Best Meat to Grill on RV Trips

We're here at Louie's Meats in Clear Lake, Iowa. And we're very fortunate to be in North Iowa with a traditional old-style butchers type of a meat market here, with great cuts of meat. And we want to talk a little bit today about camping, RVing, and grilling, whether you do it on a grill or on a campfire. And Louie, I just wanted you to go through and give me a... What's the best cut of meat that somebody that can be RVing and camping will do, and may be economical? Right. Our best cut of meat is going to be the ribeye here. It's all black Angus, and we can cut it to your size, so we can cut 'em thick, thin, however, whatever size you want. That's gonna be our best grilling steak right there. We have beef tenderloin, which is a higher-end. They also do well on the grill. T-bones. And we also have an alternative to just steak. 'Cause we've got some kebabs that we make up. We make them fresh every day. We make our salads fresh every day. Okay. We have a unique bratwurst that we do. It's a skinless brat. A lot of people don't like the skin on it. It's tough to chew on. But we do have some skinless products that we make. We do various flavors of them. But we have the traditional skin-on and then we have the skinless right here. Okay. And those work great on the grill. And it's a great camping tool. Even if you have an open campfire and you don't have a grate, you can stick a stick in it and put it right over the grill or the open fire and do it that way, if you want. It's kind of fun. We grind all of our fresh ground beef. It's all ground out of the primals. It's doesn't come in a tube. So you're getting the best, freshest every day. Okay, so RVers that are going to be going out for a weekend, it's pretty easy. I can come down here. I can just buy the steaks or the hamburgers or what I want, and I'd take it in the cooler and put it off. But what if I'm going to travel for a little bit what's the best way to keep these? Do you freeze them? Do you dry ice 'em? What's the best? Well, you can call ahead and have us put together a package for you and we can freeze it and then we can give you some dry ice to transport it. And the dry ice will keep for three, four days. Okay. So it's really a nice deal for campers. We also have the traditional ice that we use, but if you call ahead, we'll take care of you. No order is too big or too small. Okay, so the average RVer, if you were to buy some meat and freeze it, how long could you keep it in your freezer, in your RV? What's the recommended-- Well, if your RV's a good below zero or freezer then... or 32 and below, you can leave it in there for however long you have it plugged in or have it going. But the dry ice, like I said, will last you a good four days. And, but then again, I would just, if you're going to slack it out over the week, you put it in your refrigerator as it's frozen, and just let it slack out, you can have meat for a week and not have to worry about it. Okay, so any tips on... of course you buy the high-end, and you probably don't need to tenderize or anything. Is there anything you would need to do with any... I know some of the flank steaks that you would probably-- Yeah, we have some marinading steaks. We have a lot of marinades, that we could set you up with. The lower-end would be like the ranch steak, but they're not really a low-end steak. It's a new item that's come out. A new muscle that they've come up with, and with the black Angus, you can see the marbling in it. They are fantastic. Okay, so let me ask you this. Not everybody has the luxury of coming to Louie's. And I know we can order from here and we'll get to that in a minute. But if you're going to go to your average grocery store and I don't mean to offend you, but what would somebody look for in a packaged meat? Is there something that you-- You want to look for the USDA stamp on it and you want to have Choice or higher. There's a lot of stores out there that'll... Price wise, they want to be the cheapest, but you get what you pay for. Right, right. And then also in the packaging you would look for coloring-- Coloring. The bright red is very appealing, but it's not necessarily the best or freshest. How do you know you're getting something fresh? Or not fresh, this is how you know, but-- This is how you know, but you wanna look at the dates for sure on there. And if you have any doubts, ask the butcher, or the man behind the counter. Okay. A lot of great options here. You got the red meats, the different cuts here. If you don't want red, the turkey, the kebabs. I know we do an awful lot of kebabs when we go camping and Rving. You even got the asparagus wrapped in bacon. So there's a lot of fun things out there. A lot the nice things that we have, we have some twice baked potatoes that we make up every day and some stuffed mushrooms, which are a great appetizer, but also we have produce here. And like I said, some fresh made salads. So, I guess the key is, Is that you want to make sure that you understand the cuts of the meat that you have. You get fresh meat, and if you want to get it from Louie's here, you will ship, you will do dry ice. We will ship you dry ice. We Cryovac it for you. Visit your website or what's the best? You can visit our website and/or Facebook. You can go onto Facebook or you can just give us a call, and we'll be more than happy to help you. Well, I'm looking forward to here in the future to get some of these meats and try out some different recipes, post them on our Facebook page, post them out on our events that we're doing here. And I'd like to hear a lot of the recipes coming out there. If you want to get the best cut of meat, visit Louie's here. We'll give the information on it. And have a great summer. I'm looking forward to seeing you at the grill.