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Honest Crowd Cow Review

Posted:10/5/21
Updated:9/12/22

100% real review of Crowd Cow meat delivery. I’ll discuss delivery, price and why my family uses it to save money on beef, chicken and pork.

crowd cow meat in packaging

My family has been using Crowd Cow for the last few months for all our meat buying. On a monthly basis we buy beef, chicken and pork from Crowd Cow. Below is my review on why we like it and why we think it’s worth the cost.

If you’d like to try Crowd Cow, here is my affiliate link – this will give you a $25 credit on your first order.

What is Crowd Cow?

Before I get to the full review, I wanted to quickly summarize what Crowd Cow is.

Crowd Cow is a company that you can order beef, pork, chicken, seafood and wagyu from, delivered straight to your door. You can order it once, or you can make your box a recurring delivery (you get 5% off for recurring orders + free shipping over $99).

The meat and seafood comes from sustainable sources, with many of the producers being independent family farms and co-ops. They sell 100% grass-fed and pasture-raised beef, free-range organic and truly-pasture raised chicken, wild and farm raised seafood and heritage breed pork. All products are free of hormones and raised without any unnecessary antibiotics.

How Does Crowd Cow Work?

Here’s how delivery happens, and what the box looks like when it arrives.

I like how up to date Crowd Cow is with their text updates. The daily reminder is great so if the day is crazy I won’t skip the mail room to pickup the package. I also like that I get an immediate text when it’s actually delivered so if I’m home I can run down and get it.

text messages about crowd cow delivery

Here it is in all it’s NYC apartment mail room glory. The box isn’t that heavy, probably 20-30 pounds depending on what you order. You don’t need a hand truck, but I’m very pregnant at the moment and my belly gets in the way of everything. 🙂

crowd cow cardboard box

I don’t like waste with food subscription services (some are SO bad), so I appreciate that their packaging is 100% recycle and compostable. You can recycle all cardboard and plastic and then throw the foam in your garden, or just dissolve it in some water.

crowd cow recyclable box

When you open it up the box you’ll see a little note. Thanks Crowd Cow.

hand written note with order details

The box will have dry ice in it so it will stay cool for plenty of hours, but you should still plan to be home the day of delivery. It was 90 degrees out and the meat was completely frozen so no issues.

dry ice in box

After you remove the dry ice, you’ll see your order will be separated into layers. Each meat is on it’s own layer. First up the chicken. We don’t eat a lot of chicken, but I ordered some drumsticks because I love BBQ drumsticks (pregnancy craving!). The drumsticks are $8.50 a pound.

chicken drumsticks in box

On the next layer comes the pork. We like Sweet Italian Sausage, Hot Dogs($9.00) and the Bacon ($10.00). THE BACON IS SO GOOD. Seriously, it’s some of the best bacon I ever had in my entire life. We have breakfast as a family every Saturday morning and I can’t wait for it because – BACON!!!!! Order it. Please!

The Sweet Italian Sausage is our splurge item. It’s $13 a pound which is a little more than I’d like to pay, but again, it’s really good and worth the price for a quality family dinner.

pork products in box

Finally, the last layer. Lots of ground beef. 12 pounds worth to be exact.

ground beef in box

Ground Beef Share

We buy the 12 pound Ground Beef Share because it’s cheaper buying it in bulk instead of buying it individually. It’s $89 for 12 pounds which makes it $7.42 a pound.

ground beef in packages

We use ground beef most often – usually in casseroles (cabbage roll casserole!), soups (cheeseburger soup!), meatballs and hamburgers. My husband is a champion at making hamburgers, I should really have him share his recipe here one day!

The ground beef is part of a subscribe and save service (about 5% off when you subscribe + free shipping) but you can easily change when your next recurring box will be shipped. For example if I notice we still have lots of ground beef left in the freezer, I’ll push our delivery back another 1-2 weeks. Or if I think we’re low on it, I’ll push it forward a week. I’m constantly changing the date without any problems.

On average we eat meat 2-3 times a week for dinner, so I order Crowd Cow about every 2 months.

So is Crowd Cow worth it?

Short answer is yes, our family believes it’s worth it.

All the meat in this picture cost us $123.02.

ground beef, pork and chicken in packaging from crowd cow

Here’s why we like the service:

  1. Prices. The ground beef we buy comes to $7.42 a pound. At the local NYC grocery store, this quality ground beef is usually around $10 a pound. That right there makes it worth it.
  2. Buying in bulk prevents us from going to the grocery store more often, saving us more money. Anyone else go into the grocery store for 1 thing and end up leaving with 5 things? Doing online grocery shopping has really helped us save money.
  3. Time. Really, the same reason up above. We don’t need to put time aside to go to the grocery store.
  4. Quality. The taste of the meat is a major improvement to many grocery store brands. From grass-fed beef to Japanese Wagyu to thick-cut bacon, it just tastes better.

To end with, I would 100% recommend this service to anyone who’s looking for quality meat at affordable prices. We will continue to use it as part of our regular grocery orders, as well as I plan on using it for holidays, as they offer Thanksgiving turkeys and hams.

If you’d like to try Crowd Cow, here is my affiliate link – this will give you a $25 credit on your first order.

Disclaimer: I was not paid to write this review. I didn’t receive a discount code from Crowd Cow. I buy the meat with my own money. This is 100% a honest review, I am in no way connected to Crowd Cow.

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  1. Robert Cusick Jr says

    October 17, 2022 at 3:27 pm

    I cannot see myself paying $7.42/lb. for hamburger and hotdogs. Your situation must be a whole lot worse than ours. If hamburger goes over $3/lb. we won’t buy it. I just paid $2.49/lb. for 3 whole packer brisket! I bought 3 because of the price. I am figuring on grinding one of them for hamburger. This crowd cow place doesn’t sound like a good deal to me at all. Thank you for your honest review though.

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  2. James says

    November 24, 2021 at 12:40 pm

    While your review was probably accurate for the quality of the product, it missed an important element of Customer Service. If you look at the online reviews on trustpilot.com and check the BBB rating of the company (F), you will see my opinion is not alone. Let me share my experience as a point of reference.

    We ordered our Turkey in October 2021 with a delivery date of Monday, November 22, 2021. On that day we got an email that was a bit confusing; it stated the new delivery date was Friday November 26th (worthless as this is the day after Thanksgiving) but when you clicked on the tracking is stated it was delivered on Monday at 8:56 am. There is no phone number to call, and you have to send an email or a text message, which we did on Monday morning. We got a reply at 5:06 pm stating that either it was delivered to a neighbor and it will show up, UPS marked it as delivered but it may still show up the same day before 9 pm or it is lost and please contact then again in 24 hours if we had still not received the package they would get with UPS and find out what went wrong. We only have 6 houses on our street (and it is the only street in our city with anything close to the same name) so we checked with each of our neighbors and they did not have it. So I waited until Tuesday and send another text and received no response. Sent another note this morning inquiring if they had initiated the tracking with UPS, but no response. As tomorrow is Thanksgiving and it takes a couple of days to properly and safely thaw a Turkey, we were now left without a Turkey for our family gathering on Thanksgiving. Went to the store and guess what? All the news stories about a Turkey shortage were true… no Turkeys!

    I understand there are supply chain chain issues, this is a COOP relying on independent producers and sh** happens and sometimes things beyond a company’s control happens. What is unacceptable is the lack of communications, transparency and updates to the process. I do not care if you are a “mom & pop” org or not, not communicating is unacceptable and their delay or outright refusal to communicate has resulted in a slight disaster and a lot of stress for our holiday gathering. I have also initiated a dispute with Visa on the order and just hope that will result in the return of the money I pre-paid

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