Thread: Be Careful of Meat from Gilmours

Just a public safety announcement. Be careful when buying meat from Gilmours, thats if you have a account with them. I bought a $80 slab of knuckle last Friday, got it home, proceeded to cut up for steaks and noticed a weird smell coming from the blood, but not the meat, thought it must be the smell from aging. cooked a steak, no issues so cut bagged the rest for steaks. Next day noticed a rotten egg smell coming from the freezer and Sunday checked the steaks and they were all green and stinking real bad. Tossed 15 steak this mourning, almost cried.
Used by date was end of the month
So if you buy meat from Gilmour, buy the freshest they have and be ready to take it back the next day.
I not going back, gonna have to find another store for affordable meat. Does AFFCO sale to the public?

you should be able to get a refund

Originally Posted by Russian 22.

you should be able to get a refund

Yes, if I hadn't of cut into steaks

NO, if they sell it, it has to be fit for consumption, in which ever form that takes. It would be pretty rich of them to say you werent allowed to cut it up.

you should tell them at a minimum as there is/could be a breakdown in their food handling processes, they'd need to trace it to stay compliant with thier food saftey plan and possibly issue a recall. they could want the item back for testing too.

i have used Gilmours for decades with no issue, from meat to dry goods.

Originally Posted by Three O'Three

Yes, if I hadn't of cut into steaks

How else were you meant to eat it.
You have every right to take it back.

I had this exact same experience in the roar. Took a scotch fillet roll from Gilmour’s up to my cousins. Opened it up and it had a sulphur smell, not rotten meat smell. Cut a couple steaks to take out to camp for that night. Cooked up beautifully but when we ate them, there was one little muscle in the steak that tasted weird. By the time we got back the next day, the leftover in fridge had gone green.

Originally Posted by Three O'Three

Just a public safety announcement. Be careful when buying meat from Gilmours, thats if you have a account with them. I bought a $80 slab of knuckle last Friday, got it home, proceeded to cut up for steaks and noticed a weird smell coming from the blood, but not the meat, thought it must be the smell from aging. cooked a steak, no issues so cut bagged the rest for steaks. Next day noticed a rotten egg smell coming from the freezer and Sunday checked the steaks and they were all green and stinking real bad. Tossed 15 steak this mourning, almost cried.
Used by date was end of the month
So if you buy meat from Gilmour, buy the freshest they have and be ready to take it back the next day.
I not going back, gonna have to find another store for affordable meat. Does AFFCO sale to the public?

Gilmours just sell freezing works meat. Including Affco. I’ve been in the chillers before and found a box of rotten chicken breast as well.

I don't understand how they went off in the freezer?

Originally Posted by Fawls

I don't understand how they went off in the freezer?

Poor processing prior to freezing - not controlling taint early enough most likely. It happens sometimes if you get an animal that's unusually stressed for whatever reason and the muscles are contracted with adrenaline and the blood cannot drain in the hanging step. Sets up for meat that doesn't cool properly and goes straight to rancid. Not nice, and should be sorted out at the processing point but things do get missed. Also, could have been in a part of the freezer that just didn't cool down quickly enough for some reason which allowed it to start.

The only way for meat to go off in the freezer is either freezer stops working for a while, or the meat is put in warm and a lot together so the core stays warm for a while. Meat is a very good insulator, and when I worked at poultry we did a heap of whole chickens for carcass composition and they were put warm into the freezer in 20kg bags. When we got them out a few weeks later the chickens in the middle of the bag were green and well on the way to rotting. Not much fun running through the bandsaw and mincer in that state

Originally Posted by No.3

Poor processing prior to freezing - not controlling taint early enough most likely. It happens sometimes if you get an animal that's unusually stressed for whatever reason and the muscles are contracted with adrenaline and the blood cannot drain in the hanging step. Sets up for meat that doesn't cool properly and goes straight to rancid. Not nice, and should be sorted out at the processing point but things do get missed. Also, could have been in a part of the freezer that just didn't cool down quickly enough for some reason which allowed it to start.

I noticed there was a lot of blood and thought to myself that the animal this meat came from probably wasn't drained properly. Meat was sourced from Teys and after a quick google search show its Aussie meat, not NZ. If I go back to Gilmours I'll make sure whatever I buy is NZ sourced meat, the Affco leg of lamb and two Tegal frozen chickens I bought that same day were both fresh and beautiful eating.
Expensive lesson learnt

Originally Posted by Three O'Three

I noticed there was a lot of blood and thought to myself that the animal this meat came from probably wasn't drained properly. Meat was sourced from Teys and after a quick google search show its Aussie meat, not NZ. If I go back to Gilmours I'll make sure whatever I buy is NZ sourced meat, the Affco leg of lamb and two Tegal frozen chickens I bought that same day were both fresh and beautiful eating.
Expensive lesson learnt

I got some short ribs from Gilmores and they were crap.
There used to be OK deals there for meat but it's turned to shit over the last few years.
Once you add on the GST the prices are often more than everywhere else.

Originally Posted by Steve123

I got some short ribs from Gilmores and they were crap.
There used to be OK deals there for meat but it's turned to shit over the last few years.
Once you add on the GST the prices are often more than everywhere else.

Their meat is the only thing cheaper than the supermarkets, everything else I'd rather buy from the supermarket. The leg of lamb I bought last week from gilmours was $57 including gst, same leg at new world was $80-90, both from affco.

You really have to do your homework when buying from Gilmours. When they had an outlet in Rotovegas we used them a lot when we ran organised horse rides. Then we noticed the prices creeping up to supermarket and the prices eventually went higher for the majority of line items.