band saw residue on your sliced meat

2Fategghead

Do you leave the residue on there and prepare and cook as is?

Hoss

I don't. :)I just wipe it off.

Fidel

well, that depends.

By "band saw residue" do you mean the little bits and pieces of meat that resulted from the cutting....I guess meatdust as it were?

Or do you mean metal shavings/sawdust from previous non-meat related uses of said bandsaw?

Or do you mean grease, oil, and other lubricants that have left a residue on the bandsaw which then transferred to the meat as it was being sliced?

If we're talking about meatdust, I don't think it will effect it either way. If you're even considering the other two then, well, that's just goofy.

RRP

I know you didn't use the word - but I assumed you are talking about meat with a bone in it and sliced by a butcher's band saw - not your shop saw! There is some bone fragments that I've seen my butcher just scrape off with a knife blade when I buy a bone in prime rib. My guy doesn't sell by the bone but by the inch and if that means cutting a bone in half so be it!

2Fategghead

little bits and pieces of meat that resulted from the cutting....meatdust

The meat and fat build up you get when cutting pork steaks and chops with a band saw.

2Fategghead

Ron, meat with a bone in it and sliced by a butcher's band saw.

Fidel

If you're worried about that then I would suggest you give serious consideration to the next time you consume commercially prepared sausage, hot dogs, or ground beef.

2Fategghead

Not really worried and I realize this is not much of a topic but, mainly wondering if some scrap the stuff off or just cook it.

Carolina Q

dude, you had me worried there... I thought YOU had a meat cutting bandsaw!!

2Fategghead

No I don't. This is a silly topic I know. :(

RRP

Then I was right? You did mean bone dust?

The only mystery to me is when I buy a pork butt like at a Kroger store and then ask them to slice it thin for what we call back here in the Mid-West "pork steak". They take in behind closed doors and there is no way they scrape each piece and not charge for the labor, let alone how quickly they cut it. I then wonder if they use some sort of band saw that has a water rinsing cleaner or if raw pork bones don't fragment like beef bones do.

Hoss

They probably just give you some they already had prepared that are about to go out of date and when you leave they put the fresh butt back in the display. :huh: :unsure: :ermm: :S

FlaPoolman

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

2Fategghead

I have watched my butcher make pork steaks and country rib out of butts. I know they have a special curved blade with a handle and they use it to scrape the residue off the cuts of meat. They get a tray down and place the meat on it and scrape off the top cuts off. Then wrap and weigh and place the sales tag on it.

2Fategghead

:laugh:

WessB

Sounds kinda silly to me...I would clean it off and never have even given it a thought..

RRP

LOL - maybe, but the label that was on the butt going in is always the same as on the one coming back out! Why do I know that? Because I always memorize that since I think OUR Kroger meat people aren't that quick thinking. They are NOT butchers, but former stock boys promoted to working the meat bins due to seniority.

chocdoc

I have one of those tools for scraping off the meat dust from cut meat. I got it from my butcher friend Huey before he died. Huey had all the tools in his basement to butcher and I used to go over in the evenings and help him. One of my jobs was to scrape the meat dust off steaks that he'd cut on the band saw.



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The wire bands are a bit flexible and make scraping easy.

2Fategghead

Thanks chocdoc that's what I was referring to. Tim

2Fategghead

Ya I know.