Costco is known for its wide variety of products available in bulk, including kitchen items that many members of the big-box retailer swear by, like parchment paper. Then there are groceries like 24-packs of eggs and chicken breasts by the pound. But at Costco Business Centers, you can buy whole meats that offer even more to eat than the big bins of ground meat you may be used to at regular Costco stores.
At Costco Business Centers, customers were able to purchase whole lambs. On the Costco Business Center website, whole lambs and whole goats are also available for delivery through store services. The carcass of a New Zealand lamb weighs between 25 and 35 pounds, which is ideal for restaurants but can also help you stock up on meat inexpensively—assuming you have a freezer big enough to store it. You can also snag whole Australian goats, which weigh a whopping 30 pounds on average. Both the whole goats and lambs are frozen items and are also Halal certified.
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What is a Costco Business Center anyway?
If you’ve never heard of Costco Business Centers, the warehouses are ideal for small business owners because they can buy things in bulk and items that are useful for running a restaurant. However, any Costco membership gets you access to the business centers – whether you actually own a business or not. The caveat is that there aren’t that many business centers, but you can find them near metropolitan areas like Hackensack, New Jersey, Chicago, Illinois, and Orlando, Florida.
In addition to whole lambs and goats, you’ll also find other large meats like 6-pound slices of pastrami and 15 pounds of boneless pork. Other unique items you can snag include packages of plastic take-out containers, kitchen appliances like large baking sheets and mixing bowls, and even ice at some locations. So you really need to secure extra storage space before your first visit to a Costco Business Center. Just in case you buy one of these whole lambs, you might need some of Tasting Table’s best lamb recipes to make it, like lamb burgers. And if you’d rather stick with your regular local stock, brush up on your knowledge of the best and worst meats to buy at Costco, like USDA Prime steaks.
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