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Warning: The new 'bone broth' trend is creating a weird supply issue in my shop.
Last week, a customer in Springfield asked if I could save every single beef femur and knuckle bone for her weekly broth batch. This month, I've had three more regulars make the same request. Three years ago, I was practically giving those bones away as dog treats, but now they're a hot commodity. Has anyone else had to start charging for bones that used to be scrap?
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fiona3322mo ago
The real problem is the sudden extra labor for butchers. Sorting and holding specific bones for people takes time away from other work. That hidden cost is why charging makes sense now.
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victor_barnes483mo ago
Yeah, it's the same at our place. We had to start a waiting list for soup bones last fall. The pork neck bones are gone by Tuesday morning now. I put a small price on them, just a dollar or two a pound, because it got to be too much work to set them aside for free. It's wild how fast that changed.
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