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For those of you processing your own #5459408 12/05/14 03:36 PM
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How do you go about cutting your steaks? If you're doing it strictly by hand with a knife, how do you get consistent thickness? Are any of the cheap ($300-500) bandsaws worth the time?


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When we do our own, we muscle out the hindquarters.
We then just slice them to desired thickness with knife.
I don't think a bandsaw is needed,but that is just my opinion.
If you are having trouble slicing your meat, put it in the freezer for a little while to help stiffen it up for easier slicing.

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I bone everything out so no saw needed. I almost never cook a conventional steak anymore. Whem processing one I seperate the hams into the individual muscles along the natural lines and freeze them with the silver skin on, it is easily removed with the pliers used for fish skinning when frozen. Backstraps get cut into 6 inch or so blocks.

When I get ready to cook it up take it from the freezer, remove the silver skin then prep depending on how I want to fix it. Just cut with knife if want steaks, run through cuber if want chicken fry, make into Jerky or whatever. Lot of the time and the backstraps almost always get cooked in the size blocks they were frozen in. Before cooking though they get coated woth a rub or something like Montreal Steal Steasoning heavily for at least 12 hours, taken out of fridge brought up to room temp and cooked usually on grill until medium rare at most. Let rest for 10 minutes then sliced thin like a london broil. If there is any leftover it makes for a great cold sandwich later on.


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Originally Posted By: mbavo
When we do our own, we muscle out the hindquarters.
We then just slice them to desired thickness with knife.
I don't think a bandsaw is needed,but that is just my opinion.
If you are having trouble slicing your meat, put it in the freezer for a little while to help stiffen it up for easier slicing.


BINGO! It should be at least half frozen. Same with grinding.


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Originally Posted By: bill oxner
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When we do our own, we muscle out the hindquarters.
We then just slice them to desired thickness with knife.
I don't think a bandsaw is needed,but that is just my opinion.
If you are having trouble slicing your meat, put it in the freezer for a little while to help stiffen it up for easier slicing.


BINGO! It should be at least half frozen. Same with grinding.


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yeah, slightly frozen is much easier


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Originally Posted By: dogcatcher
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When we do our own, we muscle out the hindquarters.
We then just slice them to desired thickness with knife.
I don't think a bandsaw is needed,but that is just my opinion.
If you are having trouble slicing your meat, put it in the freezer for a little while to help stiffen it up for easier slicing.


BINGO! It should be at least half frozen. Same with grinding.


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my FIL used to partially freeze a whole hind quarter and then use a meat saw (looked like an oversized hack saw) to cut bone in center steaks (not my cup of tea though)


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Just iced down for a while helps even... no problem doing it with a knife


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We muscle it out individually and cut steaks out of the backstraps and soe of the individual muscles out of the hind leg.


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I haven't tried freezing the meat to remove the silver skin. I'll have to give that a shot.


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Don't have it anymore, but I had a wooden cutting board that had 1/2", 5/8", and 3/4" interchangeable aluminum rails. (kind of like what a HI MOUNTAIN jerky board looks like). Came with a long slicing knife- resembled a filet knife (still have the knife). Ofcourse I did not use it for meat with bones in it. It worked great.


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Do mine all by knife(s).


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After muscling out a ham, I will slice the ham into desired thickness with a knife, I do about 3/4" to 1" on aged meat.
I then trim the edges to remove silver skin/ fat etc. Trying to trim a whole muscle is a pain, its must easier after slicing.
We process our own deer (about 20 a year) and we do not have a bandsaw.


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I always slice mine with an electric knife. Thick or thin it's easy to get consistent slices.

Works good for removing the silver skin also. Just like filleting a fish.


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Originally Posted By: Spiderman
I always slice mine with an electric knife. Thick or thin it's easy to get consistent slices.

Works good for removing the silver skin also. Just like filleting a fish.



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