Essential Foods Direct Reviews 122

Quality, shipping and boxing, bang for the buck, and damn good flavor!!

Ordered some steaks to stock my freezer and all my friends were asking what I "did different this time"

I was tempted to keep my secrets but I had to spread the word!!

Couldn’t have been more impressed with the meat. Will definitely be ordering again!

Exceptional quality! Essential Foods Direct consistently has top notch meats. They are my go to choice for premium products. I get my meat delivered on time (never late) every 4 weeks!

Every time I’ve ordered from essential foods I’ve been more than impressed! Fast shipping with high quality product! Beats any deal you’ll find!

Just received my first order a few days ago and I'm super happy with the quality! I live all the way in AZ and I was a little worried about it showing up and still being frozen. It was frozen solid! Packaged well and looked great. Made the T-bones last night and they were amazing! Nice marbling and they had great flavor. Tomorrow I'll be making some pork chops! I'm hoping they are as nice as the steaks were!
In my opinion, I wouldn't hesitate to buy from them. I'll be placing another order in a couple weeks.

Delivery was quick and the meat was fantastic!! Thank you, Essential Foods!

The products arrived quickly and were well packed. I liked the price and I really like the products. We had burgers tonight and they were absolutely fantastic. We enjoyed the T-bones last night and they too were great!
Thank you for the really high-quality meats you provide and you can count on us to be loyal customers! We love to support American companies supplying American produced products!

The products shipped promptly and packed well. When we prepared the items for dinner, the freshness surpassed our expectations.

Food is great, and Hannah Zimmerman is also great.

The quality of food is delicious but I was supposed to receive 2 pounds of bacon and it wasn't shipped. I contacted the company and they are shipping bacon.

the packaged meat was delivered unfrozen and messy.
However, the meat received is very good quality.
Please improve delivery method, perhaps in a Styrofoam cooler.

Meat got to my house rotten! I sent an email and I did not receive a response!

Meat was thawing out by the time it arrived and dry ice was gone. One of the hamburger packs was split open as well.

I love the meat itself. Truly, the only misgiving I feel the packaging should be colder and perhaps even smaller.

I was grateful to Essential Foods. The first order came packaged loosely and UPS delayed the order. When it arrived the ice had melted and the meat wasn’t eatable. I reached out to them and they immediately refunded the entire order, even the shipping and replaced the entire order. The second package arrived and it was double boxed with ice inside and out. The meat was frozen solid. Very pleased that the second time came out the right way and that they made good on the deal. Thank you !

I am giving a 3 star for my purchase. The reason why is as follows. Although everything arrived froze and packaged well however, every package of meat that I've thawed for use I found that there is a slice in the packaging. Causing the juices will spill out of the package and all over the place. Not sure if this is done purposely or an oversight at the time of packaging.

Reply from Essential Foods Direct
3 hours ago

George- our sincerest apologies for your experience. Please verify you got your new package. Thank you and we hope to build back your trust.

I have not received a new package, now was I advised one was shipped. If one was shipped, please supply a tracking number.

Horrible and disgusting! The order came in a thawed and melted box with most of the meat warm. The dry ice was all melted and wet the interior of the box. Some packages leaked and there was blood inside the box. Due to my cancer I cannot risk getting sick off spoiled meat. So the whole order went to waste. I tried contacting business. All emails and calls were unanswered. As of today 11/06/23- the company just now reached out over 2 weeks later and I emailed the hello@essentialfoods email. UPDATE: As of 11/14/23- After obtaining the corrected email address from the company, they sent us a box of a similar order. We appreciate them trying to correct the problem, but the dry ice again arrived completely melted. However, this time most of the items were still frozen. The meats that we did keep and tried were good.

Food arrived defrosted.....No dry ice insig