Exploding Chickens, Shrimp Cannons and Biscuit Bazookas: Food Myths with Adam Savage
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
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How to Tenderize Meat
In the food world, we're always talking about tenderizing meat and should you marinate it or should you whack it with a fork? You thought you'd test a different methodology, which is rather curious. We actually put meat in freezer bags and we put it in a barrel and we used explosives in the barrel to tenderize the meat. And we found that there were some specific parameters under which explosives genuinely did make the meat more tender. Why didn't it just completely shred the meat? You just had to use the right distance from the explosion or the right amount of TNT.
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