Posted on 05/20/2017 10:18:23 AM PDT by Mean Daddy
My family is traveling from Omaha to DC in July and I'd like to ship some steaks vs. shipping Omaha Steaks or similar products. My goal would be for them to travel with us on our direct flight.
From my research, it's not worth the $50 to get my own freight account and going thru FedEx is outrageously expensive.
Hoping Freepers may have ideas or thoughts.
(For his personal consumption only - not for restaurant use of course)
When my infant was on a raw milk formula, here is how we traveled by plane. I’d take enough with me for the plane trip + extra, and the rest I would send by ups the day before in dry ice (can get at any supermarket) in shipping boxes like this.
Buy some online and have them sent to your hotel or destination address. Grab the dry ice before you pick up your meat. Dry ice on bottom (there is a lb limit for flying, ask ups) your food on top. Take to ups store, ship to you home, done. Did this dozens of times.
We used to raise a few steers for our freezer and to sell on grass and a little range pellet in Missouri. Well, not just grass, it was spring fed grass- plus there was an apple orchard that they could scavenge, and an acre of pure heirloom garlic that grew down by the creek that they grazed, too.
They were super friendly, and had garlic breath, which they shared with anyone they saw, of course.
We were briefly sad when the time came to slaughter, but our local butcher aged the beef for us, so the sorrow soon passed.
Best beef in the world. You could smell the garlic when you opened the freezer.
If I had enough cash I’d start a garlic farm and specialty beef ranch to sell that incredible stuff.
Not enough info.
I have stuff delivered to my hotel all the time.
We use a soft sided cooler when going to Caribbean from PA. Just freeze the steaks and check you bag like any other bag. Just don’t bother sealing it with duct tape.....that will get your bag opened.
2 hours to JFK, 2 hours of ass time, 4 hour flight and another hour getting to our destination and things were still frozen. Then we could use the cooler to go to the beach. On the way home, we put it in a suitcase.
Good Luck and have fun!!!!
As far as that goes, Costco. It’s hard to beat their blue foam tray USDA Prime steaks. Pricy but very tasty.
Omaha Steaks will get you information and they will ship them for you(they have a Kiosk at Epply(Omaha’s Airport)).
AKA a PSMO pack. Good call. Sometimes available there in USDA Prime as well.
You can’t buy good steaks where you live?
The BEST steaks I ever had were at The Fairmont Hotel in Dallas Texas and The Cattleman’s Steakhouse Indian Cliffs Ranch, Fabens Texas.
Is there a pattern here? It ain’t Nebraska.
I have had Omaha Steaks. Not impressed.
OR .... Texas Roadhouse.
Question? Are shipping fresh steak that is unfrozen or are you shipping frozen steaks?
I’ve seen one article where a person used packages of frozen vegetables as the coolant
for shipping meat.
Sadly, they do not:
International Shipping
Due to import/export restrictions, we are unable to ship our products outside the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
You better check with both TSA and your airline. My guess is one or the other is going to confiscate so you will have no worries since you will have nada
That’s great!!
Not your fall!! That was awful.But the results were a miracle.
“I’m always on the look out for really good hotdogs...”
I’ve gotten some gift packs from here, very good hotdogs and sausages.
1.Go home.
2.Find a real local butcher, not a just a guy with a meat cutting operation. (This takes some effort and trial.)
3.Buy an animal from a local homesteader.
4.Fill out custom butcher slip.
5.If you wind up with more than a couple pounds of ground meat and cant reassemble the animal like a jigsaw from the pieces you bring home then that guy is a crook and you need to restart at step 1.
6.Spend the rest of our life eating high quality low cost meat and wonder why everyone doesnt do the same.
What I believe are quite possibly the best hot dogs in the world come from Konops in Stangelville.
Everything Ive tried there is quite good but the hot dogs are exceptional. I have refused to expose myself to any of that mexican weirdness theyve been dabbling in and cant vouch for any of that.
Except for the sulze (too whiskery), Usingers stuff is always a good bet.
the fall was pretty great too- held onto the tarring brush- (but it did get dirty lol) funny what goes through the mind when something like that happens- you had to see where i fell- it was as though an angel made sure i dropped right where i did- I actually bounced over that piece of sheet metal- and dropped between a rock wall and a small porch roof- My bro came home later and saw where it happened and was like ‘Holy Cow man” - it could;’t have been timed more perfectly really- i was very fortunate to get out with just some bruises- that piece of sheet metal coulda been a bad bad deal- it was standing 1/2 buried, on edge- Bah- still year later it seems like it just happened-
Anyways- taking care of bison is a trip- especially when ya gotta go inside the pen- but we figured out they didn’t like getting squirted with a hose (No sure hwy- they stand around in rain all day- even though they could get out of the rain- yet they run like barnyard chickens when you bring the hose out lol)- just the sight of it was enough to get them to back off- The bulls wouldn’t even let us get their feed out to the hay cart without the hose-
Had a lot of good times on that ranch=- small ranch- about 30 or so bison- the place was an old stage coach stop over hotel- had photos of it back i nthe day- pretty cool- but what a bear to keep heated in winter-
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