What If Black Strings and Blood Spots Appear in Cooked Meat?

Answered by Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat

Question

When cooking meat, black strings sometimes appear, and there are spots that look like cooked blood. Could you provide details about this?

Answer

I pray you are well.

All slaughtered meat and remnant blood are permissible to consume.

I assume the black strings in the meat are the veins of the animal or some other tissue that has darkened with cooking. Regardless, it is permissible to consume if the animal was slaughtered.

The only blood that is impermissible to consume is the blood that flows out of the animal at the time of slaughter.

“Say, (O Prophet,) ‘I do not find in what has been revealed to me anything forbidden to eat except carrion, running blood…’” [Quran, 6:145]

So, all the blood that is pumped out by the animal’s heart at the time of slaughter is impermissible. Remnant blood within the body is permissible, and there is no dislike if it gets cooked with the animal.

Enjoy the food, thank Allah for it, and use it as a means to being a grateful slave.

[Shaykh] Abdul-Rahim
Checked and Approved by Shaykh Faraz Rabbani

Shaykh Abdul-Rahim Reasat began studying Arabic Grammar and Morphology whilst studying for a degree in English and History. After graduating, He traveled to Damascus and studied Arabic, Hanafi Fiqh, Usul al-Fiqh, Theology, and Logic with Shaykh Adnan Darwish, Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahman Arjan al-Binsawi, Shaykh Husayn Darwish, Shaykh Muhammad Darwish, the late Shaykh Rashad Shams, and others. He then moved to Amman to continue his studies in those fields, as well as in Tafsir, Quranic Sciences, Hadith Methodology and Commentary, Prophetic Biography, Prophetic Perfections and Traits, Rhetoric, Arabic Literature, and Tajwid. His teachers include Shaykh Ali Hani, Dr. Hamza al-Bakri, Dr Salah Abu al-Hajj, Dr Mansur Abu Zina, Shaykh Ahmad Hasanat, Shaykh Ahmad Jammal, and others.