triiiiiipe
This huge thing has been defrosting in my fridge for a few days, and now it’s just soft enough to cut through. As soon as I opened it up, I was very, very, very glad that I didn’t wait until it was totally defrosted with full-on funk juice. This thing effing stinks.
nice cross section
even i think this is gross
I would’ve bought frozen tripe long ago, but couldn’t manage to get a local source (although I think I may have found one now) and for whatever reason, none of my stores carried it. It seemed ridiculous to have this thing shipped (and I have a thing about shipping). I also totally don’t see the point of feeding tripe of a grain-fed animal. Then, one day, I came across this 5 lb chub at a local store. It was marked about 8 months old—which gave me pause—but I figured I’d just try it.
cover it up with yogurt
Like I said, it effing stinks. I’ve tried the can kinds that do stink but not like this (and, really are pointless from a nutrition perspective [for feeding tripe, anyway] because it’s been heated, but dogs do like the stink and the taste).
I am an owner of a pretty sturdy belly, but Piz is not. I’m glad he wasn’t near. His urp reflex is so “you’re not even trying” that it almost makes me mad. In my tough worldview, it is a sign of weakness.
MP was all over me countersurfing with her nose while I was cutting up this mess, so I knew she’d like it. She likes anything anyway, but I was glad she wouldn’t be lukewarm about something so extreme. Of all things to make someone eat if they are not wild about it, this is the meanest.
I like it
let me eat
I see that supplement and I will leave it
supplement left
I kind of can’t believe MP was able to just leave the supplement. What the hell. I had to pick it out and stick it in a piece of banana. Wash hands.
Now that the stink has been opened, I need to divide the rest into single portions and refreeze. Don’t give me a face for refreezing! I refreeze stuff for humans, too, and it’s fine. I also use “wines I you wouldn’t drink” when I make stews. And that, too, is fine. You know what, sometimes literally a whole bottle or more goes into those things. I can fix some $3 cheap wine problem (oh please) with my cooking abilities—really. (Even if I couldn’t you know that I’d still use the cheap stuff.) Or, you can give me $25 that you won’t taste, if you want.
standard repacking process
Anyway. So, I use my drug saffron dealer scale to portion out several stink meals. With all this effort and grody, I ended up with just five more meals of this. Unsure.
stack of stink
Well, unlike other meats that I sometimes put on the stove to thaw out/half cook (what can I say) if I hadn’t thawed it earlier (nope), this one’s not going to be heated. Not just because it’ll kill the enzymes or whatever, but I don’t want to ingest tripe stink molecules.
Barf.
my dogs are so very jealous. It’s been months since my supply dried up.
Mine eat it almost every day. That place is a few hours from my house and we have a coop. I’ve been feeding it for over a year and you never get used to the smell. Unfortunately it’s about the only thing Brenna will eat regularly.
Aside from Brenna, does everyone’s dogs like tripe A LOT more than other stuff? I couldn’t quite tell with MP. She was definitely into it and was nosing it while I prepared it and all, but her food enthusiasm is usually cranked at 11 no matter what, so who knows if it was an 11.9 or 11.3.
mine both drool like crazy when I was cracking the cans of Tripette. UGH that stuff was barf.
Everything here is pretty much 11+…even supplements.
Roscoe and Bella used to get tripe regularly, and yeah, they love it A LOT more than other stuff. A LOT A LOT. I don’t defrost it in my fridge ’cause, well, ew. LOL I defrost it in a plastic box in my garage overnight (where it’s about the temp of the inside of a fridge sometimes) and then hack at it the next morning with a Ginsu knife that supposedly can cut through cans and will therefore not be dulled by hacking at a block of tripe.
Chicken necks defrosting in a plastic box in the garage overnight = “oh, what’s that? Something yummy is behind this door. Let’s sniff it a bit.” Tripe in the garage = “OMG!! WHAT IS THAT! BREAK DOWN THIS DOOR NOW!”
My nose is pretty strong. Tripe honestly doesn’t bother me. It’s yucky, but it’s not intolerable. Maybe it’s all that time working in a swine barn when I was in college (yes, a swine barn).
Ha! Super cute that R+B looooove tripe!
I didn’t notice the tripe in the fridge for some reason—maybe that frickin’ kim chee that overpowers any other smell there could ever be. Now I’m afraid of what my fridge might actually smell like. Oh well.
I think I’ll get used to tripe. I am better dealing with smells that are closer to poop than closer to pee (e.g., tripe > kidneys)!
It’s hard to say with the rest. They love everything. Brenna doesn’t act like she totally loves it but will manage to gag it down which she can’t seem to do with anything else consistently.
One thing I do notice when feeding tripe is the dogs have less gas.
The Rabbit loves it fresh or freeze-dried, she’s not impressed by the canned stuff. Twitch and Teeny are convince that tripe is manna from the heavens in all its forms.
Oh man, I just remembered that Tripett debacle of spoiled cans and middle finger customers service. Ugggg.
Kim, you try giving some New Chapter Zyflamend or Holy Basil! MP keeps puncturing the caps, which is what makes it grody. She needs to swallow it nice and fast.
I like hearing about dogs liking something a lot. It’s sweet, even if it’s stinky.
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