Lorraine's parents are such a blessing.

I dig Randy. He's been at this for a bit less than you guys, but he's always there, and shares his pearls of wisdom. Great guy. Cheers, Randy!!

I don’t comment often but have to express my disappointment that KZfaq demonetized such a well edited video as yours. More people need to learn these skills and you showed nothing that should have caused them to do such a thing. I love watching all your videos although I’m a seventy plus female widow no longer able to do these things I love watching younger people who have realized these values. Keep doing what you do!❤

If your in-laws are willing to participate, it would be very interesting to have an interview or q and a session with them to discuss their experience/exposure to your lifestyle since moving to NC...what their own background is in gardening, raising meat animals, harvesting/canning, etc. and how they have adapted? what's different than they expected? does the food taste better? can they tell a difference in their overall health since moving/eating locally sourced food, etc.?

You should get a large butcher wall chart to give you good reference as to what cuts you get as you go along. Can be put up for an "at a glance" to maske sure you are getting all the right cuts.

Dang Jason you guys are close to 200k subs. Congratulations on processing your own beef. I work at a meat processing facility and I know it’s a lot of work to do it yourself. And you guys don’t have the big equipment so it’s even harder. The fat looks normal. Good color and not to much. When you feed to much grain to your beef it’ll cause the cow to grow a lot of fat

Jason wish I was there to teach you the easy way. I learned from the best , my dad was a master butcher from Europe. I work in this field for 30 years

Well done guys. I m surprised how well you did without professional help, you recognised parts and were patient in cutting and packaging. Great team work. 👏 💕

Awesome job!!! What a blessing! Three generations processing their own food. I KNOW you're glad you didn't do both in one day. That would have created issues for sure. I see why Loriane is so "hands on". Her parents are amazing!!

This was a pure joy to watch. Very heart warming. Well done everyone.

I love to see families working together. Such a beautiful family.

I am so proud of you guys...having left the city to a small Homestead, onto a bigger Homestead and now look at you...butchering your own beef. You guys have done it. Thanks for taking us along for this awesome journey. Much love...God bless 🙌 🙏 ✨️ ❤️

A band saw is a huge time saver that's what meat markets use and if your planning on a lot of butchering a lot it might be something to aquire

Man I sure admire you guys just moving forward and doing it, mistakes and all! Loraine, "we'll learn from our mistkes." You guys are FEARLESS!! YOU ROCK!! Loved watching your butchering video!

Y'all are doing great and I love what you are doing. You were truly blessed with wonderful in-laws

I. used to work in a Meat Processing Plant. We deboned up to 250 Head of Cattle every day.WE were 8 Guys and one Saw Man.You did ok. Next time will get be better as you will have learned from the first one.Just stay close as you can to the Bone when you debone this way you will safe time and work cutting the Meat of the Bones afterwards..

The slaughter looked smooth two weeks ago and you did a good job of butchering (piecing it out) the carcass too. Pat yourselves on the back for a job well done. I only bring 1/4 at a time into the cutting room so that the meat maintains a good cool temp. But, I have to do the cut alone. I use a Ryobi reciprocating saw with a stainless steel blade. At 70 a hand saw is a little much for me.

Love seeing the family working together. The beauty of sharing life right here. :-)) Wonderful work, everyone! Kudos!

So so sorry that those who have not had the fortune to raise and harvest food for themselves, can be such a deterant to you, wish I still had the homestead so my grandkids and great grand- kids could learn and enjoy it.

I can't get over how different you dining room kitchen look after a window and paint! It looks so nice. Congratulations on your first (?) Beef processing.

Great working together too! I noticed each one of you moved into a role that you excelled in and Randy sounds like he's a professional butcher! Kudos to you all👍💖👍

It will be interesting to see how much beef broth all of those bones will create.

Everybody needs a randy!

Your parents are a blessing. So sweet!

That was quite the job, but you all worked so well as a complete family team. Good for you all. I know I would not be strong enough to handle beef. Chicken, yes.

The Flintstones & Rubbles! Fred, Barney, Wilma & Betty...+ Penelope!

Homestead butchering is hard enough, then y’all filmed it too! Good on you, there’s no way I’d have the patience to film anything on butcher day!

Jason and Lorraine, with the help of family, and the strength of God you are sure to succeed. You are a blessing.

My mom and I complement each other in our skills. Our family has been processing a beef together almost every year for 20 plus years! Love seeing you do it for the first time and sharing it with each other.

The family that Butchers together, stays together 😁

Let me check my hat off to your family! Teamwork Makes the Dream Work but you could have just made it easier and sent it to her processor and you're not afraid to go outside of your boundaries and try something new and I'm truly impressed how your family dealt with the beef for the first time

Don't forget to make some cubed steak! Yall are doing great and this is the best way to learn is hands on.

Jason for future consideration you might want to invest in a band saw. It will make cutting the ribs and the shoulder easier. good luck

Ha! It looked like you and Randy were getting Fred Flintstones rib order ready!! Nice beef!

I'm glad you're taking the knowledge back, for your kids, to pass it on to their kids.

Tallow which is rendered beef fat is kinda beefy flavored. Lard which is rendered pig fat is kinda porky. Both very good and very useful. Not only in the kitchen, but tallow can be used to grease certain things outdoors. It can be used to season your cast iron, to condition your cutting boards and knife handles. Just keep in mind "a little dab will do ya". Because tallow and lard can turn rancid under certain conditions. Ya'll have come such a long ways in your journey. You should be very proud of yourselves!!

I love no matter what the job is with you all its a family affair. and as a professional chef I think you all did a great job.

THIS VIDIO REMINDS ME WHEN I WAS A CHILD MY GRANDPARENTS HAD A PORTUGUESE FARM, WE ATE EVERYTHING!!!

Randy is very handy to have around and as Lorraine says, he is so meticulous with the meat cutting. Great team, great job ALL of you!!

You are doing a good job cutting that beef ! I have been doing it for over 50 years!

Build a walk in cooler in that big workshop/ old horse house. The same way as you did the mobile cooler. With all the animal / bird schools you do it will quickly become a necessity.

Great video. I love to see the home butchering. Your daughter will never forget this family gathering and will tell stories about this for years to come.

next year purchase..... band saw :) great job yall!! i process about 4 deer a year which is ALOT of work. i can't imagine doing this much meat but it's free labor and such great knowledge. would love to come help on your next one

Merry Christmas, thank you for showing how to dry cure meat and butchering. I truly appreciate your time and patience to film these things

Wowowow! That was fantastic! And so much work! You all are brave for taking this on! Gave me so much appreciation for my ground beef I ate tonight!

The flint stones theme kept going through my head when you were cutting the ribs. Great job!!!

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing!

Absolutely love having your parents around. You mom and dad are so awesome they do things to make the process keep moving. I love them. Thank you guys for sharing your life ❤

Well done everyone and Lorraine mentioned that is important to have people around to help but she forgot to mentioned how important she is too 🥂👍

Awesome job !

Oof, I don’t envy you all that work, but the finished product is sooo worth it. Not to mention the memories of working together as a family. These are the moments that are absolutely golden. Truly.

You should be very satisfied with a job well done. Just as well you are doing one animal at a time huge quantity of meat even for 2 families 😊

Loraine has a lot of work ahead of her but wow, what a feeling you have when you see your freezer full, and your pantry filled with bone broth, and canned beef. Great job guys! Her parents are awesome!!

On pigs you melt the fat down for lard; on beef you melt it down for tallow... same general purpose.

I'm so happy you have great helper Lorraine's parents 🤗 Randy's help is always needed..you both are learning..great experience for you all.

Awesome job. Families that work together stay together❤️

A daunting task accomplished by a Super Team. Well done! And God bless you all!

Really enjoyed seeing you guys as a family work together to feed your family! I love your videos Jason ! Keep up great work!

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I am so proud of y'all

Jason and family of workers. As a eat cutter for 28 years you did very good. Breaking down the fore quarters and hind quarters are a lot of work. Your time on one quater of one hour is wonderful. As you learn the cuts more you will find that a Rib roast might be for your family. Just like the huge rib steaks would be allowed to be a 2 or 3 rib depending what your family would eat in a meal with some left overs. I saw you with the top round in your hand. That can be sliced in about 1 1/2 " and they are then marianited for London Broils. then they are sliced on the bias for plating. YOu did look at this experience as fun leaning. God Bless You. Good Job!

Great to see the family pulling together to put up the meat. SO glad yall can pull together.

Just a small amount to make up for KZfaq’s demonetization. They’re wrong to do it, and you guys are awesome.

Watching. Congrats. So happy for you guys. You guys have come so far. We are so inspired by you guys ❤

Very interesting, TY for sharing! Wishing you all a Prosperous & Hauoli Makahiki Hou! Aloha!

It's great you guys are learning by doing. You are right you can't do it wrong, if you do screw up so what you have more hamburger. It only gets easier from here.

We killed a steer the other week and I gave half to my friend. We shoot it, two girls well one and I’m an old lady. She did the skinning then we butchered it in the paddock cos we couldn’t move it, and we put the offal on the Ute in dustbins, then we turned it over on to some plastic and skinned and butchered the other side, we were exhausted. My hubby was in hospital. We rested for four days and hung it in the fridge in pieces. Then we had to cut it up, she had her partner help, I did it alone. Lol. Hubby helped when he got home, all done two freezers full now. Hard work but so grateful for the meat. 👍🏼👍🏼😍😍

Fantastic show, Jason! People should not shy away from butchering meat. It is what we have done for eons.

Do put a "trailer dolly" on your wish list. We bought ours in 2018 or 2019 and it wasn't all that expensive. I think it was a Harbor Freight item. It consists of a bigger wheel and some welded pieces of tube pipe .....it may be something that a clever person could weld up after looking at one. It is somewhat similar in concept to that rear,,chicken tractor wheel you use.

It's awesome to see the whole family involved!

We’re a few weeks “ahead” of you (did our first beef this year too). Learned so much as I’m sure you did too but we did it!! 🎉

Hey Family, Raised on a Dairy Farm in Pittsford, VT....We did this with our veal calves and our chickens...veal is basic milk-fed baby beef and I learned the anatomy of beef thru this process...my job was cutting chunks into small stew meat size...our meat cattle was done by our friend who had a slaughter business in town...we usually got our meat cattle back in large plastic bags and we did the finished work Cheers from Maine.

If you make yourself somewhere to hang the quarters, you’ll find it easier to break it into primal muscle then deal with those on your bench. For your first time ever you done an excellent job. I’m a butcher from Australia. Next time if you could ask a local butcher to give you a demo you’ll get it easy. Hear in Australia most butchers would give you a hand. Again great work, your in-laws are fantastic help. I’ll continue to watch your progress.😊

11 hours! You guys will sleep well. It really was a good video because those of us who like beef in any way ,need to know where it comes from and how it gets to us. It looks very emotional and physically draining. I can tell Lorraine was exhausted, butmom and dad were working circles around you three! My mom was the same way God bless her soul. Looks like you will have enough beef for quite a while and yeah, maybe one at a time is enough.

You guys make an excellent team! This was your first time, I think you did great!

You all did such a great job! That was a lot of work.

You all look so tired, but what an exciting labor of love.🥱👏👍🏼🎄

Awesome video enjoy yourself Rosa from America 🇺🇸

That’s awesome. Congratulations that’s a lot of work but worth it. God bless

I definitely commend ya all for jumping in and doing the butchering yourself instead of taking the slaughtered animal to a commercial butcher as so many other YTers do. If you raise it you should have the consciousness and ability to not only put the animal down yourself but also do the butchering yourself. You commented you left the beef hanging for 2 weeks. Check with most butchers and they will tell you letting beef hang in the halves or quarters at least 30-45 days or even longer if possible will result in better tasting meat and more tender meat, especially your steak sections . Bearded Butchers on YT has a lot of great videos on processing animals and the various sections of the animal. Congratulations on tackling the project yourself.

Love watching all of you and living vicariously through it all🥩🐄👍

Considering it takes my family of 3 adults and a 7 year old 2 full days to process a deer completely, I am impressed! We have a steer processed every year and I don’t even contemplate doing it myself lol. Well done! 🎉

When either my husband or I harvest a deer we butcher it ourselves. It is a satisfying feeling putting it all in the freezer at the end. I do take the meat for grinding though.

Great job on the beef. Thank goodness you decided not to process the second beef. Please take care and stay safe

Wow! You and your family are amazing. Such a lot of hard work. You’ll have beef bone broth for days! Yummm!

Well done folks looking amazing 😊 so good to include the in-laws and your daughter 🙂 love 🐱 Peter Cape town South Africa

The last time I botched a whole cow it took 3 of us 2 days so I feel for ya. Great job by the way.

Looks wonderful happy new year

wow, your dad and mom are so awesome!

A hand held bandsaw would come in handy for getting through them bones. Thanks for the video I learned a lot.

Just found your channel guys and I’m proud of your accomplishments. Very envious of you for having the courage to pull the trigger and go after what you want. Well done! I. A California girl myself and the farming country life calls my name but don’t have the courage to do what you guys did. I live vicariously through your videos so thank you!

When butchering meat you usually cut along the muscle you get steaks out of your roasts

So Cool!! Enjoy every minute with your family! ❤ takes me back to the good old days on our farm. Thank You for sharing!! God Bless!

Great job! I can’t believe they demonetized you.

Wow fantastic job! That's a lot of quality meat that will feed your family for a long time. Thank you beefy boy!

You are very blessed to have many hands and the work to keep them busy. The censorship is so dumb in here but I’m glad we have A+ to see and learn all the things.

You guys are awesome! This was so inspiring. I absolutely love the 3 generations working together to accomplish the goals. My oldest daughter helps us on our butchering days and it’s so helpful and encouraging. Good job!

Wow love watching y’all cutting up your beef!!❤ great family working together!

A good sharp knife is worth its weight in gold in home butchering. When Jason opened the box with all the knives banging together I thought I would have a stroke! I've always been told by the old-timers (I'm 88) that if you take good care of your knives, they will take good care of you. Other than that it was a GREAT video! Keep it up, and God Bless!!!

Doing it like our ancestors did. Amazing!!