Crowd CowReviews of crowdcow.com

We have ordered CrowdCow for about 6 years. Regular orders every 3-5 weeks. The taste, texture, and quality was amazing. It was a bit more expensive then the grocery story or local butcher but the quality more than outweighed the cost difference. Went to the website this morning to place my next order, and could NOT believe the increase in prices! Now just “a bit more” than the butcher but 2-3 times more. Local Publix has 5-6 lb chicken for about $8. CrowdCow? 3.5 lb chicken $25!! Difference of about $1.33 a pound to $7.14 a lb!!! We all know prices have gone up and I’m sure feed, butchering, packaging prices have gone up. But, this feels like price gouging. I want to support small, family farms—I grew up on one. But I can no longer pay the price difference, when the it is triple the price.

Somethings are good, others less so. Overall, been buying for about a year. Love the Char. Can't get it at the grocery store and it tastes great. The wagyu roast is also really good. Otherwise, the steaks are not so great. The NY steaks have been tough and griselly. The tri-tip is the same, just kind of small and tough. I get better meat from Costco. I tried to reach out on one order of NYs because half the meat wasn't edible. Overall, the fish is good, pork is good, beef is not great. I'm cancelling right after I get a big order of fish this month.

Delivery was right on time and during the busy holidays that was a plus. The A5 Ribeye we ordered was amazing and arrived frozen as expected. The Coulette steak arrived with the vaccume seal broken. When we thawed that cut the entire outside turned brown. I believe the taste was ok, but couldn't directly compare it to anything. I contacted customer support and they said this is a known issue, but the steak "should be ok". Overall the price and service was ok, but definitely not amazing.

I have ordered from Crowd Cow several times and have never been disappointed until this delivery. Their pork, beef, chicken and scallops have been excellent. This time I added Wild Icelandic Red Fish(ocean perch) and Wild Icelandic Wolffish based on their descriptions as mild tasting and sweet. Neither lived up to their description. The Wolffish was OK but was not mild. The wife ate it but was clearly not happy (she does not eat anything but very mild fish). My taste did not come close to matching the description “likened to lobster and crab for its mild, sweet finish, Wolfish is a well-loved delicacy with a satisfyingly clean taste. This pearly-white…”. Was not overly strong but nothing to write home about. The Redfish (perch) was another story. As soon as I opened the box I knew there was a problem. The perch had that old fish smell right through the packaging. When I opened the package it was pronounced. I am a fisherman and eat many types of fish. The fish arrived solidly frozen so shipping was not the issue. I soaked in milk for an hour hoping it would help but did not. I ate it but it reminded me when my father use to force me to eat bluefish. Might have been a problem from source to freezing. I still have halibut and mussels from this shipment and hopefully they live up to the high Crowd Cow standards. Either way I will not be ordering these 2 fish again.

We've ordered from CC twice now & except for the Beef, it's been good. However, the Beef is the Main Reason for ordering from a mail order company at all. As with Butcher Box, we found the Sirloin & Ribeye steaks cut too thin, exceptionally chewy & rather tasteless. And they tended to fall apart in ' segments'. Didn't look like Ribeye I was accustomed to at all & sealed in with excessive moisture not dry-aged. The hamburger patties & the salmon we ordered was very good, though expensive. Flavor & tenderness plus cuts of beef steaks at least 1" thick that don't fall apart into 'segments' is Most important to me. I might try another mail order company in future, but I'm not sure I'll be satisfied....