• unfinished | 🇵🇸@lemmy.ml
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      2 hours ago

      Right? You could put some neatly cut and packaged human remains on that display and no one would tell the difference. Def not my “happy place”

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    You want one where a substantial amount of the fat is present in the muscle and evenly spread throughout. It’s tasty and as the moisture evaporates out of the steak the melting fat soaks into the meat, keeping it tender and juicy.

    Salt also softens meat, in part because of its effects on moisture evaporation temperature changing in the solution, but just as importantly because salt is what naturally forces muscle to relax in a living body as well as a cut of meat. That’s why body builders eat bananas, they have potassium salts.

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      10 hours ago

      Never made the connection, but when I was in human anatomy class, we removed the thigh muscle from a frog, hooked it up to a seismograph, and shocked it, to track the spasm.

      As the shocks went on, it would eventually cramp up. Putting saline solution (salt water) on it, would release the cramp, and you could do the experiment again.

      That’s a direct example of salt making a muscle relax. I never thought to connect it to marinating meat.

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      I also tend to look for a thicker cut, since you can cook it more gradually to develop a good texture throughout without overcooking, and still develop a good crust.

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        You also want to dry brine it, that is 12-24 hours before cooking rubbing it with salt and leaving it uncovered in the fridge

        Then before cooking, let it warm up on the bench

        If you have a particularly good cut, you can warm it to room temp, then put it in a mixture of salt and water (20% salt) at freezer temperatures for 20 minutes before drying it and searing it. You’ll get a perfect crust and also perfect edge to edge consistency with no bands of overcooked meat

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      2 hours ago

      So all it takes to bait Lemmy into showing their psychopathic side is three words.

      Pathetic community unworthy of the high regard it holds itself in.

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      6 hours ago

      Eh, equating animal lives to human lives is a bit too much for me but, as long as you’re at least as empathetic for people as you are for cattle, your kindness cannot be denied. 🤷

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          Indeed, the amount of slavery in the modern world’s supply chains is enormous. We exploit child slaves in far away places so we can bankrupt ourselves trying to provide for our kids here at home. I dare say, it’s quite the flawed system we have built for ourselves.

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      11 hours ago

      What despicable human beings are replying to your truthful comment. Keep up the good fight 💚

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        10 hours ago

        🤜🤛

        i don’t care about the replies or the downVotes. This should be reminded every time.

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          Animals aren’t people killing them isn’t murder

          Factory farms are abhorrent and should be done away with, eating meat is natural and there is nothing wrong with it. I can respect your view but your choice to be annoying and openly disrespect other views makes you just another common jackass.

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            I just want to point out that something being “natural” does not inherently make it ok. Killing other creatures of the same species (murder) is “natural”, rape is “natural”, stealing is “natural”.

            The entire point of ethics/morality is to distinguish between the natural things which we find good, and the natural things we find bad and want ourselves and others to stop doing.

            My point being that if you want to defend eating meat as morally ok, you should do so without the “appeal to nature”.

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            Are you comparing a handful of dead people to several million animals getting brutally killed per day? The biggest difference between the holocaust and animal agriculture is the intent to exterminate the entire group for good.

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            I suspect they might be referring to the thing they replied to, the sentiment “I love murder”

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            4 hours ago

            Are you comparing your own mum to an upstanding lady who has never prostituted herself for a cheeseburger?