Steve Wertz > wrote:

>On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:14:07 +0000 (UTC), Steve Pope wrote:

>> Buy kosher meat... they've already drained all the blood
>> from it.

>All meat is drained of arterial blood before it hits the shelves.
>What you're seeing is not really blood.

I've read that typical beef in the U.S. is only drained of
about 2/3 of its blood, but I don't know if that information
is authoritative.

In any case, I agree that the red-tinged fluid outflowing
from a cooked steak is not blood, at least not mostly. It is
not nearly thick enough or dark enough.

Steve