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Do you ever find yourself disappointed when shopping for meat at your local supermarket? Are you increasingly frustrated by the prevalence of average – or even low-quality – cuts of meat, being sold at unreasonable prices? Sick of travellingl further afield to buy high-quality meat from a professional butcher, only to pay an arm and a leg for it?
When it comes to buying our meat – whether you’re looking for steak, chicken, pork, turkey or perhaps some meaty sausages like the ones pictured above – these are problems we encounter on a regular basis. This needn’t be the case, however. Nowadays, you can buy meat online and have premium cuts delivered right to your door, all for a rather reasonable price.
In this post, we’ll hear experts from The Dorset Meat Company highlight the benefits of buying meat online.
5 Reasons to Buy Meat Online
Quality
One of the key benefits of buying meat online is being able to access high-quality produce that tastes exceptionally good. There’s a noticeable difference in quality between supermarket-bought meat and that which you’d happily eat in a restaurant. By ordering your meat from an online butcher, you can enjoy restaurant-quality cuts of meat at home. Buying meat online means you’re guaranteed to receive the freshest and finest meat, sourced from small farms with high standards of production. Usually, high-quality meat has a deeper flavour and offers a fuller taste experience.
Convenience
Buying your meat online means shopping for the produce you need, whenever and wherever you like. With no opening hours to contend with, you can easily fit your shopping around your schedule, avoiding frantic trips to the supermarket before or after work. You’ll have no trouble finding exactly what you’re looking for either, with a huge range of meats to choose from. Unlike supermarkets, which usually only sell a limited range of best-selling meats, online butchers have a great selection of speciality cuts and will also be able to offer less commonly found meats, like goat and wild game like pheasant, duck and game mince.
Quick delivery
As if shopping with online butchers wasn’t convenient enough, buying meat online also means having the products you’ve ordered delivered directly to your door. When you buy meat online, you’ll be given a range of delivery timeframes and options to choose from, with meat being dispatched in temperature-controlled packaging to keep the contents chilled and fresh.
Value for money
You may think buying high-quality cuts of meat online is going to cost you a small fortune, but prices are in fact very competitive with supermarkets and high street butchers. For a similar price, you’ll notice a huge difference in the quality and taste of the meat you buy, making purchasing from online butchers great value for money.
Online butchers are able to offer their customers great prices because you’re effectively cutting out the middleman by shopping with them, as their supply chains are often much shorter than that of a supermarket. They also have fewer overheads than brick-and-mortar butchers’ shops and are able to pass these savings on to their customers.
Transparency
One final reason to consider buying meat online is that most online butchers are very transparent and open with customers about how they do things and where the meat you’re buying has come from. By working with small local farms, online butchers can be confident that the meat they’re providing has been sustainably and ethically produced (using all the necessary meat testing equipment) with grass-fed and outdoor-reared animals that have led happy, healthy lives.
There have been multiple high-profile cases of food fraud linked to supermarkets in recent years, which has raised questions around the authenticity and traceability of meat. If you want to have total confidence in the provenance of the meat you’re buying, shopping online with a trusted butcher is a great way forward.
Have you ever bought meat online? Where did you buy from and how did you rate the service? Pop a comment in the box below to let me know your thoughts.
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