New to this site I was going through past posts and read something about shelf life of meat in cryovac bags. Not sure if it is of interest but there is plenty of chilled beef coming into the USA from Australia with a 12 week guarantee. Some guys even push it over 100 days, lamb too. I am curious why the USA packers only get nervous at 40 days.
New to this site I was going through past posts and read something about shelf life of meat in cryovac bags. Not sure if it is of interest but there is plenty of chilled beef coming into the USA from Australia with a 12 week guarantee. Some guys even push it over 100 days, lamb too. I am curious why the USA packers only get nervous at 40 days.
Welcome to Meat Cutters Club Peter. What type of market do you work in?
There's a brand called Open Nature that's sold in USA. It's beef from Australia. Sometimes it's pretty old, and once opened, turns bad quickly.
I'm in sales so I am not sure if i'm welcome in this forum. I work for a small USDA shop selling meat into the restaurant trade and know enough about butchery to sell the points of difference of my guys workmanship against the competition. I work with some good salt of the earth people and if I pick up knowledge that I can share with them it makes being on this site good for us. I have seen the Open Nature in Safeway stores. It is merchandised in the packaging from the Australian plant so color is less of an issue because the typical consumer will use it the same day they open it.
I'm in sales so I am not sure if i'm welcome in this forum. I work for a small USDA shop selling meat into the restaurant trade and know enough about butchery to sell the points of difference of my guys workmanship against the competition. I work with some good salt of the earth people and if I pick up knowledge that I can share with them it makes being on this site good for us. I have seen the Open Nature in Safeway stores. It is merchandised in the packaging from the Australian plant so color is less of an issue because the typical consumer will use it the same day they open it.
I agree with fdarn, I'm sure there's a lot of interesting things you can contribute to meat cutters club.
I'm not a Safeway employee, but I work there about 30 days per year on my day off from my full time job at a different store. I'll be working at Safeway today btw.
It's true that a lot of Safeway's Open Nature beef and lamb is case ready and they just open the box and put a price tag on it, but they still open and cut a lot of it for the counter. Chucks, top round, top loin (aka New York), top sirloin, rib eye, lamb loin and shoulder. It's displayed in both the full and self service cases.
