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12682001 No.12682001 [Reply] [Original]

For the more safety-inclined and technically knowledgable here, how safe were/are meat safes (aka pie safes) in general? Could you feasibly use one nowadays? What sort of meats/foods could you store in them?

>> No.12682003

>meat safe
Do americans really?

>> No.12682014

>>12682001
Now I don't really have much of a sweet tooth so I don't own a pie safe, but my meat safe is actually very safe to use. You can store anything in the meat safe, really, but generally meat is more expensive than say, limes and other citrus or even canned fruit, so I definitely want to keep the meat safe. I keep proscuitto, red snapper, top sirloin, and when I'm lucky enough, wild duck and pheasant in there.

tl;dr - I highly recommend meat safes.

>> No.12682018

>>12682014
wait so why would you want to use one of these things as opposed to a fridge? or some kind of specialty fridge like a wine fridge that can keep a constant temperature?

>> No.12682049
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12682049

>>12682018
>he thinks people didn't have meat to eat before a refrigerator
>wanting people to steal your meat

I can't tell if you're trolling me, friend

>> No.12682064

>>12682049
no, i mean, why use it today

>> No.12682107

>>12682064
There are ingredients or dishes that taste better if you let them age a while in a cool and dry place, like pies. By no means would I use it to store raw meat if I dispose of a fridge, but to store root veggies or a good salmorejo it would be great.

>> No.12682108

That thing looks like it would let all sorts of pests in there.

>> No.12682137

>>12682107
yeah i get that, but is a cupboard enough to achieve those conditions? i dry and age stuff on my balcony during late fall/early winter but unless you have a cellar i don't see what use these things are.

>> No.12682138

>>12682014
>Now I don't really have much of a sweet tooth so I don't own a pie safe

Why do amer*cans think all pies must be sweet?

Is this why all those mutts are obese?

>> No.12682146
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12682146

>>12682138
>not putting your meat/savory pies in the meat safe

wew lad

>> No.12682222

>>12682003
They did in the late 1700s and early 1800s before ice boxes, yes.