frayedend
Full Fledged Farker
Well I bought 2 whole pork bellies from Costco and threw them in the freezer. Took one out and thawed it. When I opened the cryovac it had a bit of a funk. But I assumed it was just that strange cryo smell you sometimes get.
It wasn't stinky like when you know something is bad. I rinsed it and let it sit and it seemed the smell was gone. That's typical when you get that funk out of a cryo.
Anyhow, made pork belly burnt ends with half, and put the other half in cure for bacon. Eating the burnt ends I can sort of taste that funk a tiny bit.
Wife didn't notice it at all. I only noticed it a tiny bit on some bites with less fat and more lean meat. I'm not even sure this wasn't just my nervous imagination. It definitely had a pork flavor, like ribs but just stronger if that makes snese.
What you think? Bad pork? Should I toss the bacon. Hate to waste all that money. Since it was frozen it's way past expiration to return.
It wasn't stinky like when you know something is bad. I rinsed it and let it sit and it seemed the smell was gone. That's typical when you get that funk out of a cryo.
Anyhow, made pork belly burnt ends with half, and put the other half in cure for bacon. Eating the burnt ends I can sort of taste that funk a tiny bit.
Wife didn't notice it at all. I only noticed it a tiny bit on some bites with less fat and more lean meat. I'm not even sure this wasn't just my nervous imagination. It definitely had a pork flavor, like ribs but just stronger if that makes snese.
What you think? Bad pork? Should I toss the bacon. Hate to waste all that money. Since it was frozen it's way past expiration to return.