- Jan 9, 2019
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Earlier this week i started making fermented pepperoni for the first time. I hung most of the batch to ferment but i stuffed a little bit of the batch into sheep casings, the sheep casings were laying on a wire rack while they fermented. Last night i hit my target PH and was moving the product to dry. I noticed the side of the casing that was touching the wire rack has some small blotches of dark grayish discoloration on it.
I'm thinking the casings must have pinholes in it and the discoloration is a reaction of the meat touching the metal rack? Just curious if anyone has had this happen and if i'm on the right track with my theory of what happened. I'm thinking i'll have to toss the stuff with discoloration but i kept it at least till i figure out what happened.
I'm thinking the casings must have pinholes in it and the discoloration is a reaction of the meat touching the metal rack? Just curious if anyone has had this happen and if i'm on the right track with my theory of what happened. I'm thinking i'll have to toss the stuff with discoloration but i kept it at least till i figure out what happened.