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K. Reece wrote:

"Bill Oliver" wrote in message
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In article FztCa.45945$hd6.9249@fed1read05,
wrote:
Why on earth does he hang dead deer from the basketball hoop? And why
does
he get away with it?
Roz


Probably to age it. You do know, don't you, that the steaks you buy
in the supermarket have been hanging for around 21 days? While
commercial meat houses hang beef in cool temperatures for long
periods, the tradition for game is to hang it at ambient temperature
for shorter periods. The "gamey" taste of meat harvested by hunting
rather than packaged at the supermarket is in large part due to
insufficient ageing.

billo

They might have been in the past but beef is not aged by commercial
processors anymore. It costs too much money in shrinkage. The beef hangs
in the "hot box" for all of 48 hours max before it's cut, packaged and
shipped. After it's package it doesn't hang around all that long before
it's shipped either. There's a lot of it that goes "direct ship" too.
There's a lot of it that is cut and packaged and on a truck in less than 48
hours from the time it walks in the door.

My DH works in a beef packing plant.

Kathy



No kidding. I always heard that beef was aged for 21 days.

billo