ORIGINAL: teedub31
ORIGINAL: NavyDeerHunter
It's not that I "don't trust" anyone else as much as it is that I really enjoy the entire experience of "from field to table". The first deer I killed in MD I took to the butcher because I lived in a townhouse and did not have a big enough area to cut it up. I wanted some summer sausage made and he told me it would be awhile because he would send mine in with other folks and it would all be processed togeter...meaning I would get a mix of mine and other peoples meat back. NO THANK YOU! Plus, I am certain that the care I take in processing my own yields me more meat. I do steaks, roasts, burger, jerky, breakfast sausage, summer sausage and will begin to do snack sticks as well. I like the fact that I do it all myself.
You misunderstood what he meant by processing them all together. You would not get a mix of meat (I believe there are legal issue with that). What he was saying is that when doing sausage, he will wait until he can fill the smoker full (your order plus other order) before smoking sausage. He aint mixing everyones meat into a common mix and stuffing casings as needed.
No, I did not misunderstand at all...I specifically asked if my meat would be mixed with others or just smoked with others. It was clear that it would be mixed.