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Sunny side up and elk back strap!

FrontierGander wrote:Sunny side up and elk back strap!

Say bro, you didn't make one fo daddy......

Man, I miss elk meat. I've been out a long time now.

I need to find a way to get some elk meat next fall.

OldMtnMan wrote:Man, I miss elk meat. I've been out a long time now.

I need to find a way to get some elk meat next fall.

Yup, us too. I did a really stupid thing 2 years ago.
We were getting set to go to our hunting area for a week.
I shut down the well pump and power to the main shop and small shop.
Got back from hunting after 10 days. Found the freezer in the small shop off.
The smell inside the freezer was was horrendous!!!
All the pork, deer, elk(and there was plenty of elk) completely destroyed!!
Like a dumbass, it didn't dawn on me, when I shut the power off to the small shop, freezer was off!!
I still haven't lived that one down.

That would hurt. At least I got to eat all mine.

OldMtnMan wrote:That would hurt. At least I got to eat all mine.

Yeah, that hurt real bad.
Fortunately we did come home with a few deer that year.
Had to scrub that freezer with a large quantity of bleach.

Mustang, bummer on all that meat loss.  Last Hurricane (I live on the Gulf coast) went without power 6 days, anyhow, as my freezer stuff thawed, I set up my canning gear on the patio (2 burner propane stove, water bath pot and pressure canner) and commenced canning stuff as the missus pulled it out of the two freezers, venison sausage, pork, chicken, blueberries, crowder peas, okra, and probably something I forgot, which would not be unusual.  We are now just finishing up the canned goods from over year ago.  At least mine was only an inconvenience in comparison to yours.  You have my sympathies as in other hurricanes I have not been so lucky......

Tenasaw wrote:Mustang, bummer on all that meat loss.  Last Hurricane (I live on the Gulf coast) went without power 6 days, anyhow, as my freezer stuff thawed, I set up my canning gear on the patio (2 burner propane stove, water bath pot and pressure canner) and commenced canning stuff as the missus pulled it out of the two freezers, venison sausage, pork, chicken, blueberries, crowder peas, okra, and probably something I forgot, which would not be unusual.  We are now just finishing up the canned goods from over year ago.  At least mine was only an inconvenience in comparison to yours.  You have my sympathies as in other hurricanes I have not been so lucky......

Trust me, no one lets me pull that one again. They always check if power is on for freezers and refrigerators, when we go hunting now

I've been fixing up a rental as part of a deal for cheap rent, and I have a very similar story... The house sat abandoned for quite some time and at some point, the power went out, and was out for at least a week. That means everything was nice and rotten, and then refroze into one 200 pound chunk of smelly meat-cicle when the power came back, where it sat for a few more years. Took about a week of leaving the door open and picking a little bit out each day for everything to finally thaw out enough to remove. Without getting too far into it, some of the worst odors I've ever smelled were right here in this house, but that one might have been tops.