Buffao meat from South Dakota (Hot Springs, Buffalo: to buy, restaurant, prices)

[Champ le monstre du lac]

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.

Grass fed buffalo meat - Wild Idea Buffalo Company

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.

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[SD4020]

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.

[uncleharley]

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.

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[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.

[Champ le monstre du lac]

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.

[uncleharley]

$3.00 per pound is a pretty good price. Stuffed green peppers is another favorite for buffalo meat.

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[kotz]

Western buffalo company in Rapid city sells ground for $6.00 a pound.

[ElkHunter]

Originally Posted by kotz

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,

[attrapereves]

Good prices. Walmart and most grocery stores sell it in cryovac sealed packs for $8-10/lb. I only ever use it to make chili or sometimes burgers.

[uncleharley]

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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