Hi, I killed a turtle and made a few mistakes. I wondered if the meat is still good. I killed it by drowning it overnight. Then in the morning I cut it head off and let it drain. In the evening 5:00 I started cutting out meat and had all of it in the freezer by about 6:15. I boiled the meat i got out (to kill bacteria). I couldn't finish the entire thing so I put other parts in the fridge. Yesterday, i took the parts out unthawed, cleaned, boiled, and refroze. Would leaving the turtle out dead for the day make it spoil? Also, am I able to refreeze the meat as I did yesterday?
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I don't own a butcher. He he. I do have the head which i could stuff for a mantle piece. Then invite hot women over to see what I had done. Yeah. But for now I thought someone might know about the meat. Thanks.
Mike,
I would say your not going to have a problem at all.. The whole boiling part you did was alittle over kill if you ask me. Never heard of anyone killing a Snapper by drowding them...
Scrape off the coliform bacteria and serve it to your mother-in-law.
Should have butchered it right away that morning, too warm now to let things sit around. I would think reptile meats spoil quick. I wouldn't let a deer hang all day either in warm weather, unless it was in a meat cooler at 33 degrees. Of course snappers smell so bad to begin with it would be hard to tell if the meat is good right after killing it! LOL
Oh yeah, "unthawed" ROFLMAO! There it is again George!That word!
I don,t know if your meat is still good, it would depend on how long it sat out and at what temp. The next turtle you catch may I suggest you shoot it where the neck attaches to the skull and give it a while to die. Watch out for the mouth cause it is still very able to bite for hours even after the head is cut off. Then finish butchering and freeze in a bag off water. Sorry my fellow taxidermists for crowding this forum with primitive reptilian culinary wizardry but I just had to reply to a fellow snapper man. Mmmmm... gonna hafta thaw some snapper meat and pick up me bottle of sherry.
chicken - eh?
Hey thanks for all the great comments! I am going to make soup with it this weekend. I will make sure we cook it long and people have smaller portions. On thursday I tried some of the meat, purposely not cooked as much as we probably will. Knowing that my relatives will be eating this soup, I would rather get sick first then them. I felt a little weasy after eating it because of how gross the butchering was. But here I am today feel'n great. I couldn't try all of the meat but if chances are that if bacteria was on one part then it would be on other parts of the meat. So here we are, I have a hog roast planned this weekend with turtle soup. The hog will be burried in the ground to cook (like Hawiian style). This should be a very memorable weekend, and I would not want it to be because I made everyone sick. But I am pretty sure now that it should all go well. Thanks again for the tips. I will try and do better next time. This was my first turtle butchering. Have a great weekend!
Mike Luongo
Thaw means to remove from a frozen state, un-thaw then would mean to freeze. The adverb un means to reverse. I ain't no english professor and cant spell for a squat, but I know what UNthaw means, unless this is new english, kinda like new math. Is it? ot knot?