Why fire change meat color?
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Itās the standard tale of a middle-aged dude who gets into cooking only itās wrapped up in dumb internet bro shit. Just watch the Food Network like the rest of us, dude.
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Lol I would consider Cutthroat Kitchen or whatever to be must-see viewing if they brought in Joe as a guest chef.
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This guy is a moron!
Heās right that cooking meat with fire and smoke is different than cooking it with a modern stove or oven.
Do you always have to be a contrarian?
fuck off
Going on mute. You have ruined the Ukraine thread long enough!
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keep me posted guy
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Yeah, I donāt think the guy is sitting in the middle of the forest in a loincloth with a hunk of squirrel on a stick over a fire.
No probably not but for me there is a huge difference in the experience of even just cooking a steak on a charcoal grill versus a stovetop. Itās exactly what Rogan is talking about: a more primal experience. Then if you add a little wood smoke to it and it takes the flavor to a whole different level. I started building a charcoal fire on half of my weber, adding some cherry chunks and smoking my ribeyes on indirect heat for like 30-40 minutes. Then let them rest for five minutes with the lid off so the fire gets nice and hot, then sear them real quick. It never looks as āperfectā as a sous vide steak followed by resting and searing, but to me it tastes way better. And I think that part of that is the psychological aspects that Rogan is talking about here.
Yeah Iām not disputing that meat on an open fire can taste better than something cooked in an oven or on a stove.
Itās that heās connecting it to āPrimal Rootsā when itās simple science that J. Kenji Lopez-Alt could have explained 10 years ago or Julia Child could have explained 40 years ago.
Doesnāt he live in Texas now? I hear they have a thing called BBQ there that will blow his mind.
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Well I think a lot of it is psychological. The guy who grows his own carrots is going to have a different psychological experience eating them than with the grocery store carrots even if he canāt actually tell them apart in a blind taste test. A guy like Rogan who hunts, butchers, and cooks with fire is going to have a different psychological experience with his meat than someone who sous vides a steak he got at the grocery store.
This is such a dumb conversation
You would think we could all just laugh at this schmuck without having to get it n to a big debate on the merits of cooking a steak on charcoal vs a stove.
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My psychological experience is that I hate inefficiency. I believe in the division of labor in society and see trying to be self-sufficient as a wasteful duplication of effort, so growing or hunting for my own food would make it taste like the bitterness of lost EV, unless doing so was actually efficient. I might do it a few times for the experience so I can learn things, but doing it on a regular basis when there are other options just feels sad.
Hunting and gardening are hobbies. People do them because they like it. It has nothing to do with efficiency.
that i grow the tastiest celery in the world in my backyard is a hill iāll gladly die on, bc itās true.
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Can celery be tasty on its own?
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