*food Spoilage Tests For Bachelors*

[adder70]

I will (MOST unfortunately) likely have an opportunity to get much first hand knowledge of stinky things. I recently began work with an engineering firm that does food processing plants. There was a discussion yesterday concerning worst smells. Fish processing and pork processing plants were given the "worst smell" ratings. Unfortunately, I will get to go to a plant in the next few months that has an "offal" plant, where they process the remains of the chickens' bowels. I understand that that is the worst. I was also told that the really bad smells come from "lost chickens", ie dead chickens that were not usable or were separated in the process for some reason and were somehow lodged in unseen areas. Sometimes disgruntled workers have apparently thrown dead birds on ceilings just before quitting. :11:

I do believe I will invest heavily in nose plugs!

OH yeah, the real chicken workers are the ones who can get lunch at KFC and eat it on the edge of the "unused parts" bin (It has a technical name, but I can't remember now.) and toss the bones into the bin. :11: Apparently the smell is not like rotting meat since it's all fairly fresh, but it still has a strong and unpleasant smell to normal people!

Hopefully I can do mostly "cook plants" where they receive parts and bread/marinade them and cook them. Not nearly as much smell.

 

[FreeFloat]

I got a smell for you.

Once smelled, you will never ever ever be able to forget it.

My (now ex) and I bought about a summer's worth of meat from the butcher, just prior to the ex going away on a job for the summer. Ground beef, steaks, chicken, pork ribs, you name it.

Last weekend before he left, my ex did some electrical work on the garage. He never got it completed, but since I never really use the lighting in the garage anyway I didn't care.

A week after he left, I noticed the washing machine in the other end of the basement didn't work. Hm. Strange. Running an extension cord to it from another outlet solved the problem. Being as it's an older house, the wiring was a bit creative to begin with.

About 2 months after he had left, I called from work to my brother at home (who was boarding for the summer) to get him to fetch something barbecue-able from the freezer for dinner.

He called me right back. Seems the freezer was also plugged into a now "dead" outlet.......

It took us another month to clean the rotten meat out of the freezer - we'd put on gas masks and rubber gloves and old clothes - on a count of three one of us would prop open the lid, while the other frantically stuffed as much as we could get on a breath-hold, into a garbage bag, slam the lid shut and flee for the nearest exit to the outside, gasping in fresh air. We had to do it in stages since the garbage men wouldn't take more than 2 bags a week and if the bags were fairly heavy they'd leave them.............. ewwwwwwwwwwwww.......................

 

[Mako Mark]

There is nothing, and I do mean nothing, that smells worse than rotten potatoes. And I work with farm animals.

Sue, your "Bovine Americans" and rotten potatoes have nothing on what you can find behind a vegie market in Asia.

Untill you experience what a pile of over ripe Mangoes mixed with rotten Durian smells like, you will never know that Pig sh*t smells like roses.
.

 

[O2BBubbleFree]

He called me right back. Seems the freezer was also plugged into a now "dead" outlet.......

It took us another month to clean the rotten meat out of the freezer - we'd put on gas masks...

IMHO freezers aren't that expensive, and neither is paying to get one hauled off!

 

[MSilvia]

Vegemite NEVER goes off

I'd never know it if it did... I think it tastes off when it's fresh.

 

[SueMermaid]

Oh, yean Durian. Well, Mark, you certainly have me there.

Speaking of smells, along with my Bovine and Ovine Americans, I also work with and raise sheep blowflies, and they require liver and muscle meat to complete their life cycle. The smell of a 2 lb raw beef roast that's been a 90 degree incubator for a week is *just* lovely.

 

[Cards90]

I got a smell for you.

Once smelled, you will never ever ever be able to forget it.

My (now ex) and I bought about a summer's worth of meat from the butcher, just prior to the ex going away on a job for the summer. Ground beef, steaks, chicken, pork ribs, you name it.

Last weekend before he left, my ex did some electrical work on the garage. He never got it completed, but since I never really use the lighting in the garage anyway I didn't care.

A week after he left, I noticed the washing machine in the other end of the basement didn't work. Hm. Strange. Running an extension cord to it from another outlet solved the problem. Being as it's an older house, the wiring was a bit creative to begin with.

About 2 months after he had left, I called from work to my brother at home (who was boarding for the summer) to get him to fetch something barbecue-able from the freezer for dinner.

He called me right back. Seems the freezer was also plugged into a now "dead" outlet.......

It took us another month to clean the rotten meat out of the freezer - we'd put on gas masks and rubber gloves and old clothes - on a count of three one of us would prop open the lid, while the other frantically stuffed as much as we could get on a breath-hold, into a garbage bag, slam the lid shut and flee for the nearest exit to the outside, gasping in fresh air. We had to do it in stages since the garbage men wouldn't take more than 2 bags a week and if the bags were fairly heavy they'd leave them.............. ewwwwwwwwwwwww.......................

Happened to my Father In Law once, but we plugged it back in with an extention cord and let it freeze again before we cleaned it out.

 

[Snowbear]

We had a conversation like this in the firehouse once.
Hours after I told the guys what *I* thought the worst smell was, we went on an EMS call that proved me right.
:l: :l: :l: :l:

 

[Wildcard]

I spent some time typing out that very same topic in vivid detail, then didn't post it. Still makes me want to puke! Ahhh, the smells that a medic gets to smell!

 

[Snowbear]

I spent some time typing out that very same topic in vivid detail, then didn't post it. Still makes me want to puke! Ahhh, the smells that a medic gets to smell!

Hehehe - Yeah - most folks only think they want to hear about the ________ (fill it in - grossest, stinkiest, bloodiest, whatever) call you've been on. I learned early on that they don't really want the real answer :11: