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Favourite offal - Ox tongue

Post by Lorgar » 14 Nov 2014, 6:40 pm

Thanks to Korean BBQ I've discovered a new favourite, Ox tongue.

If there a trick to skinning them I don't know what it is... Bit of a pain that in my 1 attempt at home. Blanched in boiling water before dropping in cold to shrink the skin off but maybe I got the timing wrong as it did sweet FA to help :lol:

With that out of the way... Slice thing, pit of salt and pepper, lemon juice, drop onto sizzling hotplate for half a minute each size.

BBQ on it and away! f***ing great!
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Post by tom604 » 14 Nov 2014, 10:00 pm

used to get tongue from the butchers when i was a kid ,nice on sandwiches
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Post by brett1868 » 14 Nov 2014, 11:12 pm

I'll pass on this, the only tongue I want in my mouth is mine or the one attached to my wife. I wouldn't French kiss a live ox let alone a dead one :)
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Post by on_one_wheel » 15 Nov 2014, 8:52 am

I just packed a killer away in the freezer, the tounge never made it home ... mia ...

I usally scrape them clean with a knife under running water, and bake them like a small roast, once cooked and cooled I cut through the skin length ways and peel it off.

It usally is a little stubborn to peel it.

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Post by 1290 » 15 Nov 2014, 12:47 pm

brett1868 wrote:I'll pass on this, the only tongue I want in my mouth is mine or the one attached to my wife. I wouldn't French kiss a live ox let alone a dead one :)


soooooooooo......I guess you pass on RUMP steak too??

As far as offal; doesnt that refer to the organs, heart lung liver kidney?

I love liver... the texture and flavour... yummo
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Post by Gregg » 15 Nov 2014, 2:52 pm

1290 wrote:As far as offal; doesnt that refer to the organs, heart lung liver kidney?


That's them.

Liver goes allright, fried with some bacon and onions.
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Post by 1290 » 15 Nov 2014, 3:07 pm

....or Fava beans and Chianti??

oooh thats brains..
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Post by Lorgar » 16 Nov 2014, 8:05 pm

Deer fried lambs brains on sauerkraut.

That's another winner ;)
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Post by Mich » 21 Nov 2014, 9:18 am

I don't know how people do kidney.

It just smells like piss.

And feels like eating rubbery jelly.
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Post by greenonion » 27 Nov 2014, 2:18 pm

Soaking this kind of stuff in milk kills the smell the cooking shows say.
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Post by Bourt » 27 Nov 2014, 2:19 pm

If it smells so bad you have to soak the rancid smell out of it to make it edible I don't want anything to do with it :lol:
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Post by 1290 » 27 Nov 2014, 3:06 pm

I think people only eat kidney because they confuse it with liver..... mmmmmmm liver.....
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Post by Warrigul » 27 Nov 2014, 3:07 pm

I live for steak and kidney.
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Post by chacka » 28 Nov 2014, 10:49 am

Gave blood sausage a go a while ago... Better than I expected.
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Post by on_one_wheel » 28 Nov 2014, 10:56 am

Iv never tried haggis, i would jump at the chance to

I knew a bloke that lived near Wilcannia who made what I thought was the worlds best lambs fry, if I ever catch up with Jeremy again I will be asking him for his recipe.
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Post by 1290 » 28 Nov 2014, 11:25 am

Warrigul wrote:I live for steak and kidney.


Let me guess, you also have a rifle chambered in 280rem..... about 2 people in Aus have a 280, and about 2 like kidney.... :D
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Post by Warrigul » 28 Nov 2014, 1:00 pm

1290 wrote:Let me guess, you also have a rifle chambered in 280rem..... about 2 people in Aus have a 280, and about 2 like kidney.... :D


No but I do have a South African marked P13 with a bore far less than .303....................

I have yet to meet anyone else with one, which is about the same as finding someone who likes crumbed and fried lambs brains, they just aren't about.

They generally hang around the Hens teeth collectors.
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Post by Old Fart » 28 Nov 2014, 1:11 pm

on_one_wheel wrote:I knew a bloke that lived near Wilcannia who made what I thought was the worlds best lambs fry, if I ever catch up with Jeremy again I will be asking him for his recipe.


I just like the look on peoples faces. "Lambs Fry" sounds great to everyone... And then you tell them what it is :lol:
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Post by 1290 » 28 Nov 2014, 1:36 pm

Warrigul wrote:No but I do have a South African marked P13 with a bore far less than .303...


Wasn't the pattern 13 the 276... that never was?
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Post by schink » 28 Nov 2014, 1:49 pm

Old Fart wrote:I just like the look on peoples faces. "Lambs Fry" sounds great to everyone... And then you tell them what it is :lol:


"Lamb's fry is lamb offal served as food, including the testicles, liver, sweetbreads, heart, kidneys, and sometimes the brain and abdominal fat—or some combination of these."

You lost me at testicles :lol:
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Post by on_one_wheel » 28 Nov 2014, 2:03 pm

schink wrote:
Old Fart wrote:I just like the look on peoples faces. "Lambs Fry" sounds great to everyone... And then you tell them what it is :lol:


"Lamb's fry is lamb offal served as food, including the testicles, liver, sweetbreads, heart, kidneys, and sometimes the brain and abdominal fat—or some combination of these."

You lost me at testicles :lol:


Not many sheep sold as lambs have testicles... they are gone with the tail. You must be referring to Rams fry... I'd give that a go :lol:

I've had bovine nuts before, cooked fresh on the branding iron fire , blody lovley !
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Post by Warrigul » 28 Nov 2014, 5:44 pm

1290 wrote:
Warrigul wrote:No but I do have a South African marked P13 with a bore far less than .303...


Wasn't the pattern 13 the 276... that never was?


They trialled about a thousand(I think), I know how this one made its way across. It is quite a story how I got it, it was sent over in a container filled with the personal effects belonging to a skilled migrant in the 1980's, he subsequentially sold all his fierarms to a dealer who sold this particular one to a local. We were all having a beer in the 1990's and on seeing some of my firearms he mentioned selling a few of his grandfathers WW1 firearms to a certain dealer. When I went and asked who bought such and such's .303 and pump action 44/40(that is another story again and I wish I could track that down) it was a bloke I knew of. He subsequentially had never tried to fire it as it wouldn't chamber a .303 or .30/06 and it was just hanging around, so I bought it(at that time for $200 which was a hideous price for a .303- i was sure it was something simple why it wouldn't chamber, it wasn't) but still didn't know what it was for another decade.

I bought mine as a P14 that wasn't quite right, ironically I still haven't found a P14 I am happy with- yet.

A bloke down here has made a set of dies and converted a P14 but it is nothing fantastic as far as cartridges go and I think that is probably 50% of the reason why they stayed with the .303. It is curiosity value only.
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Post by 1290 » 28 Nov 2014, 5:55 pm

Great story...piece of history, you didnt buy it, you stole it :lol:
its a keeper, not a shooter start a thread with the story with pics!! the enfield enthusiasts will appreciate!
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Post by Warrigul » 28 Nov 2014, 8:31 pm

1290 wrote:Great story...piece of history, you didnt buy it, you stole it :lol:
its a keeper, not a shooter start a thread with the story with pics!! the enfield enthusiasts will appreciate!


I may do that, this is not really a collectors forum though.

An expert rubbished it the first time I put it online on a noted overseas collectors forum but we confirmed that it was original still by taking a chamber cast.

It has been well received at a couple of show and tells and soon may be lent on a long term basis to a museum, I am waiting for paperwork to be tidied up first and I want an agreed insurance value(which apparently is a hurdle as the person who originally valued it has passed on- and is sorely missed). But I will stop messing up this thread for now.
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Post by on_one_wheel » 28 Nov 2014, 8:41 pm

I'd like to see a smle thread warrigul, one day I will buy a .303 but I've done very little homework.
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Post by Oldbloke » 29 Nov 2014, 11:53 am

My wife assures me you peel the ox tongue after it has been cooked. Very easy then. She used to cook it the same as corned beef & tasted a lot like it. Her father loved them. Black pudding (pigs blood sausage) great fried with eggs on toast.
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Post by tom604 » 29 Nov 2014, 12:26 pm

black pudding,,,,,mmmmmm that and scotch sausage with a couple of eggs,,lovely ;) may have to have that for breaky tomorrow 8-)
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Post by 1290 » 29 Nov 2014, 1:23 pm

on_one_wheel wrote:I'd like to see a smle thread warrigul, one day I will buy a .303 but I've done very little homework.

It's more a Mauser than an SMLE. ..

Yeah ox tongue.... never tried it (keeping on thread)
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Post by 1290 » 29 Nov 2014, 6:05 pm

Warrigul wrote:
1290 wrote:Great story...piece of history, you didnt buy it, you stole it :lol:
its a keeper, not a shooter start a thread with the story with pics!! the enfield enthusiasts will appreciate!


I may do that, this is not really a collectors forum though.

An expert rubbished it the first time I put it online on a noted overseas collectors forum but we confirmed that it was original still by taking a chamber cast.

It has been well received at a couple of show and tells and soon may be lent on a long term basis to a museum, I am waiting for paperwork to be tidied up first and I want an agreed insurance value(which apparently is a hurdle as the person who originally valued it has passed on- and is sorely missed). But I will stop messing up this thread for now.


Not a collectors forum?? Well then maybe we need a new section "old stuff"!! [mods!]

anyhoo, pay attention Warrigul....

edit to add; what I meant by pay attention was to the thread I started for you to populate.... its had more hits than many other threads, give the people what they want!!
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Re: Favourite offal - Ox tongue

Post by greyghost » 02 Dec 2014, 8:54 am

I know it's good to not waste any of an animal and kudos to those who don't but I'll have to stick with the meat.

Can't do the offal :|
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