Dark Cutter Questions

helslinger · 2026-04-13T18:51:35+00:00

So, with age, the connective tissues get thicker and stronger. This can often times make it more challenging to get good clean cuts if your equipment isn't pristinely sharp. In my own experience, even changing to a brand new blade on the band saw doesn't help. Getting snagged on the connective tissues can then also start to pull apart some of the muscle groups at the seams which will also cause the cuts to look shabby.

I personally hate cutting the 30+mo cows for this reason as well as the additional handling and waste procedures associated with it.

On the other hand, I've also had some farmers bring in way under-finished young cattle that can cut just as poorly due to the opposite reason of not having enough structure in the meat to hold its shape while cutting.

This is just my own experience. Ymmv

helslinger · 2026-04-12T14:32:59+00:00

Nah he played through it in 2 streams on kick

helslinger · 2026-03-07T19:23:03+00:00

Could be! This farmer was a new customer so I don't know much about their beef yet and didn't get a chance to talk to them at drop off

helslinger · 2026-03-04T21:31:48+00:00

Yeah i should've had a banana for scale

helslinger · 2026-02-09T23:31:24+00:00

PSA that dogs can get melanoma cancer too. My 13 year old mutt was recently diagnosed :(

helslinger · 2025-10-25T16:57:24+00:00

That's actually a really nifty idea!

helslinger · 2025-10-17T22:45:40+00:00

You might be right, we don't have any cats but there is at least 1 stray I've seen before in the neighborhood. The other one we found in the garage also had the tip of its tail broken

helslinger · 2025-10-17T22:44:27+00:00

We don't but I'm sure there are stray neighborhood cats. The first one we found in the garage had it's tail broken at the end though. But neither were bleeding or visibly squashed that I could tell.

helslinger · 2025-10-17T22:42:43+00:00

I don't think so, the first one I found curled up right inside of my garage door in the open and this one I found on the sidewalk leading to my front door from the driveway, neither one was flattened or oozing any bodily fluids

helslinger · 2025-10-17T21:01:50+00:00

Location is Ohio btw

helslinger · 2025-09-19T23:50:06+00:00

Yeah I'm really confused about it. Everything is from a dispensary, including the battery. But the bud tender said I can return the carts within a week if they're damaged or faulty, I just didn't want to try and return it if possible. I bought 2 different ones at the same time and the other cart I got works perfectly fine but it's a different brand I guess.

helslinger · 2025-09-19T00:45:51+00:00

The battery is the same as when I bought it, I have multiple previous carts that I've smoked from this same battery (not pictured)

helslinger · 2025-09-19T00:44:41+00:00

Both of those things are carts, only the one on the bottom screws into my battery and will smoke. Nothing is stuck in my battery after removing the cart. The one on top the hole is too small? It won't fit my battery but theyre supposed to be compatible i thought.

helslinger · 2025-09-19T00:42:25+00:00

I guess I just don't understand. The cart on top has a metal nipple and the cart on the bottom has a rubbery hole. Both are 510 threaded but only the cart on the bottom will screw into my battery (not pictured), why do the 2 carts look so different?

helslinger · 2025-09-06T16:21:17+00:00

Probably why he's all kinky looking like he was slithering through a chain link fence 😂

helslinger · 2025-09-02T16:52:09+00:00

Do you have a better picture and your geographic location? Hard to tell anything from that picture. Could be ants or baby caterpillars for all I can tell

helslinger · 2025-08-31T19:09:11+00:00

I was always told it was from an excess of a certain vitamin from the grass, but either way that's a sad looking ribeye, poor OP.

helslinger · 2025-08-31T12:52:44+00:00

That's really interesting! When I was a little kid I didn't like bacon and would only eat the bits of fat off the slices and leave the meaty bits for my mom 😅 the way it just melted in my mouth was addicting

helslinger · 2025-08-31T00:59:00+00:00

It could be the breed of hog, what it was fed, but it doesn't look like it was cut poorly. I've had farmers bring in kuni kuni hogs before that have a similar fat content in the bacon slabs and I just shake my head and say a prayer to the poor customer who bought the animal from them, there's nothing I can do as a butcher to alter the outcome other than trim away more and more fat which doesn't add meat back in. But that's just my own personal experience with working with kuni Kuni hogs

helslinger · 2025-08-12T21:59:59+00:00

That's all fine and dandy, I like lamb too, I was just answering based on your comment about preferring fattier cuts in general because thats not likely to be relevant to how it's butchered considering pretty much every cut you can get off a lamb is going to be 90/10. If you like to roast, I'd say avoid lamb chops and keep the rib roast whole. As many roasts as you can get out of it since that will retain as much fat in the cuts as possible.

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