Organic Meat Delivery Reviews: I Tried The Top Services & Here’s My Comparison
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- I’ve long sought a reliable place to buy high-quality and affordable organic meat online. So far, I’ve ordered from U.S.
I’ve long sought a reliable place to purchase high-quality and affordable organic meat online.
So far, I’ve ordered from U.S. Wellness Meats, White Oak Pastures, Crowd Cow, Cooks Venture and ButcherBox.
In this review of popular organic meat delivery services, I’ll compare each based on their quality, selection and cost.
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ToggleQuick Summary
I’ve found Crowd Cow, U.S. Wellness Meats and White Oak Pastures to each have a excellent selection of high-quality organic meats.
Out of these three:
- Crowd Cow offers the best combination of cost, quality and selection (see my in-depth Crowd Cow review).
- White Oak Pastures offers the highest overall quality.
- U.S. Wellness Meats has the best overall selection.
Here’s a look at the five services individually.
Best Overall: Crowd Cow
Summary: Fantastic quality with a good overall selection. Has some unique products, such as American and Japanese Wagyu beef. Ordering their family packs will save you about 30% off the prices listed below.
My Experience: 10+ orders.
Here’s one of my orders, listed from most expensive product to least expensive product:
- Labor of Love for $125.00. This includes six steaks, two packs of thick-cut bacon, two pounds of ground beef, and one of Crowd Cow’s gourmet salt tins.
- Whole Chicken Family Pack for $80.00.
- Chicken Breast Family Pack for $42.50.
- Ground Beef Family Pack for $37.50.
- Premium Ground Beef (X2) , this was free due to a new member special.
Crowd Cow sources their meat from high-end small family farms and co-ops. In terms of quality, each of their cuts was everything I hoped for.
Ever since watching Salt, Fat, Acid, and Heat, we’d been wanting to try the Buttermilk Chicken recipe in the show.
And with Crowd Cow’s free-range organic chicken, it was absolutely phenomenal. The steaks , we used a sous vide to get the temperature just right , were also excellent.
A selection of items from my Crowd Cow delivery.The delivery was an experience in and of itself. Upon arrival, the meat was frozen solid thanks to the accompanying dry ice. This is to be expected, of course , although not all five companies met that food safety benchmark (more on this later in the review). What was unique, however, was the packaging.
Like all the other services I tested, the cardboard shipping box was recyclable. But the cooler inside of the cardboard box was also 100% compostable. In fact, when we took it out into our backyard and let the hose run over it, it simply disintegrated into this:
The Crowd Cow cooler composting in my back yard.That might not seem like a big deal, but discarding traditional styrofoam can be a pain depending on the rules where you live. We typically stash the styrofoam boxes in our basement until we have a few built up, then drive 15 minutes to the nearest recycling center to get rid of them.
You can learn even more about my experience with the company in my full Crowd Cow review.
Crowd Cow Pricing
With Crowd Cow, you can order à la carte or become a member. As the membership (which is free to create and can be canceled at any time) gets you a 5% discount, I joined before making my first purchase. New members also get two free pounds of 100% grass-fed beef.
As you can see from my order (listed above), I went heavy with the family packs, as that’s where a lot of the value was. The 100% grass-fed ground beef value pack provided us six pounds at $37.50, with the 5% member discount bringing it to less than $6 per pound.
Crowd Cow’s quality is top-notch, though not necessarily the absolute best available. However, the combination of high quality and relatively low pricing has made it my default option. I typically make a monthly order for just above the minimum required for free shipping ($99), then choose a number of add-ons, as we like to change things up.
Crowd Cow Pros:
- Very high-quality products.
- Good overall selection of products.
- Offers a variety of free-range poultry selections.
- Eco-friendly packaging that’s 100% recyclable and compostable.
- Sources meat from small farms, family farms and co-ops.
- Modern, simple to use website.
- “Family packs” allow you to lower your costs.
Crowd Cow Cons:
- The meat comes from a variety of farms, so consistency is a concern.
Crowd Cow Cost Comparison:
ProductCost Per PoundWhole Organic Chicken$5.70Grass-Fed Beef$8.55Bacon$11.40Ground Pork$11.40Ground Lamb$14Best Pork Products: White Oak Pastures
Summary: Very high quality with above-average selection. Incredible pork products. The biggest downside is the cost, which runs higher on average than Crowd Cow and U.S. Wellness.
My Experience: We’ve now ordered from White Oak Pastures three times. What’s unique, and what drew me to White Oak Pastures, is that they’re a regenerative farm. That means their farming practices actually reduce carbon in the atmosphere.
White Oak’s hormone-free, heritage-breed pork products are among the best I’ve ever had. Their bacon and pork chops were just phenomenal. They also have a mix of ground beef and bacon, called Beecon, which not only tasted excellent but was fun to serve to some family members that were over (although at $15 per pound, it’s an expensive novelty).
Final Thoughts
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Originally published at thewaystowealth.com.
R.J. Weiss
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