GreenDrake
is Blowin Smoke!
I am sure some of you have experienced this but at last weekend's comp I opened up the bone in butts to get to prepping....nasty sour rancid smell overcame the tent. I knew it wasn't good, but the color was fine and liquids were clear, so I rinsed it well and got to prepping. Smell wasn't gone. Had to go to our backup butts, boneless ones.
I cooked them off to see if there was a chance at recovery, as I had read about sows in heat, testosterone, boar, packing issues and that some of them actually came out fine. This was not the case, pulled one piece off and that sour smell was there. I saved one butt and brought it back to the store and said "shove your head in this cooler and tell me that is something you would serve". Without question my money was refunded, but man, I will certainly be trimming my butts at home from now on. That was a tough adjustment to make when I had chosen some good money muscle. Consequently we got slaughtered in pork this weekend.
I cooked them off to see if there was a chance at recovery, as I had read about sows in heat, testosterone, boar, packing issues and that some of them actually came out fine. This was not the case, pulled one piece off and that sour smell was there. I saved one butt and brought it back to the store and said "shove your head in this cooler and tell me that is something you would serve". Without question my money was refunded, but man, I will certainly be trimming my butts at home from now on. That was a tough adjustment to make when I had chosen some good money muscle. Consequently we got slaughtered in pork this weekend.
