Comments on: Damn you, science!

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 19:19:32 +0000

joated:

My standard answer is “you really don’t want to cook it, so much as warm it up a little bit.” Or, “If, for some reason, I fail to eat the steak, I want it to make a full recovery and go on living a healthy life.”

By: Manish

Manish — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 17:33:27 +0000

Mark Twain (I believe) once said…they tell me that if I give up smoking and drinking that I will live an extra 10 years, but I ask you, if I can’t drink or smoke, why would I want to live an extra 10 years?

By: Sailorcurt

Sailorcurt — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 12:38:03 +0000

I agree with the conclusion of this study 100%:

Rats should not eat charred beef.

That’s why I don’t invite them to my barbicues…it’s for their own good.

By: countertop

countertop — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 04:44:06 +0000

i think I probably agree with that too, tgirsch

By: joated

joated — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:12:46 +0000

As I told the gal at the restaurant last night when she asked how I wanted my steak, “Just put a band-aid on it and send it on out.”

By: ben

ben — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 23:55:48 +0000

Yeah, and then they’re going to pass laws to protect people from second hand meat. No chared meat within twenty five feet of a public building. This is where I take a stand. Give me chared meat or give me death!

By: markm

markm — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 21:58:28 +0000

If you only eat healthily, you may or may not live longer, but it will seem far too long.

By: Steve Ramsey

Steve Ramsey — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:40:41 +0000

As a professional chef (yes really) I advise you to eat what you want and be content.

Death is the price of admission to the life movie, and you don’t want to sit through a sucky movie now do you?

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:53:35 +0000

They neglect to mention what the effect of certain distilled beverages may have on the cancer-causing compound. I’ll pretend they said it negates the effect and live my life that way, thank you very much.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:49:34 +0000

We probably agree on a lot of things — just very few, if any, of them have anything to do with politics.

By: countertop

countertop — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:43:19 +0000

As for the risk of death, if you get old enough something’s going to kill you eventually

By: countertop

countertop — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:42:58 +0000

Well, tgirsch and I seem to agree on at least one thing. . .the value of a good sear.

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:03:02 +0000

This is not new. Hell, I remember it being mentioned on an episode of Good Eats at least two or three years ago. Basically, you don’t want to eat a ton of it, but if you have it every now and again, you’ll be fine.

As to eating meat pretty rare, it doesn’t help me that much because I like a good sear on the outside, even if the meat is medium-rare to rare on the inside.

By: Captain Holly

Captain Holly — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:47:07 +0000

Actually, if you live past 80 your chances of getting prostate cancer soar. So even if you don’t eat barbeque often, you’ll still probably have to get your prostate removed when you’re an old codger. Which means the Big Guy won’t work as well anymore, but by the time you’re 80 you probably won’t notice much difference.

The bright spot is we will have better boner pills than Viagra by that time….

By: countertop

countertop — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:20:59 +0000

Nate G hit it right on the head . . . . thats not a problem for me cause I eat meat pretty rare. Actually, I like to lightly sear my steaks to lock the juices in then slow cook ‘em to warm the inside up (but not for too long, got to keep ‘em rare and bloody).

By: NateG

NateG — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 17:08:19 +0000

So does this mean we should eat meat rare? Woohoo!

See also: Everything causes cancer. If I didn’t know better I’d think we’re all doomed to die, eventually, or something. Bummer. So, if we don’t die of something else, eventually we’ll all die of cancer. Maybe I should have been an oncologist.