The Pads Under Meat

[Prudie]

What do you do with the revolting blood soaked pads supermarket joints sit on? recycle? landfill? Do you rinse them out first? when did they start even existing? They make me heave, reminds me of something else.

[Tilly2]

I stick mine in the landfill bin...when I remember to remove it before cooking!

[Atheist]

Prudie; It's meat, it has blood in it and blood oozes out. Get over it (or suck it up as some people so horribly say). Do you remember when half-cows were carried into the butchers by men with striped blood-stained aprons and were hung up on meat-hooks? Nowadays, it's all so sanitised to try to spare people from realising what they are eating.

[ubasses]

Same, straight into landfill bin.

[Prudie]

Atheist I'm fine with the blood,, it's the squidgy soaked pad I find gross. Mind you, not surprised you don't understand.

[Atheist]

I think the meat is on pads for the same reason that women wear them; to prevent leakage running all over the place.

[Buenchico]

They're there to keep you safe:
https://www.myrecipes.com/summer-grilling/meats/meat-packaging-absorbent-pad

I just put mine into the general waste bin (without doing anything to them first). However that won't mean them going to landfill, as no household waste goes to landfill around here. It all goes to a big energy-from-waste plant:

[Atheist]

I don't find menstruation gross.

[Prudie]

How very modern man of you.

[barry1010]

I put them in an empty jar and chuck it in the bin, not recycling. I use the same jar for used fat and other small nasties

[Tilly2]

I'm not a man but found it gross, especially during the menopause.

[barry1010]

Atheist, find a proper butcher, my butcher still does that

[Prudie]

When did they start, it hasn't always been standard practice to put them in packaging?

[douglas9401]

Meat nappies, according to the late Sean Lock.

[Atheist]

barry; I don't eat meat.

[Atheist]

But the old-fashioned butchers used to wrap up the meat in paper and the paper got blood-stained. This is nothing new.

[choux]

I do rinse and squeeze them out and put them in any plastic bag before they go into the kitchen bin. This is mainly because we have no wheelie bins and have to use council-supplied black bags and the rats don't need any invitation! The bin men collect from 06:30 onwards.