"Bubba" > wrote in message
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> -- wrote:
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> >Ok, I have seen the experiments and read and fully understand the
esoteric
> >theory about supposedly how searing
> >1) doesn't make any difference
> >2) colder pan and temp seals in more for a variety of esoteric reasons.
> >
> >and then I saw an annoying reference to the "no-diff" myth once again,
> >immediately after once again having proof of searing effects in my pan -
> >
> >Sorry, the contrarians' "no-diff" and "lower-heat" myth consistently
fails
> >the engineering test here on the range.
> >
> > One of many examples seen here, refuting the no-diff myth and waiting
to
> >trigger my ire when I saw the myth repeated today, occurred on Tuesday
eve:
> >
> >- I cooked a thick boneless chop in the normal way - iron pan, hot oil,
med
> >hi, 4-5 min on the first side and then turn, then lower the heat and do
4-5
> >min, and then cook it at the lower heat about 6 min a side back and forth
> >until I think it is done.
> > Then, because it is thick and pork, I cut it (ok, heresy - but less
> >disturbing than finding a cold red slab of pork inside due to poor
> >defrosting -especially frozen- with-bone chops).
> >
> >a) Once again, like clockwork, the juice flooded heavily out the cut
and
> >into the (up til then) residue free pan,
> >a1) leaving pan residue.
> >
> > The non-seared meats cooked only at the lower heat (like my kid cooks)
do
> >not let out juice when cut.
> >b) My kid's meats (same stove, same pan, same lower temp, same amount of
> >pink) do not drain when cut.
> >b1) The pan, however, has the tell-tale residue of heated drained juice
in
> >the pan deposited throughout the process.
> >
> >Not juicy, like mine. Like mine with juice sealed in. The kid's are the
> >same light pink but dry.
> >
> >Anecdotal, repeated sufficiently to approach statistically valid.
> >
> >So to whomever did the original experiments: try it again with a valid
> >protocol and germaine criterion. Not weight loss, but rather available
> >juice. Not molecular rearrangement theory, but rather available juice.
> >
> >Ok - got that annoyance off my chest... feeling better - thank you all
for
> >the therapy....
> >
> >----------------
> >One of Einstein's great contribution to scientific understanding was in
his
> >phrase - "a million experiments can prove me right - but it only takes
one
> >to prove me wrong."
> >
> > It's all in the protocol, baby.
> >
> >FWIW.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> I am reminded of the scientist that teaches a frog to jump on command.
> He then amputates all four of the frog's legs and tells him to jump.
> The frog, of course, does not. The conclusion? Cutting off a frog's
> legs renders them deaf!
>
> Bubba
>

Absolutely on the mark -- I love this story.




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