slick4591
Well-known member
Didn't want to wreck the slaughter thread...
I've never eaten anything that I know of that was grass finished and I'm wondering just how much of a flavor difference there is between grass and grain finished beef? I understand there's a good market for grass fed and I may try and capitalize on it with my commercial animals.
A couple of years back we were getting a new floor installed by a husband and wife team. He saw some of my association magazines and we began talking cows. He was telling me that he had raised a number of steers through the years and had problems with the last two. He told me that both had a bad flavor and strong smell to them to the point they couldn't eat them, so he ended up throwing the meat away.
The conversation went on and he eventually told me that the fat was a yellow color, so I asked him how they were finished. He said that he decided to go with grass finished instead of grain since he had heard so many good things about it.
Now, my question would be did he just totally screw up the process of grass finishing or is this the way grass finished beef is?
I've never eaten anything that I know of that was grass finished and I'm wondering just how much of a flavor difference there is between grass and grain finished beef? I understand there's a good market for grass fed and I may try and capitalize on it with my commercial animals.
A couple of years back we were getting a new floor installed by a husband and wife team. He saw some of my association magazines and we began talking cows. He was telling me that he had raised a number of steers through the years and had problems with the last two. He told me that both had a bad flavor and strong smell to them to the point they couldn't eat them, so he ended up throwing the meat away.
The conversation went on and he eventually told me that the fat was a yellow color, so I asked him how they were finished. He said that he decided to go with grass finished instead of grain since he had heard so many good things about it.
Now, my question would be did he just totally screw up the process of grass finishing or is this the way grass finished beef is?