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We dry-age beef wrapped in cheesecloth, but in the fridge. No flies in there...Abraham wrote: Mon Nov 19, 2018 11:46 am 74novaman,
Are you from someplace in Africa?
The only mention of 'biltong' I've seen were all located there.
How long do you let it dry and do you use cheese cloth to keep the flys off or ...?
Thanks!
I believe you have to eat brain or spinal cord to get mad cow and apparently the prions are not destroyed with heat. Hard to believe.gtolbert09 wrote: Mon Nov 19, 2018 2:43 pm Mad Cow Disease? I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath, UK in the early 90's when Mad Cow Disease broke out. Because of that I'm restricted by the gov't from donating blood. Yes humans can be affected by it. I've had no ill effects, but I make sure all my beef is at least medium before consuming it.
That is the case and infections did occur. If you have ever spent any time in a slaughter house you would be appalled at the easy with which contamination happens.rotor wrote: Mon Nov 19, 2018 3:13 pmI believe you have to eat brain or spinal cord to get mad cow and apparently the prions are not destroyed with heat. Hard to believe.gtolbert09 wrote: Mon Nov 19, 2018 2:43 pm Mad Cow Disease? I was stationed at RAF Lakenheath, UK in the early 90's when Mad Cow Disease broke out. Because of that I'm restricted by the gov't from donating blood. Yes humans can be affected by it. I've had no ill effects, but I make sure all my beef is at least medium before consuming it.
Just look at the millions of pounds of ground beef which is recalled each year due to bacterial contamination. Brain is also a popular food in the UK. I know my Mom used to make brains and eggs for us when I was a kid.MaduroBU wrote: Mon Nov 19, 2018 3:42 pm Grind your own from steak that has been aged. Dry aging beef will root out contaminated meat (vs cooking to kill the pathogens). I'm pretty permissive with food safety, but eating uncooked preground beef puts a lot of faith in a meat packing industry that was putting its faith in you to cook thir product.
A guess is that you were iron deficient. People with iron deficiency will develop a nearly uncontrollable urge to eat things ranging from ice chips to steaks to rocks. These are not psych patients mind you, but normal people whose reptile brains are sending them signals that they can't really interpret but which are nonetheless very hard to stave off.BigGuy wrote: Mon Nov 19, 2018 4:10 pm More years ago than I care to remember, in college. I'd been living on rice and oatmeal for weeks. I finally got a little money and went an bought a couple of steaks. I was getting ready to cook them when suddenly I just grabbed one and started eating it raw. I hadn't planned to, but I just couldn't stop myself. I cooked the other one, and haven't eaten raw meat since. I don't know exactly what came over me, and I wondered about it.
I'm sorry your right. Just the sight of the giblets bag inside the frozen turkey makes me gag.Abraham wrote: Sun Nov 18, 2018 4:56 pm Philip964,
Yes, it counts, but I'm sorry you didn't care for it.
My guess is you had a built in reluctance factor.
Understandable, you're an American with the American attitude of 'holy mak-el Andy, we gonna eat that, it'll make us sick' when it won't.
Getting Americans to even try or consider something that isn't bland, though 'mountain oysters' even though rather bland is a huge stretch for some.
BTW, even turkey fries I find delicious, or beef or ....they're all good, I do prefer them 'fried'.
Brains, not being a zombie, I find gelatinous and not something I'm overly fond of, but will eat them in Menudo.
Years back, on the first leg of a business trip landing in Monterrey, Mexico in ye old company jet, a group of us were treated to lunch of cabrito.
Our host, insisted our metallurgist eat the eye out of the whole roasted critter served as our lunch. He, our guy, apparently thought himself the butt of a bad gustatory joke. He refused this kind offer whereupon our host dug one out of the skull, popped into his mouth and exclaimed ecstasy.
I didn't volunteer to eat it as I didn't want to make our guy look weak...