Hanging, ageing meat.

@T @treeman 2 years ago

So it has finally come to be that I am the owner of a cooler room, this was a big wish for me and I always kinda knew that it was one of the "never gonna happen" dreams. Much like my hidden below ground walk in safe room, the one where my rifles can be above the fireplace and handguns on the walls above my coach. (One day - just maybe those numbers will come in, all 6 of them)

Onto the subject. Here in South Africa, our conditions, how do you hang your meat, how long and what temperature ?
Do we hang skin on or off ?
My game often spends 12-20 hours at above 25 Cel before we get back from the hunt, shot sometime Saturday, sleep over, drive home Sunday - worrying, but never a issue yet.

This cold room is just so so so much a big part of my life and wish's that just never was possible, I am so enthusiastic.

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@D @ds-j

Serious question:

Where is the border between clean and dirty?

When is it clean enough, and where does dirty start?

@T @treeman OP

Serious question:
Where is the border between clean and dirty?
When is it clean enough, and where does dirty start?

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I recon the answer to that would be according to who is asking.
Me ? I shake hands with anyone and I will not eat had held food, yet if I am working on a engine and my hands are black, I am quite willing to eat with finger marks on my bread roll. I have always had a thing about clean dirt and dirty dirt, chemical and mineral, mud, sand, oil and paint or cement, no problem. You sneeze, fart in a room that I am eating in, even some vark cracks a fart at a braai while there is meat cooking, I am done - outa there.
I can go days without bathing if I can wash my hand, feet and face. I do not think I have ever washed or polished a car past blasting mud off with a hose pipe and the interior is a bit embarrassing, no papers and things lying about, but dust - months of it sometimes.

Bathing is a everyday thing and I usually can not call a day a day without bathing, I often realize that I use bathing as a "the work day is done" thing. Cody knows to leave me alone till I have bathed after work. That said I often do not feel I need a bath and complain that I am bathing by custom not need, winters day at home for instance.

Hair must be clean, yours, mine - everyday and when I had hair sometimes twice a day. dirty hair was the reason I started brush cuts then went to shaving my head.

So I guess clean is as clean is considered to be, by you yourself.