Smelly ribs

Deek1997

I bought some St. Louis style ribs yesterday at my usual meat market. They are Smithfield vacuum packed. Package says they were packed yesterday. Opened them up and they was a very distinct smell. Not sure how to describe it. They look fine and were refrigerated the entire time. Anything to be concerned about? I've normally bought baby backs out of the case, so this is the first try with pre-packed ribs. Not sure if it was the fact that they were sealed in the plastic or what, but the smell was strong. 

Rubbed, wrapped in plastic wrap and in the fridge for now. 

DMW

Deek1997 said:

I bought some St. Louis style ribs yesterday at my usual meat market. They are Smithfield vacuum packed. Package says they were packed yesterday. Opened them up and they was a very distinct smell. Not sure how to describe it. They look fine and were refrigerated the entire time. Anything to be concerned about? I've normally bought baby backs out of the case, so this is the first try with pre-packed ribs. Not sure if it was the fact that they were sealed in the plastic or what, but the smell was strong. 

Rubbed, wrapped in plastic wrap and in the fridge for now. 

That's quite common. Open it up, get them out of the package. If they still stink after a few minutes, they might be bad. Typically the smell dissipates.

pgprescott

Pork has some odor. If they are bad, I doubt you would even be asking, you would know. 

FATC1TY

Yup. Sometimes they can be funky. 

I let em sit. Sometimes they work out. 

Ive smoked some and before I got in deep I cut and end off. Funk still present after smoke. In the trash. 

poster

cryofunk, beef does it too. hard to forget that smell after you smell it once 

Photo Egg

Hard to believe they went from factory packing, through all the distribution and to your grocery store in one day. That's fresh...

UncleBilly

Had a similar experience last weekend with some cryo packed pork shoulders. Bought 2 packs from Sam's Club that had 2 butts in each package.  They sat in the fridge a few days before I had time to get them cooked.  When I opened them I noticed one package had a "Sell By" date several days in the future and had virtually no odor.  The other package was a few days past its "Sell By" date.  (I didn't notice the difference in dates when I bought them.) The package past its "Sell By" date had a very definite odor, that was less than pleasant.  I almost tossed the smelly ones right then, but I figured that it wouldn't take any longer or cost me any more charcoal to go ahead and cook the stinkers along with the others.  I did the two "normal" butts on the top grate and the two suspicious butts on the bottom grate.  After 12 hours on the Egg and a couple of hours FTC all four butts smelled great and tasted superb so we ate them.  No illnesses or ill effects.  

Hans61

Rinse them if smell doesn't go away after rinsing I'd exchange them 

QDude

That is very common.  The smell will go away after rinsing and airing them out.

Hans61

I think I read some where  that rinsing with vinegar works good

 Don't cook smelly ribs 

JethroVA

Rinse and rest. If no stinky after rinsy, you can eaty.  Cryovac can cause that smell. They're not bad if the actual meat (post-rinse) doesn't stink. 

GrateEggspectations

Definitely just cryostank.