Re: stew

On 4/26/2025 8:17 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-04-26 7:06 p.m., ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 22:05:32 +0000, Bruce wrote:
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On Sat, 26 Apr 2025 21:52:14 +0000, dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) wrote:

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On Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:15:50 +0000, BryanGSimmons wrote:
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DUMP OUT BEEF WATER?  NEVER!!!!!!  Fuck clarity.

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That's standard Asian practice. They don't like boiling blood in water.

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Strange meat you have there in How wa ya, I've never seen
ANY blood in the water when cooking beef.  I could see
someone changing the water if they want a pretty, clear
broth.  But when they do that they are dumping any fat
rendered from the meat and fat means flavor.

 I don't understand the thing about ditching the stewing liquid because of blood. Don't they bleed the carcasses before cooking? That red stuff that comes out of cooking meat is not blood.
 

You are correct; it's not blood it's myoglobin.  That's why the excuse some people give about not wanting a medium-rare or rare steak because of the "blood" is specious.

I don't know about cooks but I was in a computer shop the other day. The guy works fast and cheap, but he sure doesn't spend any time on cleanliness. The shop was cluttered with junk and dusty as hell. The owner smelled bad.... really bad. He didn't have the nicotine stained fingers and teeth of a smoker but he had that stench of stale smoke but that was barely detectable compared to the stink of clothing that had not been washed in weeks. Thank goodness he solved my issues quickly so I could get outside and get some fresh air. I had smelled body stink like that since the days I worked with long haul truckers.

Can't they smell themselves?  There is not much worse than being in an enclosed space with someone who has intense B.O.  I used to work with a temp who had horrible B.O.  The company hired two temps and the other poor guy had to share a cubicle with this dude.  Our supervisor had to have a talk with him.  He claimed to have a medical condition which caused him to perspire more than most people.  Maybe yes, maybe no; the funk was unbearable.  There were other issues, though; he was chronically late, always with some lame excuse.  The company wound up hiring the other temp full time and told the agency not to send the other guy back.
Jill