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Burong kalabiburong kalabaw

Burong kalabaw is a Luzon ferment of ground carabao (water buffalo) meat mixed with cooked rice and salt, left to sour like other Philippine buro.

A short entry: the sources we found record only what is said here about Burong kalabi itself. Its own sources do not record how it is made, so the steps and scenes below are those of Burong isda, the closest documented fish and seafood ferment, shown as a guide to the method, not as a record of Burong kalabi.

Short entryMeat

Recipe

No fixed amounts recordedWhat goes in. No source gives amounts for this ferment.
ground carabao (water buffalo) meat
cooked rice
salt

Total time across the steps of Burong isda: 7 days

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What changes: The fish is washed, cleaned and cut into slices

Step 1 of 4 · steps of Burong isda
Clean and slice the fish
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Lactic acid bacteria

Output: fish slices or fillets.

Flavour
Not documented
Texture
Not documented
Colour
Not documented

Microbes at work in this step

Not documented for this step.

Method

Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source

At a glance

Burong kalabaw is a Luzon ferment of ground carabao (water buffalo) meat mixed with cooked rice and salt, left to sour like other Philippine buro. Lactobacillus plantarum does most of the fermenting.

What makes this one different

It is the meat member of the buro family, which more often ferments fish (burong isda) or shrimp with rice.

Related ferments

Variants

  • Burong babi (burong baboy)ground pork with cooked rice (Central Luzon); L. plantarum; Kapampangan tocino-style pork left overnight is also called burong baboy.

Safety

No source we read gives a tested salt level, time or temperature for this ferment, so this page is not a recipe to follow. It sours raw ground meat with rice and salt. CDC names homemade foods that are improperly preserved or fermented as common sources of botulism, and says not to eat food if you do not know whether it was safely fermented. Ground meat should be cooked to at least 71 °C, the USDA figure CDC gives against Toxoplasma. That figure is for the parasite, not for botulinum toxin.

History and sources

Every number is labelled with how it is known. How this atlas is made

  1. [cdc-botulism] US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Botulism Preventiongov
  2. [cdc-toxoplasmosis] US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Preventing Toxoplasmosis (safe cooking temperatures)gov
  3. [s1] Banaay et al. 2013, Table 1 (as agos-os)paper
  4. [s2] Wikipedia, Tocino (burong baboy note)wiki