Equipped to serve you – There are many different ways to process beef and pork. Again, being we focus on the higher end eating experience, there is more to consider than just the flavor and tenderness. How the meat is cut and trimmed is important also. Even if it tastes good, no one wants it if it doesn’t look good too. Machines do not do well at ensuring quality in meat. We are definitely “old school”. Everything is done by hand. Other than a saw, everything else is done by knife. That gives you more control over the end product.
Machines do not do well at processing the beef or pork BUT, the only area that technology has improved beef and pork production is in packaging. It used to be that all meat was wrapped in paper to help preserve the meat. Within a few months, the meat was freezer burnt and tasted bad. Now we have Vacuum Packaging. With all the oxygen removed, shelf life has been extended to years without any quality loss at all.
Even the process of freezing the meat has evolved. If you buy any meat fresh (unfrozen), take it home and put it into the freezer or deep freeze, it will toughen. Now we have blast freezers or sharp freezers that freeze the product within minutes. Freezing at this fast rate keeps the fibers of the meat from constricting and becoming tough. Now, you can thaw out frozen meat that is 3 years old and it will have the same flavor and tenderness it did the day it was processed.