Eating Meat Raw?
There are a few of us that eat VLC or ZC but how many eat the meat/protien/fat raw? Just thinking about it lately, can't get past the yuck factor but I wanted to hear from others on this subject.
Who eats raw meat? Why? Emagine how fast dinner would be if you didn't have to cook it :lol: |
I prefer mine medium rare, not bloody rare. If anyone responds yes to this, would love to hear the health benefits ;)
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I'm curious too.
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I'm making homemade burger patties for supper and have been nibbling on the ground beef. It's something I've always done. I can't see myself eating a meal of raw meat but I do do this.
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I remember nibbling on the raw ground burger when Mom made patties when I was a kid but I don't think I've done it since. I do prefer all my meats a touch under cooked but not raw.
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I found this blog
http://www.mygutsy.com/is-raw-meat-healthy/ (http://www.rawpaleodietforum.com/) and Dirty Carnivore Forum (http://forum.dirtycarnivore.com/)? |
I have always preferred my beef rare - run twice over a candle, as I have been fond of saying LOL - but actually raw is even better in many instances. I was also a nibbler of the raw ground beef while making tacos or hamburgers. I've had steak tartar a few times, and very much enjoyed it. In Germany, where I lived for several years, they often eat - or ate; it has been a few years - raw pork, ground up, with onions (trichinosis is rare to non-existent there, I am told), and it is quite good. No idea about the health benefits, if any, but I know I like the taste. Without knowing the provenance of my beef nowadays I prefer to cook it at least a little bit. This may be why I adore tuna sushi - it is very meaty.
On a side note - am I the only one who watched "Rosemary's Baby", saw the liver eating bit, and couldn't quite understand the "eeeeew" coming from the rest of the cinema? I thought it was an interesting idea, and worth trying sometime LOL. Again, not knowing where the liver comes from has been a limiting factor. |
Raw meat is the best option, I only eat raw beef and lamb, sometimes fish.
I love 2 pounds of Ireland beef raw. |
I don't touch raw meat. Just don't like raw stuff in general lol.
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We raise or hunt/fish for all of our meats now so I do know where our meats come from. We do all the processing of those meats ourselves also. I have a bag of chicken livers and hearts I stuck in the freezer, I'm tempted to get them out and slowly work my way into it. The yuck factor kinda is stopping me this morning though :lol:
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I eat my beef and lamb blue. so it is raw. But with the outside seared to get rid of the grubby mitts of the meat handlers before me :-).
Given a choice I would be quite happy to eat it completely raw. But, I can not raise my own meat, and beef and lamb only make up a small (ok tiny) portion of my yearly meat consumption. I would not eat raw chicken or pork, simply because it is battery farmed fed on rubbish and are prone to carry a lot of transferable micro-organisms. When I get fresh fish, I like to prepare it in lemon juice or vinegar so I don't have to go through the cooking process, but again this is a rare treat for me :-). |
Jaywood, you don't cook your fish? I was always told to fully cook fish because of worms, some of them are quite nasty. We have never seen worms in the catfish that we catch, I was told to look at the meat around the spine when we fillet the fish and we would see them if they were infested. Haven't seen any yet.
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I've heard freezing the liver first is good. Makes it less slimy.
I don't feel any need to eat my meat raw. I think that cooking was a something we evolved to do for a reason, like killing off parasites before we eat them and making food easier to digest. However, I eat a wide variety of foods, so I've got lots of nutrients coming in, not just muscle meat. |
Ok, I took the first step, I just ate 2 raw eggs with a little butter. Now I know a lot of people eat raw eggs no issue, but the closest I have ever come to it is sunny side up :lol: I disslike runny egg whites. I put 2 eggs in a mug, added a little butter, shake of salt and pepper (I am sooo glad we raise our own eggs). Verdict? Gross as hell but half way through I was getting used to the slimy feel and it wasn't that bad. Its just getting over the yuck factor.
From what I read, we kill a lot of good vit and such when we cook our meats. I know cooking eggs actualy changes their cell structor and takes out a lot of the good stuff. Chemistry class in college :lol: I didn't thaw out those livers so a bit too late for todays lunch, not sure if I can stomach 2 raw meals today :lol: I bet those hearts would thaw out faster though. |
I always put raw eggs in smoothies. Add some coconut milk, sweetener, a few ice cubes, cocoa, or berries. Pretty decent way to eat raw eggs.
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