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    Trimmings for the dogs

    You know that gray color that the outside of the meat turns when you let it sit in the cooler? Think that’s okay to cook up for the dogs?

    Shot a decent sized Nilgai last week. It’s been sitting for a week. The steaks I’ve cut so far look incredibly tasty but I’m sure not eating the gray trimmings myself.

    #2
    You don’t even have to cook it.


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      #3
      You're kidding right? My dogs eat EVERYTHING, there's not a scrap that gets trimmed or bone cut out that hits the trash. All the normal trim they eat raw, the nasty stuff I simmer down into a soup and pour it over their dry food. My dogs are very happy.
      edit: I'd eat the gray stuff myself but that's just me, my only requirement is that meat doesn't smell sour.

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        #4
        I have a detailed analysis I go through to determine if I should feed meat to my dogs.

        Step 1. Do I want it? If yes, do not pass go, do not collect $200. If no, proceed to step 2
        Step 2. Feed it to the dogs
        Step 3. See step 2
        Step 4. Clean up the vomit and get yelled at by my wife because my chocolate lab can't handle red meat, but his taste buds don't know that yet.

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          #5
          So why do you think it’s no good for human consumption? If it’s been soaking in ice water it has just been washed out with no blood left. Just curious. It’s your meat but it’s never been a deterrent for me. And I like Nilgai too much to feed to my dogs.

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            #6
            Why waste time cookin it?

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              #7
              Originally posted by txbowman12 View Post
              I have a detailed analysis I go through to determine if I should feed meat to my dogs.

              Step 1. Do I want it? If yes, do not pass go, do not collect $200. If no, proceed to step 2
              Step 2. Feed it to the dogs
              Step 3. See step 2
              Step 4. Clean up the vomit and get yelled at by my wife because my chocolate lab can't handle red meat, but his taste buds don't know that yet.
              See step 4 is the reason I ask. I already clean up enough hair balls and vomit from the cat. I don’t need to add the dogs to it.

              Guess I’ll give it a go. I’m sure it’s fine.

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                #8
                The meat was soaked in water?


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                  #9
                  Originally posted by MetalMan2004 View Post
                  See step 4 is the reason I ask. I already clean up enough hair balls and vomit from the cat. I don’t need to add the dogs to it.

                  Guess I’ll give it a go. I’m sure it’s fine.
                  I have one dog that's a little sensitive, that one is fine eating it raw but if I cook it and give him more than a handful he'll get the runs every time. It's not the meat because he does it with perfectly good meat I'd eat as well.

                  As for the brown color, meat is brown with the absence of blood. The stores add red dye (or whatever) to make it look more appealing.

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                    #10
                    Way I look at it, he licks his butt and other, rolls around in excrement- a little spoiled meat won't hurt a thing.

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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Uncle Saggy View Post
                      The meat was soaked in water?


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                      No. It’s been on ice all week but I’ve kept it drained. The gray is only on the very surface, it’s thinner than I can even cut with a sharp knife. The trimmed steaks look and taste amazing. I snuck a small piece earlier.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by justletmein View Post

                        As for the brown color, meat is brown with the absence of blood. The stores add red dye (or whatever) to make it look more appealing.
                        Hmm, I worked in a meat market for several years. Never seen or heard of a red meat dye. (there isnt any) Its from the water displacing the blood in the meat.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by DedDuk View Post
                          Hmm, I worked in a meat market for several years. Never seen or heard of a red meat dye. (there isnt any) Its from the water displacing the blood in the meat.
                          Gas, dye, whatever it's artificially added to keep the meat red when they package it. Maybe your small meat market doesn't do it but buy anything at Walmart it sure does. I will concede it's not normally brown though, plenty of my deer and game are plenty red when I cut them up. It's only brown if it's bled out in water which doesn't hurt anything.

                          This red meat is possible because of “modified air packaging”, or MAP, a packaging technique that has been around for decades. In the packaging process, food manufacturers remove the natural air from packaging and replace it with a mix of gases like nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide. The exact gas formula depends on which characteristics the manufacturer is trying to preserve.
                          Last edited by justletmein; 05-27-2022, 04:17 PM.

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