Engler — Grass-Finished Stew Meat

🥛 Local delivery & in-store pickup. This is a fresh, cold item. Order it here and choose Local Delivery (within 5 miles of our Modesto store, delivered after 7 PM) or Pickup at 429 McHenry Ave at checkout — we keep it cold the whole way. It cannot be shipped nationally.

Cubed chuck and round for the slow pot.

Grass-finished beef rewards a long, low braise more than almost anything. The connective tissue melts into the broth, the mineral flavor concentrates, and a pound of stew meat turns into a dinner that feeds four with leftovers.

Chuck and round are working muscles, which means more collagen than a steak. Cooked slowly, that collagen becomes gelatin, the same thing people pay for in bone broth. Add grass-finished beef's naturally higher omega-3 and CLA content and you have one of the most nourishing cheap dinners there is. No grain, no feedlot, no added hormones or antibiotics.

Who this is for

• You cook in a slow cooker, Dutch oven or Instant Pot on weeknights
• You want gelatin-rich meals for joints, gut and skin
• You are feeding a family and need one pound to stretch
• You want grass-finished beef without a steak price

How to use

Brown hard in tallow, then low and slow for three hours minimum. Lean beef punishes a fast boil and forgives a long simmer. 1 lb packages.

From Michael and Mary Engler's fourth-generation family ranch in Sonora, in the Sierra foothills east of Modesto, raised on regenerative pasture.

Local delivery & pickup only — never shipped.