Thread: What to do about bone taint

Originally Posted by MightyBoosh

I'd be interested to hear what experienced hunters have to say about dunking meat in a creek. I'm careful to avoid anything I shoot or catch coming in to contact with water unless it is going straight in to the freezer. I never wash snapper fillets for example. Bacteria love water!

I wasn't there otherwise I'd have insisted that we don't do that.

Originally Posted by ethos

Chuck it.
Pork is considerably less safe than red meat with any gut spillage or interruptions to rapid chilling. it can harbour campylobacter, listeria and yersinia all of which are very nasty.

Yup. Chucking the one with bone taint. The other stuff may be ok. We will see.

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