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The Ultimate BBQ Guide: Sourcing the Best Meat from Your Local Butcher Summer is here, and that means it’s time to fire up the grill and host the ultimate BBQ. Before you start planning your menu, it’s essential to consider the quality of the meat you’re going to...
How to Choose the Right Cut of Meat for Every Dish
Selecting the right cut of meat is an art that elevates any meal from good to unforgettable. This guide will walk you through the best practices for choosing meat cuts that will enhance your culinary creations.
The Impact of Responsible Farming on Meat Quality, The Environment, and Livestock Welfare
In an era where ethical considerations hold as much weight as nutritional value, the spotlight on responsible farming practices reveals their critical role not only in meat quality and environmental health but also in the welfare of livestock.
Elevate Your Winter Dining Experience: A Guide to Premium Meats
Elevate Your Winter Dining Experience: A Guide to Premium Meats As the winter months continue, the allure of hearty and luxurious meals become just as irresistible as they were in the runup to Christmas. Elevate your winter dining experience by embarking on a...
Savoury Winter Delights: Beyond Turkey – Exploring Festive Meals with Alternative Meats
Savoury Winter Delights: Beyond Turkey – Exploring Festive Meals with Alternative Meats As the winter chill sets in, it’s time to cosy up with hearty, delicious and satisfying meals that go beyond the traditional turkey fare. We understand most households will be...
Why Use a Butcher? 5 Amazing Benefits of Quality Meat
Why use a butcher? When it comes to quality meat, there's no substitute for a good butcher. Supermarket meat can never match the unparalleled quality and taste of the meat from a local butcher shop like Martins Meats. Not only that but when purchasing meat, you...
The Ultimate Guide to Meat Storage Procedures: 10 Best Practices for Your Kitchen
Introduction When it comes to meat storage, it's crucial to follow best practices to ensure the quality and safety of the meat you consume. This comprehensive guide will provide you with essential meat storage tips and practices for storing and freezing meat in...
7 Essential Meat Cooking Tips for a Joyful Culinary Adventure with Martin’s Meats
Embarking on a culinary journey can be a delightful experience, especially when you have the right guidance. At Martin's Meats, we are thrilled to share our profound knowledge and meat cooking tips to help you master the art of cooking various types of meat to...
Butcher vs Supermarket – Which is better for you and your health?
Feeling like your wallet's on a diet every time you hit the supermarket? Join the club! We're all wrestling with the climbing cost of living, and those rocketing supermarket prices are giving our budgets a real workout. It's like trying to juggle flaming torches...
8 Prime cuts of Meat: The Best Meat to Barbecue for a Fantastic BBQ Party
Welcome to our ultimate guide on the best meat to barbecue this summer, get ready to fire up the grill! As the sun starts to sizzle, and the days stretch out invitingly, it's time to dust off the grill, don your apron, and prepare for the BBQ season. But with a...
Breaking Down the Perfect Cote de Boeuf for Two in 3 Parts
Immerse yourself in the exquisite flavours of cote de boeuf for two, handcrafted with passion and expertise by Martins Meats. With our dedication to heritage breeds, flavour enhancement, and an unforgettable dining experience, we invite you to embark on a culinary...
Longhorn Beef: 3 Reasons to Choose the Amazing Meat
Martins Meats specialises in longhorn beef, which is a premium, high-quality meat. Are you a meat lover who is always on the lookout for the best quality beef?
Treat your Mum! Create the Perfect Mother’s Day Roast Beef in 4 Easy Steps
Treat your mum to a Mother's Day roast beef Sunday lunch! Make sure to get a quality cut of meat, and then simply follow our steps and you are sure to be in Mum's good books (atleast until next year!) Our Great Taste award-winning PGI 35-day dry-aged rolled sirloin...
Are Burgers Better Than Pizza? A 5 Point Ultimate Showdown! (Why burgers are better than pizza)
Are Burgers Better Than Pizza? We compare the taste, calories, and grams of protein in pizzas and burgers to finally settle the age-old rivalry... We might be biased at Martins Meats when it comes to this, we do have the only burgers to be awarded 3 stars in the...
What are the reasons to buy locally? 5 benefits of local meat sourcing
What are the benefits of local meat? Meat is an essential part of many people's shopping lists, but what are the benefits of buying your meat locally compared to simply chucking a few things in the trolley on your weekly shop? Truth be told, there are advantages...
What to do with your Christmas Leftovers
We are all guilty of preparing and serving far too much food for Christmas dinner, and whilst many of us still manage to overindulge at the dinner table, there is often still plenty left over for the next few days up until the new year. Especially on Boxing Day,...
The Best Meat for Christmas Dinner 2022
It’s a common misconception that turkey is the must have meat for Christmas dinner, however, we are here to tell you that definitely is not the case! While turkey is a firm favourite amongst many British households, it is not the only option. So, if you’d like to...
A Guide to Cooking the Perfect Steak
A guide to cooking the perfect steak, how to prepare your steak and how to cook it according to your preference.
Martins Meats at the Great Taste Awards 2022
Here's what people had to say about the meat at Martins Meats! Lamb Hogget Chops (3-Star) A fabulous looking chop with a good level of fat. The moist, succulent flesh melts in the mouth, releasing an excellent flavour profile, rich with clean lamb taste. It has...
Health and Nutrition: What Makes Lamb So Special?
Lamb is meat from domesticated young sheep, and is known as a type of red meat; a term which is used to describe the meat of mammals considered richer in iron than fish or chicken. Meat from young sheep that are in their first year of life is lamb, whereas mutton...
Brilliant Breed Profile: The Gloucestershire Old Spot Pig
Here at Martins Meats, we ensure that all our pork is 100% free range and sourced from the rare breeds of Gloucestershire Old Spot or Middle White pigs, from farms in the North Cotswolds. The pigs are able to roam freely in a stress-free, natural environment. In...
Free Range: The Incredible Benefits That Might Surprise You
Modern consumers have become increasingly selective over their choice of food, and this is especially true of their choice of meat. Because we have better knowledge about what exactly we need to be eating, we can make more conscious attempts to choose only foods...
Dry Ageing vs Wet Ageing Meat
While us humans have been dry ageing meat for hundreds of years, wet ageing has only recently become possible due to the widespread emergence of plastic and vacuum-sealing processes. The primary purpose of ageing meat using the methods that we do is that the meat...
Mother’s Day Recipe Ideas
Now is that time of the year when we get to spoil the most special lady in our lives; our mothers! Succulent substitutes abound in combination with some timeless classics that are sure to impress Mum later this month. So in keeping with this most special of...
Our delicious Martins meat delivery service
Here at Martins Meats, we've been developing our meat delivery service for quite some time. We know that our lovely customers love our produce and are keen to receive it at its freshest and most succulent and flavoursome. Whether you can get into our store or...
Valentines Day Recipe Ideas
Here at Martins Meats, we know a thing or two about meat and poultry! Looking forward to February, we've got some great..... Valentine’s Day recipe ideas for you for 2022! Longhorn Cote De Boeuf Our Cote de Boeuf is a prime cut from our very own Longhorn grass-fed...
Cooking the Perfect Christmas Turkey
With the countdown to Christmas well under way, we’re now turning our thoughts to preparing and cooking the perfect turkey. There’s nothing so disastrous and disappointing than the centre piece of your festive fayre being dried out from over cooking, or under...
Martins Meats – Bespoke Dry-Aging
Here at Martins Meats, we offer our customers the unique option to choose how long their beef is aged for. Whether you are looking for a Rib of Beef for Sunday lunch, or steaks for a stay-at-home Friday night, you can select your preferred aging time (35, 70 or 100...
Christmas Offers
With Christmas just about 1 month away, it’s time to start planning your Christmas food! Whether you’re having a festive feast for 20 or a scaled-back version for 2, Martins Meats will fit the bill for all your poultry and meat needs. We’ve put together our...
5 reasons why grass fed beef is better for us?
There's been a lot of interest over the last few years concerning the treatment of our cattle and the amount of toxic waste the industry contributes to climate change. Industrialised cattle farms use feeds containing cereal and soy (collectively known as 'grain')...
Martins Meats is among the Great Taste winners of 2021
Our West Country 35 dry aged Ribeye Steak, Topside and Sirloin Joint have been awarded a 3-star award by Great Taste, the largest and most trusted food and drink awards on the planet. Out of 5,383 products worldwide to receive a Great Taste 1-, 2- or 3-star...
Our Simple and Easy BBQ Smoker Guide
When it comes to cooking meat, there are several ways in which you can do so and of course, there are various pieces of equipment you can use to cook with. This includes BBQ Smokers. If you are unsure as to what a BBQ Smoker is, how to use it or how it compares to...
How to Cook the Perfect Steak
Steak is a cut of meat that is generally sliced across the muscle fibres, it can refer to meat from various grazing animals but in this instance, we are talking about the delicious longhorn beef steak. A quality, well-cooked steak is one of the purest carnivorous...
What is Dry aged Beef?
Dry aged is a term you will have likely heard when talking about beef but what exactly is dry aged beef and what is so great about it? An ageing process can be applied to many food and drink products including wine, cheese and red meat. The objective is to enhance...
Understanding the Food Label on your Meat
For shoppers it can be challenging to navigate their way around all the different food labels that appear on meat. It is important to many of us that we understand where our meat has come from and the standards it meets, so that we may make an informed decision on...
A Guide to Beef Cuts: Choosing the Right One
You are most likely familiar with the different beef cuts you can get. Rump, Fillet, T-Bone, Sirloin to name a few. While one key difference between the cuts is the price tag, there are other differences we think you should know. The Beef Cuts: Fillet This is one...
Our 4 Favourite Beef Recipes
We are huge advocates of a hearty beef recipe and it’s no wonder when our Long-horn beef tastes SO good! Beef is a fantastic source of protein (26g per 100g of beef), Vitamin B-6, Iron and Cobalamin. Plus, it’s versatile and works wonderfully with a variety of...
Why We Source Our Meat From Local, British Farmers
At Martins Meats our award-winning status hasn’t been achieved through just luck. We were founded on the ambition of providing restaurants with locally sourced meat, from British farmers. That ambition has grown to delivering quality, local meat direct to people’s...
