Buffao meat from South Dakota (Hot Springs, Buffalo: to buy, restaurant, prices)
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Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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I've always loved buffalo meat. I hadn't eaten it often as I had seen it as too expensive. In recent years I just don't stomach or digest beef and other questionable meat quality from the supermarket with all the additives and who knows what kind of industrial farm exposure. I found a ranch in South Dakota that I have buffalo meat shipped to me here in New Mexico. I LOVE IT! They butcher in several different ways that I can have a variety of different meals with each shipment. Grass fed Buffalo meat is so much easier to digest and it's quite tasty. This is where I have ordered it from.
Is buffalo a very integral part of the diet in South Dakota? Is it too expensive for many? It is expensive and I consider it a blessing to have found it though, I've just been eating better lately.
There are some places to get buffalo. IMO it is a yuppie thing more than anything. However, I do order buffalo if the chance arrives. Usually it's a couple dollars more in a restaurant.
I had my fill of buffalo as a kid. My dad thought it was a good idea of buy a couple and run on the ranch. The only good thing was we got good at fixing fence.
Buffalo meat is about twice the price of beef at our local meat market in Hot Springs, however I had information from the internet [I have since lost the website] that indicated buffalo meat had about 3 times the protien as beef and nearly no cholesteral. I eat ground buffalo instead of beef all the time, but I still prefer a beef steak or roast over buffalo. The buffalo tends to be drier than beef which is O K in spanish rice or a pasta dish, but [imho] it tends to be a bit hard to chew in the unground form.
FWIW, venison and elk meat probably have characteristics to buffalo meat.
Buffalo is a lot more lean. Remember the song lyric, "where the buffalo roam"??? Buffalo walk constantly while eating, more so than cattle. Buy a bigger freezer and get others to buy in. We just got one from a ranch near Gillette Wyoming and it run $3. a pound, all said and done.
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Originally Posted by ElkHunter
Buffalo is a lot more lean. Remember the song lyric, "where the buffalo roam"??? Buffalo walk constantly while eating, more so than cattle. Buy a bigger freezer and get others to buy in. We just got one from a ranch near Gillette Wyoming and it run $3. a pound, all said and done.
Wow, $3 a pound?!?!? I'd make drive up I-25 to Wyoming and go pick some up myself at that price, I'd definitely get a second freezer for that kind of investment. I'm hooked on buffalo now, probably for life. I like lean, ground buffalo is great for a spaghetti bolognaise dinner. I also make burritos stuffed with chopped buffalo skirt steak, asadero cheese, pinto beans, and green chiles.
Western buffalo company in Rapid city sells ground for $6.00 a pound.
Pick it up at the ranch, have a butcher standing by and it is half that price. If you catch the buffalo hunt in Gillette, tags are $500 and shoot it yourself,
We paid $7.29 per pound for ground Buffalo at the Black Hills Meat Market in Hot Springs the last time we bought some. We have paid as low as $5.98 per pound. A[[arently Buffalo has gone up with the price of beef.
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