Patridge bantam chicken poorly foot?

[Karen & co.]

Sorry if this sounds like a very silly question, but I bought 2 packs of minced lamb the other day, and have got one out to use for making spag bol for the children, and one pack has gone from red to brown

 

The pack was still sealed and didn't smell strange, but as a veggie I can't taste it before I poison the children

 

Why did this happen?

 

Karen x (embarassed to be asking such a silly question )

[Lesley]

It usually happens when the air gets to it - perhaps there was some way that air got into the pack although it was still sealed?

 

It will smell if it is off..........

[Karen & co.]

It usually happens when the air gets to it - perhaps there was some way that air got into the pack although it was still sealed?

 

It will smell if it is off..........

 

 

Thanks Lesley, that's what I was thinking, it didn't smell, so I cooked it and asked OH to check when he got in and he thought it was fine

 

Karen x

[Lesley]

....and?........are they still OK?

[Karen & co.]

....and?........are they still OK?

 

 

Think so No one has complained of anything............yet

 

Karen x

[craftyhunnypie]

oxidisation & the enzymes in the meat ( muscle) turn the meat brown. Nothing wrong with it. Meat that is off smells.

 

Emma.x

[ubereglu]

Also when red blood cells die they go brown.

[kannie]

Same sort of chemical reaction that happens to all sorts of things, even apples and silver!

[Paola]

Glad you asked this because it happened to me this week and I was not sure

[Chickpea]

just been reading stuff to do with this in shopped by Joanna Blythman (anti supermarkets book)

 

"supermarkets have decided that all the public want is bright red meat, in order to achieve that look, beef, for example cannot be hung for the optimum length of time to develop flavour and natural tenderness. Instead it has to be butchered while it is still red, then packed into a 'modified atmosphere' packaging to ensure that it maintains that colour and profitable moisture rather than darkening naturally as it dries out and matures."

 

Quite an interesting read so far!