Trimmings

[Bob Zador]

Do most of you throw out the trimmings after aging or do you use them? If so how and in what?

[Ron Pratt]

Welcome aboard, Robert! I have read of an occasional individual saying they treat it as jerky, but I do believe it has to be an acquired taste. What I prefer personally though is to skim-trim ever so lightly in order to just remove the top most hard surface. I find the seemingly tough dry tissue mellows well from he heat of the grill and is quite tasty. I’m just not a fan of over zealous trimming back to “grocery store red” as I call it. To me that is wasting the goodness from all your aging effort. Ron

[Charles]

I just dry aged for the 1st time and I use the trimmings as dog treats 🙂

They love it !!!

[Ron Pratt]

I’ve done that too, but may I share a lesson I learned? Dogs seldom chew – just swallow whole so when I share some trimmings with our Westie I cut them into the tiny “training reward” size. Maybe it is just our guy’s system but anything that tough and hard causes messes later if not small and passable if you get my drift! Ron

[Bob Zador]

You are correct. dogs are like front end loader, they load and swallow. What I was trying to find out was that I saw a video that the fellow said that he took the trimmings and used them in making sausage.

[Michele]

Do you mean the trimmings of, say, an aged striploin, that include the Umai bag? That means the bag is edible?
Because with the salami, you remove the Umai casing (it peels off easily as shown on the video) while on a striploin you have to trim the bag together with some of the meat and fat… Is that right ?

[Ron Pratt]

quote michoutim” post=7625:

Do you mean the trimmings of, say, an aged striploin, that include the Umai bag? That means the bag is edible?
Because with the salami, you remove the Umai casing (it peels off easily as shown on the video) while on a striploin you have to trim the bag together with some of the meat and fat… Is that right ?

You remove the UMAi bag entirely! It peels off easily. Ron

[Michele]

Ak, OK Ron! You are most helpful! 🙂

[Ron Pratt]

quote michoutim” post=7628:

Ak, OK Ron! You are most helpful! 🙂

Thanks, but as a dog lover I sure wouldn’t want your pooch to swallow a piece of bag that could do harmful blockage and never show up on an x-ray! We nearly lost one of our Westies on something similar. Turned out he had swallowed a large corner of a plastic bag that had the scent of yummies in it. We spent 12 hours in an emergency vet clinic on New Years Day and I don’t wish that on any dog, let alone humans! Ron

[Michele]

OK then! I’ll give the trimmings to my husband! :laugh:

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