Petri Dish Goes Into the Incubator

That is hilarious Carl. Remember only 9000 people died last year from food poisoning. Take a chance that's why you have a immune system.
 
Ok I will admit it. One was a water swat. They landed about 75 yards out and then swam in. Others were just lucky head shots & broken wings.
 
Carl - Those look good. Check out the "Super-Wild Risotto" recipe, in the Feb.-March 2016 issue of Field & Stream. I'm gonna give it a try later this week. I never made Duck Risotto, so gotta give it a try.
 
Tom

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that each year in the United States, 76 million cases of illness, 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths are caused by foodborne pathogens.

That is hilarious Carl. Remember only 9000 people died last year from food poisoning. Take a chance that's why you have a immune system.
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Mr. Ligman,
I am sure you are right with with your stat's. I was just having a little fun with Carl. I stand corrected. Have a great day. By the way your TDB looks Great.


Tom
 
I think I will get a couple of dozen raw oysters to eat with my aged ducks this Friday.
 
I apologize, Carl, I admit it is very difficult for me to reduce food poisoning risk to levity after watching a family member endure five months of recurrent diarrhea, two endoscope procedures, a pair of Flagyl antimicrobial treatment courses, prior a switch to a broader spectrum third emperic antibiotic therapy course that eventually required her ingesting a series of capsules to regrow her enteric G.I. bacteria. All of this was the result of an unknown acquisition source Clostridium difficile. The endoscopies identified the pathogen.
 
Been watching this for a while, and have no particular expertise to offer. I have had several bouts of what I am sure were food-borne diarrhea and vomiting. Fortunately for me, both were short term and all I suffered was a miserable day or two.

In one case I am fairly sure the culprit was a bad raw oyster. No proof, but I started feeling bad about an hour after having a couple of raw oysters, left the Thanksgiving table to get sick, and was sick the next 24 hours.

In another case it was after a restaurant meal. I have no idea what caused it, but again, I got sick within a couple of hours of the meal and recovered a day or so later.

I have also experienced a C. difficile outbreak, and was lucky enough to escape it. I had an extended hospital stay after a car accident, and ended up in the Rehab. ward with a lot of other people who had been hospitalized multiple times, for extended periods, or both. About 20% of the folks in my unit had C. difficile--and it was awful.

My sense, from talking to the staff at the hospital and to my mother, who is a retired public health nurse, is that C. diff is spread primarily by person to person contact, with food as a potential intermediate "host". I was told that hand washing, eating separately from anyone who was infected (which the hospital enforced by feeding the in a different place from), and the like were the best defense. It also appears to particularly affect people whose normal gut flora are altered by antibiotic use--which of course is the case for most of the people I was sharing the hospital with.

I was not under the impression that aging meats was a potential vector--unless they had been handled by someone who was infected with (or in contact with someone else infected with) the pathogen.

I'd be interested to know what portion of the food-born illness in the US is related to aging or improper treatment of wild game, or to consumption of home or artisan-cured meat products. I'm guessing contaminated chicken parts and ground beef are much more important vectors, but I'm just guessing. We've had several rounds of recalls of E. coli contaminated beef around here in recent months.

Carl, if you do have explosive results, we expect photos and a full report!
 
Carl,
I've never aged duck breasts like that, but I almost always age my ducks either in the refrigerator or, if cold enough, hanging outside. Here in N. MS I can get away with the latter more often than I can in S. GA/N. FL. As a matter of fact, I have 6 hanging right now that I killed yesterday morning that will probably get cleaned after I get back from hunting tomorrow morning. Any time you're dealing with meat, there's always some risk of contamination. Wash thoroughly, avoid cross-contamination, and cook to a sufficient temp...beyond that, there's not much else one can do to avoid illness.
 
The three times I had food poisoning, for sure, were. Twice from steamed Clams, at a Sea Food Restaurant, the second time I missed three days of work and thought I learned a lesson. The last time was over 30 years later, from eating raw Oysters at a place known for good Sea Food.

That was the time I thought I was gonna Die. After many doctor visits, meds and several procedures I slowly got better. Prior to that, for many years I ate raw Oysters more than I can count, and No Problem. Since my last experience No More Raw Oysters EVER, and that's a damn shame cuz I love em.

So it's my belief that Sea Food causes many more problems than people realize, or are aware of.
 
The three times I had food poisoning, for sure, were. Twice from steamed Clams, at a Sea Food Restaurant, the second time I missed three days of work and thought I learned a lesson. The last time was over 30 years later, from eating raw Oysters at a place known for good Sea Food.

That was the time I thought I was gonna Die. After many doctor visits, meds and several procedures I slowly got better. Prior to that, for many years I ate raw Oysters more than I can count, and No Problem. Since my last experience No More Raw Oysters EVER, and that's a damn shame cuz I love em.

So it's my belief that Sea Food causes many more problems than people realize, or are aware of.
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Fried steamers from a seafood stand once for me, I don't know why, but WOW!!!

Self imposed oyster ban is a tough one. Love those shellfish of all types and all degrees of cooked from raw to deep fried.
 
I ate oyster at lunch, raw, grilled and fried. If I am still alive tomorrow I will let y'all know. If not, well, then I won't be the one to let you know.
 
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