smokerpa
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- Jan 11, 2015
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- Easton, PA
Since getting my mega cooker a couple of months ago, I have been asked to cook for a lot more people around the holidays and other festive situations. Not like Doog though, who has a mega-mega cooker for his fatties. :boxing:
Usually I buy the meat, store the meat, process the meat and cook the meat. This time I was unable to store one of the briskets. I was with my buddy when we bought it last week. I told him to just store in it in the fridge for four days and it will be fine. Instead, his wife told him to freeze it. He then decided to unfreeze it, he would leave it sit out all day, and when he thought it was getting a little warm, he decided to put it in a cooler outside. Normally in December, it would just fine this time of the year, but with unseasonable warm weather, it made the problem even worse.
I noticed a discoloration when it was dropped off tonight and saw my wife put it in our fridge to store for a couple of hours. When I just went to open the bag, the color was now something a paid attention to and when I opened it, well.....it was bad. I called my buddy and said is there any possible way that this was left out or somehow got warm. After a long pause, he explained to me the above situation.
Now I have to go to RD at six in the morning to save his day, because we did a secret squirrel bro code promise me you will never tell my wife about this pinky swear.
I cycled my sleep to process my meat tonight and sleep in a little. I guess that is over.
I was getting an extra fridge anyway so I can cure more bacon at once, so I guess this will expedite that now so I don't have to worry about friends doing this again.
Anyone else run into problems like this before? I don't mind doing the friends, family and work situation, but since the new cooker, a lot more people are making request and I don't have the space available like I use to when I was buying the product and it never left my sight. Starting to make me rethink this.
For those that are wondering, I am not making a profit off of this. They simply buy the meats and I cook them.
Usually I buy the meat, store the meat, process the meat and cook the meat. This time I was unable to store one of the briskets. I was with my buddy when we bought it last week. I told him to just store in it in the fridge for four days and it will be fine. Instead, his wife told him to freeze it. He then decided to unfreeze it, he would leave it sit out all day, and when he thought it was getting a little warm, he decided to put it in a cooler outside. Normally in December, it would just fine this time of the year, but with unseasonable warm weather, it made the problem even worse.
I noticed a discoloration when it was dropped off tonight and saw my wife put it in our fridge to store for a couple of hours. When I just went to open the bag, the color was now something a paid attention to and when I opened it, well.....it was bad. I called my buddy and said is there any possible way that this was left out or somehow got warm. After a long pause, he explained to me the above situation.
Now I have to go to RD at six in the morning to save his day, because we did a secret squirrel bro code promise me you will never tell my wife about this pinky swear.
I cycled my sleep to process my meat tonight and sleep in a little. I guess that is over.
I was getting an extra fridge anyway so I can cure more bacon at once, so I guess this will expedite that now so I don't have to worry about friends doing this again.
Anyone else run into problems like this before? I don't mind doing the friends, family and work situation, but since the new cooker, a lot more people are making request and I don't have the space available like I use to when I was buying the product and it never left my sight. Starting to make me rethink this.
For those that are wondering, I am not making a profit off of this. They simply buy the meats and I cook them.