Thread: Very bad rabbit smell if not gutted immedietely

Originally Posted by JessicaChen

Yeah might try the milk or salt water thing, but the other rabbits i gutted instantly have beautiful neutral-smelling meat, no bad smell whatsoever. I wonder if rabbits have such thin instestinal walls that bacteria and other stuff can leak out and penetrate the surrounding meats, or maybe travel through the intact blood vessels. @Boxton does your grandfather have a favourite recipe?

When we used to shoot them, if we were keeping them, I would usually sleeve skin the rear end, gut and chop the back half off at about the rib cage or simply take the back legs....We did not enjoy meat flavoured toothpicks or the rabbit "chicken nibbles" that were up front so took the two 'drum sticks' and finger steaks (Back steaks the size of fingers....)

Rabbit guts is one of the worst odours I can think of. I remember rather fondly my hunting mate had a bit of a weak stomach, and would tend to retch a bit at it when we were gutting them for cat food (early 90s so a while ago) not so much at the smell, but the fact that I would be eating a moro bar or drinking a bottle of coke or similar and belching while we did this. (no alcohol as we still had to drive home)

One hint though, we always had a pair of yellow kitchen gloves for when we were gutting them. Once gutting was done, the gloves went in a bag and clean up was easier as we would eat our dinner in the car on the drive home.....