House of Raeford
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Chriselalto
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Raleigh pickup is today.
This is our first pickup from Raeford.
I can give a size update for anyone interested.
This is our first pickup from Raeford.
I can give a size update for anyone interested.
Empty your bladder before you go. The line is likely to be long.
Chriselalto
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Pickup went smooth, got there at 930 and they had already began. Took 30 minutes to get through the line.
Got home and began processing them into vacuum bags. How we did it.
Trimmed the fat and leftover cartilage, slice each breast in half down the middle. Package 2(4 total pieces) breasts into bags to vacuum.
2 leg quarters went into each bag.
After packaging the breasts, they came out to a weigh of about 2-2.06lbs each. Thats 2 full breasts in each bag.
I had about 10lbs of trimmings from 80 lbs. That was just taking the large pieces of skin and fat. I wasnt heavy with the knife in getting every last bit removed.
My wife would sometimes like to try and get chicken from local small farms, but the costs has gotten plain stupid. She was game for this purchase .
I'd say we would probably buy another lot again.
Got home and began processing them into vacuum bags. How we did it.
Trimmed the fat and leftover cartilage, slice each breast in half down the middle. Package 2(4 total pieces) breasts into bags to vacuum.
2 leg quarters went into each bag.
After packaging the breasts, they came out to a weigh of about 2-2.06lbs each. Thats 2 full breasts in each bag.
I had about 10lbs of trimmings from 80 lbs. That was just taking the large pieces of skin and fat. I wasnt heavy with the knife in getting every last bit removed.
My wife would sometimes like to try and get chicken from local small farms, but the costs has gotten plain stupid. She was game for this purchase .
I'd say we would probably buy another lot again.
Love their chicken, I might be the first one that posted on the board about it right after Covid became a thing. Over the past 3 years we have probably bought close to or over 1000 lbs of chicken from them, for the last 6-9 months they haven’t had a sale within an hour or so of me…sucks cause the chicken imo is much better than what you can buy in the grocery store.
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ronn47
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I'm hoping them come back to south Charlotte sometime.
The 120 lbs we got (2 families) is long gone.
We were there about the same time, got to the end of the line about 10:00am. This line was MUCH shorter than the last time we picked up. I believe it was an hour and a half in line the last time.
We only got 40lbs of wings for our super bowl party. Split them with a couple of friends.
We will likely do all our future chicken purchases this way. Great product, good price and well worth the PITA factor.
The closest to me is going to be Fayetteville.
It may not matter, because I'm picking up a 1/4 cow from you know who, tomorrow.
I'll probably not have freezer space for a significant amount of chicken.
I don't know who either 🤣
Wife is toying with the idea of buying a 1/4 or 1/2 cow. Does it actually save money vs grocery store? Or is the quality of meat just much better?
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Troy,
Looks like other people want to know about the secret handshake.
The beef is grass feed, I like it.
I got a 1/4 just for me, still have plenty, I need to fix it more often.
I quoted @ronn47 because he bought from the same group, but they got out of it. Well, they say they did, but all of a sudden, they had 1/4s available again. You can check out Spear T Cattle on FB. That's who I've been buying mine from, over the last couple of years.
As for the why, we've found there are savings, buying in bulk, but there is also a warm and fuzzy feeling of knowing where the beef came from.
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Got a new email with their latest schedule
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Still a 2 1/2 round trip drive for me, hope others are closer.
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Still a 2 1/2 round trip drive for me, hope others are closer.
I just picked up 160 lbs for 2 families Sunday from the pickup in Greenville SC, scheduled pickup for 3pm and there were maybe 3-4 cars ahead of me. Took maybe 8-10 minutes to pickup. Spent a couple hours vacuum sealing up everything. 8 tenders was anywhere from 1lb 6oz - 2 lb 2oz. Breasts still had rib meat on them, I cut the rib meat off for more tenders and cut breasts into each side and packed them up as a single breasts per small vacuum bag, anywhere from 9oz to 18 oz depending on how much extra breast meat I took with the rib/tenders. Great looking meat, will buy from again.
Chriselalto
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We are happy with it. For our small family 2 kids 8&6, the leg quarter box and breast box is worth it.
Because I travel frequently around, I can schedule out their sales in different parts of the state, wife said she will avoid buying chicken in store for now on.
Because I travel frequently around, I can schedule out their sales in different parts of the state, wife said she will avoid buying chicken in store for now on.