squeezyjohn
Well-Known Member
I just came home with some shopping from Oxford's famous market ... I bought the produce at a new butchers stall for me - all the other stalls have provided excellent produce for me since before I can remember!
I bought a gammon knuckle (salt cured lower hind leg of pork) - it came in a vacuum pack.
On opening it in my kitchen I was hit by the stench of a rotting corpse. Now I know that strange smells can build up in a vacuum packed meat product - but this was something else - my kitchen still smells of it and I opened it about 3 hours ago! I tried rinsing the meat and letting it dry off to see if it was good but just the smell of being packed up like that - but although not so strong it still smelled pretty bad and like ammonia too.
I'm not going to eat it - that's for sure, but I just wanted to check opinions before taking it back to the butchers in case it's supposed to smell bad like that and I'm not making an ass out of myself. All the ham joints I have bought in my life before this were not vacuum packed but loose from the butcher themselves.
Cheers
Squeezy
I bought a gammon knuckle (salt cured lower hind leg of pork) - it came in a vacuum pack.
On opening it in my kitchen I was hit by the stench of a rotting corpse. Now I know that strange smells can build up in a vacuum packed meat product - but this was something else - my kitchen still smells of it and I opened it about 3 hours ago! I tried rinsing the meat and letting it dry off to see if it was good but just the smell of being packed up like that - but although not so strong it still smelled pretty bad and like ammonia too.
I'm not going to eat it - that's for sure, but I just wanted to check opinions before taking it back to the butchers in case it's supposed to smell bad like that and I'm not making an ass out of myself. All the ham joints I have bought in my life before this were not vacuum packed but loose from the butcher themselves.
Cheers
Squeezy