I started out as a cleanup boy and finished my career as director of meat operations. God gave me a passion!

Been a butcher for 5 years and this is by far my favorite channel. Keep up the good work my bearded brothers

As an inspector I appreciate the extra steps y’all take to make it clean I see a couple things you could skip to cut cost but y’all don’t and I appreciate it

In your line of work, cleanliness is paramount. Just like a hospital. This is not negotiable. It is a must.

As a chef that is a stickler for clean kitchens, I appreciate this so much. Cleanliness for a meat processing facility is on a completely different level and you guys are on top of your game. Respect

My butcher shop is growing everyday. I'm using your videos to help my owners build the operation right. So much knowledge has helped us in so many ways.

Great to see Sean getting in front of the camera and showing his expertise. I know he is not really comfortable in front of the camera and I can appreciate that. But it is really nice to see how instrumental he is in the everyday running of the process floor. 30 years of taking care of keeping everything clean is an amazing job well done! I bet Sean is missed when he goes on vacation! Great video, thank you for posting!

"so clean you can eat right off the floor" !!! ... bravo !!! .... bravo !!!

You guys are so real world. I've worked in this environment most of my 65 years. Was in the sausage kitchen in the end. We followed almost the identical process each day. And you didn't even cover slaughter days, smokehouse cleaning and the list goes on and on. Great job guys. keep'em coming.

I've been a cleaner for like 12 years and am getting into apprenticeship, cleaning is my favorite part

I love it. Social media and food is usually all about glitz and flames… but for every pound of quality food, there is hard work and consistency behind. This is the real lesson here! Love it

I'm not a butcher but, I've followed this channel for a couple of years now and I found this very fascinating.

My old man cut meat for A&P for 43 years, starting in 1957 and retiring in 2000. When he started, beef still came hanging in quarters. There was a 2 year apprenticeship and they actually taught the butchers anatomy and how to properly break down beef, pork, mutton, poultry and fish. I remember many nights helping him clean up at the end of the night.(My brother and I fought like cats and dogs, so he often took me to work with him). He was a stickler for cleanliness. It was the one thing he would bust peoples butt for. It rubbed off on me. When I go into a new market, the first thing I do is stick my head in the cutting room. If it's not proper, they won't get my patronage. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavor. You seem to really be about your business. Small shops like yours are our only hope to beat the big five's meat monopoly. I will always shop local if I can. Again, good luck to you. Thanks.

Watched your vids for years and this one shows your oldest brother the most. Need to hear from him more!!!

“A clean environment is a safe environment” so true because someone can get sick real quick man .. great job fellas 👍🏻

The sanitary and hygienic standards in your production is giving me so much confidence in your products. Excellent standard of practice.

I know how important it is to have a clean environment especially what you guys do. I always wondered what it would take to clean your place up. Thanks for putting a video on really do appreciate it 👍👍👍

Cleanliness is the key to not getting sick or shut down by the government, or worse sued out of business due to some salmonella outbreak or something. Thank you for making this video. This is in part why meat costs so much. This cleanliness is a GOOD thing. I’d hate to have to do all this cleaning everyday. THANK YOU and God Bless you for the service that you do for the public.

Been a subscriber for many years and always wanted to see a video along these lines. These have to be some of the most honest, hardworking men around, you all deserve every bit of the success you have! Enjoy it!

I am impressed how much pride everyone takes in ensuring that clean environment and no one is just going through the motions to satisfy some inspector. 🌟

I mean like I can appreciate what happens here I always say I have the cleanest shop in Arizona I personally inspect everything everyday before production begins. Coaching your expectations with your team is key! Great job clean shop 💯

Awesome, Thanks. I suggested this subject a long time ago, after watching a sausage making video and thinking what a nightmare it must be to clean everything and then thinking that half your job is clean up. Excellent change of pace.

Thank goodness for the cleaning guys. This is amazing and why our meat/food supply is so safe. Thank you for the education.

Brings back memories from my youth, one of my duties working in a small town grocery store was to clean up after the butchers did their, learned so much on sanitation. Eventually they started teaching me a little at a time, Chester was old school, everyone was an apprentice.

I was actually wondering how you all clean up when you’re done for the day and dang it if you didn’t deliver. Thanks men!

You Guys Rock! Every time I've been to the shop... It has been Absolutley pristine! The retail shop is inviting and enjoyable to shop. Keep up the great great work through your journey!

I come from a Dairy background too. DeLaval Floor Pails, then a NuPulse pipeline, which due to it's terrible design ment back to those floor pails and the dumping station!! Clean is EVERYTHING!!

I have been a custodian for a long time and the first thing I heard is what I tell fellow workers. When cleaning is done right, you don't smell anything. I love how you showed the details of what it takes to make your work area to be clean, I always wonder about how this is done. I also love your channel. You explain everything you are doing in a simple format and educate us about where the cuts of meat come from.

This reminds me at a time when i worked as an overnight maintenance man. Gosh cleaning the meat room and making bells emptying the trash down into the trash shoot. Man it was fun also interacting with the overnight crew in the stocking department and deli. Man that was like 8 years ago now ive been a personal care assistant for almost 6 years. I commend u fellas on ur awesome dedication 😂🎉keep it up. This how its done 👀 yall. How times have changed. Jeesh

You guys are the best. Love all the videos no matter what it is your doing. Thanks for putting this content out here for people to watch.

This was great. I have worked as a housekeeper in an emergency room. Then a Surgical Technician for 35 years. We do the same stuff to sanitize.

Shawn is a national treasure! I am the cleaner for my friends’ deli. I have restaurant experience,and its my job to make sure they pass inspection! So far(5 years) all is good!

here some content you never see kudos to yall for showing this. Lessons about food, food handling, cleaning(important), are very helpful and important so great job on this video. Oh and side not I have enjoyed using your rubs found a cal-ranch place close by thus far I have used the butter blend, original, hollywood, cajun. GOOD STUFF!

Watching the gentleman cleaning up the bandsaw has obviously coiled up a few blades in the past and made it look real easy. I taught Machining and part of the class was to have them do that with a long bandsaw blade. It was fun but they got it eventually and no injuries.

This is a very interesting and educational video ! All you guys do a excellent job in explaining the process’s you go thru to deliver safe products.

I worked in a Chicken Processing Business in Lancaster, Ohio which was owned by a well respected Family. I can tell you from my own personal experience that we too could drop a muffin on the floor after clean up and not think twice about eating that bad boy EVEN after the old 5 second rule ran it's course!🤣 We had Surprise State Inspections 2-3 times a week and we never knew when they were going to come in and inspect the place either! Our cleaning system was very much like the one you have and we actually took pride in having a clean working area as well! This video brought back a lot of memories too. Hope everyone had a Wonderful SON-RISE on Easter Sunday! Cheers from down the road in COW-lumbus MOO❤

This is the first time I’ve heard of the phrase cip outside of the pharmaceutical environment in which I work. We also sip (sanitize in place). It’s good to know that you guys are taking sanitization of meat surfaces serious. And having silly fun in the process.

I actually think that this was The Most Informative video to date, and I've seen a few years of them.

Great Video!!! Love seeing operational stuff like this. More please.

I really enjoyed this video!!! I love the behind the scenes stuff. You guys deliver for me, especially videos like this and diy videos!!! My pops just randomly passed away in January, and my little sister just had a liver transplant. Hints my interest in the diy videos. I love the idea of sourcing my own food and producing for my family for healthier eating. Keep up the great work, and God bless you all!!!

My first job was cleaning the meat cutting room at the local supermarket as a kid in high school. I'm 60 now, but I remember it like it was yesterday. 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Impressive and hats off to the cleaning crew!

The cost of compliance in the food industry (and many others) is very high and is part of the puzzle people don't see. County and State regulations. USDA, FDA, GFSI, EPA, wastewater, labor, payroll and on and on. Document, document, document. Great video and a great channel, gentlemen.

Thanks for the show and tell on how that endless chore is accomplished.

I know everyone else has said it but this was an awesome video getting us the whole picture of your operation, more on other parts would be great as well, keep up the good work guys!

After school I used to go to my dads job and help him clean the meat cutting room, so this speaks to my memories of my dad❤

Stoked you guys posted this, been curious for years but never thought to ask

I love the content, especially this cleaning video. I work in this industry. I would recommend switching from an enzyme detergent to a foaming, chlorinated product. The hot water most likely kills the enzymes in that product, making it much less effective. Great choice going with a quat-based sanitizer. It actually continues to sanitize even after application. It is called the residual bateriostatic effect.

I learned how to properly skin and butcher a deer from you guys, I show all my hunting friends and family including my 65 year old and 90 year old hunting buddy's about you guys and to watch your videos! you folks are awesome at what you do. Keep up the great work!

My guys hated when they had to close the kitchen with me. Super clean. Love you guys.

Great behind the scene look at what goes into your facility..

Hi Seth.. been following you for quite a while. It started out in your backyard. One day you were cutting out a doe in the presents. I belieof your two sons that was cool very informative for me even though I’ve harvested over 100 deer in my lifetime I’m 88 still very proficient with a bow also a Elite naval sniper in the Vietnam war.. I also followed you and your brother out the Rocky Mountains for ELK. You weren’t successful, but you sure are a butcher I like the way you wield that knife.. cooking is a hobby for me and I was making a Ukrainian borscht soup and I almost sliced my finger off cutting potatoes. Thank heavens I had a fingernail but it’s back to normal now you might say in your profession you are at Heaven’s Gate with that vertical saw and your knives. Please be careful and continued success I got your back pal

Appreciate the commitment to food safety. When I visit developing countries, it's a world apart, with cats wandering through the kitchens etc.

👏 I asked for this one 🤩 Thanks everyone love what you do ❤️

Love your channel.! I've been cutting meat for 15 years and love it.. clean ups are just the same as in the meat rooms in the super markets it has to be that way ...but I remember 25 years ago when I first walked in the meat shops the cutters had there smoke still burning off the blocks hahah.. they all had brown burnt marks on them.. food safety wasn't really a thing back then haha.

I have been waiting on this video ever since I've subscribed. Now the answer is here. Thanks again guys 🇺🇸

I remember doing the sanitation of the cutting room well. Great meat and a great reputation are foundational upon great sanitation. Great sanitation is based upon caring about your job, your customers and their health and safety, NOT money. Block-Brite is a good polycarbonate block stain remover. Not *QUITE* as good as true bleach, but made for the food industry. Quat is a great finishing sanitizer as well since it's chlorine based and chlorine dissipates in air. Another thing I kept in mind is that if you think meat particles and grime can't get there, it CAN! The most unthinkable and inconspicuous places in your cutting room and equipment can and WILL get dirty. Cubers, the inside curvatures of saw wheels, aluminum or stainless steel table frames and blade guides get that yellowish gunk on them. The cuber is by far the most difficult to clean. It must be taken apart, soaked, scrubbed and left soaking in a bucket of protein removal detergent overnight to remove all buildup. That protein build-up introduces bacteria into your meat. Bacteria reduces shelf life and product appearance. So *thoroughly* sanitizing your room and blocks the night before ensures a sterile room and blocks the next morning. I am not a meat specialist, but have been trained by meat specialists but haven't taken my skills that far. Thank you for this channel. I have a passion for cutting meat and this channel is perfect for keeping that passion alive even after retiring. I really miss doing this!

I'm a supervisor at a USDA inspected meat processing plant and this is all to familiar to me.. nice work! USDA inspectors don't mess around, they love checking under CIP equipment.

I've always had thoughts about cleaning but never commented about it, thanks for making a video I've been meaning to ask for!

I love u guys honestly. Keep striving bearded butchers !

I learned how to butcher and process animals step by step, by watching your videos.

Great content!! Good to see everyone

From watching all of your videos, it is very clear that place just wouldn't function without Shawn, Sean, however he spells it. That guy ROCKS!!

That reminds me of when I was working at a grocery store where I was responsible for the meat department. There's a whole list of things you have to do at the end of the day but I didn't mind.

I cut meat for 26 years and managed a supermarket meat mkt. for 20 of those years. I always liked cleaning up because I knew I was fixing to go home afterwards. A hot high-pressure hose is your friend. It always helped if the cutting room floor drained towards the drain and not out the door.LOL. I changed careers at 47 years old (2006) but have always considered myself a butcher/groceryman and not a manufacturing plant facilitator where I retired. It gets in your blood, and you can`t get it out.

You guys are killing it! Love the videos, keep it up

I always thought that Sean was the responsible one. Lol. Great video today it takes those things like cleaning to create a great product. We need to see more Sean in the videos. Thanks for sharing. Take care👍🏻

Cleaning video AWESOME. Great videos everytime guys. Sorry i havent been subscribed longer.

Loved the information thanks guys

That was VERY informative! - Thanks guys! - Cheers!

This was an awesome video, I have been curious about the cleaning process. Thanks.

Thank you so much for sharing this video and I truly love 😍 this channel!

My wife worked in a fish processing place. They did the same thing cleaning and sanitizing everything. Walls and floor too.

Great video, but would have been interested to see the drain line system, and how/how often it's maintained: drain lines (live vegetative bacteria treatment to reduce grease build-up?, jetting?) grease trap (I assume), septic tank (how often pumped, lifespan).

Epic video, we hose down with hot water after manual cleaning/scrapping. This uses less the soap solution. Maybe you need to find your balance.

thats how yo make the magic happen - great job!!!

This is cool. I always wondered what it took to get everything cleaned up and spotless

Dear God, that is the easiest clean bandsaw i've ever seen, mine is all sharp corners and through bolts. And very jealous of that steamer set up, i'm just buckets and cloths.

i started butchering in 1966 in a shop , we had wooden cutting blocks cleaned with a wire brush , hand cleaned everything , moped the floor , and put sawdust on it ! u.k. !

I asked. BB delivered. I really thought you had a dedicated crew. The fact that you DIY, is even more impressive. I did have a question about sanitation between species. Is that a thing?

Perfect episode!

You guys are awesome 😊👍 Keep rocking brothers

Great safety tips!! Love your channel!

You guys know my opinion, keep up the great work!

Back in the day shaughterhouses would have a lake out back with large catfish. Good eating.

I really needed this , I had to leave my recent butcher job because the manage couldnt teach properly 😅

Loved the "what? Noo wayyy!" Reference Hahaa

I geeked out on this. I love the behind the scenes stuff that no one ever shows. Can we now call him Sani-Sean? Or get him to shave his head and he'll be a ringer for Mr. Clean!

Always wondered how you keep that bandsaw clean. I guess the ability to spray it out helps!

You can tell when you walk into a store that cuts meats if it is truly cleaned or not. You also have to clean the drains. Dont know if you guys do. Do you also only cut certain cuts of meat per cleaning? I would think so. I used to clean a deli but all by hand and brushes. Breaking the tables down, cleaning the table Farms. Our mats had square hole and were a pain to clean. Thanks for sharing this guys. Don't think alot of people know how much cleaning is involved if done the right way. Flat to see you all..take care

Working in a seafood processing operation there is no process more rigorous than the cleaning and overall sanitation of an area. We use pretty much the same procedure but also a distributor with a compressed air hose. We use a sodium hydroxide detergent and a Quaternary base sanitiser. Both of these foam up.

You guys are AWESOME 😊😊😊 ❤❤❤

Thanks for the video. When I come back to Ohio, want to come there. I've I learned so much from you guys

Bravo Sean

I used to clean every night after the cutters would leave but now I'm one of the cutters 👌

It's a huge job cleaning the butcher shop

I give Shawn (sorry, I'm unsure of your spelling) The most KUDOS!

Did anyone notice how easy he rolled up the saw blade? That’s something some people never achieve.

Great videos as always. Just wanted to ask what product do you use to sanitize your knives/hand tools and what do you use to maintain your wood handle knives after cleaning?

Show us how you clean the carcass cooler and how you organize your freezer