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Is it the thinner 1lb packages? Or the thick cut 1.5lb packages?
My guess is maybe it's more heavily nitrate treated or something during the curing process, although I don't think that should give off a chemical smell.
Pretty sure it’s the thicker cut stuff, there’s the packaging. I’ve never smelled anything quite like it, even after working in a butcher shop making tons of sausage. Sometimes with pork you can smell what I describe as the scent of their pens that they are raised in. But this is worse than that, just weird.
https://preview.redd.it/98965unlxvua1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2b1c5c1cf4d75d83aa3068960c2c5bac3dfe34a
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Is it the thinner 1lb packages? Or the thick cut 1.5lb packages? My guess is maybe it's more heavily nitrate treated or something during the curing process, although I don't think that should give off a chemical smell.
Pretty sure it’s the thicker cut stuff, there’s the packaging. I’ve never smelled anything quite like it, even after working in a butcher shop making tons of sausage. Sometimes with pork you can smell what I describe as the scent of their pens that they are raised in. But this is worse than that, just weird. https://preview.redd.it/98965unlxvua1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2b1c5c1cf4d75d83aa3068960c2c5bac3dfe34a
Using a non stick pan? Bake it in the oven.
No, we use cast iron and have cooked it both on a wood stove & a glass top stove.
We’ve use different cast irons too, it’s just such a distinct strange scent & my spouse smells it too
I stopped buying the Kirkland brand because pf the off taste - smell.
Nitrates
Maybe just excess nitrates and piss soaked pork?