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Title: How to store my meat in my refrigerator?
Post by: Chopstick33 on February 22, 2012, 10:56:22 am
Hi, I usually wrap my meat up with pastic wrap and store it for 3-4 day. It alway has a foul smell after. Is it still safe to eat it raw? Should I leave it uncover on a plate next time? Please some one help me on this. Here in California, grass fed beef are really pricey.
Thanks Jimmy
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refridgtor?
Post by: PaleoPhil on February 22, 2012, 11:29:27 am
To me, meat that spoils while wrapped in plastic tastes foul and has the potential to develop lethal clostridium botulinum levels, whereas meat that's stored in glass or open air is less likely to become foul tasting or pathogen-loaded.
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refridgtor?
Post by: van on February 22, 2012, 11:38:26 am
find a way to hang it, or lay it on suspended wire racks. You'll never go back.
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refridgtor?
Post by: raw-al on February 22, 2012, 11:58:00 am
We slice the meat thin then lay it on racks. It dries out and tastes excellent.
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refridgtor?
Post by: Chopstick33 on February 22, 2012, 12:39:25 pm
How about liver? Should it be lay on wire rack? I don't have room to Hang meats in my fridge. How long will I be able to store my meat laying on a wire rack? Thanks all for the help!!!
Jimmy
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refridgtor?
Post by: van on February 22, 2012, 12:52:59 pm
Hanging meat is one of the most dense ways to store meat. Hang liver too. It drips though, so use a catch basin. It's totally gets yummy as it gets a slight tang to it, and when sliced thinly and layered with fat, well, you could serve it as appetizers at any high end social affair, as long you didn't broadcast what it was.
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refridgtor?
Post by: Chopstick33 on February 22, 2012, 01:44:23 pm
What temperature should it be hung in? How long will I need to Hang it untill it get the slight tang to it? Sound like I will need to find a way to hang it in my fridge. Thanks!!
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refrigerator?
Post by: van on February 22, 2012, 10:02:29 pm
My fridge is just a couple degrees above freezing. And then about a week before it's got that tang. But you can taste it along the way to see at what stage you like it. You can also lay it on a plate and flip it over every day or more to get air to all sides, but hanging seems to be a better way to go. Just look at GS's pics of the meat shop in his town.
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refrigerator?
Post by: zaidi on February 23, 2012, 03:50:05 am
My fridge is just a couple degrees above freezing. And then about a week before it's got that tang. But you can taste it along the way to see at what stage you like it. You can also lay it on a plate and flip it over every day or more to get air to all sides, but hanging seems to be a better way to go. Just look at GS's pics of the meat shop in his town.
van,
Does Dry Aged meat has the same effects like that of high meats?
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refrigerator?
Post by: TylerDurden on February 23, 2012, 06:01:49 am
Does Dry Aged meat has the same effects like that of high meats?
No, at least dried, aged meat has never worked for me.
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refrigerator?
Post by: van on February 23, 2012, 10:55:45 am
Yeah, I'd agree it doesn't any where near the amount of bacteria.. It just tastes and digests fine. Eventually it will dry out like a shoe, instead of disintegrate due to bacterial digestion.
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refrigerator?
Post by: raw-al on February 23, 2012, 11:42:16 am
How do you hang it Van? Does it take up a lot of the fridge?
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Post by: nicole on February 24, 2012, 12:12:23 pm
i found several thin wood stick and place them on top of a glass cassarole dish. then lay the slab on like a rack.
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refrigerator?
Post by: cherimoya_kid on February 24, 2012, 12:38:02 pm
i found several thin wood stick and place them on top of a glass cassarole dish. then lay the slab on like a rack.
I like that. Perhaps bamboo would work for this.
Title: Re: How to store my meat in my refrigerator?
Post by: van on February 24, 2012, 03:13:08 pm
My SS wire oven rack just fits in my fridge. I was able to supend (tie) it to the light shelf at the top. then with S hooks, get the big ones (1 1/2 - 2 inch ) you can hook the meat and hang it on the wire rack. For those who can't seem to hang it you could make ( if you're handy) a hardwood or aluminum ( out of angle stock ) stand and run SS wire through the top of it. Worth doing, for hanging meat is really so much better than anything I've tried. Have to admit, it does look like a meat locker when you're done though. I hang a hand towel in front of the whole thing so that my daughter doesn't get grossed out.