Getting 1/2 of a cow

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(05-11-2016, 09:12 AM)fredtoast Wrote: Cooking frozen beef is a little different than cooking fresh meat.

I have always had all the beef I could eat because my parents raise cattle.  The young steers that they usually slaughter for beef weigh around 800 lbs.  That usually produces about 400 lbs of beef.  That will fill an entire large freezer.  Do you know how much you are getting?  Some people use smaller steers, but my parents would always split it among the entire family.

I was wondering about the whole cooking frozen part.  Can I cook from frozen or do I need to pull out some the day before?  The weight that I was told was 177.5 pounds @ $2.50 a pound.  We are getting it from a friend of my Father in law and he is using Stehlin's meat market up off of Colerain, to butcher it.  Soooo looking forward to it and glad I made the decision to get it.