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Title: Fermented beef liver oil
Post by: Projectile Vomit on September 08, 2013, 02:17:52 am

I turn a fair amount of liver into 'high' meat, and eat a piece or two a day as a probiotic. I started a batch on June 7 that I checked lately (still eating off the batch I started in early May), and a layer of oil had formed on top of the liver that tasted vaguely like the fermented cod liver oil I'd bought from Green Pastures some years back, only without that biting fishy taste. Did I make a batch of fermented beef liver oil?

Anyone have any experience with this happening?

Title: Re: Fermented beef liver oil
Post by: Dr. D on September 08, 2013, 03:46:32 am

Yes I prefer high liver to high muscle meat. So I keep making it and my jar is nice and green with the dark rich colored liver oil on top. Its good stuff. Recently my supplier is low on liver so I've added ground beef, very lean, and it now has a fizz to it like soda.

Title: Re: Fermented beef liver oil
Post by: eveheart on September 08, 2013, 04:58:39 am

Quote from: Eric on September 08, 2013, 02:17:52 am

I turn a fair amount of liver into 'high' meat, and eat a piece or two a day as a probiotic. I started a batch on June 7 that I checked lately (still eating off the batch I started in early May), and a layer of oil had formed on top of the liver that tasted vaguely like the fermented cod liver oil I'd bought from Green Pastures some years back, only without that biting fishy taste. Did I make a batch of fermented beef liver oil?

Anyone have any experience with this happening?

A while back, I wrote to Green Pastures asking about what they meant by "fermented," and they replied that they make their FCLO by fermenting the cod livers and then gathering the oil that separates out of the fermented flesh. So, I'd say you made FMLO.

Title: Re: Fermented beef liver oil
Post by: cherimoya_kid on September 08, 2013, 10:28:34 am

Fascinating.  I've fermented liver before, but never in a container where the oil could rise to the top.

Title: Re: Fermented beef liver oil
Post by: Projectile Vomit on September 08, 2013, 09:05:08 pm

What sort of container did you use that would prevent the oil from rising to the top?

Title: Re: Fermented beef liver oil
Post by: cherimoya_kid on September 08, 2013, 09:18:08 pm

Quote from: Eric on September 08, 2013, 09:05:08 pm

What sort of container did you use that would prevent the oil from rising to the top?

Actually, it was just a large plastic bag, and it wasn't really intentional.  The liver blood/fluids fermented into alcohol.