This is so funny. As a kid I never really thought about it, until one day my sister pointed out to me that a rare steak was "bloody." I was like "Oh, is that what that is?" and she was like "Yeah, what did you think it was?" I answered "I dunno, meat juice?" To which she replied "Yeah, that's blood." Vindicated, after all this time... 😂
People always talk about how they think of comebacks way after a discussion has ended, but few ever touch on how some of our actual, real time comebacks were right to begin with. It's an even more excruciating feeling for me
But as a kid back in the day, I can see both views - the blase opinion of the kid seeing it literally as juice from meat - 'meat juice' then the other kid seeing what looks like red blood from flesh like a slaughtered murder victim in a horror film... I shudder what you two thought when you saw a peen do its sxy thing - she'd call it milk and you would call it peen juice...lol
Red runny "juice" that looks like blood coming from barely cooked meat is revolting to a majority of people on earth. The people who like it that way do not understand the revulsion. "It tastes best that way! Cooking it more ruins the cut!". There are many retorts they have to justify it. It's nasty, but the people who like it will never understand why others might see it that way. Totally normal for them.
As a vampire, I appreciate this video. I've been telling my fellow vampire friends that they can't simply eat rare steak to get their blood fix, but they won't listen to a word I say. It's nice to have video to point to so I can show them that they need to at least be supplementing with animal blood if they don't want to bite humans.
Until now, I assumed that a forklift was some kind of dinner table workout. Guess I learned two things today, and must excuse myself, as my brain is full.
Whenever I’ve told people their steak juice is myoglobin and not blood they just look at me sideways. The person I learned it from (paramedic prof) actually said something along the lines of “I never tell people that during dinner anymore, I just take their steak cuz they’re stupid”
Seeing as how you’ve been in this industry, i’m hoping you can answer my question - I notice that when packaged chicken, air-chilled or not, gets close to its “best buy “ date, a fair amount of meat juice or purge accumulates in the package container. Is that a sign of the meat trending towards going bad? Is it better to get meat that doesn’t have meat juice coming out of it or does it not matter?
Lab technologist/blood banker here - testing for myoglobin isn’t all that “standard” for most patients in any hospital setting that I have ever worked. It might be done as part of a cardiac/chest pain workup, although other tests (CK/CKMB ratio, troponin, etc) are more common. I’d bet money that the person who mentioned it on TikTok was confusing hemoglobin and myoglobin. Hemoglobin is an extremely common test done all of the time.
Also, one more thing I'll add to this is that myoglobin is nephrotoxic which means it is bad for the kidneys. That is why myoglobin tests are done after something that might lead to muscle atrophy like a car crash, an OD or in my case, seizures.
A painful, yet informative watch. As a Muslim who has only eaten steak well done due to the myoglobin misconception, I appreciate this non-condescending explanation.
I wish i could have gotten my mum who is a jw to understand the same thing, hated steak for the longest time because when i was growing up we were not allowed anything other than well done. Put that with always needing to finish meals and i could be sitting there for up to 2 hours trying chew up a quarter piece of steak :/ i always made sure to never order them and wondered why anyone went on about steak ever. lol Learnt about it being myoglobin in a phlebotomy course, after that tried steak how its meant to be and loved it.
But that doesn't even make sense. If you are under the assumption that red liquid = blood, then cooking it well done so it doesn't look red anymore wouldn't make it not blood...
@@triparadox.c That wasn’t the case with me. I assumed that the red liquid was blood simply because the red liquid was from animal flesh. And since animals bleed blood… I also incorrectly assumed that the “blood” would fully dissipate and evaporate only when cooked well done.
I've been trying to explain this to my parents for a while. They cook every piece of meat until it's completely dry and doesn't have *any* liquid left in it anymore, since the meat juice is red-ish and they think "the blood is disgusting". They've ruined so many good steaks doing this. So many ruined steaks, cooked far longer than "well done"
I used to work in a slaughterhouse and was always amazed at how clean and void of blood everything was after bleeding the cow. The cow goes from the bleeding station to the skinning station to the gutting station, and by that time there is almost no trace of blood in the carcass. I worked at the gutting station where I'd cut open the stomach cavity and remove all the organs, no blood except a few drops that have coagulated at the ends of some tissue. Even the organs are bloodless except for the heart and liver.
Can you talk a bit more about that job, like how did it mentally feel to you? Did you dream bad? How do people respond when you tell them about your work? Anything else? An answer would be super interesting!
@konradk.8770 I enjoyed working at the slaughterhouse. I've had about 10 different jobs in life and that one gave me the most self-satisfaction and knowledge I could apply in the future. I only left because the pay was poor and the boss was irritating. I did not dream bad. I am 35 and I haven't had a bad dream since I was around 19. When I would tell people where I worked most people were positively interested and would always ask about how the beef was sold and about the prices. I did get a few odd/concerned looks from women. The hardest thing about that job was that we'd work cutting or slaughtering for 8 hours and then clean everything, which took about 3 hours. Often we'd start in the morning before the sun peeked over the mountain and finish during the night. Besides the pay, the only other negative aspect was, at times, the smell. But you quickly get used to it after an hour.
Hi adam, there's another reason why eating blood in it's liquid blood form isn't done: if your stomach and tastebuds notice a large amount of blood taste, your body assumes it's internally bleeding and will make you vomit, even if it's blood you've just drunk from elsewhere. So unprepared blood (when it's not in pinprick in your finger small amounts) does have some issues if you want to drink it completely unprepared, which is why it's only found in prepared dishes and not in any traditional salad dressings or the like.
I'm not going to test it out, but think it's interesting that Fight Club contains a quote opposite to your statement (something along the lines of "did you know you can swallow a quart of blood without vomiting?").
I used to work at a Panda Express. The manage there would call all of that blood, so even if I cooked the steak until it was brown grey all the way through, if it would come out when he squeezed it, he would tell me the steak was raw. He didn't know why there were more complaints about the food when he cooked vs when I cooked.
As a waiter for many years, I can say that on the few occasions I’ve actually let a guest known about the difference and that it’s not blood, they usually accept it as true… They will however continue with “It still feels disgusting and I want a well done steak”
@Kriegter I don't think that's fair. I know, intellectually, that a rare steak is perfectly safe to eat, just like I know, intellectually, that a cockroach raised for human consumption is perfectly safe to eat. I would still have a difficult time forcing myself to eat either of those. And if I'm paying good money for food, I'm not going to get something that I have to force myself to eat.
I'm a sous chef and I literally cannot count the number of times I've had this conversation with people. In the future, I'm going to save time and just refer them to this video. While they're watching it, I'm going to eat a rare steak.
I will probably ask you 5 billion more times even though I've never asked you before simply because of this and also I know we have opinions but I like my steak cooked and still not trying to eat my grass
I think this fear goes from ancient times when primal people used to cook meat to decrease the chance of getting diseased. Even nowadays the chance of getting some parasites still exists while it is relatively low
@@gguy156 most of the actual diseases in beef are on the outside of the muscle. which is why normally a good sear makes in very safe salmonella goes into the muscle tho which is why u cook chicken well done
fun fact about the blood albumin thickening thing - you can actually use 60 ml of blood to replace 1 egg in baking, just incase you have any allergic or vampiric friends
The use of blood, or liver, is a very traditional and very french way to thicken some heavy dark sauces. It works perfectly fine, just maybe inform your guests in advance.
hey, folks. I study biology and i wanna bring light to something that Adam said in this video. He mentions that blood sets up solid when it makes contact with air(5:27). Thats precisely not the mechanism of clotting of blood. When platelets in the blood are injured they release something called thrombokinase and it starts a cascade process and that leads to blood clotting or thrombosis. This is the reason why blood clots can also form inside the artery of an individual. Also, Adam. Huge fan of your content! Edit- exposure to air does not lead to clotting of blood. Clotting is a result of injury to platelets. Platelets are "cell fragments" which are concerned with the task of blood clot formation, but it alone cannot form a clot. It needs proteins like fibrin, and mineral ions(example:-calcium) and so on. I am not a hematologist.
I’m sorry but I don’t agree with injured platelets. Hemostasis (blood clot formation) can happen due to: (1): blood vessel injury; injured blood vessels expose vWF and collagen which platelets gets activated by (primary hemostasis). Secondary hemostasis also get activated when endothelial cells (“blood vessel cells”) release tissue factor. (2): stasis (stagnant blood); procoagulant factors in the blood doesn’t get washed-away which leads to them overcoming the local anticoagulant factors. Thus secondary hemostasis gets activated.
Extra (I think neat) information for anyone interested. Injured blood vessels can happen due to atherosclerosis. This often happen in arteries. Since injured blood vessels mostly activates primary hemostasis (“platelet driven blood clotting”), the blood clots are classically white because of many platelets. Stagnant blood often cause blood clotting in the leg veins. Since stasis mostly activates secondary hemostasis (“fibrin driven blood clotting”), the blood clots are classically red because of fibrin and trapped erythrocytes.
@@primeirrationalHi. Sorry for late reply. I agree and thankyou for bringing this information to light. Ofcourse blood clots due to not just because of injured platelets but also through the steps that you mentioned. This was the most relatable example that I could come up with, as platelets have a primary function in blood clot formation. My argument is against the assumption that blood starts to clot when it is exposed to fresh air. Which still stands true as it is a myth. Blood clot due to blood vessel injury, is it not just platelet being damaged again? I appreciate you taking your time to write this down. Please let me know if you have a different opinion.
@@vardaan1184 Thank you for your kind reply! To conceptualize it as easily as possible, there are two “normal” ways for blood clotting to happen: either when the blood vessel itself gets damaged (for example when you cut yourself or when the vessel is atherosclerotic) or when the blood stops moving (because of the effects of coagulation factors). Thus you can get heart attack and stroke because of atherosclerosis since it’s a type of blood vessel injury, and the risk if blood clots increase when you take long airplane flights since the blood is more stagnant during such long sit down periods. It could very well be so that injured platelets, besides the injured blood vessel wall, also signals for blood clotting, but I’ve never heard about it. Maybe it’s not the norm because injuring a single platelet is hard since it’s very small (much smaller than a red blood cell). There are diseases where platelets are dysfunctional, these diseases leads to bleeding rather than blood clotting however.
As a Scot, I have always eaten black pudding, which is made with blood. Any metallic taste is countered with spices. And I recommend a few slices addes to a stew! Thank you for this
one of my closest friends is half-Scottish (paternal side), and his dad still keeps the family tartan alive. I had the chance to try locally-produced haggis at one of his family gatherings (it probably was not authentic Scottish haggis, for legal reasons.) Tastes A LOT better than people think. I had it with potato salad and an ice-cold brew. Was not disappointed. Mad love and respect for you Scots and your culture. You guys are highly intellectual, only when you’re not hammered on your own whiskey. 😂
Here in Brazil there’s a very well known dish called “galinha ao molho pardo” (chicken in brown sauce). I encourage you to google it. It’s unbelievably good. It’s a stew kind of dish, but the “sauce” is made with the chicken blood and you don’t eat it just like a stew. It’s generally served with rice. There are some other stuff in it: you cook not only the chicken meat, but also its gizzard, its liver, its heart and even its inner eggs (which is basically the same taste of boiled yolk). I also cook some olives, potatoes and okra in it. Some people even put some corn in it too. Delicious, anyways.
I always had steak cooked well-done because I thought the juice or redness was blood. It took me doing a Google search in my early 30s to learn what I was avoiding. I ordered a medium steak soon after (medium-rare is sort of what I prefer these days) and realized why my steaks were so damn tough. Even though I'd heard people mock tough steaks, I always thought it had much more to do with the price of the cut. I was wrong and I'm very happy I found out.
Did you grow up poor? I've often found that poor people (and to a lesser extent black people and some Latinos), have some interesting food myths and cook steak to at least medium well. It took me twenty years to get my own parents--one grew up on a farm in OK and the other in Central America--to start eating medium!
@@lelandunruh7896 Can't speak for other countries, but in Brazil, salmonella contaminated meat is so common not fully cooket food is a safety hasard. Raw egg and sushi can also bring issues.
@@Let_Toons the thing is, a medium rare steak IS fully cooked. its different with chicken for example, but beef doesnt need to lose its red color in order to be safe to eat
A Polish delicacy is "czernina" ("black soup") - broth with fresh and dried fruits and duck blood. Very tasty. Also a variation on British black pudding called "kaszanka" is extremely popular in everyday eating and is a staple of the grill season.
I live in China, and one of the most famous dishes in Nanjing is called "Duck Blood Soup", which is a duck soup with chunks of duck blood floating in it. It looks and tastes like brownish-black tofu, it's not off putting at all. Just think of it like protein.
It seems to be a phenomenom in Eastern Europe, in Czechia we do have a soup called "prdelačka" (literally "ass soup" lol) in which pork blood is cooked with strong pork broth and other seasonings.
What always confused me about those "eww, it's blood" people is that if it actually _was_ blood, cooking wouldn't make it go away, it would just be cooked blood.
My dad is absolutely convinced that that is blood. I cannot convince him otherwise, I have a degree in food science. He is an idiot (sorry dad but sometimes it’s just true)
In our small town rural butchery we still collect all the Pigs blood we get from slaughtering to make Blood Sausage. Its the most respectful thing for the animal as well, using as much of it as possible instead of throwing so much of the animal away.
It sounds like even large, commercial slaughterers don't exactly waste the blood. Feeding it to other animals and plants is a good use, not to mention the pharmaceutical applications, whatever those are. Letting it go entirely to waste would be leaving money on the table.
@@mckendrick7672 i mean not really, as the full definition of veganism is to avoid exploitation and harm as far as is practical and possible (though this is smth a lot of Very Online vegans forget/ignore and that certainly helps nothing lmao). the only time such crops wouldnt be vegan is if a vegan specifically chose to use blood & bone meal in their own allotment, as they could absolutely choose not to do that.
Thanks for clearing that up, Adam. I love steak, particularly medium to medium-rare and it was very difficult to convince the family that the "juices" oozing out of the rib-eye was not blood.
It seems to be the number one hang up people have with rare - med rare, "Ewww, blood!". Unfortunately many remain unconvinced that a medium rare ribeye is 100x better than well done because they're afraid to try it. Or even worse they do try it but mentally destroy any chance of liking it because they can't stop thinking it's bloody. Might as well just buy chuck roast steaks for them, tastes about the same when they're cooked to hell and way cheaper
I thought you might mention how heme is used in the faux-meat industry in products like Impossible Burger. Having been a vegetarian for some decades by this point, I has to say I was legitimately surprised by how it impacts the flavor of plant-based products. I
The ironic thing I find about that is you can only get Heme version iron from animals. You can get non-heme iron elsewhere but it doesn't taste the same. All the "veggie burgers" are fortifying their product with heme.. which comes from an animal. You'd think people would be up in arms over this betrayal, but instead, they just keep trying to make meat-like-products.. almost as if they.. wanna eat meat
I didn’t know that. I don’t know much at all about plant-based meat given I’m such a fan of meat-based meat. 😂 But you’ve got me curious… where do they get the heme from? If it comes from an animal doesn’t that instantly make it non-vegetarian? I was under the impression that Beyond and Impossible “meats” are both vegan. Is there a plant source for heme? Or is that something that can be made synthetically? Is there such a thing as faux-heme? Sorry to bombard you with questions but you just opened up a whole new world to me on a subject I thought I had a fairly good grasp of. Just curious. Thanks.
According to wiki: "Impossible Foods, producers of plant-based meat substitutes, use an accelerated heme synthesis process involving soybean root leghemoglobin and yeast, adding the resulting heme to items such as meatless (vegan) Impossible burger patties. The DNA for leghemoglobin production was extracted from the soybean root nodules and expressed in yeast cells to overproduce heme for use in the meatless burgers. This process claims to create a meaty flavor in the resulting products."
I'm curious about the thickening properties of blood. How much does it thicken, compared to its volume? What is the texture of something thickened with blood, as compared to starch, flour, or xanthan gum? Is the irony flavour overwhelming in the quantities you would need to thicken a gravy, or maybe a chili?
It would be cool if Adam did some cooking with blood in this (or maybe a future) video. You can often get it at an ethnic grocery/butcher, or if you contact a rancher.
This actually sounds like a fun challenge to measure. If what Adam says is true that it is only thick when still, then typical viscosity measurement techniques might not work because they chiefly measure the moving fluid afaik.
Its very similar to the thinking/emulsive properites of eggs and can be used interchangeably with eggs in recipes that require eggs Beleive it or not there is an Italian dessert called Sanguinaccio Dolce which is a kind of chocolate pudding that gets a unique irony flavor by using blood instead of eggs which compliments the richness of the chocolate. Pasta Grammar has a recipe for it in one of their videos.
In this regard eggs and blood are really similar. You could even use blood the same way you would make scrambled eggs and the iron taste is a lot milder when cooked (but still noticable)
find a filipino restaurant and order dinuguan, that'll give you an idea. dinuguan is pork's blood stew, euphamistically known as "chocolate meat" because of its appearance
One additional point, when you go hunting, it isn't simply shoot animal, take animal home to cook It is permits and equipment (to prepare) 1 Track 2 Kill 3 Bleed (cut the neck or major artery) then hang by the feet or such to bleed the animal of all of its blood (this process is known as field preparation) 4 Skin/ Gut (some people do odd preparations, sometimes putting herbs or such on the rest of the animals 5 Butcher, such as to cut and prepare for cooking often after a brine bath for moisture and flavor and then marinade with aromatics such as orange for combatting any "gaminess" 6 Finally Cook, by heating or smoking or curing, etc. Not a hunter myself, but as a chef, I do make sure I don't have an amateur hunt an elk and forget the field prep part of the hunt otherwise rigor mortis sets in and the meat is absolutely useless for my purposes (maybe not for others, but definitely I won't work with it outside a survival situation)
And now I just fell down a rabbit hole of researching Myoglobin and muscle cramps. Thanks for that Adam. Oh, and I'll have my steak medium-rare please with all the red meat juice on my plate!
Here in Sweden eating blood dishes isn't uncommon. We often serve Blodpudding (Black Pudding) in schools and it is a fairly common dish here. It is especially tasty when you serve it together with bacon, cottage cheese and lingonberry jam. Another blood dish that is less common nowadays is Paltbröd (Blood Bread) which is often served together with salt pork and bechamél sauce. Both dishes are delicious if made properly and well worth a try. 😃
Ever since a veterinarian friend of the family told us about the wonderful world of parasites one could get by eating pig's blood, we just dump it in to the cesspit under the old outhouse. Chicken blood is safe too eat due to how it cooks, and damn I could go for it right now.
As a Jewish person who has always maintained a kosher diet which does not allow blood - despite knowing forever that it's meat juice and not blood I need to reassure myself every time
@@holokyttaja5476 okay man calm down and go back to r/atheism just cause someone believes something you don’t doesn’t mean you get to belittle them for it
The biggest thing to know though for religious people like Jews and Muslims is that the scientific definition of blood doesn't matter. What matters is the religious definition. Both Islam and Judaism have religious laws that define what these things are and how to deal with them. While I appreciate the video, people who are very strict about this aren't going to change their practices just because science says it's a bit different than the religious law says, the religious law is going to take precedence. Still an interesting video though
Actually no that isnt blood even in the religious sense, in islam its even halal to eat raw meat, as long as you cleaned off the blood thats fine, what makes it halal is the slaughtering method that is in accordance to the hadith and the read of bismillah over the meat, so yes in islam consuming meat juice is actually fine lol, even if there is a bit of blood, you did your best to clean the meat and that is sufficient since you arent directly consuming blood Cant speak for judaism tho
Curiously, most muslim religious scholars don't consider the meat juice to be haram, and even raw meat, if the proper traditions for slaughtering are observed, is Halal, myoglobin water and blood remnants notwithstanding. Of course, what specific traditions a group of muslims follows and what the scholars consider to be halal or haram aren't always in accordance - go to central Asia and you'll find plenty of muslims that consider alcohol a normal part of their life.
@@Hhhh22222-w makes sense. In Judaism we have things were supposed to do to meat to get rid of remaining blood, once those are done the remaining juices aren't considered blood in our laws either. But my point was that the scientific definition has little to no impact on a religious definition
English isn't my first language, and I'm currently still learning it. But idk why Adam's voice is very easy to hear, it sounds really clear and articulated. So thanks for helping me learning, even though you might not mean it lol
I think Adam is very intentionally trying to speak and enunciate clearly. He has experience in broadcasting and knows how to communicate clearly, especially to a diverse audience that isn't just native English speakers. By the way, this is the best kind of content for language learning - clearly articulated and very interesting/entertaining!
I butchered some roosters this year. It's my first time killing animals. I have a whole lot to say about the experience, but on this subject, blood gets surprisingly thick, very quickly. Like right after the initial spray. Also, there is not nearly as much as I expected. The red fluid in red meat is iron from the cells in water.
french guy here (though that prbably doesn't matter in relation to what I'm about to say) we raise chickens with geese to keep the grass clear under our orchard and we usually just send them to the slaughterhouse in november. however, some times, it's a treat to kill the chicken ourselves and get the blood to fry up with some onions to make "pierre" sauce *{edit : it's called "sanguette" or "little blood" I got names mixed up. check below for a recipe. the following strokethrough part is therefore wrong}* -(I can't find a recipe on google, so maybe I'm just making something up that my great aunt showed us?)- second, I'm still a student and live in a tiny student apartment (less than 80 sq feet or 9 sq meters) and the only thing provided for cooking is a microwave. so naturally, I have a grill/panini maker and fried up some pork one day. since you said the juice is basically meat, I tried frying it up at the end and yup. it fried up like egg whites. it cleaned up the grill, getting all the seasoning and oil and tasted really great on some instant noodles (the pork was for later)
@@colinstu I got the names mixed up. I'm sorry. It's called "sanguette" (little blood) in a large, flat bowl, have prepared : bacon bits (lardons) chopped onion and garlic some vinegar to prevent coagulation (or try red wine because it's also france. I'll try red wine when I have chickens of my own. it needs to be acidic. some recipes also recommend lemon juice) however, I don't remember this step, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ herbs (parsely, herbes de provence, salt, pepper...) slaughter the chicken and get as much of the blood into the bowl with everything it. some recipes say to let the blood coagulate a bit before transferring into your pan? maybe cut the chicken's throat over the pan (with the other ingredients already in said pan) to begin with? many recipes are saying to cook it on low heat and let it coagulate into a crepe, flip it and then serve on a round plate. I remember my father scrambling it like eggs in order to get it to cook faster. (maybe it's daintier to leave it undisturbed?)
and "sauce au pire" ("'at least, sauce" as in "at least, there's this sauce") is something else made from all the livers, hearts, lungs, kidneys, testicles... it's a kind of stew. but you need more than one chicken's organs to make it
My mother was one of those ppl who had to have it well done. When I grill I ONLY grill medium rare. She actually tried it and she really liked it lol I was surprised because she always thought it was blood til I explained to her what it is.
I've always thought a really cool fact is that whale meet is pretty much purple because it has significantly more myoglobin given how much more efficient those animals and their muscles are at retaining oxygen, for obvious reasons.
I was not allowed to eat anything shorter than well done as a kid cause my mom believed that eating blood was a sin 😂just a fun fact (now I'm a medium rare, and even rare guy) 6:28 my mom is a baptist btw
Yeah, that tracks. Islam is the only religion he mentions by name, but Christianity is also an Abrahamic religion, so the prohibition against eating blood still exists (at least, it's still in the scriptures. Like a lot of religious doctrines, different denominations interpret the rules in different ways.)
@@OptimusPhillip I figured but I really only heard her talking about that ever, and a few other people from this church, cause they did churrascos and ate medium rate and rare too 😂
@OptimusPhillip Depends on the Christian denomination I think. Most don't restrict any foods only the time you can eat it(no meat during lent, but ok rest of the year)
I think the real insanity of this argument is the underlying assumption that cooking a steak more thoroughly would remove the blood from it. Like. Where do y’all well some people think that “blood” was going?
I'd be interested in a video exploring Heme. That was one of the big marketing terms vegan meats were using to sell the taste. Which I think was derived from beets
My Ethiopian friends and family need to see this. they''ll happily eat raw beef (kitfo, beef tartar, it's incredible), but as soon as beef is cooked, they over cook it until all color and juices are gone lol
Thanks for that insight. As a Muslim I try and avoid blood, but always heard that the "meat juice" was blood, so I usually got my steaks medium-well or well. Now I can confidently go for the medium steak without worry. 😋
In Southern Chile it is customary to eat mutton slowly cooked over fire for hours. While you are waiting, you might drink "ñachi", the still hot blood from the carcass with some spices. You might also wait for it to coagulate and eat it.
Blood is Hemoglobin. Meat Juice is Myoglobin. Hemoglobin is responsible for transporting oxygen throughtout the body, and is rich in iron. Myoglobin functions as the main method for intercellular storage for oxygen within muscle tissue. Also most of the actual flavors of a meat comes from myoglobin. Theres a reason why porkchops and steaks taste like porkchops and steak instead of blood pudding. There is some overlaps obviously, but they are not the same.
I don't eat meat, which means I end up skipping about half your recipe vids. But I love you food science vids and found this one really interesting. For years I told people "it's not blood, it's plasma" not knowing I was basically as wrong as them!
I already have my own self debate on this topic, this video just reconfirm it basically lol. I am now fine with medium rare steaks. Cause now, logically, I know if there's blood present, even cooking it into a crisp still make the meat haram cause you can't eat blood, cooked or not. So the meat juice and "little blood present is fine", is valid. Now it just the matter of are the meat save or not to eat medium rare, in case you got the meat from shady stuff or something. And... don't forget to say basmallah before eating it my brothers
@@Pekara121 this video "reconfirms it", I already made up my mind before this. That is by hearing scholars, Qur'an and Sunnah. When I still indoubt, reassuring to myself is also an option. Kinda like trusting things in the Qur'an and later read scientific facts about it.
This was the first video i've seen of your content and im thoroughly impressed. Some families have forgotten what a gift food is and im excited to learn more about particularly animal products and what all can be used and how. Thanks for the video it was great!
Blood really is a very underrated ingredient. Here in Portugal we mainly use it in rice, "arroz de cabidela", and in sausages, "morcela". We even stuff it inside pig's stomach, "bucho". Real good.
And Sarapatel is an example of a stew thickened with blood, too! Although, here in my corner of Brasil, we usually call the blood sausages "chouriço" (which if I understand correctly is used in Portugal for a broader list of different sausages).
Arroz de cabidela is a very popular traditional Portuguese dish. The rice, poultry and giblets are finished with blood and a hint of vinegar. Delicious! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabidela
As someone with hemophobia, thank you so much for the forewarning. I'm honestly totally fine with blood, but talking/reading about it and seeing it flowing fresh causes my blood pressure to drop rapidly if I'm not prepared- and that's completely out of my conscious control XD
Me at the start of the video: "Hah, what kinda *loser* would pass out at the sight of a tiny bit of blood?" Me watching Adam squeezing his cut finger and smearing blood around: "..." Me after waking up: "Fuck."
I've been explaining this for 20 years, people prefer their ignorance more than admitting they are wrong. Which to me, is telling of their overall character.
"Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh." (Deuteronomy 12:23 NASB) We have manuscripts of the Old Testament dating back to BC (see wikipedia on Dead Sea Scrolls), so this is probably where the taboo came from (at least partially).
Man Adam is incredible, apart from teaching things about food, inadvertently he also teaches about the human body :D You're great man, been watching your videos for over 2 years, keep it going!
Always love a mention of shear-thinning liquids! We always pay attentiont to the much more "cool" shear-thickening liquids, and usually shear-thinning is left to poor ketchup as the example.
Truly excellent, informative, technical, no-nonsense evaluation of blood and meat. I really enjoyed your approach and clear, unequivocal evaluation of what appears to have become a bit of a sensitive subject. If only there was more straightforward honesty going on in the world. Well done Adam, great video.
Thanks for warning about the human blood! I have hemophobia but really wanted to watch the content, so I made sure I was layind in my bed, with my whole body supported (and relaxed) in case of my anxiety being triggered. Nice content, btw ❤
I thought the same thing and did the exact same as you!!Skipping around a bit and felt light headed but continued watching for a bit. Really appreciate Adam saying this because not many people in my experience acknowledge hemophobia
I found the chicken carcass and its blood (actual blood) more stomach turning. But there was no warning. Red meat I can handle but raw chicken carcasses look revolting to me. Chicken tastes good though.
I feel it's worth pointing out that this information, while accurate and fantastically presented (well done Adam, always love your stuff) does not mean that there is no rational reason to be averse to rare meat. As Adam so wisely points out, when you cook meat, the myoglobin in the juices turns brown as it breaks down. It is possible to overcook a steak and dry it out, but the absence of red juices does not mean a steak is dry or tough. A properly cooked well done steak is not appreciably dryer or less tender that one that is medium rare. The difference is the color of the juices, and more importantly the taste. Some people, myself included, prefer the taste of browned juice which is much less metallic. My point here is that if your well done steak or burger or whatever else is dry or tough, it's not WELL done, it's OVER done.
If it makes you feel any better, pre-historic humans actually drank blood from animals they hunted to get sodium. Salt. Your ancestors were drinking and eating blood way before you. On purpose, as well.
The coffee tea analogy was pretty good. both caffeinated hot beverages made from steeping plant matter, compared to heme containing proteins in liquid that transport oxygen in the body.
The "if myoglobin isn't found in blood why do they search for it in blood tests" might be the worst reasoning I've ever heard **Oh if tumours aren't found in the brain why do they look for them on an MRI?**
Historically, the blood eating taboo was started just after the Flood (approximately 4300-4400 years ago). This is recorded in Genesis 9:1-6: "And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man. “Whoever sheds man’s blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made man." This predates Abraham's birth by around 352 years. This is why it is part of both Jewish (Moses was given the Law around 1090 years after the Flood) and Islamic religious teachings. This also is why Christians (at least those who diligently follow the Bible) also avoid blood, per Acts 15:28-29 ~ “For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials: that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”
Adam, found you 3 or more years ago (hope you were on at the time or that'd be weird). So enjoy your videos. Cooking is one of my true passions and I love cooking and learning from you. Thanks for this one! People like you make the internet a wonder, especially for many like me don't have streaming budgets! Cook on, my friend!
I¨m from Sweden and I grew up with Blood pudding, Blood sausage, Blood bread and Black soup. All made by blood, the soup specifically from a goose. As a kid I never really had a second thougt that eating blood was weird. Maybe because we love cod roe caviar and liver beef and liver soup also.
@@JimboJuiceNah its more complicated ans varied than that. Be it over a thousand year old traditions looking down on it to simple cultural differences in food.
Can't wait to show this video to my mother so she can instantly disregard it
Great how mothers do that huh 😂 looks like I'm not the only one
@@tmanjangles2570 dio nice
Nice
@@rampagegage2259 Yessssiirrr you know it 🤘😎🤘
My parents still won't believe it's safe to cook with olive oil...
This is so funny. As a kid I never really thought about it, until one day my sister pointed out to me that a rare steak was "bloody." I was like "Oh, is that what that is?" and she was like "Yeah, what did you think it was?" I answered "I dunno, meat juice?" To which she replied "Yeah, that's blood."
Vindicated, after all this time... 😂
People always talk about how they think of comebacks way after a discussion has ended, but few ever touch on how some of our actual, real time comebacks were right to begin with. It's an even more excruciating feeling for me
But as a kid back in the day, I can see both views - the blase opinion of the kid seeing it literally as juice from meat - 'meat juice' then the other kid seeing what looks like red blood from flesh like a slaughtered murder victim in a horror film... I shudder what you two thought when you saw a peen do its sxy thing - she'd call it milk and you would call it peen juice...lol
I am the 999th liker
@@Defensive_WoundsWhat the hell
Red runny "juice" that looks like blood coming from barely cooked meat is revolting to a majority of people on earth. The people who like it that way do not understand the revulsion. "It tastes best that way! Cooking it more ruins the cut!". There are many retorts they have to justify it. It's nasty, but the people who like it will never understand why others might see it that way. Totally normal for them.
As a vampire, I appreciate this video. I've been telling my fellow vampire friends that they can't simply eat rare steak to get their blood fix, but they won't listen to a word I say. It's nice to have video to point to so I can show them that they need to at least be supplementing with animal blood if they don't want to bite humans.
So how do you call a vampire that refuses to bite humans ? Can't be vegan, cause animals aren't plants...
@@Whenpigfly666 Draculaura
@@Whenpigfly666 A Cullen
Love this comment xD
@@PBTophieomg lol
Goddamnit, adam exposed me! I can't stop watching his videos whilst operating heavy machinery, it's like an addiction.
Be careful out there and stay safe
Don't talk about my mom like that
Until now, I assumed that a forklift was some kind of dinner table workout. Guess I learned two things today, and must excuse myself, as my brain is full.
I listen to his vids in the car sometimes with bluetooth but have the phone itself out of sight and out of reach.
As a Muslim - thanks for making this video. Finally have something to share with my friends that are terrified of medium-rare steak
you're afraid of blood, but drink camel urine as a miracle cure?
Do your muslim friends think that the blood magically evaporates or something if you cook it to well done even if it was blood?
@@holokyttaja5476 I guess yea 🤷♂️
I think they're more concerned with eating something they perceive as raw because cooking the blood doesn't make it halal anyway.
@@clearsky4049 Blood will always stay in the corpse after killing an animal. No matter how much you drain it.
Whenever I’ve told people their steak juice is myoglobin and not blood they just look at me sideways. The person I learned it from (paramedic prof) actually said something along the lines of “I never tell people that during dinner anymore, I just take their steak cuz they’re stupid”
Your professor sounds like an awesome person to be around
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If mine isn't well done he can have it
I have been in the meat industry for 3 years now, and explaining this to customers is always a struggle. Thanks for bringing this more to light Adam
I've been explaining this for 20 years, people love their ignorance more than admitting they are wrong.
@@DeedlyDood Statement of the century: "people love their ignorance more than admitting they are wrong."
Seeing as how you’ve been in this industry, i’m hoping you can answer my question - I notice that when packaged chicken, air-chilled or not, gets close to its “best buy “ date, a fair amount of meat juice or purge accumulates in the package container. Is that a sign of the meat trending towards going bad? Is it better to get meat that doesn’t have meat juice coming out of it or does it not matter?
Why explain it? Just say, yeah its full of blood, neext.
Now, ask someone who understands the chemistry and function of these liquids.
Lab technologist/blood banker here - testing for myoglobin isn’t all that “standard” for most patients in any hospital setting that I have ever worked. It might be done as part of a cardiac/chest pain workup, although other tests (CK/CKMB ratio, troponin, etc) are more common. I’d bet money that the person who mentioned it on TikTok was confusing hemoglobin and myoglobin. Hemoglobin is an extremely common test done all of the time.
Also, one more thing I'll add to this is that myoglobin is nephrotoxic which means it is bad for the kidneys. That is why myoglobin tests are done after something that might lead to muscle atrophy like a car crash, an OD or in my case, seizures.
Rhabdomyolysis also another scenario that sometimes gets checked for myoglobin, but CK is more common/sensitive.
I would hope that the other lab tech knows the difference between the two.
Is it true that your own blood, if ingested, can give you stomach problems while other people's blood is safe?
@@AXCBERyeah isn’t that was causes crush syndrome
A painful, yet informative watch. As a Muslim who has only eaten steak well done due to the myoglobin misconception, I appreciate this non-condescending explanation.
I wish i could have gotten my mum who is a jw to understand the same thing, hated steak for the longest time because when i was growing up we were not allowed anything other than well done. Put that with always needing to finish meals and i could be sitting there for up to 2 hours trying chew up a quarter piece of steak :/ i always made sure to never order them and wondered why anyone went on about steak ever. lol
Learnt about it being myoglobin in a phlebotomy course, after that tried steak how its meant to be and loved it.
@@artsystarmaiden Do you remember how rare that first good steak was?
But that doesn't even make sense. If you are under the assumption that red liquid = blood, then cooking it well done so it doesn't look red anymore wouldn't make it not blood...
@@triparadox.c That wasn’t the case with me. I assumed that the red liquid was blood simply because the red liquid was from animal flesh. And since animals bleed blood…
I also incorrectly assumed that the “blood” would fully dissipate and evaporate only when cooked well done.
As a muslim, you stilll have the right to inform yourself and disregard random bullshit some asstwig said.
I've been trying to explain this to my parents for a while. They cook every piece of meat until it's completely dry and doesn't have *any* liquid left in it anymore, since the meat juice is red-ish and they think "the blood is disgusting". They've ruined so many good steaks doing this. So many ruined steaks, cooked far longer than "well done"
Just send em this video, no more steaks shall be punished 🫡
My condolences to those steaks, they did not deserve that fate..
how did they live their entire life, get a kid and then somehow think this is a good idea? oh god. i wish you luck.
@@sonnyrue6100 im my experience the type of folks that beleive this cant be reasoned with
Why do they even try to do steak at that point lol
Adam is officially the most metal cooking TH-camr, guy draws his own blood to show the difference between blood and meat Juice.
I mean, by that definition everyone with diabetes is metal? Lanceting your finger doesnt feel very metal to me lol
He plays metal guitar too!
@@Tinil0 diabetes is metal
@@Tinil0more of a emo thing
His own meat juice
I used to work in a slaughterhouse and was always amazed at how clean and void of blood everything was after bleeding the cow. The cow goes from the bleeding station to the skinning station to the gutting station, and by that time there is almost no trace of blood in the carcass. I worked at the gutting station where I'd cut open the stomach cavity and remove all the organs, no blood except a few drops that have coagulated at the ends of some tissue. Even the organs are bloodless except for the heart and liver.
Can you talk a bit more about that job, like how did it mentally feel to you? Did you dream bad? How do people respond when you tell them about your work? Anything else?
An answer would be super interesting!
@konradk.8770 I enjoyed working at the slaughterhouse. I've had about 10 different jobs in life and that one gave me the most self-satisfaction and knowledge I could apply in the future. I only left because the pay was poor and the boss was irritating. I did not dream bad. I am 35 and I haven't had a bad dream since I was around 19. When I would tell people where I worked most people were positively interested and would always ask about how the beef was sold and about the prices. I did get a few odd/concerned looks from women. The hardest thing about that job was that we'd work cutting or slaughtering for 8 hours and then clean everything, which took about 3 hours. Often we'd start in the morning before the sun peeked over the mountain and finish during the night. Besides the pay, the only other negative aspect was, at times, the smell. But you quickly get used to it after an hour.
@punawelewele hats off to you, dude. I've had some really good steaks in my time and hopefully one of them was processed through you.
Hi adam, there's another reason why eating blood in it's liquid blood form isn't done: if your stomach and tastebuds notice a large amount of blood taste, your body assumes it's internally bleeding and will make you vomit, even if it's blood you've just drunk from elsewhere. So unprepared blood (when it's not in pinprick in your finger small amounts) does have some issues if you want to drink it completely unprepared, which is why it's only found in prepared dishes and not in any traditional salad dressings or the like.
I guess this is why the Maasai mix blood with milk
Interesting, given the Massai bleed their cattle and drink the blood, maybe they're used to it.
I'm not going to test it out, but think it's interesting that Fight Club contains a quote opposite to your statement (something along the lines of "did you know you can swallow a quart of blood without vomiting?").
@@sonikku956 My dad tried that once and absolutely hated it
@@Krissco2 That sounds like you can vomit from more than a quart. Just a difference in amounts?
I used to work at a Panda Express. The manage there would call all of that blood, so even if I cooked the steak until it was brown grey all the way through, if it would come out when he squeezed it, he would tell me the steak was raw. He didn't know why there were more complaints about the food when he cooked vs when I cooked.
Your manager doesn't understand that the only acceptable temperature for a steak to be cooked is medium rare
From a Registered Dietitian that used to teach Food Chemistry at the University level, thank you. You did a fantastic job with this explanation!
Have at it tell me how heart disease is in a few
@@Blassie.P vegans can have heart disease just as easily.
You'll NEVER convince people this is how it is. It's 2023 and people still think it's blood.
My grandma thinks it is blood. No amount of science or reasoning with her will change her mind
As a waiter for many years, I can say that on the few occasions I’ve actually let a guest known about the difference and that it’s not blood, they usually accept it as true…
They will however continue with “It still feels disgusting and I want a well done steak”
@@Whiskypapa 10000 IQ logic there.
@Kriegter I don't think that's fair. I know, intellectually, that a rare steak is perfectly safe to eat, just like I know, intellectually, that a cockroach raised for human consumption is perfectly safe to eat. I would still have a difficult time forcing myself to eat either of those. And if I'm paying good money for food, I'm not going to get something that I have to force myself to eat.
@@songofshadow5043 agreed unless you never tried medium rare steak at least once
Meat Juice sounds like it'd go well with a bowl of Magic Spoon Cereal
Just the right amount of protein added
Actually add some flavor to it 😂
Magic Spoon is so healthy tho!!!!
Pig skin carnivore cereal
healthy and flavorless i would rather have salad for breakfast @@shaunwolfe7665
Maybe not, but it's still disgusting and I still don't get why people eat rare steak. Taste? Taste of what? Raw steak? Okay.
I'm a sous chef and I literally cannot count the number of times I've had this conversation with people. In the future, I'm going to save time and just refer them to this video. While they're watching it, I'm going to eat a rare steak.
I will probably ask you 5 billion more times even though I've never asked you before simply because of this and also I know we have opinions but I like my steak cooked and still not trying to eat my grass
@@tdm_nicky5603 A medium well steak is fully cooked. Well done is overcooked. yes its preference but so are burnt patties.
@@biivii100 solid point
I think this fear goes from ancient times when primal people used to cook meat to decrease the chance of getting diseased. Even nowadays the chance of getting some parasites still exists while it is relatively low
@@gguy156 most of the actual diseases in beef are on the outside of the muscle. which is why normally a good sear makes in very safe
salmonella goes into the muscle tho which is why u cook chicken well done
fun fact about the blood albumin thickening thing - you can actually use 60 ml of blood to replace 1 egg in baking, just incase you have any allergic or vampiric friends
That’d probably be a good thing to disclose to your dinner guests.
@@Corzappy hmmm blood cake
@@henriquepacheco7473 Blood pancakes are a real thing up in Sweden and FInland
That's so thoughtful for the vampires among us heheheh (also a really good trick if you happen to need it)
The use of blood, or liver, is a very traditional and very french way to thicken some heavy dark sauces.
It works perfectly fine, just maybe inform your guests in advance.
I never got the "blood is gross" thing anyway. You're eating meat... if it bothers you, go eat vegetables lol.
hey, folks.
I study biology and i wanna bring light to something that Adam said in this video. He mentions that blood sets up solid when it makes contact with air(5:27). Thats precisely not the mechanism of clotting of blood. When platelets in the blood are injured they release something called thrombokinase and it starts a cascade process and that leads to blood clotting or thrombosis. This is the reason why blood clots can also form inside the artery of an individual.
Also, Adam. Huge fan of your content!
Edit- exposure to air does not lead to clotting of blood. Clotting is a result of injury to platelets. Platelets are "cell fragments" which are concerned with the task of blood clot formation, but it alone cannot form a clot. It needs proteins like fibrin, and mineral ions(example:-calcium) and so on. I am not a hematologist.
I’m sorry but I don’t agree with injured platelets.
Hemostasis (blood clot formation) can happen due to:
(1): blood vessel injury; injured blood vessels expose vWF and collagen which platelets gets activated by (primary hemostasis). Secondary hemostasis also get activated when endothelial cells (“blood vessel cells”) release tissue factor.
(2): stasis (stagnant blood); procoagulant factors in the blood doesn’t get washed-away which leads to them overcoming the local anticoagulant factors. Thus secondary hemostasis gets activated.
Extra (I think neat) information for anyone interested.
Injured blood vessels can happen due to atherosclerosis. This often happen in arteries. Since injured blood vessels mostly activates primary hemostasis (“platelet driven blood clotting”), the blood clots are classically white because of many platelets.
Stagnant blood often cause blood clotting in the leg veins. Since stasis mostly activates secondary hemostasis (“fibrin driven blood clotting”), the blood clots are classically red because of fibrin and trapped erythrocytes.
@@primeirrationalHi. Sorry for late reply. I agree and thankyou for bringing this information to light. Ofcourse blood clots due to not just because of injured platelets but also through the steps that you mentioned. This was the most relatable example that I could come up with, as platelets have a primary function in blood clot formation.
My argument is against the assumption that blood starts to clot when it is exposed to fresh air. Which still stands true as it is a myth.
Blood clot due to blood vessel injury, is it not just platelet being damaged again? I appreciate you taking your time to write this down. Please let me know if you have a different opinion.
@@vardaan1184 Thank you for your kind reply!
To conceptualize it as easily as possible, there are two “normal” ways for blood clotting to happen: either when the blood vessel itself gets damaged (for example when you cut yourself or when the vessel is atherosclerotic) or when the blood stops moving (because of the effects of coagulation factors). Thus you can get heart attack and stroke because of atherosclerosis since it’s a type of blood vessel injury, and the risk if blood clots increase when you take long airplane flights since the blood is more stagnant during such long sit down periods.
It could very well be so that injured platelets, besides the injured blood vessel wall, also signals for blood clotting, but I’ve never heard about it. Maybe it’s not the norm because injuring a single platelet is hard since it’s very small (much smaller than a red blood cell). There are diseases where platelets are dysfunctional, these diseases leads to bleeding rather than blood clotting however.
@@primeirrational yeah, but none of which are anything to do with exposure to air.
As a Scot, I have always eaten black pudding, which is made with blood. Any metallic taste is countered with spices. And I recommend a few slices addes to a stew!
Thank you for this
Woah black pudding in stew i have to try this ty!
It's one of my favourite ways to have black pudding!
Huh we have a similar meal to black pudding made with pig blood and groats and I never noticed metallic taste.
@@Rig0r_M0rtis it's because blood has iron in it
one of my closest friends is half-Scottish (paternal side), and his dad still keeps the family tartan alive.
I had the chance to try locally-produced haggis at one of his family gatherings (it probably was not authentic Scottish haggis, for legal reasons.) Tastes A LOT better than people think.
I had it with potato salad and an ice-cold brew. Was not disappointed. Mad love and respect for you Scots and your culture. You guys are highly intellectual, only when you’re not hammered on your own whiskey. 😂
Here in Brazil there’s a very well known dish called “galinha ao molho pardo” (chicken in brown sauce). I encourage you to google it. It’s unbelievably good. It’s a stew kind of dish, but the “sauce” is made with the chicken blood and you don’t eat it just like a stew. It’s generally served with rice. There are some other stuff in it: you cook not only the chicken meat, but also its gizzard, its liver, its heart and even its inner eggs (which is basically the same taste of boiled yolk). I also cook some olives, potatoes and okra in it. Some people even put some corn in it too. Delicious, anyways.
Sim! Esse prato tem origem no "arroz de cabidela". Um prato oriundo do norte de Portugal que foi levado para o Brsail no sec xvi.
I always had steak cooked well-done because I thought the juice or redness was blood. It took me doing a Google search in my early 30s to learn what I was avoiding. I ordered a medium steak soon after (medium-rare is sort of what I prefer these days) and realized why my steaks were so damn tough. Even though I'd heard people mock tough steaks, I always thought it had much more to do with the price of the cut. I was wrong and I'm very happy I found out.
Did you grow up poor? I've often found that poor people (and to a lesser extent black people and some Latinos), have some interesting food myths and cook steak to at least medium well. It took me twenty years to get my own parents--one grew up on a farm in OK and the other in Central America--to start eating medium!
@@lelandunruh7896 Can't speak for other countries, but in Brazil, salmonella contaminated meat is so common not fully cooket food is a safety hasard.
Raw egg and sushi can also bring issues.
@@Let_Toons the thing is, a medium rare steak IS fully cooked. its different with chicken for example, but beef doesnt need to lose its red color in order to be safe to eat
Won't lie, this was bloody informative!
badum tish
I see what you did there. 😂
get out of here!
@@efraim6960 rude, that's not how you speak to blood
Flee the country before I arrive
A Polish delicacy is "czernina" ("black soup") - broth with fresh and dried fruits and duck blood. Very tasty. Also a variation on British black pudding called "kaszanka" is extremely popular in everyday eating and is a staple of the grill season.
I live in China, and one of the most famous dishes in Nanjing is called "Duck Blood Soup", which is a duck soup with chunks of duck blood floating in it. It looks and tastes like brownish-black tofu, it's not off putting at all. Just think of it like protein.
Oh man. Now I'm looking forward to some duck blood rice noodles and pig organ soup with actual pig blood in it!
In Croatia people prepare and eat blood saisages too they are called Krvavica
It seems to be a phenomenom in Eastern Europe, in Czechia we do have a soup called "prdelačka" (literally "ass soup" lol) in which pork blood is cooked with strong pork broth and other seasonings.
@@teegee6312 Ass soup sounds delicious 😆
What always confused me about those "eww, it's blood" people is that if it actually _was_ blood, cooking wouldn't make it go away, it would just be cooked blood.
My dad is absolutely convinced that that is blood. I cannot convince him otherwise, I have a degree in food science. He is an idiot (sorry dad but sometimes it’s just true)
In our small town rural butchery we still collect all the Pigs blood we get from slaughtering to make Blood Sausage. Its the most respectful thing for the animal as well, using as much of it as possible instead of throwing so much of the animal away.
It sounds like even large, commercial slaughterers don't exactly waste the blood. Feeding it to other animals and plants is a good use, not to mention the pharmaceutical applications, whatever those are. Letting it go entirely to waste would be leaving money on the table.
@@Corrodias Non vegan vegetables, nice
Black pudding - best part of the full english
LAND DER BERGE, LAAAAND AM STROME
oida ich liebe blutwurst
@@mckendrick7672 i mean not really, as the full definition of veganism is to avoid exploitation and harm as far as is practical and possible (though this is smth a lot of Very Online vegans forget/ignore and that certainly helps nothing lmao). the only time such crops wouldnt be vegan is if a vegan specifically chose to use blood & bone meal in their own allotment, as they could absolutely choose not to do that.
Hey Adam, could you do a video on cooking with blood? On making your own Blood puddings, blood cakes, blood soups, and the like!
I vote for this idea :)
He said he can't get hold of it in the US. It's even difficult in Europe. You can however, easily acquire dried blood powder for such recipes.
@@Ray.Norrish It's fairly easy atleast in Finland. What's the hustle in other parts of Europe?
Blood is pretty taboo in US. It’s hard to get so not really helpful. I imagine the overwhelming majority of his viewers are American.
I was half asleep when I read your comment, and I thought you were implying he should make a dish by cooking his own blood 😂
Thanks for clearing that up, Adam. I love steak, particularly medium to medium-rare and it was very difficult to convince the family that the "juices" oozing out of the rib-eye was not blood.
In my country, the rare steak is actually called "bloody steak" - it really does not help the confusion.
Rare to medium is considered raw here lol
It seems to be the number one hang up people have with rare - med rare, "Ewww, blood!". Unfortunately many remain unconvinced that a medium rare ribeye is 100x better than well done because they're afraid to try it. Or even worse they do try it but mentally destroy any chance of liking it because they can't stop thinking it's bloody.
Might as well just buy chuck roast steaks for them, tastes about the same when they're cooked to hell and way cheaper
Most importantly; its delicious
You mean the meat juice, right?
...right??
@@Absenteeee HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Blood pudding is gross
@@spartanx9293 bet you don't like offal as well...
Both are delicious tbh
It makes me cringe when Gordon Ramsay himself calls it blood. Dude is a world famous chef and can’t distinguish between myoglobin and blood.
I thought you might mention how heme is used in the faux-meat industry in products like Impossible Burger. Having been a vegetarian for some decades by this point, I has to say I was legitimately surprised by how it impacts the flavor of plant-based products. I
The ironic thing I find about that is you can only get Heme version iron from animals. You can get non-heme iron elsewhere but it doesn't taste the same. All the "veggie burgers" are fortifying their product with heme.. which comes from an animal. You'd think people would be up in arms over this betrayal, but instead, they just keep trying to make meat-like-products.. almost as if they.. wanna eat meat
I didn’t know that. I don’t know much at all about plant-based meat given I’m such a fan of meat-based meat. 😂 But you’ve got me curious… where do they get the heme from? If it comes from an animal doesn’t that instantly make it non-vegetarian? I was under the impression that Beyond and Impossible “meats” are both vegan. Is there a plant source for heme? Or is that something that can be made synthetically? Is there such a thing as faux-heme? Sorry to bombard you with questions but you just opened up a whole new world to me on a subject I thought I had a fairly good grasp of. Just curious. Thanks.
@@robertholtzImpossible Foods takes DNA from soybeans and inserts it into a genetically-engineered yeast, which is then fermented to produce heme.
I'm also curious
According to wiki: "Impossible Foods, producers of plant-based meat substitutes, use an accelerated heme synthesis process involving soybean root leghemoglobin and yeast, adding the resulting heme to items such as meatless (vegan) Impossible burger patties. The DNA for leghemoglobin production was extracted from the soybean root nodules and expressed in yeast cells to overproduce heme for use in the meatless burgers. This process claims to create a meaty flavor in the resulting products."
I'm curious about the thickening properties of blood. How much does it thicken, compared to its volume? What is the texture of something thickened with blood, as compared to starch, flour, or xanthan gum? Is the irony flavour overwhelming in the quantities you would need to thicken a gravy, or maybe a chili?
It would be cool if Adam did some cooking with blood in this (or maybe a future) video. You can often get it at an ethnic grocery/butcher, or if you contact a rancher.
This actually sounds like a fun challenge to measure. If what Adam says is true that it is only thick when still, then typical viscosity measurement techniques might not work because they chiefly measure the moving fluid afaik.
Its very similar to the thinking/emulsive properites of eggs and can be used interchangeably with eggs in recipes that require eggs
Beleive it or not there is an Italian dessert called Sanguinaccio Dolce which is a kind of chocolate pudding that gets a unique irony flavor by using blood instead of eggs which compliments the richness of the chocolate.
Pasta Grammar has a recipe for it in one of their videos.
In this regard eggs and blood are really similar. You could even use blood the same way you would make scrambled eggs and the iron taste is a lot milder when cooked (but still noticable)
find a filipino restaurant and order dinuguan, that'll give you an idea. dinuguan is pork's blood stew, euphamistically known as "chocolate meat" because of its appearance
Meat juice ain’t blood, it’s myoglobin. Takes like 5 seconds to google it on a slow ass internet.
It's mostly water...
7:57 that's the function of myoglobin, what about the function of youraglobin?
I knew Adam was dedicated to his channel, but this is a new level. He bled for us.
One additional point, when you go hunting, it isn't simply shoot animal, take animal home to cook
It is permits and equipment (to prepare)
1 Track
2 Kill
3 Bleed (cut the neck or major artery) then hang by the feet or such to bleed the animal of all of its blood (this process is known as field preparation)
4 Skin/ Gut (some people do odd preparations, sometimes putting herbs or such on the rest of the animals
5 Butcher, such as to cut and prepare for cooking often after a brine bath for moisture and flavor and then marinade with aromatics such as orange for combatting any "gaminess"
6 Finally Cook, by heating or smoking or curing, etc.
Not a hunter myself, but as a chef, I do make sure I don't have an amateur hunt an elk and forget the field prep part of the hunt otherwise rigor mortis sets in and the meat is absolutely useless for my purposes (maybe not for others, but definitely I won't work with it outside a survival situation)
I remember debating this with some of my college friends. I wish I had this video then so I could've proved myself right haha
I saw Purge, Weep and Drip back to back at Flëshfest '98. Still have a crick in my neck from the mosh pit.
Now you riuned my steak experience. I thinked of myself as blood loving creature and now I am just juice lover.
If you eat it rare, you are still disgusting, don't lose heart.
you sure youre not just a vampire? they sure as hell do love some blood
Lmao i never thought I’d start a cooking video with a “Human Blood Warning”😂, but here we go lol
And now I just fell down a rabbit hole of researching Myoglobin and muscle cramps. Thanks for that Adam. Oh, and I'll have my steak medium-rare please with all the red meat juice on my plate!
Here in Sweden eating blood dishes isn't uncommon. We often serve Blodpudding (Black Pudding) in schools and it is a fairly common dish here. It is especially tasty when you serve it together with bacon, cottage cheese and lingonberry jam.
Another blood dish that is less common nowadays is Paltbröd (Blood Bread) which is often served together with salt pork and bechamél sauce.
Both dishes are delicious if made properly and well worth a try. 😃
Ever since a veterinarian friend of the family told us about the wonderful world of parasites one could get by eating pig's blood, we just dump it in to the cesspit under the old outhouse. Chicken blood is safe too eat due to how it cooks, and damn I could go for it right now.
I feel like someone needs to make some sort of Vampire Ragusea parody from this with how often and how hard he hits the word Blood in this video.
As a Jewish person who has always maintained a kosher diet which does not allow blood - despite knowing forever that it's meat juice and not blood I need to reassure myself every time
Maybe you should reassure yourself that eating blood is not bad and an invisible magic man in the sky isn't going to punish you for doing it.
@@holokyttaja5476 ... you know that Judaism doesn't have a concept of Hell, right? Please don't speak on what you don't understand.
adam literally said in this video that every meat has blood in it and there's no way to prevent eating that
@@holokyttaja5476 okay man calm down and go back to r/atheism just cause someone believes something you don’t doesn’t mean you get to belittle them for it
@Bill Serkoff kosher meat actually goes through an additional step of salting to draw out that blood. adam actually made a video about that too!
I don’t know if it was a coincidence but I appreciate you holding the Quran with your right hand- that’s the proper etiquette in Muslim culture!
Right is the dominant hand but still, Allah planned it
The biggest thing to know though for religious people like Jews and Muslims is that the scientific definition of blood doesn't matter. What matters is the religious definition. Both Islam and Judaism have religious laws that define what these things are and how to deal with them. While I appreciate the video, people who are very strict about this aren't going to change their practices just because science says it's a bit different than the religious law says, the religious law is going to take precedence. Still an interesting video though
Actually no that isnt blood even in the religious sense, in islam its even halal to eat raw meat, as long as you cleaned off the blood thats fine, what makes it halal is the slaughtering method that is in accordance to the hadith and the read of bismillah over the meat, so yes in islam consuming meat juice is actually fine lol, even if there is a bit of blood, you did your best to clean the meat and that is sufficient since you arent directly consuming blood
Cant speak for judaism tho
Curiously, most muslim religious scholars don't consider the meat juice to be haram, and even raw meat, if the proper traditions for slaughtering are observed, is Halal, myoglobin water and blood remnants notwithstanding. Of course, what specific traditions a group of muslims follows and what the scholars consider to be halal or haram aren't always in accordance - go to central Asia and you'll find plenty of muslims that consider alcohol a normal part of their life.
@@Hhhh22222-w makes sense. In Judaism we have things were supposed to do to meat to get rid of remaining blood, once those are done the remaining juices aren't considered blood in our laws either.
But my point was that the scientific definition has little to no impact on a religious definition
English isn't my first language, and I'm currently still learning it. But idk why Adam's voice is very easy to hear, it sounds really clear and articulated. So thanks for helping me learning, even though you might not mean it lol
I think Adam is very intentionally trying to speak and enunciate clearly. He has experience in broadcasting and knows how to communicate clearly, especially to a diverse audience that isn't just native English speakers. By the way, this is the best kind of content for language learning - clearly articulated and very interesting/entertaining!
Yep!
He used to work for NPR so it makes sense
I butchered some roosters this year. It's my first time killing animals. I have a whole lot to say about the experience, but on this subject, blood gets surprisingly thick, very quickly. Like right after the initial spray. Also, there is not nearly as much as I expected. The red fluid in red meat is iron from the cells in water.
french guy here (though that prbably doesn't matter in relation to what I'm about to say)
we raise chickens with geese to keep the grass clear under our orchard and we usually just send them to the slaughterhouse in november.
however, some times, it's a treat to kill the chicken ourselves and get the blood to fry up with some onions to make "pierre" sauce *{edit : it's called "sanguette" or "little blood" I got names mixed up. check below for a recipe. the following strokethrough part is therefore wrong}* -(I can't find a recipe on google, so maybe I'm just making something up that my great aunt showed us?)-
second, I'm still a student and live in a tiny student apartment (less than 80 sq feet or 9 sq meters) and the only thing provided for cooking is a microwave. so naturally, I have a grill/panini maker and fried up some pork one day. since you said the juice is basically meat, I tried frying it up at the end and yup. it fried up like egg whites. it cleaned up the grill, getting all the seasoning and oil and tasted really great on some instant noodles (the pork was for later)
Are you gonna spill the beans on this "pierre" sauce? Recipe?
@@colinstu I got the names mixed up. I'm sorry. It's called "sanguette" (little blood)
in a large, flat bowl, have prepared :
bacon bits (lardons)
chopped onion and garlic
some vinegar to prevent coagulation (or try red wine because it's also france. I'll try red wine when I have chickens of my own. it needs to be acidic. some recipes also recommend lemon juice) however, I don't remember this step, so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
herbs (parsely, herbes de provence, salt, pepper...)
slaughter the chicken and get as much of the blood into the bowl with everything it.
some recipes say to let the blood coagulate a bit before transferring into your pan? maybe cut the chicken's throat over the pan (with the other ingredients already in said pan) to begin with?
many recipes are saying to cook it on low heat and let it coagulate into a crepe, flip it and then serve on a round plate. I remember my father scrambling it like eggs in order to get it to cook faster. (maybe it's daintier to leave it undisturbed?)
and "sauce au pire" ("'at least, sauce" as in "at least, there's this sauce") is something else made from all the livers, hearts, lungs, kidneys, testicles...
it's a kind of stew. but you need more than one chicken's organs to make it
My mother was one of those ppl who had to have it well done. When I grill I ONLY grill medium rare. She actually tried it and she really liked it lol I was surprised because she always thought it was blood til I explained to her what it is.
I've always thought a really cool fact is that whale meet is pretty much purple because it has significantly more myoglobin given how much more efficient those animals and their muscles are at retaining oxygen, for obvious reasons.
I was not allowed to eat anything shorter than well done as a kid cause my mom believed that eating blood was a sin 😂just a fun fact
(now I'm a medium rare, and even rare guy)
6:28 my mom is a baptist btw
Only one type of meat your mom likes raw I guess
Yeah, that tracks. Islam is the only religion he mentions by name, but Christianity is also an Abrahamic religion, so the prohibition against eating blood still exists (at least, it's still in the scriptures. Like a lot of religious doctrines, different denominations interpret the rules in different ways.)
@@OptimusPhillip I figured but I really only heard her talking about that ever, and a few other people from this church, cause they did churrascos and ate medium rate and rare too 😂
@OptimusPhillip Depends on the Christian denomination I think. Most don't restrict any foods only the time you can eat it(no meat during lent, but ok rest of the year)
medium rare for me well done for thee or every other church member was just like really into sining
I love how Americans have to make educational videos on what's basic knowledge in European biology classes
5:20 "the bread blood cells"
I think the real insanity of this argument is the underlying assumption that cooking a steak more thoroughly would remove the blood from it.
Like. Where do y’all well some people think that “blood” was going?
The difference is meat juice is delicious❤
I'd be interested in a video exploring Heme. That was one of the big marketing terms vegan meats were using to sell the taste. Which I think was derived from beets
With one brand, it was derived from genetically modified yeast.
pretty sure impossible meat put the DNA of soybean heme (leghemoglobine) in yeast and uses that.
My Ethiopian friends and family need to see this. they''ll happily eat raw beef (kitfo, beef tartar, it's incredible), but as soon as beef is cooked, they over cook it until all color and juices are gone lol
that’s so wild like how can you eat it raw but then overcook it 😅 i’ve always wanted to try ethiopian food
@@ketameanii look some up near where you live. It's becoming more common in every major city.
Thanks for that insight. As a Muslim I try and avoid blood, but always heard that the "meat juice" was blood, so I usually got my steaks medium-well or well. Now I can confidently go for the medium steak without worry. 😋
Even if it was blood, cooking the steak would just make it change color though...
This is too much science for the "cook it til it's brown" crowd.
yeaa
In Southern Chile it is customary to eat mutton slowly cooked over fire for hours. While you are waiting, you might drink "ñachi", the still hot blood from the carcass with some spices. You might also wait for it to coagulate and eat it.
Meanwhile, over here in France, we'r enjoying raw meet tartar steak and boudin noir ^^
There are stores that carry blood. A Filipino store near me carries many items that you don't find in Vons.
The fact he can make any sponsor transition be smooth is impressive.
Yes it is. I am always amused by his custom transitions!
Blood is Hemoglobin.
Meat Juice is Myoglobin.
Hemoglobin is responsible for transporting oxygen throughtout the body, and is rich in iron.
Myoglobin functions as the main method for intercellular storage for oxygen within muscle tissue. Also most of the actual flavors of a meat comes from myoglobin.
Theres a reason why porkchops and steaks taste like porkchops and steak instead of blood pudding.
There is some overlaps obviously, but they are not the same.
I don't eat meat, which means I end up skipping about half your recipe vids.
But I love you food science vids and found this one really interesting.
For years I told people "it's not blood, it's plasma" not knowing I was basically as wrong as them!
I already have my own self debate on this topic, this video just reconfirm it basically lol.
I am now fine with medium rare steaks. Cause now, logically, I know if there's blood present, even cooking it into a crisp still make the meat haram cause you can't eat blood, cooked or not. So the meat juice and "little blood present is fine", is valid.
Now it just the matter of are the meat save or not to eat medium rare, in case you got the meat from shady stuff or something.
And... don't forget to say basmallah before eating it my brothers
So you take your advice from a non muslim and not religious scholars. Great muslim you are mate 👍
@@Pekara121 this video "reconfirms it", I already made up my mind before this. That is by hearing scholars, Qur'an and Sunnah. When I still indoubt, reassuring to myself is also an option.
Kinda like trusting things in the Qur'an and later read scientific facts about it.
This was the first video i've seen of your content and im thoroughly impressed. Some families have forgotten what a gift food is and im excited to learn more about particularly animal products and what all can be used and how. Thanks for the video it was great!
Blood really is a very underrated ingredient. Here in Portugal we mainly use it in rice, "arroz de cabidela", and in sausages, "morcela". We even stuff it inside pig's stomach, "bucho". Real good.
And Sarapatel is an example of a stew thickened with blood, too! Although, here in my corner of Brasil, we usually call the blood sausages "chouriço" (which if I understand correctly is used in Portugal for a broader list of different sausages).
Arroz de cabidela is a very popular traditional Portuguese dish. The rice, poultry and giblets are finished with blood and a hint of vinegar. Delicious!
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabidela
As someone with hemophobia, thank you so much for the forewarning.
I'm honestly totally fine with blood, but talking/reading about it and seeing it flowing fresh causes my blood pressure to drop rapidly if I'm not prepared- and that's completely out of my conscious control XD
i read that as homophobia and was really confused
@@furretman3741 hahahaha no worries
I'm hella gay and trans and trust me when I say ya aren't the first to misread that XD
It's almost as if your blood...is afraid of other blood.
Spooky lol
I read it as hemophilia and was also confused
never trust anyone who has their steaks well done.
Me at the start of the video:
"Hah, what kinda *loser* would pass out at the sight of a tiny bit of blood?"
Me watching Adam squeezing his cut finger and smearing blood around:
"..."
Me after waking up:
"Fuck."
Exactly like in the beginning it was just a drop and then I see him smere the blood around in the clip later 😢
I've been explaining this for 20 years, people prefer their ignorance more than admitting they are wrong. Which to me, is telling of their overall character.
"Only be sure not to eat the blood, for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh." (Deuteronomy 12:23 NASB)
We have manuscripts of the Old Testament dating back to BC (see wikipedia on Dead Sea Scrolls), so this is probably where the taboo came from (at least partially).
Dude I love how much I learn from your videos. I'ts really cool to see you explain the science as someone who studies chemsitry
Whats crazy is no matter how much you tell some people that the juice isnt blood they'll still ignore you and keep calling it bloody and undercooked
Another reason why rare/medium rare cooked meat is not raw, uncooked meat.
4:42 Wait, what!? No blood pudding in USA? But it's so good
Man Adam is incredible, apart from teaching things about food, inadvertently he also teaches about the human body :D
You're great man, been watching your videos for over 2 years, keep it going!
The amount of people that say they don't like the "blood" in steak is insane. So glad this video exists now so i can just link this to some bums
Smooth transition to sponsorship.
00:09 as long as you don't have any garlic or bright lights in this video, I'm fine
its blood dude.
Always love a mention of shear-thinning liquids! We always pay attentiont to the much more "cool" shear-thickening liquids, and usually shear-thinning is left to poor ketchup as the example.
Thixotropy! I learned about this when studying paint chemistry. Also, ketchup - the real heavy lifter haha. Dadgum glass Heinz bottles...
Truly excellent, informative, technical, no-nonsense evaluation of blood and meat. I really enjoyed your approach and clear, unequivocal evaluation of what appears to have become a bit of a sensitive subject. If only there was more straightforward honesty going on in the world. Well done Adam, great video.
You’re not as trustworthy as the videos my mom gets through WhatsApp though, maybe turn up the background music so we can barely hear you 😂😂
Thanks for warning about the human blood! I have hemophobia but really wanted to watch the content, so I made sure I was layind in my bed, with my whole body supported (and relaxed) in case of my anxiety being triggered. Nice content, btw ❤
I thought the same thing and did the exact same as you!!Skipping around a bit and felt light headed but continued watching for a bit. Really appreciate Adam saying this because not many people in my experience acknowledge hemophobia
I found the chicken carcass and its blood (actual blood) more stomach turning. But there was no warning. Red meat I can handle but raw chicken carcasses look revolting to me. Chicken tastes good though.
I feel it's worth pointing out that this information, while accurate and fantastically presented (well done Adam, always love your stuff) does not mean that there is no rational reason to be averse to rare meat. As Adam so wisely points out, when you cook meat, the myoglobin in the juices turns brown as it breaks down. It is possible to overcook a steak and dry it out, but the absence of red juices does not mean a steak is dry or tough. A properly cooked well done steak is not appreciably dryer or less tender that one that is medium rare. The difference is the color of the juices, and more importantly the taste. Some people, myself included, prefer the taste of browned juice which is much less metallic.
My point here is that if your well done steak or burger or whatever else is dry or tough, it's not WELL done, it's OVER done.
If it makes you feel any better, pre-historic humans actually drank blood from animals they hunted to get sodium. Salt.
Your ancestors were drinking and eating blood way before you. On purpose, as well.
The coffee tea analogy was pretty good. both caffeinated hot beverages made from steeping plant matter, compared to heme containing proteins in liquid that transport oxygen in the body.
It was...maybe the simplest (not necessarily the best) way to explain the difference is that for coffe you boil a grain, and for tea you boil a leaf
The "if myoglobin isn't found in blood why do they search for it in blood tests" might be the worst reasoning I've ever heard
**Oh if tumours aren't found in the brain why do they look for them on an MRI?**
Historically, the blood eating taboo was started just after the Flood (approximately 4300-4400 years ago). This is recorded in Genesis 9:1-6:
"And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth. The fear of you and the terror of you will be on every beast of the earth and on every bird of the sky; with everything that creeps on the ground, and all the fish of the sea, into your hand they are given. Every moving thing that is alive shall be food for you; I give all to you, as I gave the green plant. Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. Surely I will require your lifeblood; from every beast I will require it. And from every man, from every man’s brother I will require the life of man.
“Whoever sheds man’s blood,
By man his blood shall be shed,
For in the image of God
He made man."
This predates Abraham's birth by around 352 years. This is why it is part of both Jewish (Moses was given the Law around 1090 years after the Flood) and Islamic religious teachings. This also is why Christians (at least those who diligently follow the Bible) also avoid blood, per Acts 15:28-29 ~ “For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these essentials: that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; if you keep yourselves free from such things, you will do well. Farewell.”
My man ended the video before those well-done guys finished chewing their meat
"i will chew your meat" - fastest reader's hater
Adam, found you 3 or more years ago (hope you were on at the time or that'd be weird). So enjoy your videos. Cooking is one of my true passions and I love cooking and learning from you. Thanks for this one! People like you make the internet a wonder, especially for many like me don't have streaming budgets! Cook on, my friend!
Cardboard eaters have been quiet since this video dropped.
I¨m from Sweden and I grew up with Blood pudding, Blood sausage, Blood bread and Black soup. All made by blood, the soup specifically from a goose. As a kid I never really had a second thougt that eating blood was weird. Maybe because we love cod roe caviar and liver beef and liver soup also.
@@JimboJuiceNah its more complicated ans varied than that. Be it over a thousand year old traditions looking down on it to simple cultural differences in food.