Swaledale Online Butchers - Review

I was recently asked to try to review Swaledale online butchers.
Being a lover of a good steak and a traditional Sunday roast, I ordered a mixture of products.

Swaledale Online Butchers is a whole-carcass butcher dedicated to providing exceptional, native, rare-breed meat. 

Their products are traditionally farmed, always fresh and never frozen, free-range, grass-fed, and raised on the beautiful Yorkshire Dales.

The delivery

Orders are prepared and shipped the next working day via DPD. My order was shipped overnight and arrived early the next day.;

Everything was very well packed in a double-walled cardboard box with Sealed Air® Brand TempGuard™, which is 100% recyclable and developed for shipping meats and temperature-sensitive goods.

The product’s thermal insulation is constructed from heavy-duty kraft paper containing a uniform inner padding, which provides superior insulating properties.

The products arrived ice cold.

My order

• Free range Chicken Crown - herb-fed 

• 6 Cumberland Sausages - heritage breed pork

• Dry-cured Smoked Streaky Bacon - extra-thin sliced

• Minced Beef - made from selected cuts from grass-fed, native-breed cattle 

• Topside of Beef - dry-aged, from heritage breeds

• 2x Flat Iron Steaks - from traditional breeds of cattle and dry-aged on the carcass for maximum flavour

• 2 x Fillet Mignon - prepared from heritage breed grass-fed cattle

• 2 x Ribeye Steaks - from native breed, grass-fed cattle 

If, like me, you’re used to buying minced beef with only 5% fat, you might wonder if this one was any good – and honestly, it was delicious.

I made a cottage pie with it, and we both agreed it was much tastier than usual.

Swaledale online butchers' native breed beef mince is made using selected cuts of grass-fed beef - coarsely ground chuck, rib cap, flank and short-rib combined for the best flavour possible.

Fresh and never frozen

This means you can freeze your order for later. I hadn’t planned on freezing any of it, but there was just too much for the two of us to finish!

Check out this for a lovely Topside Beef Joint - absolutely the best!

This was the most delicious, tender piece of beef we’ve had in ages. It weighed 1.4 kg, so I cut it in half, cooked one portion, and froze the rest. You can order a smaller or larger joint—it’s entirely your choice.

Value for money

Sure, you can buy meat and poultry for less at a supermarket, but you won’t get free-range products or this level of quality.

Overall, I think the products are very reasonably priced (this review is from 2021). For example, my whole order cost £99.75, and the 1.4kg Topside of Beef was £23.00.

You’re getting high-quality, flavorful, tender beef that melts in your mouth.

Delivery is Free on orders over £70, which is brilliant.

Verdict

I know I was sent this order to review, but I can honestly say I’ll be ordering from Swaledale again as soon as we’ve made our way through this lot!

I was really impressed with the packaging, the delivery, and the top-class quality of the products.

As I write, we haven't tried every product (there are only 2 of us), but I can't wait to try the chicken.

Yesterday I cooked some smoked streaky bacon, and as soon as I opened the packet, the smoky aroma hit me.

Because bacon from Swaledale is dry-cured, there's none of that horrid water you get when cooking some supermarket bacon, which means it boils before going crispy.

Dry-cured bacon results in seriously tasty, full-on flavour, deliciously crispy bacon.😋 

I’m excited to try the other steaks, especially since we’ve only had the flat iron so far, which was incredibly tender and packed with flavour.

I absolutely recommend Swaledale to anyone who is looking for quality free-range meats and poultry, oh and by the way, they also sell meat boxes - perfect for the BBQ.

Many thanks to Swaledale Online Butchers for this opportunity.

You can also find Swaledale on Facebook (Swaledale Butchers), Instagram (Swaledale Butchers and Twitter (Swaledale Foods).

Disclosure: I received the products mentioned above for review. All opinions and thoughts are my own, and I was under no obligation to provide a positive review.