When in doubt, throw it out! (Also, how I made my wife turn green.)

[MBMorgan]

Methinks there's a method to your madness, sir ...



... well played!

[Michael_in_TX]

PIKE: I said that's one place I might go. I might go into business on Regulus or on the Orion colony.
BOYCE: You, an Orion trader, dealing in green animal women, slaves?
PIKE: The point is this isn't the only life available. There's a whole galaxy of things to choose from.
BOYCE: Not for you. A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on, and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.

[texastweeter]

Cptn. Kirk was a playboy lol

[58limited]

I had that happen once as well, Smithfield ribs from HEB. They sat in the fridge for over a week after I bought them and when I opened them the smell almost floored me. It surprises me that you can wet age vacuum sealed beef for months but vacuum sealed pork goes bad in a week or two. Now when I buy pork and don't get around to cooking it in a few days into the freezer it goes.

[Jerod Broussard]

The loads are much less on beef.

[Michael_in_TX]

Definitely going to have to adopt this strategy myself!

[Smoker_Boy]

Smithfield.

Well, there's your problem.

[Michael_in_TX]

Can't really argue with that....It's commodity pork and not great commodity pork at that. The pork -- both ribs and butts -- that have been in these no-name cryovac bags has been really good. I suspect they are local, or at least Texas-local.

[jfmorris]

I've had a bad Boston butt before, as well as bad pork ribs and extremely bad chicken at least once. Sometimes though, when you open one of those cryovac packs of rib there will be some odor, but it dissipates after you rinse the ribs, which I do before prepping. Ones that are bad continue to stink.

I too found that kitchen trash bags in a hot outdoor bin do NOT contain the odor of rotting stuff, even double bagged and knotted it gets out somehow.

[jecucolo]

Sometimes I freeze it until trash pick up. I just have to remember to put in the can.

[Prof Bunky]

Noticing more 'off' meat these days. Unacceptable. Should have returned them.

[Michael_in_TX]

Welp, the ribs are out of my life. My apologies to the trash guys this morning, but I am sure they have smelled worse.

[texastweeter]

You haven't smelt bad till you accidentally open a protein shake that has set in the door of your car in the TX heat for 3 or 4 days. It will melt your face. It is truly painful.