Having to touch raw beef/poultry...

songbyrdsweet
songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
edited September 2024 in Chit-Chat
EEGUGHHHHHH :sick:

I hate it!

Chicken just always looks nasty. Even the chicken tenderloins have a big tendon in them and I hate having to pull it out. Chicken breasts have blood and fat....EWEWEW.
Raw ground beef/turkey...so squishy!!
Pork, I just don't like the taste.

I am about to throw in the towel and just become ovo-lacto pescetarian. Making food should not turn your stomach! :noway: I do like a nice steak if I don't have to make it, and I can handle any kind of meat if I didn't have to prepare it. But I think from now on I am just going to stick with fish. At least that I can just slide out of the little plastic sleeve right into the pan without touching it! :ohwell:

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  • Schwiggity
    Schwiggity Posts: 1,449 Member
    Fish have faces too. Given they're mostly ugly faces though.
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    Fish have faces too. Given they're mostly ugly faces though.

    Oh, I don't mind the faces. It's the slimy musculature I cannot stand to touch!
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    I hate it too. In my heart I am a vegetarian, but in my mouth, I am an omnivore.
  • NatalieWinning
    NatalieWinning Posts: 999 Member
    Fish is lean and high protein, so good! If you really have to, though, you can get individual frozen chicken breasts like those fish pieces. Or already breaded things. i'm the one in the family that has to touch all the yucky things. I guess i'm used to yucky.
  • Schwiggity
    Schwiggity Posts: 1,449 Member
    I hate it too. In my heart I am a vegetarian, but in my mouth, I am an omnivore.

    ....he...hehehehehe. (I know...I'm immature).
  • Heather75
    Heather75 Posts: 3,386 Member
    I hate you guys.
  • TashaP2011
    TashaP2011 Posts: 142 Member
    I always put on rubber gloves to handle the raw stuff. It's a little easier that way.
  • Schwiggity
    Schwiggity Posts: 1,449 Member
    I hate you guys.

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    You're going to make Will Smith cry! Take it back!
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    I always put on rubber gloves to handle the raw stuff. It's a little easier that way.

    See, even when it's cooked it looks ucky!! I am okay with ground turkey/beef in pasta sauce. But the burgers I cooked tonight just had a weird texture on the outside.
  • jfer1977
    jfer1977 Posts: 139
    I always put on rubber gloves to handle the raw stuff. It's a little easier that way.

    This is what I was going to suggest. We have some of the disposable ones for first aid.
  • IMYarnCraz33
    IMYarnCraz33 Posts: 1,016 Member
    do you just not like to touch it? feels slimy or something?
    You could always get "food service" gloves (regular rubber gloves beware. make sure they're powder free).
    or do what some 'professionals' do and use tongs.
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    do you just not like to touch it? feels slimy or something?
    You could always get food service gloves. or do what some 'professionals' do
    and use tongs.


    Yea...the texture, the smell of raw meat, and even when it's cooked...I hate all the tissues that get mixed in.
  • Schwiggity
    Schwiggity Posts: 1,449 Member
    do you just not like to touch it? feels slimy or something?
    You could always get food service gloves. or do what some 'professionals' do
    and use tongs.


    Yea...the texture, the smell of raw meat, and even when it's cooked...I hate all the tissues that get mixed in.

    This is making me hungry.
  • countrydarling1
    countrydarling1 Posts: 386 Member
    iM THE TOTAL OPPOSITE! I help procees our deer, clean fish & have helped butcher every farm animal i have raise.
  • boomboom011
    boomboom011 Posts: 1,459
    chicken is gross but i love to eat it. i think its the fatty meat that hangs off of it. omg im gonna throw up! nevermind:sick:
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    chicken is gross but i love to eat it. i think its the fatty meat that hangs off of it. omg im gonna throw up! nevermind:sick:

    Hahah SEEEEE!?
  • funkyspunky871
    funkyspunky871 Posts: 1,675 Member
    Try Tyson grilled chicken breasts in the freezer section. They're already cooked, so no raw meat touching involved! :) Just pop 'em in the microwave or oven.

    I don't think raw meat is /that/ disgusting.. But, I sure don't really enjoy touching it either. Lol. The Tyson chicken is just easier for me and tastes better than my own grilled chicken. :P
  • peteyTwang
    peteyTwang Posts: 250
    If you're already leaning that way, here's a few Virgil Butler video clips on chickens and factory farming that may turn you right over the edge into a complete vegetarian - Virgil was a Tyson chicken slaughterhouse worker who turned animal activist...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cra55ly_CsA&feature=youtube_gdata

    https://player.vimeo.com/video/5209281
  • boomboom011
    boomboom011 Posts: 1,459
    chicken is gross but i love to eat it. i think its the fatty meat that hangs off of it. omg im gonna throw up! nevermind:sick:

    Hahah SEEEEE!?

    i get it. sometimes if a pork roast is really fatty i have to pretend its a baby so i dont get sick lol i know i know im a wierdo!
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    Song, I recently tried to convert my two cats to a raw diet. Ugh. I'm a meat eater, have handled meat for years, grew up with a hunter and I have caught many a big fish, but......there is nothing worse than having to cut up brains, kidneys, hearts, livers (gag) and all types of animal parts with bones first thing in the morning for a cat. . . who does not even eat it half the time.

    Okay, so I know a raw diet is primal. Raw whole animals, bone and all is the best food for a carnivore like a cat. But the dang cat won't even eat it......

    I gave it two months. They eat canned now. :sick:
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    Song, I recently tried to convert my two cats to a raw diet. Ugh. I'm a meat eater, have handled meat for years, grew up with a hunter and I have caught many a big fish, but......there is nothing worse than having to cut up brains, kidneys, hearts, livers (gag) and all types of animal parts with bones first thing in the morning for a cat. . . who does not even eat it half the time.

    Okay, so I know a raw diet is primal. Raw whole animals, bone and all is the best food for a carnivore like a cat. But the dang cat won't even eat it......

    I gave it two months. They eat canned now. :sick:

    Ugghhh ewwww! I think domesticated cats are just fine on cat food LOL...they formulate it specifically to their needs, and also so you don't have to cut up brains! ICK!


    LOL @ boomboom...how do you pretend it's a baby?? LOL
  • NewVonnie
    NewVonnie Posts: 683 Member
    I'm sorry people...But i am dying laughing over here..you are too funny :)
  • i_love_vinegar
    i_love_vinegar Posts: 2,092 Member
    I always put on rubber gloves to handle the raw stuff. It's a little easier that way.

    See, even when it's cooked it looks ucky!! I am okay with ground turkey/beef in pasta sauce. But the burgers I cooked tonight just had a weird texture on the outside.

    It sounds like you are a novice chef...it takes a while to learn how to cook properly and well. I've been cooking since I was around 10 years old, and I am 21 now. I still learn new stuff all the time. I remember I was disturbed cooking my own meat at first too, but now it doesn't bother me at all. I also remember my food not turning out how I assumed it would.

    Just keep practicing. Cooking is fun, once the basics are out of the way -- Of course I mean harder basics than the pasta you were talking about lol, I mean stuff that not just anyone can do. :)
  • songbyrdsweet
    songbyrdsweet Posts: 5,691 Member
    I always put on rubber gloves to handle the raw stuff. It's a little easier that way.

    See, even when it's cooked it looks ucky!! I am okay with ground turkey/beef in pasta sauce. But the burgers I cooked tonight just had a weird texture on the outside.

    It sounds like you are a novice chef...it takes a while to learn how to cook properly and well. I've been cooking since I was around 10 years old, and I am 21 now. I still learn new stuff all the time. I remember I was disturbed cooking my own meat at first too, but now it doesn't bother me at all. I also remember my food not turning out how I assumed it would.

    Just keep practicing. Cooking is fun, once the basics are out of the way -- Of course I mean harder basics than the pasta you were talking about lol, I mean stuff that not just anyone can do. :)

    Oh I wouldn't even call myself a novice LOL...is there something less than that?? :laugh:

    I enjoy baking and I am pretty good at it. Even when I improvise, stuff turns out really well. My lemon poppyseed muffins are the bomb!!
  • boomboom011
    boomboom011 Posts: 1,459
    Song, I recently tried to convert my two cats to a raw diet. Ugh. I'm a meat eater, have handled meat for years, grew up with a hunter and I have caught many a big fish, but......there is nothing worse than having to cut up brains, kidneys, hearts, livers (gag) and all types of animal parts with bones first thing in the morning for a cat. . . who does not even eat it half the time.

    Okay, so I know a raw diet is primal. Raw whole animals, bone and all is the best food for a carnivore like a cat. But the dang cat won't even eat it......

    I gave it two months. They eat canned now. :sick:

    Ugghhh ewwww! I think domesticated cats are just fine on cat food LOL...they formulate it specifically to their needs, and also so you don't have to cut up brains! ICK!


    LOL @ boomboom...how do you pretend it's a baby?? LOL

    Pretend a whole chicken is a newborn and if you have chicken breasts its a preemie! Its weird I know! But it helps.
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