RE: Questions to ask meat processors/butchers
my wife and I do our own.it got so exspencive that I spent the $$$$ and got a meat grinder.I cut small (steaks) fry meat from the backstrap,or madallions some people call them.then I cut madellions from a couple of the round sections from the hams.(if you bone the hams,you will see three different musceles that are good to slice for fry meat.
All the rest we grind into burger for chillie,spegittie(sp) hamburgers and anything you use hamburger for.I add about 10% beef fat to the burger.
Iorder game bags for the burger ,it goes right into the bags as I grind it.then the fry meat goes into ziplock then freezer wrap .