The full experience
This is beef butchery properly done. Over five intensive, hands-on hours, you’ll work alongside our expert butchers to break down a whole side of beef, following it from the first cuts right through to the steaks, joints and lesser-known cuts you’d usually only ever see neatly packaged on a butcher’s counter.
This is a class built around real learning and real butchery. You won’t be standing back watching a demonstration. You’ll be getting involved, knife in hand, with plenty of one-to-one time with our butchers as they teach you how to identify different muscles, understand the structure of the animal and use traditional butchery techniques to get the very best from every part of the beef.
Along the way, we’ll explore the cuts everyone knows as well as some of the more interesting ones they don’t. You’ll learn where they come from, why they’re butchered in a particular way and, crucially, how to cook them. Whether you’re already serious about your meat or simply want to understand what goes on behind the butcher’s counter, you’ll leave with a completely different understanding of beef.
And this is Millington Hall Farm, so we’re not going to spend five hours surrounded by incredible beef without eating some of it.
Once the butchery is underway, we’ll get the fires going and prepare a proper feast showcasing some of the best cuts from the day, cooked over open flame and shared around the table. Your experience also includes two drinks on us, one when you arrive and another halfway through the session.
At the end of the class, the remaining cuts will be divided up, with every guest leaving with a generous share of freshly butchered beef to take home. Exactly which cuts make it into your haul will vary, and there may be one or two particularly prized pieces amongst them.
Five hours. A whole side of beef. Expert butchers, proper hands-on tuition, an open-fire feast and plenty of beef to take home.
Come hungry. Leave knowing your beef.
Class highlights
Meet your chef
What type of experience is this?
Explore the skills, flavours and techniques at the heart of this experience.
Butchery Skills Course
Butchery Skills Course
Steak & Meat Cookery
Steak & Meat Cookery
Hands-On Cookery Class
Hands-On Cookery Class
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Stay Overnight
Make more of your time at the farm by staying the night. Add one of our bell tents to your course booking, settle in after the class or experience and wake up to a proper farm breakfast the next day.
