8/10 Interesting, didn't know that
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Do y'all know that the reason meat cooks and changes colors is because of protein changes? Let me explain, when you slap a raw piece of meat on a hot skillet, you immediately start exciting the molecules and such, which as many people who've taken chemistry know, starts to cause chemical reactions to take place. Now, keep that in mind because those molecules are making up proteins! And now because of those chemical reactions, the proteins start to break down. Now, let's put a pause on the science there and look at the world around us for a moment, many people believe that whenever red stuff is leaking out of your steak/meat/whatever, that it's blood. But that is not the case. The slaughterhouse actually drains all the blood from the carcass. That red stuff, is actually the broken down proteins! Okay, now back to the main science, the breaking down of the proteins is what causes all of the physical and chemical changes within the meat. That's the reason why meat goes from red to brown, I mean think about it. If you cut into an underdone piece of meat, that red stuff is gonna leak out, which is the same stuff that makes the meat red. Makes sense right?
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(All of the credit for my knowledge of this goes to my chemistry teacher last year lol)