Cure your own bacon

Everyone  loves a bacon sandwich, right? The smell of fresh cooked crispy bacon is enough to make your hunger buds work over time. But have you ever thought about making your own?

ButcherTalk top 5 for festive leftovers

So the hols are almost over, you've left with turkey and you want ideas of how you can make the most of it. Well good news, ButcherTalk is here to the rescue. We've scoured the Internet and put together a list of what we consider to be the top 5 ideas for you...

Turkey Hotline

The Turkey Hotline has been set up by the British Turkey Federation to help cooks negotiate any pitfalls they might encounter in roasting their festive bird. A team of eight experts are on hand to offer advice on defrosting, cooking times and carving techniques until 5pm on Christmas Eve. They expect to ...

Beef Is Good For you!

In recent years, beef has gotten a lot of bad press. There are many who claim that consuming red meat (specifically beef) can endanger your health, but of course this claim can be made for anything in excess. It is important to know that there are, in fact, nutritional benefits to keeping beef in your diet. Beef is an ...

Aberdeen Angus

The Aberdeen Angus breed (or Angus as it is known internationally) was developed in the early part of the 19^th Century from the polled and predominantly black cattle of North east Scotland known locally as "doddies" and "hummlies". As with other breeds of cattle and sheep in Britain, establishment followed i...