Making your own sausages?

[forktender]

When you grind your chuck do you just buy Chuck Roast or something different? I'm wanting to grind some beef for sausage and trying to find the cheapest whole meat to buy for grinding. Chuck Roast is through the roof.

I normally buy a whole chuck roll, so I can save a few thick slabs of chuck roast for pot roasting. But there is nothing wrong with buying a few chuck roasts to grind, it just costs a little more. Any time a Butchers knife touches your meat, you are paying for his time and experience, as well as the price of the meat.

 

[GatorAGR]

I normally buy a whole chuck roll, so I can save a few thick slabs of chuck roast for pot roasting. But there is nothing wrong with buying a few chuck roasts to grind, it just costs a little more. Any time a Butchers knife touches your meat, you are paying for his time and experience, as well as the price of the meat.

that's what I was trying to find. I didn't know what it was called, but i knew there had to be something before the chuck roast. As you said, once the Butcher's knife touches it the cost goes up. Thanks!

 

[chopsaw]

that's what I was trying to find. I didn't know what it was called, but i knew there had to be something before the chuck roast.

Chuck roast comes from the chuck roll , as well as some other great cuts . In that video he's pretty much cross cutting through the whole thing .
I like to break it into the cuts themselves , and use the trim for grind .
That end of the eye is the section that sits next to the rib roast on the animal .
That very end of the eye / roll is the chuck eye steak . You'll get 2 nice steaks from that section .
Be a shame to grind that , because it rivals prime rib .

Anyway , this is how I break them down , I get about 2 1/2 pounds of grind from the trim .

You could certainly grind the whole thing , but the Denver steaks , and the chucks eye steaks and roast are great cuts .