11 delicious gifts from online meat companies that carnivores will love

A good intro to Nashville-based online butcher shop Porter Road is its "Best Of" sampler, which has steaks, pork chops, ground beef, bacon, country sausage, and chorizo to fulfill all their different cravings.

If they're always hanging around the charcuterie board at picnics and dinner parties, a Carnivore Club box will let them enjoy their own personal stash of artisanal cured meats. Soppressata, chorizo, and pepperoni may be some of the four to six meats they'll receive.

All the Wagyu steaks in this collection (filet mignon, Manhattan filet, and ribeye) are Gold Grade, meaning they have a Japanese beef marbling score of nine to 12 — five levels above the highest level of marbling awarded to beef by the USDA. If you want to win over a beef connoisseur, this special kit should do it.

Their excuse to try all those creative bacon recipes they see online is finally here, and there's more than just one type of bacon to use. The box contains one pound each of pork bacon, English bacon, ham bacon, and jowl bacon. The pasture-raised pork is smoked over cherry wood and extra flavorful.

This create-your-own gift option is great if you know exactly what kinds of meat they love. You can pick eight items to fill the box, and there are tons of different meats, sides, and even desserts to choose from: pork chops, baby back ribs, veal patties, potato sides, tartlets, and more.

When you marinate beef jerky in beer, wine, rum, and whiskey, the creative result is just as interesting and delicious as it sounds. At Man Crates, you can choose the delivery date, or send an "Instant Gift" e-card in case you run out of time.

Snake River Farms is known for its American Wagyu steaks and there's no better way to cook them than the precise method of sous vide. They'll get two New York Strip steaks and two ribeye fillets to try out with the Anova Precision Cooker, plus a cooking guide to walk them through the whole process.

Send an early gift to someone who you know is already stressing about how to pull off a large holiday dinner. This 10 to 12 pound whole ham is fully cooked, so all they need to do is warm it in the oven and add glaze, then divert their attention to appetizers. The accompanying sausage, bacon, and chorizo can help with that.

Why go out to an overpriced steakhouse when a delicious gourmet dinner is right in this gift box? With two juicy ribeyes, two thick pork chops, and a four-serving size of Omaha Steakhouse fries, they'll be eating well in their own home.

Cook along with chef Naomi Pomeroy, the owner of Portland restaurant Beast. Her book of 140 recipes, "Taste & Technique," goes back to the fundamentals of cooking and includes ways to cook the flat iron, pork loin roast, and beef short ribs in this set.