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Thank you for posting. I had no idea Bromine was a trace element essential to life in the human body! You are right though-dosage is the key! A lot of people are low in iodine. The RDA was set 100 years ago; and it was the minimum amount needed to prevent goiter is farm animals. that dosage was...
Just recently learned about this... Iodide (or is it Iodate?) was used as a conditioner in commercial flour up until around 1980. Then a switch to Bromide was made. My question is why was this done? Bromide is toxic to the human body and is banned in food stuffs in a lot of countries. Bromine...
One Day Meat Sale today at a local grocer... picked up some Prime Filet Mignon steaks for a REALLY great price....so you have inspired me Civil! On deck for this weekend!
Best not to boil the gumbo after the addition of file' powder or the file' will get stringy. Add to the pot right before serving, blend in to the gumbo and scoop into bowls. Or, add to the bowl....I like a lot of file in my bowl...
Yes, it will. Remember this is on an atomic level. Both sodium and potassium will readily diffuse into the meat. As will Sodium Nitrite, sodium nitrate, and a host of other salts. The rates of diffusion may vary some, but all will drive diffusion. The chemical principal at play here is...
It takes both ions to diffuse salt into the meat. Can't have one without the other...positive and negative.....and it is the nature of water to seek equilibrium of the charges. Starting off, all those charged ions are on the surface, so water flows to the surface to try and establish...
The low sodium sausage I made used 0.5% sodium....if I remember correctly. My main concern there was protein extraction for the bind. But I mixed the salt into the lean first so as to increase the concentration of salt for extraction, then added the fat to mix in.