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> "Bubba" > wrote in message
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>>>Ok, I have seen the experiments and read and fully understand the
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> esoteric
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>>>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
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> fails
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>>>the engineering test here on the range.
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>>> One of many examples seen here, refuting the no-diff myth and waiting
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> to
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>>>trigger my ire when I saw the myth repeated today, occurred on Tuesday
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> eve:
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>>>- I cooked a thick boneless chop in the normal way - iron pan, hot oil,
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>>>hi, 4-5 min on the first side and then turn, then lower the heat and do
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>>>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
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> and
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>>>into the (up til then) residue free pan,
>>>a1) leaving pan residue.
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>>> The non-seared meats cooked only at the lower heat (like my kid cooks)
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> do
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>>>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
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> in
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>>>the pan deposited throughout the process.
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>>>Not juicy, like mine. Like mine with juice sealed in. The kid's are the
>>>same light pink but dry.
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>>>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
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> for
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>>>the therapy....
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>>>----------------
>>>One of Einstein's great contribution to scientific understanding was in
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> his
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>>>phrase - "a million experiments can prove me right - but it only takes
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>>>to prove me wrong."
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>>>It's all in the protocol, baby.
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>>>FWIW.
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>>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
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> Absolutely on the mark -- I love this story.
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Whoooooosh
Pastorio
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