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[Leslie <cayadopi AT yahoo.com>]

What about chickens?  Are they supposed to be "aged" first?
 
My homegrowns tended to be pretty tough meat.

--- On Wed, 1/14/09, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Aging meat
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Date: Wednesday, January 14, 2009, 2:48 PM


> >Any thoughts? Is
> aging going to make a difference on meat that gets canned anyway?
> 

If the meat freezes on the carcass that same day you killed it, it won't
harm 
the meat but it won't be the same quality as if it had aged two or three
days 
unfrozen.

It will make a difference even if you can it.  The quality of the meat 
doesn't improve with canning.  If the meat is a bit tough (what happens if
you don't 
age it), it will still be a bit tough when it's canned, tougher at least
than 
if it had aged beforehand.

At the very least you would want rigor to come and go.


James
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If it's a cellar with a roof, what keeps it from freezing? My basement
freezes in a sustained cold spell, if I don't heat it. I've lost squash
stored there, and had valves (but never the pipes, which are insulated)
freeze. I have no idea what that hole in the photo is the remains of, but I
don't think most people have a well house here. Bringing water anywhere near
the surface is a recipe for disaster.

What I've seen (and have) are wellheads..about 18" of casing with a cap on
it sticking out of the ground. The pump is 100-200+ feet down in the water,
and pumps the water to the house through an underground pipe that comes into
the basement about 6' below grade. There is (presumably) some way to pull
the pump to the surface for maintenance...I've never had to do it

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA
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Subject: Re: [Homestead] Gas explosions


> As you know, water freezes in your neighborhood in wintertime. A well
> house is typically built like a cellar with four poured or block laid
> walls and a solid roof with access. The well casing comes up into the
> bottom of the cellar. All water connections are made down there and
> the water pipe goes into the house via an underground ditch. Thus, no
> freezing of water lines.
>
> This explosion is the sort of thing that causes building codes to be
> changed. The pressure switches may one day be required to be outside
> of the well house.
>
> For your amusement I will tell you that as I awoke this morning I felt
> like smacking my head. I had read the words "well exploded" but I had
> seen the photo of the remains of the well house. Duh.
>
> On Jan 15, 2009, at 6:25 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
>
>>> Quite right. I was sidetracked by the misleading reporting that the
>>> well exploded and was envisioning a broken wire at the pump but that
>>> is problemmatical because it is under water. It was not the well, it
>>> was the well house (pit) that exploded, thus using up all the gas
>>> from
>>> the traveling bubble. No gas was found in the water because it was
>>> all
>>> burned. For now.
>>
>> Well house (pit)? What's that?
>>
>> Lynn Wigglesworth
>> Tioga Co. PA
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