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No Lifer
Yet another will I die if I eat it thread.
So I brined some pork shoulder last night and it is currently smoking. After removing the pork from the cooler this morning and depositing the freezer packs in the sink, I later noticed that one of packs had punctured, and it's pretty obvious that most of the contents leaked into the brine. I wrapped 3 of them in a plastic grocery bag, and place on top of the pork to keep it submerged in the brine and cold overnight.
This is what I used
http://www.amazon.com/Philly-Food-24...d_sbs_indust_6
I get them from the lab--they come in most of our orders, for enzymes from large, well-known companies. We have piles of them, so I usually grab a couple and use in place of ice because they are cheap and easy to pack.
Anyway, I did some searching, and most people say they are non-toxic. Only one forum I found has comments where some peoples' dogs died after puncturing these and ingesting-- they believe the culprit was ethylene glycol, (which, I believe, is found in many food products in very small, impure forms--cake frosting, for one) though many other comments say that these are supposed to be non-toxic. This, from the company that manufactures the Polar Pack:
http://www.thermosafe.com/faqs.html
So, what say you, ATOT? Should the GF and I eat the tasty smoked pork and risk acute kidney poisoning? Or will it not happen?
further--is it worth it?
So I brined some pork shoulder last night and it is currently smoking. After removing the pork from the cooler this morning and depositing the freezer packs in the sink, I later noticed that one of packs had punctured, and it's pretty obvious that most of the contents leaked into the brine. I wrapped 3 of them in a plastic grocery bag, and place on top of the pork to keep it submerged in the brine and cold overnight.
This is what I used
http://www.amazon.com/Philly-Food-24...d_sbs_indust_6
I get them from the lab--they come in most of our orders, for enzymes from large, well-known companies. We have piles of them, so I usually grab a couple and use in place of ice because they are cheap and easy to pack.
Anyway, I did some searching, and most people say they are non-toxic. Only one forum I found has comments where some peoples' dogs died after puncturing these and ingesting-- they believe the culprit was ethylene glycol, (which, I believe, is found in many food products in very small, impure forms--cake frosting, for one) though many other comments say that these are supposed to be non-toxic. This, from the company that manufactures the Polar Pack:
http://www.thermosafe.com/faqs.html
So, what say you, ATOT? Should the GF and I eat the tasty smoked pork and risk acute kidney poisoning? Or will it not happen?
further--is it worth it?
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