• FiniteBanjo@feddit.onlineEnglish
    2 months

    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.

    • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
      2 months

      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.

      • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 months

        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?

        • BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today
          2 months

          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.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      2 months

      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.

      • ryannathans@aussie.zoneEnglish
        2 months

        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

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    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.

    • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
      2 months

      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.

    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      2 months

      That’s why I always buy any meet that costs 6.66 or has the weight of 6.66. who am I to deny the power of Satan.

    • Bluewing@lemmy.world
      2 months

      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.

    • YappyMonotheist@lemmy.world
      2 months

      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. 🤷

      • axus@lemmy.ca
        2 months

        Cats and dogs have real personality, even if they aren’t as big brained as human. We protect even wild ones because we understand they are conscious. A dog is like a vegan, wouldn’t eat the owner after they died.

    • 0xD@infosec.pub
      2 months

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

      • rnercle@sh.itjust.works
        2 months

        🤜🤛

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

        • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
          2 months

          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.

          • Kacarott@aussie.zone
            2 months

            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”.

        • Soulg@ani.socialEnglish
          2 months

          Are you comparing undocumented immigrants to animals?

          • Kacarott@aussie.zone
            2 months

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

          • Agent641@lemmy.world
            2 months

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

          • Lileath@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            2 months

            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.

              • Homosexual sapiens@lemmy.blahaj.zone
                2 months

                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

    • Inucune@lemmy.world
      2 months

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

    • Bad@jlai.lu
      2 months

      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.

  • Homosexual sapiens@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2 months

    If you want your meat-sucking manchild partner to live longer and be a kinder person, maybe do hurry him away from the corpse aisle

  • axx@slrpnk.net
    2 months

    His “happy place” is a display of corpse parts?

    • unfinished | 🇵🇸@lemmy.ml
      2 months

      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”

      • Obi@sopuli.xyz
        2 months

        I’m not even vegan, though we do vary our diet and avoid red meat, and yeah, steak worship is just weird AF.

          • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
            2 months

            I’m convinced vegans aren’t even from this dimension. They have such a weird view of the world that’s completely detached from the rest of humanity.

              • axx@slrpnk.net
                2 months

                Quite bizarre, indeed. What’s next, caring about others in general? Where does it end!

            • axx@slrpnk.net
              2 months

              Are you aware that this is broadly what wanton cruelty – and lack of empathy about it – sounds to people who see it for what it is?

              Such a bizarre worldview, to find unnecessary death and suffering normal and even desirable.

          • axx@slrpnk.net
            2 months

            Because it is, you know, pieces of corpse? Does that not strike you as an odd thing to inspect? Do you regularly find yourself inspecting corpses despite not being a medical examiner?

    • axx@slrpnk.net
      2 months

      You can basically tell how spot on an anti-speciesist comment is by looking at the angry downvotes. Thanks folks!

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
          2 months

          So is “I’m more righter the more downvoted I am”

          Those kinds of comments never seem to ask themselves if the same standard holds true for other comments.

          • axx@slrpnk.net
            1 month

            Fair point. However, if you were more aware and perhaps critical of the carnist culture we are brought up in, you might see more for what they are the knee-jerk reactions to any pointing out the fact that, maybe, possibly, we shouldn’t treat other sentient, living beings capable of feelings and suffering like they were disposable objects?

            It’s always a bit amusing to see people immediately go hard the other way when you point out the very obvious and factual: “uh, guys, this is corpse”.

      • axx@slrpnk.net
        2 months

        Yup. Compounded by how much otherwise sentient and supposedly caring people insist there is no problem. It’s all very normal.

      • HarneyToker@lemmy.world
        2 months

        I suppose you think nature is vile. I’m sorry the animals live in bad places before they are killed, but folks need meat. Easiest way to get protein for many people. I doubt your hard stance will ever convince anyone.