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Other Raw-Animal-Food Diets (eg:- Primal Diet/Raw Version of Weston-Price Diet etc.) => Primal Diet => Topic started by: Projectile Vomit on May 29, 2013, 08:12:14 am
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Hi folks, I've been eating high meat for the last few years and have generally benefitted from it, but over the last year I've noticed a couple things that I thought I'd share.
First, I notice that the only time my high meat smells bad is when I use cuts of meat that are either fatty (muscle meats) or that are high in cholesterol (heart). When I use meat that is very lean, like whitetail deer muscle or liver, the high meat doesn't smell bad no matter how long I age it. I have a jar of liver that's been aging since March 2 in my refrigerator right now, and although its clearly well-aged, when I open the jar it smells fine, with a subtle sweet odor.
Second, I notice that when I eat high meat made from fatty or high cholesterol meat, I reach the 'stop' very quickly and sometimes even have to force myself to finish eating the 1 inch cubes I cut the meat in to age it. It's far easier for me to eat aged lean meat, and I can eat aged liver in large quantities if I let myself, the stop doesn't come any sooner than if I sat down for a normal meal of liver.
Right now all of the meat I have aging is liver. It just seems to age so well for me and my body reacts so favorably to it that I can't convince myself to age anything else.
Thoughts or comments?
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Aged liver very quickly develops mold in my experience. Never ate it. Molds are a big nono as far as i'm concerned. The smell of mold is horrible to me.
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I never really thought about it. But now that you mention it I was eating aged calf liver back when I didn't really like aged meats/when I was bolting it down with water. But the calf liver was really good, and I typically ate it without water. I also noticed no one complained of its smell even when I ate around them. But aged beef fat or fatty meat.. I'd never hear the end of it lol.
I haven't done high meat in a little bit, I was using fatty cuts. I think I'll try again with something leaner.
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I think in general what makes cooked fats risky to eat is the fact that cooking oxidizes them, which does bad things to their biochemical constitutions. These same bad things happen when fats oxidize, aka go rancid. Some fats readily oxidize when in their raw state, and the oxidized versions are not so good for us either.
I'm starting to wonder if aging fatty meats might give us a dose of really bad, heavily oxidized fats. After all, one thing people say over and over with high meat is that you have to air it out, keep the aging process aerobic, which keeps the availability of oxygen high which should increase oxidation of fats. Eating aged fatty meat should deliver some benefits from the bacteria present that are eating the meat, but maybe some of those benefits are balanced by the negatives associated with eating highly oxidized (rancid) fats? This is me just thinking out loud. Others are welcome to offer thoughts on the issue.
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I think a little bit of oxidized cholesterol/fat from aged fatty meat wouldn't be as bad as the cooked version. I'm sure a lot of times animals come across carcasses that have been there for a while and eat it.
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They certainly do. That doesn't necessarily mean doing so is ideal for them, or us.
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http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2011/12/some-things-fishy-oxidized-fish-oil.html (http://suppversity.blogspot.com/2011/12/some-things-fishy-oxidized-fish-oil.html)