How clean is your food ?

[chucky]

If you buy meat or fat from your butcher then how clean does it look like ? Can it have some "dirt" on it. I don't mean it literally but when I bought pork fat from my butcher and started to cut it at home, it didn't look "clean". It had some, for example, small hair pieces on it. Hair pieces were not from a human but similar when you drop a piece of fat on your carpet and pick it up. But they grow their own pigs and I have started to trust them as I recently changed butcher. But I haven't bought fat directly from butcher before so it came with small surprise.


Offt. By the way, the fat feels a lot like a gum. I usually have bought it from supermarket and it is hard and though. Is that right ?

[TylerDurden]

Well, you seem to be referring to grainfed meats which are hardly suitable. As for the tiny hairs issue, I've encountered such in the past and it never bothered me a bit. 

[goodsamaritan]

Oh I try to see the source and the work ethic of the whole food supply chain as far as I can see it.
So over the years of being the marketer of the household we have settled on clean supplies.

[chucky]

Well, you seem to be referring to grainfed meats which are hardly suitable. As for the tiny hairs issue, I've encountered such in the past and it never bothered me a bit. 

If you were referring to supermarket fat then yes. And good to know. Maybe it's just me for being too clean with food !

By the way the fat which felt like gum is the pigs inner fat. That's why it feels and tastes different.

Oh I try to see the source and the work ethic of the whole food supply chain as far as I can see it.
So over the years of being the marketer of the household we have settled on clean supplies.

Sure, I will be asking more about their meat and work ethics but I can't blast all of my questions out at once. They could get too protective You have posted some pictures from the market where you buy your meat. It looks good but they are freely in "open air" so I didn't expect that they are so clean. But eh looks like they take good care of your meat

[goodsamaritan]

Open air is best for meats.
They are freshly killed at 12mn or later and sold the same day.

[William]

If you buy meat or fat from your butcher then how clean does it look like ?

It's clean.

 

Can it have some "dirt" on it.

No. The only thing on it is the blue stamp that shows that it has been inspected and passed as fit for human consumption.

[ForTheHunt]

I'm not really fussed about 'clean'.

I can eat hair or feathers or what ever, but what I don't want is any sort of chemicals touching my food. I even feel iffy about storing my food in plastic.

[raw]

raw meat is always clean to me no matter what's the source is.

[RawZi]

... The only thing on it is the blue stamp that shows that it has been inspected and passed as fit for human consumption.

    I cut the blue stamp off.  What grade ink is that.  Anyone?  What's the source?  Petroleum?  Soy?  When do they stamp it precisely?  

[djr_81]

   I cut the blue stamp off.  What grade ink is that.  Anyone?  What's the source?  Petroleum?  Soy?  When do they stamp it precisely?  

I cut it off too. I carve out a 1/4 deep pocket around it to make sure I get it all.

My meat is usually pretty clean. Sometimes I'll get a couple hairs on it but it just means it's real and not sanitized IMO.

[raw]

I cut it off too. I carve out a 1/4 deep pocket around it to make sure I get it all.

My meat is usually pretty clean. Sometimes I'll get a couple hairs on it but it just means it's real and not sanitized IMO.

hi dan, i'd love to know who's your farmer? probably, i can shop from him too. my farmer raises all 100% grassfed animals and he's from pa.