When cooking meats??!
When cooking meats??
when meat is raw you can see the blood but once you cook it there is no blood, where the hell did it go??
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I love these kind of questions.....the kind you always read and then go 'Oh Gosh!! I Never thought about that!!'
I dont have the answer though lol :o) x
it got cooked....
and your eating it
It's not blood, it's juices, they change colour as the meat does!!!
wheres your lap go when you stand up? quality question mate made me think, must cook aswell!
have you ever seen that nasty looking brown juice in the pan. it's kinda congealed, starts off red and turns brown, and finally its the stuff stuck to the bottom of the pan. ta da. there it is.
It is still there but it has been changed by the heat of cooking into a solid and pale colored form. I think it is what happens to proteins when they are exposed to heat.
I will be dammed if I know, I think it is cooked out of the meat but that is only a guess.
Technically, not blood, but myoglobin, which is in the cells and holds oxygen like blood, hence the red color in the presence of oxygen. The heat that cooks is breaking down proteins, including myoglobin, which is why the color changes to brown (hate to make this analogy talking about food, but think of scabs, and what happens when the oxygen-carrying proteins in the blood break down - it turns brown)
thats precisely why i wont cook meat like that.i will wash it under cold water for as long as it takes till their is no sign of blood at all then i will cook it.as for mince,i will boil it till all the scum comes out then ladel it off.i cant stand anything that is not properly clean.