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[–] 79 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm just browsing. We don't have the money for that.

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  • [–] 40 points 9 months ago* (11 children)

    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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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I bet you could make a sick marinated frog leg

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    would release the cramp, and you could do the experiment again.

    How many times did you need to do this to get the point? I feel like seeing it once, gathered around the teacher, would be plenty.

    Also, a seismograph?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Yep, a seismograph. Mine was a vertical version, but yeah, the same thing. You suspended the muscle, with a pen attached somehow (I don't remember, it was decades ago), and when you shocked it, the muscle would spasm, and write on the rolling paper. As the spasms increased, the markings would be smaller, until it seized up, and drew a straight line. Then you'd douse the muscle with saline, and you could do it again, although the results were less dramatic on subsequent runs. It seemed like the muscle would eventually just fatigue, and not be as revivable by saline. So we only had to repeat it a few times.

    And it wasn't just one experiment, being done by the teacher in front of everybody. We all had our own seismographs, and had to kill and dissect our own frogs. It was a real hand-on class, and was one of the best high school classes I've ever taken. It was a college level pre-med class, and I've used the info I learned in that class every day throughout my entire life.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago*

    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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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Me, looking at all the things I wished I could afford.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago

    The comments section:

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    Women be shopping . . . .

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I love me some cow meat, but these days I stick with chicken with no antibiotics. Cow meat is too expensive.

    Any species that can live 18 months without a head is barely alive in the first place.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Okay, so that was a wild story, but... 'not having a head' doesn't really make me think of 'has most of the brain stem and an ear.' It's not much different than humans that have no higher brain functions and are on feeding tubes.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago (65 children)
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    So is eating vegetables. In order for you to live, something has to die.

    I'm not knocking your veganism. I fully support your choices. But I harbor no illusions that all life requires death to survive. And much of that death is actively done by all creatures.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (9 children)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    🤜🤛

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

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Murder isn't something that can only be done to people.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (12 children)

    Are you comparing undocumented immigrants to animals?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    It's shit like this that makes it so people cannot take you seriously

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I find it harder to take seriously someone who has their head in the sand and believes in some supernatural supremacy of a particular species of monkey

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (5 children)

    You're right, eating meat is the same as the Holocaust

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    not much of a materialist, are you, "prole"?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (3 children)

    You've successfully convinced me that eating meat is the same thing as the Holocaust. Medium rare, errr I mean well done.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Keep letting your imagination run wild

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (15 children)

    There is no ethical consumption under capitalism

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    that is why i exclusively buy stuff from nestle and donate all of my leftover money to Trump and Jk Rowling

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm just trying to get by, I buy exclusively whatever is cheapest

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Some are less unethical than others.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    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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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (4 children)
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    Most consumption under capitalism is ethical. Both parties agree on an exchange rate for services and mutually benefit.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    So make sure that livestock did not die in vain. Prepare it properly.

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  • [+] -8 points 9 months 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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  • [+] -12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The animal is already dead, it's even more disrespectful to waste it's body.

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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    You're paying animal agriculture to harm more animals.

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