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Default Eggs tenderize pork - theory

On 9/6/2014 10:16 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
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>> On Friday, September 5, 2014 5:22:48 PM UTC-10, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
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>>>> On 9/5/2014 11:07 AM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
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>>>>> Pork was on sale finally. This years prices have been quite high. So
>>>>> I
>>>
>>>>> had
>>>
>>>>> a huge package of chops. Me like pork chops. I decided to oven bake
>>>
>>>>> them.
>>>
>>>>> Usual method, to lightly dip in melted butter then bread them and bake
>>>>> at
>>>
>>>>> 425 flipping halfway in between. I remembered discussing eggs with
>>>>> pork.
>>>
>>>>> So I made an egg/milk mixture to dip the chops in then breaded and
>>>>> baked
>>>
>>>>> as
>>>
>>>>> usual. The pork was much more tender, by a lot. It was an amazing
>>>
>>>>> difference. The egg really seems to have some kind of tenderizing
>>>
>>>>> effect.
>>>
>>>>> No more of the old way. I am sure if I have not exactly discovered
>>>
>>>>> anything
>>>
>>>>> already known somebody will let me know.
>>>
>>>>>
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>>>> It's probably because you got a good batch of pork and because you
>>>> didn't
>>>
>>>> cook it all to hell. People tend to cook pork all to hell. I don't
>>>> think
>>>
>>>> the eggs did anything except allowed you to come up with a good looking
>>>
>>>> product without cooking it all to hell.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not buying it. Same batch. Not likely there would be that huge of a
>>>
>>> difference.
>>>
>>>
>>>

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>> What are you saying? You had lousy pork and you cooked it to hell? Not
>> buying it.
>>

>
> Got a reading comprehension problem I see. OK let's break this down while I
> wait for my coffee water to boil
>
> 1) purchased a 4 pound pack of chops. With me so far?
> 2) cooked them a little differently - kind of like I would oven baked
> chicken ie egg/milk wash then bread crumbs
> 3) it was much more tender than my usual method of melted butter dip
> followed by bread crumbs
>
> OK, any questions? An abridged and annotated versaion is available in the
> bookstore.
>


Obviously, you just didn't cook that batch of chops all to hell. This
is like rocket science to you ain't it? :-)

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