Don't squeeze.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Y’know when you go to the supermarket, and you wander down the meat aisle and you see a huge cut of pre-packaged meat on super special?

And you buy the meat, and take it home and put it in your fridge for a day before you want to cook it?

And on the day you want to cook it you bring it out of the fridge to get to room temp before you put it in the oven?

And then, with scissors, you carefully remove the plastic packaging so the meat is free at last, and you wipe it down to remove the condensation?

You know that little pad of absorbent stuff at the bottom of the meat tray?

Don’t squeeze it.

Just sayin’.

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Okay Mr. Whipple.

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I promise I won’t. But if I happened to be in a contrary sort of mood, what would happen if I did? Not that I would, of course …

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::wanders in:: Thought this was a zit thread . . . ::wanders out::

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Y’know how Lancia thought this was a zit thread? Well, just try to imagine a 10cm x 8cm zit, filled to the brim with really juicy zit spooge. And imagine applying a couple of handfuls of pressure to the zit…

:smiley:

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Uh I squeeze it down the drain, because if I don’t it will start stinking in the trash bag in the kitchen.

Why not squeeze it? If you’re handling uncooked meat you’re already in contact with whatever.

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<gag>

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everywhere right?

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I think **kambuckta **is joking, so, I’m going to squeeze it.

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You take meat out of the fridge so it comes to room temperature before you cook it? I prefer to put my refrigerated meats straight into the oven. This ensures that they spend less time at microbe-friendly temperatures.

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I refer to that absorbent pad as “the chicken diaper” (well, when it comes from a package of chicken, anyway). When the kitchen trash starts smelling funky a day or two after having chicken for dinner…

Wife: What stinks in here?

Me: It’s probably the chicken diaper. I guess I’ll take the trash out.

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A great visual! Thanks.

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People!

You Honestly don’t put that uncooked meat wrapper, tray, and foul-towel right into a plastic bag (and sometimes 2) that goes Immediately out to the trash the minute the food starts to cook & your hands are scrubbed?

You Really let that funk sit to percolate in your kitchen as a “bacteria cafeteria”, spreading a fragrance that can only be described as a cross between the rotting flesh from a scared shit-less carcass
and the arm-pit sweat of some hard working “Bolt Gun Johnny”? :eek:
“Sandwiches again…?”
“I know honey, but you know how it soaks up the dripping goo from the meat…”

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I was going to make a ‘diaper’ comment.

I don’t differentiate between the ones under chicken and the ones under other meats. I call them all diapers, without an adjective.

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Yeah.

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Even the ceiling? I just love kitchen mishaps that get the ceiling. :eek:

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Am I the only person who puts meat trays and wrappings right into the freezer until trash day?

I don’t have a scavenger-secure outdoor space for a trashcan.

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If there is usually space, that is a great idea. :slight_smile:

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I’d lose track of what’s trash and what’s chicken bones for the next batch of stock, and wind up throwing away the stock-to-be while retaining a freezerful of garbage.

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Absolutely. That’s SOP when cooking meat, for the most part.