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Is this a problem that can be solved with enough chili powder? I'm not a terribly picky eater or familiar with wild game, just have a lot of confidence in gastr

Is this a problem that can be solved with enough chili powder? I'm not a terribly picky eater or familiar with wild game, just have a lot of confidence in gastro science.

ThrowawayTestr 4y ago
How much chilli powder does it take to kill parasites?
- tmoertel 4y ago
  Does cooking not kill the parasites?
  - HarryHirsch 4y ago
    Cooking does, but the best thing about the pig is that you can turn it into sausage, and improperly prepared sausage puts the consumer at risk for trichinosis.
    - stametseater 4y ago
      Gamma irradiation is very effective at killing trichinosis in swine flesh and is approved for this purpose in America.
      - HarryHirsch 4y ago
        A cobalt source for the home? That's plainly nuts. In Europe they dealt very successfully with trichinosis by inspecting pig carcasses. But I have no idea if you can take a muscle sample from a porker you shot yourself to your local large-animal veterinarian to see if it's trichinotic. (In rural areas they just might that service - back then in my home village we had that pharmacist who was a devoted mushroom hunter, and people would run their mushrooms past him for identification if they weren't really sure.)
        detaro 4y ago
        In Germany at least inspection is mandatory, even if you've hunted for personal use.
        stametseater 4y ago
        Obviously food irradiation is done at specialized processing facilities where hunters would send their kills, not at home. Here's a clue for you: it's already the case that most hunters don't process their own meat. > That's plainly nuts. You're the one who said it, so right back at you buddy. Stop pulling absurdities out of your ass and attributing them to other people to have something to disagree with.
        HarryHirsch 4y ago
        Not sure if your average family-owned deer processor would want a gamma source with all the required safeguards in their facility. And they'd have to get it past the customers too, there's going to be resistance with at least some of them. A friend from school, his parents owned a butcher shop where they killed and butchered their own hogs (not beef, beef would have been to large for the facility). If anyone had asked him what he wanted - irradiation or inspection plus proper treatment of the meat (boil, fry or hot-smoke) the reply would have been unequivocal and loud.
        ThrowawayTestr 4y ago
        > specialized processing facilities where hunters would send their kills Have you ever met a hunter? They do not send their kills to "specialized processing facilities" they send their kills to their buddy Jim who butchers it in his shed. Maybe they know a commerical butcher that will do it for them, and even then it's the butcher down the road. Specialized processing facilities, that's hilarious.
        stametseater 4y ago
        More than you I think.
  - paulryanrogers 4y ago
    Some prion diseases cannot be destroyed by cooking the meat.
  - hollerith 4y ago
    There are also toxins to worry about. Many toxins bioaccumulate. Wild animals spend most of their waking hours looking for and chewing food (and humans labored under the same constraint till they invented cooking); even when they can tell there is something wrong with some food, they usually cannot afford to reject it. Toxins are present in a lot of farmed 100%-grass-fed meat, too. I stick mostly with 100%-grass-fed lamb raised in New Zealand or Australia and won't eat grass-fed buffalo anymore even if it were free.
karaterobot 4y ago
Not safe, and not good meat. Don't take my word for it, here is proof by inference: hunters in Texas aren't barbecueing it already, thus it's not edible, QED.

Is this a problem that can be solved with enough chili powder? I'm not a terribly picky eater or familiar with wild game, just have a lot of confidence in gastro science.

ThrowawayTestr 4y ago

How much chilli powder does it take to kill parasites?

tmoertel 4y ago
Does cooking not kill the parasites?
- HarryHirsch 4y ago
  Cooking does, but the best thing about the pig is that you can turn it into sausage, and improperly prepared sausage puts the consumer at risk for trichinosis.
  - stametseater 4y ago
    Gamma irradiation is very effective at killing trichinosis in swine flesh and is approved for this purpose in America.
    - HarryHirsch 4y ago
      A cobalt source for the home? That's plainly nuts. In Europe they dealt very successfully with trichinosis by inspecting pig carcasses. But I have no idea if you can take a muscle sample from a porker you shot yourself to your local large-animal veterinarian to see if it's trichinotic. (In rural areas they just might that service - back then in my home village we had that pharmacist who was a devoted mushroom hunter, and people would run their mushrooms past him for identification if they weren't really sure.)
      - detaro 4y ago
        In Germany at least inspection is mandatory, even if you've hunted for personal use.
      - stametseater 4y ago
        Obviously food irradiation is done at specialized processing facilities where hunters would send their kills, not at home. Here's a clue for you: it's already the case that most hunters don't process their own meat. > That's plainly nuts. You're the one who said it, so right back at you buddy. Stop pulling absurdities out of your ass and attributing them to other people to have something to disagree with.
        HarryHirsch 4y ago
        Not sure if your average family-owned deer processor would want a gamma source with all the required safeguards in their facility. And they'd have to get it past the customers too, there's going to be resistance with at least some of them. A friend from school, his parents owned a butcher shop where they killed and butchered their own hogs (not beef, beef would have been to large for the facility). If anyone had asked him what he wanted - irradiation or inspection plus proper treatment of the meat (boil, fry or hot-smoke) the reply would have been unequivocal and loud.
        ThrowawayTestr 4y ago
        > specialized processing facilities where hunters would send their kills Have you ever met a hunter? They do not send their kills to "specialized processing facilities" they send their kills to their buddy Jim who butchers it in his shed. Maybe they know a commerical butcher that will do it for them, and even then it's the butcher down the road. Specialized processing facilities, that's hilarious.
        stametseater 4y ago
        More than you I think.
- paulryanrogers 4y ago
  Some prion diseases cannot be destroyed by cooking the meat.
- hollerith 4y ago
  There are also toxins to worry about. Many toxins bioaccumulate. Wild animals spend most of their waking hours looking for and chewing food (and humans labored under the same constraint till they invented cooking); even when they can tell there is something wrong with some food, they usually cannot afford to reject it. Toxins are present in a lot of farmed 100%-grass-fed meat, too. I stick mostly with 100%-grass-fed lamb raised in New Zealand or Australia and won't eat grass-fed buffalo anymore even if it were free.

karaterobot 4y ago

Not safe, and not good meat. Don't take my word for it, here is proof by inference: hunters in Texas aren't barbecueing it already, thus it's not edible, QED.