What did medieval butchers do?

Answer 1

The original of the Butcher's signs and symbols are more obvious if the reasons for butchers are known. In the middle ages, small animals were killed and eaten on the same day. There was no refrigeration and spoiled meat was a problem. Larger animals (generally pigs and cows) obviously can not be consumed in a day by a family, so the butcher would take the animal and section it for multiple families, or the whole town. So selling a large animal was a way to convert it into fresh meat over a longer period of time.

Butcher's signs generally are of 3 types, knives, pigs and cows.

Answer 2

Medieval butchers, much like a modern butcher, processed animals into ready to cook meat. Unlike the modern supermarket butcher, the medieval butcher would have also been responsible for killing the animal, and also collecting useful non-food resources like bone, horn, and hide for further use by other craftsmen. Because of the lack ofrefrigeration meat would either be used shortly after it was slaughtered or preserved by various methods including salting, curing, smoking, or drying.

Answer 3

Medieval butcher slaughtered domestic animals like chickens, cattle, and sheep and cut them up for customers to buy.

Answer 4

The job of a butcher ( as it is today) is to butcher animals for eating.

Answer 5

They chop animals and skin them and make them out of stuff