Demo — a pretend cut sheet with sensible defaults. Nothing is saved.

Cedar Bend Locker

Riverside, IA · Beef cutting instructions · due back Oct 11

Owner: Sarah Kowalski · 319-555-0142
Animal: Ridgeline steer, tag 4471 · Share: quarter #4 of 4

Only ★ three choices really change what lands in your freezer: steak thickness, roast size, and how much becomes ground. Everything else can stay at the locker's default and you'll never notice. First-timers: fill it in with me over a fifteen-minute phone call.

Steaks ★ Thickness Steaks per package T-bones — or have the strip and tenderloin cut out separately

Roasts ★ Roast size — what your household finishes in one go Brisket

Ground beef ★ The dial — everything not kept as steaks or roasts gets ground

45%

The usual middle — a balanced mix of steaks, roasts and ground.

Package size

Keep or skip

Short ribs Soup bones Liver Heart & tongue

Due by Oct 11 — three days before the kill. Miss it and you get the locker's standard cut, which is fine, just not tailored.

Filed · Oct 9

Cut sheet's in — homework done

In the real run this goes to the locker with the manifest, and you hear nothing more until the weigh-in. Two things worth knowing:

One cut sheet per quarter. If two households co-own this share, you choose together — the locker cuts and wraps it once, and you divide the boxes yourselves.
Nothing is cut until after the hang. The animal is killed Oct 14, hangs 1–3 weeks, then is cut to these instructions — which is why the sheet can't be late, and why changing your mind after the kill is fine but after cutting starts is not.

Why the platform cares: chasing four households' cut sheets before a deadline is a chunk of the 6–10 hours of admin per animal this whole thing exists to remove. In the app, the chase is automatic.

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