wordless Wednesday: Hog Roast
Now this is a hog roast. These were roasted for Sierra Nevada’s Oktoberfest a few weeks ago.
Wordless Wednesday: An Ode to Mercedes
Meet Mercedes: Our Handtmann Sausage Stuffer (named Mercedes b/c well, she costs about as much) Dear Mercedes, Since we’ve purchased you, you’ve changed our lives. Many a sausage, salami, and pepperstick you’ve stuffed. Thank you for making our job easier,…
How to Process Your Deer
The first and foremost thing I cannot stress enough to hunters is this: your number one goal when hunting shouldn’t be to shoot the biggest deer or bag the trophy buck. Your number one goal should be this: keeping your…
Wordless Wednesday: Always Remember Where You Started…
Sometimes life takes over, it gets crazy, and you get buried underneath it all. Then you come across something like this and you remember where it was that you started. And how far along you’ve come… And for those of…
Meat Myths: Inspection, My Musings
Food safety is something that the public is becoming more and more concerned about now more than ever before. And USDA (FSIS) understands this as well as the people processing and making your food, specifically meat. But to make statements…
Where Does Bacon Come From? Cutting Up a Hog
Although pork is known as “the other white meat”, there is no denying America’s love affair with pork. It may be third in consumption under beef at number one and chicken making the rise to number two, but pork still…
Is Our Food Really Safe?
If you watch the news, you should probably be in fear every time you eat. Between E. coli, Listeria, and Salmonella the news media hypes up food born illness like never before and usually the meat industry is the scapegoat.…
Featured: Meat & Poultry
About a month ago, a long time family friend and retired staff member of the American Association of Meat Processors gave us a call and expressed interest in writing an article about our business and our family. Knowing that he…
Natural, Organic, Grass-fed…What’s the Difference?
As a consumer today, we are bombarded with all kinds of power words. Low fat, fat free, reduced fat, no trans fats, etc. But do you really know what they mean? Many terms used to describe our food aren’t exactly…