Slanker Grass-Fed Meat Reviews
Products:
Customer Service:
Online Reviews/Complaints:
Competitors and Alternatives:
My Wife and I have been enjoying Slankers Grass Fed Beef for a couple of years now and have been very satisfied. The Bison summer sausage had been very good and reminded us of the good old days when people took time and did things right concerning food. our last two purchases included extra orders of the Bison Summer sausage because of our friends putting in their orders after tasting them.
My disappointment is that the mixture although seems to have the same great flavor is not consistent with our first orders. The last two orders have been loose and moist after thawing. The previous orders were tight and firm. I would hope that this is not a continued practice like some companies revert to after moving a lot of product. They seem to cut corners at the consumers expense. Remember The customers are the ones that eat your product and will always notice the slightest change in them.
I buy most of our meat from texasgrassfedbeef.com (Slanker). I have not tried their fish yet; I get fish at Vitalchoice or locally. I trust that when Ted says cows are 100% grass fed, they actually are. Now my products reviews:
I like their beef. It's never gamey. It ain't a corn fed steak, so you have to cook it low temp and best on the rare side. Lots of flavor.
About the high omega 3 meats -
The high omega 3 feed they use does change the traditional flavor of the meat. My wife says the chicken had a "livery" flavor. It kind if does; especially in the dark meat. So we generally buy breasts and wings. I can eat thighs but I don't buy them because my wife doesn't like the flavor.
Now the omega 3 pork...
We have come to the conclusion that we just can't buy it. We mostly wanted plain pork belly for our bacon, but the omega 3 feed makes it taste like spoiled meat. In fact we thought it was spoiled on delivery only to find it comes that way every time. All fat deposits in the omega 3 pork have that horrible spoiled meat taste. I wish I didn't have to report this, but it's true in our opinion. Sometimes we get pork chops that are mostly ok, but then you find that one or two bites that has that awful spoiled meat taste in a fat deposit and it's just not worth eating the rest of it. So we're done with omega 3 pork unless Ted finds an omega 3 feed that works better for flavor. Non-Omega 3 Pork will be a once in awhile treat.
We love their chicken stock. It is the best anywhere. I cannot make a better chicken stock myself no matter what I do. I wish they would use better containers though because the chinese-food style plastic quart containers many times crack and splinter near the lid presumably due to being poured scalding hot, then fast frozen. The plastic shards that result are something we just got used to checking for. We heat the container with tepid water until the frozen stock pops out, then we carefully melt and rinse the top to be sure we're not getting plastic shards in our stock because they are sharp and dangerous.
Fresh turkey was excellent. I cannot recall if the one we bought was an omega 3.
Lastly, the omega 3 eggs taste good but are almost NEVER available, so they're irrelevant. I will continue to buy the products that work for us, but they risk loosing our business if I can find high omega 3 eggs and high omega 3 chicken and pork that tastes better. I don't know if that's possible, but Slanker has not found the magic recipe for pork anyway.