What is Meat? The flesh of animals, eaten as food.
What is Meat? The flesh of animals, eaten as food.
What is Meat? The skeletal muscles of mammals.
What is Meat? The skeletal muscles of mammals.
What is Muscle? Strands of protein that produce motion. Muscle fiber (Actin) Motor (Myosin)
But What is the Fuel?
It’s called ATP. Muscle
But What is the Fuel? ATP ADP
But What is the Fuel? Oxygen + ADP + Food = ATP + CO2 ADP = ATP + Cells
But What is the Fuel?
Oxygen + ADP + Food = ATP + CO2
But What is the Fuel? Oxygen + ADP + Food = ATP + Lactic Acid
But What is the Fuel? Oxygen + ADP + Food = ATP + Lactic Acid Anaerobic Metabolism
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What Does this do to Meat?
Anaerobic Metabolism Soft Pig What Does this do to Meat?
Pot Roast
Slow Cooking Makes Meat Tender
Pot Roast Enzymes (calpain)
Pot Roast
Cuban-Style Pork
What Happened? Cuban-Style Pork
Collagen (It doesn’t cook)
Cuban-Style Pork Collagen ACID
Cuban-Style Pork ACID
Fried Chicken
What Do You Do?
Fried Chicken
Osmosis Vegetable Cell Sodium Meat
Fried Chicken Osmosis Vegetable Cell Meat It can work in reverse.
Fried Chicken Osmosis Vegetable Cell Meat
Fried Chicken This gives you crunchier, moister-on the-inside chicken.