What size freezer do I need for a beef side?

hey there happy saturday to you it is cassie with blue silo beef here with another episode of farm store chat so here with blue silo beef together with my husband we are honored to grow beef to feed our neighbors in springfield missouri and the surrounding communities including ozark willard nixon republic and other communities here around springfield so tonight i'm doing things a little bit different so we are going to uh not do a farm store tour so if you are here and you are curious about what we have in stock check down in the comments i will have a little quick little video tour down in the comments and you can see everything that we have in stock so i will put that up at the end of this video you can find that just trying something different so if you like it this way let me know if you don't like it let me know um like i said trying something different but tonight i am here to talk to you about freezers so if you have been looking for a freezer if you've always wanted to get in on a beef site or anything like that but not known what kind of freezer to buy or how big your freezer should be we're going to cover all of that tonight because earlier this week i reached out to all of our 2020 customers and got a lot of people rebooked for this upcoming year and so now we're opening it up to um the rest of the public uh to be uh to be able to reserve those half and quarter beef and eighth beefs um for this upcoming year so with that being said um i got ian to hang me up a new chalkboard here what we do at blue silo beef is three different options and ate the beef a quarter of the beef and a half of beef and those are our beef sides and we do things a little bit different so if you have been one who has purchased from a farmer in the past we do a flat all-inclusive price we handle all the communication to the butcher we do all the pick-up delivery is included we pre-sort and package your order and the way that we handle it is we tell you how many of each cut you can expect and so that's what you saw up here is a quantity rather than a pound weight or a hanging weight so all of that information can be found at bluesilobeef.com side and i will put that link in the comments as well um we want to make it as easy as possible for you to be able to invest in your family because buying bulk beef like this isn't just about just buying a bunch cheap like that could be one benefit but what you're talking about is grocery shopping being easier and a little more simple your meal planning is already simplified because you start with what you have on hand and it also gives you the flexibility to entertain i know we're in covet times but just having extra family members over or you know more of a low-key birthday celebration anything like that when you have a brisket or if you have extra roast or ground beef you can do things like that to really enjoy your family and friends and neighbors and so that is definitely an added benefit for having a freezer full of beef so if you need a freezer well actually let's back up because i showed you the sizes eighth quarter half is what we do so we're going to kind of talk about those and i will show them up here again so and ate the beef essentially is a 50 pound bundle there's no substitutions on it a quarter of a beef comes in between 90 and 100 pounds you get some choices in terms of steaks you get some choices to customize it a little more to your family's liking half a beef comes in around 200 pounds you get more choices in terms of how your steaks are cut how big your roasts are you have the option to add in chorizo seasoning or mild italian seasoning and really customize it to fit your family's needs so those are the three that we offer and by far in a way the half beef um gives you the most options because you can even have like prime rib roast cut and some things like that that are really unique so the question then is how big of a freezer do i need so let's start with that there's essentially three different sizes of freezers um we're just going to call them small medium and large and we have a lot we have a lot of experience with freezers so you can see we have uprights and we have chests and so the first question might be do i do upright or do i do chest and here is my take on it i love chest freezers because we can pack them full i get the most storage capacity of my chest freezers and they keep things colder and i don't worry as much when the power goes out because um they keep things colder essentially so that is why we love chest freezers upright freezers are great if you need a smaller footprint or they're actually great to organize in so my chest freezers often are stuck full of beef to the top so organization isn't necessarily what we're looking for in these uh but if you are at home and you want to organize a chest or your standing freezer a little bit more you'll have doors and you can get some bins and whatnot to kind of be able to do that okay so if you're looking for an ate the beef the way that we put our eight together i'm sorry my arm's going numb here okay so our ate the beef can fit in a home freezer um essentially in the freezer compartment of your fridge you could fit the 50 pound ate the beef uh ate the beef can also fit in a small chest freezer so that would be about i think it's a five or a seven cubic foot chest freezer and it will be about halfway full i saw those at sam's recently for about 170 dollars the five five foot cubic chest freezer um now if you're looking for a quarter it would fill up that same small chest freezer it would fill it up almost to the brim and so you wouldn't have a lot of options for sorting or organizing within that freezer if you had one of this next size of freezer which is like a 12 ish 12 cubic foot chest freezer it would be about half full if you had a quarter giving you a lot more room to sort and organize now if you were looking for a half you would almost completely fill up one of these 12 cubic foot chest freezers it is possible but you're not leaving yourself with a ton of room and so what you would be better off not better off with but another option would be a 22 so if you've been in the farm store this solid topped one is a 22 cubic foot chest so that is a great option if you're doing a half or if you're even looking into a whole beef you definitely need this larger size to get off into a whole beef which is about 400 total retail pounds uh total pounds of retail cuts okay so that is kind of the quick and dirty breakdown of freezers chest versus upright depends on your size preference and the location you have in your house and then really a good size i believe if you can get about the 12 foot chest that gives you a lot of options you can get something as big as a half you can have something like a quarter and still have room in it to um fill with other things because let's be honest our freezers get full sometimes okay um so if you have any comments or questions about freezers leave me a comment down below i'll be checking those and i can give you a pretty quick little answer and if you are curious about more about us you can head to bluesilobeef.com if you wanted to know more about our sides and side pricing of course you can send me a message or you can go to bluesilobeef.com sides down below i will have a video for the farm store tour because we will be open to the public tomorrow which is sunday from 12 to 4. so if you're coming out and wonder what we have in stock that video will be down in the comments and let me know if you like it that way or if you like my like typical version so okay well that is all i have for you tonight thank you so much for joining me uh you can probably find me on wednesday i plan to be on giving you a breakdown of the delivery options that we have available for the upcoming week at our delivery locations and so until then my friends i hope you have a great saturday and we'll talk to you soon

Channel: Blue Silo Beef, Pork & Chicken

Views: 27,187

Keywords: springfield, missouri, local beef, eat local, beef farm, buy 1/2 cow, freezer, ozark, nixa, willard, republic

Id: AGvfTir7oTI

Length: 10min 20sec (620 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 17 2021