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INTRODUCING: TWO + FIVE SHOW BEEF 🥩
Two + Five is partnering with youth across the state to bring you the best beef in Texas. Developed through hours of care, feeding, and dedication, these steers are finished out using our proprietary Finish Line program™ and offered to you! The best beef, supporting Texas youth in agriculture - what could be better?
The Reason Nobody Remembers the Sides.
The rib rides high along the steer's back, doing almost no work and collecting marbling the entire time the animal is on feed. Leave that section whole, bones in, and you have the roast that's anchored Christmas tables for a couple hundred years — because a prime rib is just ribeyes that haven't been separated yet.
Months on a high-energy ration is what puts the marbling in a show-finished rib, and marbling is the whole point of this roast. It bastes itself from the inside while it cooks. You mostly just need to not get in the way.
One 2–3 bone standing rib roast, approximately 6.5 pounds. Feeds 6–8. Vacuum-sealed.
Suggested preparation: Salt it generously the night before — the whole surface, no fear. Roast low at 250°F until it hits 120°F inside, rest it 30 minutes, then blast at 500°F for the crust. Carve at the table. You didn't do all that to carve in the kitchen.
One-Eighth of a Steer. One Hundred Percent Done With the Meat Counter.
This is how ranch families have always stocked a freezer: not cut by cut, but a cross-section of the whole animal. Steaks off the loin and rib, roasts off the chuck, fajita meat off the plate, stew meat, and a deep bench of ground beef. Roughly seventy pounds, every pack from the same show-finished steer.
Buy beef this way and the per-pound math quietly embarrasses the grocery store — on steaks especially. But the real reason is simpler: for the next several months, dinner is already at your house.
Approximately 70 pounds, cut and vacuum-sealed. Fits a standard chest freezer with room to spare. Bring two large coolers at pickup.
Suggested preparation: Clear a shelf. Then clear another one. Start with the ground beef tonight and work your way up to the ribeyes — they'll keep, beautifully, and so will you.
One Steer. One Grind. Zero Mystery.
A package of grocery-store ground beef can contain trim from many animals, many places, many stories. This grind comes from one steer — the same animal as every steak and roast in this collection — including trim most folks would be happy to eat as a steak. When the whole animal is good, the ground beef is a different food entirely.
Show-finishing means the fat in this grind is the same fat that marbles the ribeyes. That's why the burgers taste the way they do.
Ten one-pound packs, vacuum-sealed. [Lean blend per the plant — confirm before publishing.]
Suggested preparation: Smash burgers on a ripping-hot griddle, a chili that simmers all afternoon, or Tuesday tacos that don't deserve beef this good but get it anyway. Salt like you mean it.
Eighteen Pounds of "What's for Dinner," Answered.
This box is built the way a ranch family actually eats: steaks for Friday night, a chuck roast for Sunday, fajitas when it's nice out, stew meat when it's not, and enough ground beef to carry every weeknight in between. One steer, start to finish — the steaks and the taco meat came off the same animal, which is something no grocery cart can claim.
Show-finishing shows up everywhere in this box, not just the steaks. The roast braises richer. The stew meat holds up. The ground beef tastes like it came from somewhere, because it did.
Two ribeyes and two sirloins cut at 1 inch, one 2–3 pound chuck roast, one pound of fajita meat, two pounds of stew meat, eight pounds of ground beef. Approximately 18 pounds. Vacuum-sealed.
Suggested preparation: Start with the chuck roast — 300°F, covered, three to four hours, until it gives up. Earn the ribeyes.
GOT SHOW STEERS?
WELCOME TO THE FINISH LINE 🏁
Every year in Texas, hundreds of show steers don't sell at auction or sell below their value. Most families don't know what to do next - and the feedlot path throws away the premium that a year of show feeding built.
The Gap: No professional finishing service existed for post-show steers in Texas.
The Risk: Stressed steers become dark cutters. Untimed processing wastes marbling potential.
THE SOLUTION: Two + Five Finish Line™: a structured, science-based 90-day program built specifically for your animal.
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Episode SIX - Let’s make tall cowboy chili!
Let's make some Tall Cowboy Chili with the Tall Cowboy and the Galveston Girl!
Learn the legend of the chili, a lot about gnomes, and some insider tips on frito pies and chili dogs. You don't want to miss it - order your kit right here!
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