Snake Plissken Have you ever seen a cartoon where smell lines are wafting up off of hot food? Those are the chem trails. If you breathe them in, they mind control you into wanting to eat that food. Look into it.
He answered the question within the first 7 seconds. Quick and to the point with all of the actual evidence and thoughts AFTER the fact, but interesting enough to warrant a full watch. THIS is quality food content. It isn't an entire webpage worth of preamble, 12 minutes of B-roll, or over half a video of advertisement. Absolute legend.
The real perpetuated myth is that marination is meant for large cuts. It's meant for bite sized sliced or chopped bits, so it can penetrate more surface area and distribute flavor throughout. That's the point. You don't marinate an entire chicken, all it will do is change color.
@@JonCodec another thing i learned is to freeze and thaw tofu first so then you get more cracks in the surface and therefore more surface area for marinade to adhere to, same concept goes with flank steak, its already a stringier meat therefore has more surface area. Dang, wanting some cilantro lime steak fajitas now.
marinating large cuts of meat works well. Not sure what you're doing with your meats, or what kind of marinade you're using, but I've marinated large cuts of meat overnight, or two nights before roasting, smoking, jerking, and let me tell you, that flavour is something else
Late comment but adding color to a marinade can be misleading as different substances get absorbed at different rates. We have an entire separation process dedicated to this phenomenon called Chromatography :D The Sodium from the Salt and the Citric Acid from Lemons were both probably way ahead of the color by the time you removed the meat.
That’s true but that doesn’t change the fact that marinades do something different than just a sauce or a rub. It also shows that it’s BS that marinades don’t do anything.
Interesting. So, the solution would be to use ingredients that are dyed blue rather than adding blue dye to the mixture? If it were really something that mattered a great deal, I could see someone trying it. But I see the point and it makes a sense to me.
@@codacreator6162 No, dying something blue would take us back to the original problem where the dye on the substance will be absorbed less readily than the substance itself. Remember that the act of absorption ends up separating even homogenous mixtures The solution would be, at least for lemon, to do a cross sectional litmus test by cutting a slice of the meat For detecting salinity across the cross section of meat, it might be trickier
I was almost in the 'marinades do nothing' camp, but this video has actually convinced me otherwise. You just have to acknowledge what they're meant to do, and not expect them to penetrate anything more than a couple of mm. Good video.
So marinades are pointless. If it doesn't penetrate the meat it's no different than a seasoning/spice/sauce. Those thing don't require extra time either.
@@randybobandy9828 It's one method by which to more tightly bind spices and flavors to the outer layer of the meat without significantly changing the final outer texture or getting in the way of the outer browning/searing/skin. Yes, whether you're using a spice, sauce, or marinade you're still essentially only applying flavor to the surface (though a marinade goes a bit deeper). But in the cases of spice the seasoning is loosely bound to the surface, and in the case of a sauce you're covering any skin/browning in such a way that can alter the texture (and to some degree flavor) of the final product. A marinade gets you the best of both (in theory), flavoring the layer of meat tissue right below the outer most - though whether that's worth the effort is debatable. But at the very least I wouldn't call it totally interchangeable with examples you mentioned. I think it's totally valid to just say it's not worth the effort, rather than trying to strictly equate it to something else.
10:31 - "And I always put lots of salt in my marinades, which I suppose technically makes them brines, too". "Marinade" is derived from the Spanish verb marinar, meaning "to pickle in a brine". The root word is mar, i.e. the sea.
The claim was that flavor penetrated/infused deep inside into the meat. So yes this is science, and it was proven, that it does not. That it sticks to the surface, well that is obvious.
@@sankim3499 Because doing that is 100% as pointless as the equivalent I pointed out. Who cares if the marinade penetrates super deeply? You marinate meat to flavor the outer layer of it, which you will taste when you eat it. Cutting it off defeats the whole purpose.
@@sankim3499 But you can’t just say that you proved that it does literally nothing. By erasing your work, you invalidate any right to call it valid science.
@@eXJonSnow he’s not testing if liquid will stick to skin. Everyone knows liquid will stick to skin. Nobody would watch the video if it was called “will putting liquid on the outside of something make it taste like the liquid”
Was a chef for 15 years before I got out of the business. I always found that most of the time chicken was the protein being marinated. Other proteins like good tuna, sea bass, quality beef and pork, stand on their own. And as you laid out so nicely, we always broke down our chicken and tenderized it. I HATE cooking thick chicken breasts without tenderizing. You're always playing the game of overcooking the outside waiting for the internal temp to catch up. Butterflying, or just breaking them down to smaller filets and tenderizing them does such a service to the meat. It's almost like eating an entirely different food. I've seen so many situations in the kitchen where cooks sear/grill a full breast, and just kill it in the oven. I spent a lot of time testing temps and some of the breasts were 200 internal after resting, and like 220-260 outer. The paranoia of chicken has ruined young cooks. Last 2 kitchens I started a chicken crusade to just get a decent piece of sliced grilled chicken for a caesar salad lol. I've never been a fan of very large birds either. I've done a lot of Thanksgiving services over the years, and the smaller birds always were better. Instead of going for monstrous abominations of a Turkey, with larger families I always went for multiple smaller birds. It's nice too, because everyone is always seeking out the large birds, you can get good deals on smaller ones. Marinades work great, with well prepared chicken, maybe something like skirt steak. Anything else, brine or just traditional seasoning.
Can you help me out with my chicken problems? Lol. So I'm just a student beginner home cook and I really like chicken teriyaki. But one problem I have is that I can't get both the sauce and the meat perfect. Either the meat is good and soft and the sauce is too watery or the sauce is nice and thick and sticks to the meat but the meat itself is lowkey overcooked and a bit hard/dry? I don't know what I should do, lower the temperature and cook for longer or increase the temp. I've tried piling up the meat on one side of the pan and try to let the sauce spread out evenly but that didn't do much
@@khirek5335 The way you described your situation, seems like you're cooking chicken in the pan. Which is totally okay. So don't be scared to use a cheap cooking thermometer, even pros use them, accuracy with temps makes great food. If I were you, I would: Prepare my raw chicken properly- Depends on what you want to do, but I'd clean it up and take the fat/bones out of it. Wash it good. Now this part depends, but generally you dont want to cook giant chicken breasts because by the time the center is to safe eating temperature, the outside will be overcooked. You either need to filet the whole chicken breasts into something thinner, maybe an inch thick(tops) or cube or skewer the chicken. If you filet them, do it a bit thick and pound them out medium force with a hammer. Just to tenderize. Either way, you're not gonna have something really thick. Marinate/brine the chicken- find a recipe you like and do it up. There is a huge argument to whether marinating stuff in an oily marinade actually works, but most people agree that thin vinegary stuff works so many something with rice vinegar, mirin, soy sauce, etc. throw some garlic and ginger in there. I haven't tried it, but I bet you could use some of that thin teriyaki marinade from kikkoman for this and it would be great. You dont have to do this step, but it will elevate something good to something amazing. Cook the chicken- this also depends on what you wanna do. Grill, oil, etc. The important part is to not kill the chicken. If you have some nice chicken filets that are 3/4 an inch thick (after being pounded out) you should shoot for an internal temperature of 155. And I mean internal, the very center of the meat. The hot outside will bring the inside up to 165. Just let it sit for a couple minutes while you prepare the rest of your stuff. Peoples biggest problem with chicken is overcooking it until it's like 200 degrees chewy and gross. This part comes with experience, but if your internal temp is 165 and you're just pulling it off, you overcooked it. By the time you eat it, it is going to be 175 or 185, etc. That's like trying to make a medium rare steak and getting a medium well. Sauce: this is the hardest one. Buy some mirin. It's like japanese rice cooking wine, kikkoman makes it. They use it in japan like italians use wine. When you pull your chicken out of your pan and put it to the side to cook up, pour whatever excess oil you have in the pan into the sink or something safe. It will melt plastic so dont pour it over a plastic cup or something. The idea is to deglaze the pan and get all those sticky chicken bits and stuff stuck to the pan to release. So you dump the mirin rice wine in there and it should bubble up and get going. Now you dump your sauce in there and do your thing. Let it reduce to your desired thickness. Dont turn heat to high or you'll scorch it. Patience. If you breaded your chicken it might get thick, just a tiny bit of water or mirin at a time and work it in to thin it out. This one is hard because teriyaki can go from syrupy stickiness to a marinade as thin as soy sauce. Look up roux or xanthan gum if you need to thicken stuff. Arrowroot works too I think. Cook some rice, throw it all together and you're good.
@@sweptinblack yo you wrote a whole essay for me, thank you so much! Taste wise mine is pretty okay it's just the consistency that bothers me but the one main thing to take away from you is to just remove the chicken once it's perfect and THEN cook the sauce. Some of the other recipes I came across don't mention it like that but I will definitely try it and it makes sense to do so if my main problem is the chicken being done before the sauce gets thick. Thank you so much!
@@CrokusTheDerg Let's be real, you don't need a Turkey the size of your entire oven for most peoples situation nowadays. Everyone I know ends up throwing most of it right into the trashcan every year so what's the point. That was the point, not getting one the size of a grouse or something. That kind of goes without saying.
"Marinating does absolutely nothing!" -Mr Willoughby (Yes, I know what I did.) "Well, it does makes the meat mighty tasty, doesn't it?" -All the professional and amateur cooks (and Impostors) marinating their meat for flavour. I mean, yeah it doesn't penetrate the produce as much as we thought, but from there to "I doesn't do anything", there's a leap. Thanks Adam!
@@brentoctaviano7059 i find it quite arrogant to believe that because you realize marinating doesnt penetrate into more than the outer layer of meat that it becomes ok to pretend like human beings have been wasting their time and energy for 100's of years.....especially when you are completely full of shit and using this information to try to line your pockets
Adam ragusea is the king of answering straight away. No stupid annoying tiktoks where they tell you the name of the anime you wanna watch in the last second or no telling you to wait.
I love these fundamental food theory videos. They definitely help me to think about the processes I use in the kitchen that help me to be a better cook overall. Thank you!
@@merrillgeorge1838 so, in simple terms, 1) enzymes are the protein machines that make your body go. 2) there are enzymes that have the job of chopping up big macronutrients like starch or protein. 3) pineapples have an enzyme in their juice that targets the protein matrix that holds meat together. Adam probably skipped talking about pineapple juice to focus just on the unfurling of the proteins, not the cutting up of proteins.
I appreciate the science method explained by an honest review. Usually do the seasoning approach but learning the effects of marinade, i can probably feel more comfortable trying it
basically, its a table that has been marinated in isopropyl alcohol, and other disinfectants for added flavor and nutrition. So next time, see if you can detect the slight nuances of the different ingredients.
I gave up marinating decades ago when it didn't do what I wanted it to do, make my tough cut of meat tender. I just found your channel and subbed and expect to learn a lot about cooking from you. Thanks!
its best to season as late as you can, this avoids marination and keeps the flavours as fresh as possible. Like Adam, i also find homoginous food boring, that's why i season my ass crack because everything will immediately mash together at the latest stage possible. its definitely a sensation
@@olymolly3637 imagine there will be innovation in the future where human can change sence of taste in tongue, so any bland food I eat can taste great or tastin meat flavor out of cucumber
@@bismarrezaaraisyi384 Not the future at least. That's what's the spices, herbs (yeah the marinades lol) & synthetic enhancers of today are for. But if you meant something else, Idk... like brain chips or nanotech that can help enhance your tastebuds?
The greatest thing about this channel is that it reminds me of that one food show that my parents would put on when I was a kid. Really bringing back memories.
Hey Adam, i'm here making some beef bone broth right now and it needs to simmer for 12 hours! I was searching for a bone broth video and it seems you don't have one. I would love if you could do a video all about broth, and why it takes so long. What happens when the collagen is released! Hoping you see this and put it on your list! Thanks for the great info your vids are a great resource
@@Gandhi_Physique a lot of experts ARE experts in their field, but the reality is their field overlaps in parts with other fields despite what they were 'taught' to specialize and the end result is that their work has glaring faults and inefficiencies.
It was an experiment designed to achieve a specific result. But for the life of me I can't think of a reason why they would care so much about proving a marinade does nothing.
It does nothing to the inner surface. This is what they are saying. No breakdown of the meat (no tenderizing, no seasoning, no flavor past the outer layer). It really isn't that hard to understand that is it? The claims of marinades to make the meat more tender are obviously false. You aren't served a plate of fully cut up steak with evenly applied saucing. And, as my wife says. A perfectly done steak requires no sauce and no marinade. It tastes great. Period.
Marinating chicken is soy sauce (soy honey spring onions) 24H changes the structure of the meat entirely. I think its the salt content in the soy sauce. I like it. Marinating also help with keeping the meat longer in the fridge as it reduces contact with air similar to what sous-vide does.
When it comes to cheap cuts of meat, marinading is basically required to tenderize it and make it palatable, unless you're slow cooking. When you get that primo meat, it's a waste to marinade or excessively flavor the meat. Gotta be able to taste that cows whole life story, unadulterated. Ain't got the bank to eat prime cuts everyday, so gotta savor it. 😂
I really value your incorporation of research into your videos. In this day and age providing good source information contributes to a better society at all levels and I value that you do that on your channel.
I don't care how far it goes into the meat or the chemical science behind it. Does it taste good, will my family eat it, were there leftovers for tomorrow's lunch is all that matters. I also don't care if its from 1961 or 2021 if it tastes good and doesn't kill me im down, now i have come caribbean jerk chicken marinating overnight for tomorrows dinner. Is it rice or pasta i want with it??
Thank you for giving the answer right up front instead of trying to drag it out past your advertising... and for that I watched the whole video. Also, my wife and I have been using Hello Fresh for almost a month now and have been very happy with it.
The main thing I use marination for is curry, and because the chicken is cut into small pieces, it means the marinade has a lot more surface area to work with.
@@Dreamingofivoryart That's why you let it sit and get that flavor painted into the meat. Which is kinda what the video talks about. You did watch it right?
I yelled at my high school senior students for this kind of logic in their research papers. "I excluded the outliers before analyzing the data." EXCUSE ME THE OUTLIERS ARE *PART OF* THE DATA
My great-great-grandmother's cookbook has a recipe for fried chicken (published posthumously) and it calls for the chicken to be brined in a buttermilk, rose water, and salt solution (it's actually rather convoluted). But she always won the blue ribbon for her chicken at the county fair, so there was certainly something to it, beyond regular brining in buttermilk. If there's ever an odor in a meat that is a little off-putting, like with mutton from older sheep, try adding some rose water to your brine.
I always season my meats before grilling them. I started vacuum bagging them when they marinate in the fridge. I do not soak the meat in water because a lot of the meat juices leach out in to the water and I think dry rubs and seasonings do better with the meat juices for flavor. I still use lime juice or lemon juice, or a bit of vinegar to help break down the meat. Then I cook as slow as I can to keep the meat juicy... Works like a charm.
Lmao getting to the point in the first minute is unprecedented, but I kept watching because I've always wondered why theres this big anti-marinade movement
I'm only 50 seconds into the video and I love it already. You answered the question right away, you talk about the social trends on the topic, so history and different perspectives with other sources to give your claims crediabilty
There is also the effect of osmotic pressure. A salty marinade will pull water from the remaining intact cells effectively increasing the salt concentration of those cells. If left to reach an isotonic state, those cells can then exchange juices with the marinade.
Galbi, korean short rib, marinate for a few days and it tastes wonderful. Also they're cut in slices so the marinade soaks into the entire meat making it soft and delicious.
As someone with an eating disorder I'd like to thank you for your videos! Food doesnt feel taboo here, but objective, scientific and enjoyable. This is really helping me get through it... so thank you!
@@aterack833 it's really not your business lol and pretty rude to ask. i.e. your takeaway from hearing someone is recovering from illness isnt "glad you're doing better and this is helping you" it's "oh woah no way did you have one of the cool ones?!"
@@vivianloney8826 How is that rude at all. OP shared that they have an eating disorder and then @aterack833 wanted to know more. If OP doesn't feel comfortable they can just not answer. you know this is the internet not a televised interview. It's anonymous and OP has no obligation to answer.
@@vivianloney8826 its more like if you hear someone recovering from an illness, and you go: 'oh? what happened/what was it?'. its not as rude as you are making it sound, just personal, and op has the freedom not to answer.
Thks for sharing didn't know scientific studies were made on the topic. About the color you used, is not so easy. In fact, it shows that the color stays outside but doesn't show that nothing goes inside. It's like when you go for medical imaging, and you need to look for something. You need to: first) find a molecule that will allow you you observe something (i.e you can follow a dose of sugar you inject), second) attach something to the existing molecule injected to be sure to see it with the imaging device (say gadolinium for MRI). And then you will be able to observe it through the body.
They say fighting straw men is bad for the lungs. It doesn't penetrate therefore marinading, the idea of immersion over time to penetrate the meat, does nothing at all.
I'm a little late to the party but for anyone coming in recently like me, yes, marinating does work, and if I have to be clear it works a lot better than a rub. I did an asian style marinade and put my ribs in the fridge for 12 hours and the flavor I had on my ribs was completely different to when I did a rub.
Damn this is good science. As someone who reads scholarly articles literally hours a day I become absolutely furious at how often even researchers/doctors misinterpret or erroneously extrapolate results. Wish you were in the medical research field, but I'm pretty damn sure you've found an amazing niche. Good stuff.
Great video! It would be great though if you could take it one step further and do multiple blind tests. The fact that before the test you expect the longer marination to have a better taste can actually affect your taste. A famous experiment with this is that you cut a normal banana in two parts and then ask people to taste both parts, but you tell them that one part is from an organic banana and the other part is regular. A lot of people will tell you that the parts taste different and probably that the “organic” part tastes better.
Fun fact: what the meat industry also does with the clever injection trick is enhance the mass of any particular cut to reach even up to twice the original value by injecting a protein-salt mix in addition to seasoning. Then the meat is mechanically "massaged" so that the fibers can accommodate the increased volume of fluid and distribute it uniformly. That's why free range chicken is usually way smaller and leaner.
@Squad 47 if you live at the dutch border try and get meat from there to see it. Our chicken shrinks like no tomorrow in the pan, imagine the surprise we had when the German chicken didn't and we couldn't fit all of the pieces in the pan 😂
you sure its not a genetics thing? My families a big name in our branch of livestock and having spent sometime around names in the poultry industry your standard bird you buy from a local farmer is nothing like the stuff that the universities engineered. Breast size and laying capabilities are night and day. We aren't in food processing so I can't say its not done but i've seen plenty of birds with grocery store sized breasts (and bigger on non-commercial varieties). Is two times common practice? The genetic stock out of Purdue I saw reached that size naturally.
Got that it was some type of color/heat/chemical/something filter for an experiment probabaly to assess the effects of marinating on meat but yea interesting choice for a thumbnail. I like it.
In germany we have "Sauerbraten" that is translated to 'sour roast beef'. The beef gets layed in vinegar + other aromatic ingredients for several days. The outer surface is soft yes, but it is not bad at all.
@@dancheb I agree - if marinades weren't effective at making food tasty, they wouldn't have been use making food tasty for the last six thousand years or so.
If I'm marinating meat (like steak), I just "fork tenderize" it first. No need for a meat mallet, just fork both sides prior to marinading. Works great for enhancing the flavour AND mechanically tenderizing the meat.
I was going to say Phosphate, then you included it. You can get butchers phosphate fairly easy and it works great with my brines and marinades. I does help open up the meat and let it in. Meat packing companies do inject steeped brines into those pre-packaged kits, many, maybe not all
idk why I got this video recommended nor why I watched it, since my cooking skills are so low that I'm happy when i make myself pancakes and stuff on the same level, but I actually enjoyed watching it and even learned something.
It's interesting, in my Central European cullinary tradition, when you say "marinade" you don't mean something made from limes but more like a mix of oil, paprika, soy sauce and maybe wine or vinegar, but not that much, simply said, they don't tend to be that acidic, their point is more to spice the food rather than disolve it :D
Adam is one of very few people I actually trust with food facts on UA-cam because of his extensive research and quality he puts into each of his videos.
I ran across the over acidification of meat problem when I learned how to make tandoori. Traditionally, the meat is marinated in a highly acidic marinade overnight, but the extreme temperatures of a tandoor bring that mushy crumbly meat back into proper form. I tried all sorts of things to fix the problem, but didn't know what was happening until I read a Bangladeshi Chef writing about the problem, who recommended cutting back on acids if you can't afford to splurge a couple grand on a specialty clay oven.
I just started watching this channel. I love how, even though the titles sound like clickbait, the question always gets answered right in the beginning of the video. None of that "watch until the end to find out."
Agreed that marinades and brines are both valuable tools. Am on a “dry brining is better” kick right now (I got the idea from the Food Lab). What do YOU think of dry vs. wet brining? Have you done a vid about that?
About the chicken dye experiment: it may be possible to get a deeper penetration over the same time period by using a different type of dye. The degree of hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity will affect the result, as well as the inclusion of acid or surfactant type agents that may be present in a complex marinade.
I have literally never heard of this anti-marinade propaganda
Beaye hahahahahahaha
@Beaye yeah but where do chemtrails fit in?
Snake Plissken Have you ever seen a cartoon where smell lines are wafting up off of hot food? Those are the chem trails. If you breathe them in, they mind control you into wanting to eat that food.
Look into it.
Beaye irony? Or are you dumb
5G is the Chinese government's codename for MSG. It's so obvious once you see the facts.
I was so confused when I saw the thumbnail I thought the chicken was rocks
I thought it was opal
I was just thinking "Why is it BLUE??"
I thought the same thing! I was a bit confused as to how marinating rocks would actually do anything. XD
I thought it was small peices of glass.
@@Apemon7 I thought the same thing too xD
He answered the question within the first 7 seconds. Quick and to the point with all of the actual evidence and thoughts AFTER the fact, but interesting enough to warrant a full watch. THIS is quality food content. It isn't an entire webpage worth of preamble, 12 minutes of B-roll, or over half a video of advertisement. Absolute legend.
Agreed. I fully enjoy ingesting Adam’s vids; nugget-city & cheers, Adam! 🥂
It's garbage and is not consistent with actual food science. I'll bet you believe in the vax too! LOL
Yes, and one of the few examples I've seen of a headline that's a yes/no question in which the answer is "yes"!
I KNOW! INSTANT respect 😌
He seems to expound upon the point from the most relevant info to the least. Quite informative.
2:08 "So basically you're denaturing those proteins with DAT ASSid."
He waited his whole life for this moment.
"marinading does nothing" is the most flavourless thing i've ever heard, i can feel my south asian ancestors all gasping in disgust
I know right, it is a heresy on itself.
S.E. Asians: These people don't truly know how cooking works isn't it? Lol
LITERALLY flavourless lmao
This is one of the sickest burns I’ve ever seen.
Clearly they've never poured pineapple juice on literally anything in creation.
“The hip thing all the cool kids are soaking their meats in”
Haha nice
Thats the comment I paused the video and was looking for. Thanks.
IMMA DIP MY BALLS INTO SOME THOUSAND ISLAND DRESSING CAUSE I GOT DEPRESSION
@@zebius4157 I laughed at that.
Hahaha :))
The real perpetuated myth is that marination is meant for large cuts. It's meant for bite sized sliced or chopped bits, so it can penetrate more surface area and distribute flavor throughout. That's the point. You don't marinate an entire chicken, all it will do is change color.
I'll keep that in mind
Overcorrection
this is how i make my tofu taste good! just cut it into small pieces first (:
@@JonCodec another thing i learned is to freeze and thaw tofu first so then you get more cracks in the surface and therefore more surface area for marinade to adhere to, same concept goes with flank steak, its already a stringier meat therefore has more surface area. Dang, wanting some cilantro lime steak fajitas now.
marinating large cuts of meat works well. Not sure what you're doing with your meats, or what kind of marinade you're using, but I've marinated large cuts of meat overnight, or two nights before roasting, smoking, jerking, and let me tell you, that flavour is something else
Late comment but adding color to a marinade can be misleading as different substances get absorbed at different rates. We have an entire separation process dedicated to this phenomenon called Chromatography :D
The Sodium from the Salt and the Citric Acid from Lemons were both probably way ahead of the color by the time you removed the meat.
That’s true but that doesn’t change the fact that marinades do something different than just a sauce or a rub. It also shows that it’s BS that marinades don’t do anything.
Interesting. So, the solution would be to use ingredients that are dyed blue rather than adding blue dye to the mixture? If it were really something that mattered a great deal, I could see someone trying it. But I see the point and it makes a sense to me.
@@codacreator6162
No, dying something blue would take us back to the original problem where the dye on the substance will be absorbed less readily than the substance itself. Remember that the act of absorption ends up separating even homogenous mixtures
The solution would be, at least for lemon, to do a cross sectional litmus test by cutting a slice of the meat
For detecting salinity across the cross section of meat, it might be trickier
Radioactive marker
@@Tom-ts5qd Finally, a practical solution
Why I drink the marinate, eat the steak raw, and then set myself on fire for maximum flavor.
Then cook myself
Beckham Aiman ew lol
This guy's too close to the truth, GET HIM!
They hated him because he told them the truth.
And serve the digested steak to my family. Just like grandma used to make em.
"Yes marinating absolutely does do something"
*Credits*
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
@@aragusea woah first reply adam
@@aragusea 1 like woahhh
Merrill George you can’t woooosh a Ragusea
@@aragusea this has just changed my life
I was almost in the 'marinades do nothing' camp, but this video has actually convinced me otherwise. You just have to acknowledge what they're meant to do, and not expect them to penetrate anything more than a couple of mm. Good video.
So marinades are pointless. If it doesn't penetrate the meat it's no different than a seasoning/spice/sauce. Those thing don't require extra time either.
@@randybobandy9828 It's one method by which to more tightly bind spices and flavors to the outer layer of the meat without significantly changing the final outer texture or getting in the way of the outer browning/searing/skin.
Yes, whether you're using a spice, sauce, or marinade you're still essentially only applying flavor to the surface (though a marinade goes a bit deeper). But in the cases of spice the seasoning is loosely bound to the surface, and in the case of a sauce you're covering any skin/browning in such a way that can alter the texture (and to some degree flavor) of the final product. A marinade gets you the best of both (in theory), flavoring the layer of meat tissue right below the outer most - though whether that's worth the effort is debatable.
But at the very least I wouldn't call it totally interchangeable with examples you mentioned. I think it's totally valid to just say it's not worth the effort, rather than trying to strictly equate it to something else.
@@randybobandy9828 the video answers this. It's so that you can have sauce free texture but saucy flavor.
@@randybobandy9828 basically you didnt understand anything you watched
@@randybobandy9828 you didn't watch the video did ya
10:31 - "And I always put lots of salt in my marinades, which I suppose technically makes them brines, too". "Marinade" is derived from the Spanish verb marinar, meaning "to pickle in a brine". The root word is mar, i.e. the sea.
"If you add flavor, and then cut off the flavor, you have no flavor! Its science!"
The claim was that flavor penetrated/infused deep inside into the meat. So yes this is science, and it was proven, that it does not. That it sticks to the surface, well that is obvious.
I understand this, I'm saying I do not care because there's still flavor being put onto meat.
Sorry you were offended
@@CerpinTxt87 no offense buddy, I was just stating. It should read as a statement not an attack. 😉
youre a moron
It's not science it's pure common sense, you lick the flavor off a chip then eat the wet flavorless chip u won't taste the flavoring duh
Shaving off the marinated skin of the chicken is like cutting the crust off of a steak and then saying "what was the point of searing the steak?"
1000% agree
It's to see if the interior without the marinated layer absorbed the flavor of the marinade, why is this comment so upvoted?
@@sankim3499 Because doing that is 100% as pointless as the equivalent I pointed out. Who cares if the marinade penetrates super deeply? You marinate meat to flavor the outer layer of it, which you will taste when you eat it. Cutting it off defeats the whole purpose.
@@sankim3499 But you can’t just say that you proved that it does literally nothing. By erasing your work, you invalidate any right to call it valid science.
@@eXJonSnow he’s not testing if liquid will stick to skin. Everyone knows liquid will stick to skin. Nobody would watch the video if it was called “will putting liquid on the outside of something make it taste like the liquid”
Was a chef for 15 years before I got out of the business. I always found that most of the time chicken was the protein being marinated. Other proteins like good tuna, sea bass, quality beef and pork, stand on their own. And as you laid out so nicely, we always broke down our chicken and tenderized it. I HATE cooking thick chicken breasts without tenderizing. You're always playing the game of overcooking the outside waiting for the internal temp to catch up. Butterflying, or just breaking them down to smaller filets and tenderizing them does such a service to the meat. It's almost like eating an entirely different food. I've seen so many situations in the kitchen where cooks sear/grill a full breast, and just kill it in the oven. I spent a lot of time testing temps and some of the breasts were 200 internal after resting, and like 220-260 outer. The paranoia of chicken has ruined young cooks. Last 2 kitchens I started a chicken crusade to just get a decent piece of sliced grilled chicken for a caesar salad lol. I've never been a fan of very large birds either. I've done a lot of Thanksgiving services over the years, and the smaller birds always were better. Instead of going for monstrous abominations of a Turkey, with larger families I always went for multiple smaller birds. It's nice too, because everyone is always seeking out the large birds, you can get good deals on smaller ones. Marinades work great, with well prepared chicken, maybe something like skirt steak. Anything else, brine or just traditional seasoning.
Can you help me out with my chicken problems? Lol. So I'm just a student beginner home cook and I really like chicken teriyaki. But one problem I have is that I can't get both the sauce and the meat perfect. Either the meat is good and soft and the sauce is too watery or the sauce is nice and thick and sticks to the meat but the meat itself is lowkey overcooked and a bit hard/dry? I don't know what I should do, lower the temperature and cook for longer or increase the temp. I've tried piling up the meat on one side of the pan and try to let the sauce spread out evenly but that didn't do much
@@khirek5335 The way you described your situation, seems like you're cooking chicken in the pan. Which is totally okay. So don't be scared to use a cheap cooking thermometer, even pros use them, accuracy with temps makes great food. If I were you, I would:
Prepare my raw chicken properly- Depends on what you want to do, but I'd clean it up and take the fat/bones out of it. Wash it good. Now this part depends, but generally you dont want to cook giant chicken breasts because by the time the center is to safe eating temperature, the outside will be overcooked. You either need to filet the whole chicken breasts into something thinner, maybe an inch thick(tops) or cube or skewer the chicken. If you filet them, do it a bit thick and pound them out medium force with a hammer. Just to tenderize. Either way, you're not gonna have something really thick.
Marinate/brine the chicken- find a recipe you like and do it up. There is a huge argument to whether marinating stuff in an oily marinade actually works, but most people agree that thin vinegary stuff works so many something with rice vinegar, mirin, soy sauce, etc. throw some garlic and ginger in there. I haven't tried it, but I bet you could use some of that thin teriyaki marinade from kikkoman for this and it would be great. You dont have to do this step, but it will elevate something good to something amazing.
Cook the chicken- this also depends on what you wanna do. Grill, oil, etc. The important part is to not kill the chicken. If you have some nice chicken filets that are 3/4 an inch thick (after being pounded out) you should shoot for an internal temperature of 155. And I mean internal, the very center of the meat. The hot outside will bring the inside up to 165. Just let it sit for a couple minutes while you prepare the rest of your stuff. Peoples biggest problem with chicken is overcooking it until it's like 200 degrees chewy and gross. This part comes with experience, but if your internal temp is 165 and you're just pulling it off, you overcooked it. By the time you eat it, it is going to be 175 or 185, etc. That's like trying to make a medium rare steak and getting a medium well.
Sauce: this is the hardest one. Buy some mirin. It's like japanese rice cooking wine, kikkoman makes it. They use it in japan like italians use wine. When you pull your chicken out of your pan and put it to the side to cook up, pour whatever excess oil you have in the pan into the sink or something safe. It will melt plastic so dont pour it over a plastic cup or something. The idea is to deglaze the pan and get all those sticky chicken bits and stuff stuck to the pan to release. So you dump the mirin rice wine in there and it should bubble up and get going. Now you dump your sauce in there and do your thing. Let it reduce to your desired thickness. Dont turn heat to high or you'll scorch it. Patience. If you breaded your chicken it might get thick, just a tiny bit of water or mirin at a time and work it in to thin it out. This one is hard because teriyaki can go from syrupy stickiness to a marinade as thin as soy sauce. Look up roux or xanthan gum if you need to thicken stuff. Arrowroot works too I think.
Cook some rice, throw it all together and you're good.
@@sweptinblack yo you wrote a whole essay for me, thank you so much! Taste wise mine is pretty okay it's just the consistency that bothers me but the one main thing to take away from you is to just remove the chicken once it's perfect and THEN cook the sauce. Some of the other recipes I came across don't mention it like that but I will definitely try it and it makes sense to do so if my main problem is the chicken being done before the sauce gets thick. Thank you so much!
good deal for all the bones maybe
@@CrokusTheDerg Let's be real, you don't need a Turkey the size of your entire oven for most peoples situation nowadays. Everyone I know ends up throwing most of it right into the trashcan every year so what's the point. That was the point, not getting one the size of a grouse or something. That kind of goes without saying.
"Marinating does absolutely nothing!" -Mr Willoughby (Yes, I know what I did.)
"Well, it does makes the meat mighty tasty, doesn't it?" -All the professional and amateur cooks (and Impostors) marinating their meat for flavour.
I mean, yeah it doesn't penetrate the produce as much as we thought, but from there to "I doesn't do anything", there's a leap. Thanks Adam!
A less arrogant conclusion Test Kitchen could have come to would have been " Marinading doesn't do what we thought it did".
Or "marinating doesnt do what someone who's never given any thought to it might have possibly thought it did for a moment"
I wouldn't find it arrogant, more of clueless.
@@brentoctaviano7059 i find it quite arrogant to believe that because you realize marinating doesnt penetrate into more than the outer layer of meat that it becomes ok to pretend like human beings have been wasting their time and energy for 100's of years.....especially when you are completely full of shit and using this information to try to line your pockets
That wouldn't get half the clicks
@@farfromirrational948 yikes calm down
Their studies are the equivalent of that kid who poured boiling hot microwaved water over plants to prove microwaves are poisoning our food.
U.S.A. Unlimited Stupidity Available, we never fail to deliver.
Florida?
@Rusty Shackleford don't speak.
@deathlordfgf undereducated tyrannical capitalist
@deathlordfgf get a moral compass, coke head.
Adam ragusea is the king of answering straight away. No stupid annoying tiktoks where they tell you the name of the anime you wanna watch in the last second or no telling you to wait.
I love these fundamental food theory videos. They definitely help me to think about the processes I use in the kitchen that help me to be a better cook overall. Thank you!
Painting is a scam, I just leave my house at the insulation level. It helps with sound quality as well
Cancer too
@@amelk2732 Your chances of getting cancer are higher at sea level then in the Chilean mountains simply because of the higher concentration of oxygen.
King Peter Omg Oxygen causes cancer confirmed.
*illuminati conspiracy music plays in the background*
Wow I leave mine at the studs
Tyler Peters pffff who need walls
pineapple juice, probably the biggest proof that marinating does something
Enzymatic tenderization - that's a whole other area I should have gotten into but the vid was already 13 min long.
@@merrillgeorge1838
Pineapples have that enzyme, while you eating pineapple it literally eats you... thats why it can be painful if you eat too much
Honey is also a very good substitute
@@merrillgeorge1838 so, in simple terms,
1) enzymes are the protein machines that make your body go.
2) there are enzymes that have the job of chopping up big macronutrients like starch or protein.
3) pineapples have an enzyme in their juice that targets the protein matrix that holds meat together.
Adam probably skipped talking about pineapple juice to focus just on the unfurling of the proteins, not the cutting up of proteins.
@@aragusea we're Thrilled dir Part 2 ;)
I can't express how great your videos make me feel. You're hope to educate people towards truths they've been hidden, that's a noble mission
I appreciate the science method explained by an honest review. Usually do the seasoning approach but learning the effects of marinade, i can probably feel more comfortable trying it
At McDonald's a sign said: "This table has been sanitized for your enjoyment". And I think to myself man, I can't eat an entire table by myself.
Wow😅
Wow! Thats the most related thing to this video I've ever heard!
@@zackiechan2601 lol
LOL
basically, its a table that has been marinated in isopropyl alcohol, and other disinfectants for added flavor and nutrition. So next time, see if you can detect the slight nuances of the different ingredients.
i skipped over this in my recommended feed because of the thumbnail.. "why am i being recommended a video about gem stones?"
That’s what I thought. Why would we wanna marinate our gemstones?
I clicked on it because I thought it was going to be some mind blowing experiment using marinade to penetrate gem stones XD
That’s why I clicked, I wanted a nice recipe for turquoise or something
I'm definitely making blue chicken next week
I thought the same thing lol. Blue dyed tofu or lapis lazuli??
I gave up marinating decades ago when it didn't do what I wanted it to do, make my tough cut of meat tender. I just found your channel and subbed and expect to learn a lot about cooking from you. Thanks!
Can we just take a minute to appreciate how Adam’s add transitions are the best on UA-cam
"we removed the marinade and it didn't taste like marinade!"
*mmm yes the floor here is made out of floor*
Floor is sure made of something, but it will be a material that sure isnt called floor.
@@paddington1670 Yes, it will be made out of materials known as **flooring**.
eyo it's a meme it doesn't have to necessarily make sense
I’m pretty sure they thought that marinade seeps into the meat but I guess they didn’t know :/
"We removed all the dirt, now this plate full of 'ground' just tastes like grass"
“why I marinade my oven, not my meat”
My oven, my cutting board, my plate.... my tongue.
its best to season as late as you can, this avoids marination and keeps the flavours as fresh as possible. Like Adam, i also find homoginous food boring, that's why i season my ass crack because everything will immediately mash together at the latest stage possible. its definitely a sensation
@@olymolly3637 imagine there will be innovation in the future where human can change sence of taste in tongue, so any bland food I eat can taste great or tastin meat flavor out of cucumber
@@bismarrezaaraisyi384 Not the future at least. That's what's the spices, herbs (yeah the marinades lol) & synthetic enhancers of today are for. But if you meant something else, Idk... like brain chips or nanotech that can help enhance your tastebuds?
@@olymolly3637 well, there's a lot of possibility, especially with that chip thing you mention.
The greatest thing about this channel is that it reminds me of that one food show that my parents would put on when I was a kid. Really bringing back memories.
Hey Adam, i'm here making some beef bone broth right now and it needs to simmer for 12 hours! I was searching for a bone broth video and it seems you don't have one. I would love if you could do a video all about broth, and why it takes so long. What happens when the collagen is released! Hoping you see this and put it on your list! Thanks for the great info your vids are a great resource
"We seared a steak and then cut off the crust, proving that searing your steak does nothing"
we cooked for one second, cut off the outer layer and look. raw meat. cooking doesnt do anything
too many experts use such blatantly flimsy logic. And they are experts so people don't think too much about the illogical nature of their positions.
I laughed so hard at this, well played to expose their flawed logic
@@Gandhi_Physique a lot of experts ARE experts in their field, but the reality is their field overlaps in parts with other fields despite what they were 'taught' to specialize and the end result is that their work has glaring faults and inefficiencies.
The point would then be that searing your steak only affects the outside and doesnt affect the meat on the inside (i know that isnt strictly true)
Willoughby: **Marinades the meat**
Also Willoughy: **Cuts off the marinaded parts**
Willoughby's Conclusion: lOoK tHeReS nO mArInAdE iT dOeSnT wOrK
I have lost all hope
Next video he'll cook a steak rare and cut off the brown stuff then proclaim heat doesn't work on food.
It was an experiment designed to achieve a specific result.
But for the life of me I can't think of a reason why they would care so much about proving a marinade does nothing.
It does nothing to the inner surface.
This is what they are saying.
No breakdown of the meat (no tenderizing, no seasoning, no flavor past the outer layer).
It really isn't that hard to understand that is it?
The claims of marinades to make the meat more tender are obviously false.
You aren't served a plate of fully cut up steak with evenly applied saucing.
And, as my wife says.
A perfectly done steak requires no sauce and no marinade.
It tastes great. Period.
@@Slidaulth Please shut the fuck up, thank you.
Thanks for answering the question in the first moment of the video. Usually I have to watch the WHOLE thing to find out. I appreciate you.
Marinating chicken is soy sauce (soy honey spring onions) 24H changes the structure of the meat entirely. I think its the salt content in the soy sauce. I like it.
Marinating also help with keeping the meat longer in the fridge as it reduces contact with air similar to what sous-vide does.
"marinading does nothing"
except it add flavour and soften certain type of meat...
When it comes to cheap cuts of meat, marinading is basically required to tenderize it and make it palatable, unless you're slow cooking. When you get that primo meat, it's a waste to marinade or excessively flavor the meat. Gotta be able to taste that cows whole life story, unadulterated. Ain't got the bank to eat prime cuts everyday, so gotta savor it. 😂
@@yungdesk damn, you gonna marinate your wagyu a5?
@@azerohiro damn you
rich costume wearing billionaire !
i've never even laid eyes on that bullshi.. meat, i mean bull meat!
Sifath Monzur more like bull fat, there’s more fat in wagyu than actual meat 😂
@@yungdesk
Put a steak in ground up pineapple and tell me it's a misconception again.
Your white wine report:
White wine was mentioned at 8:13
This has been your white wine report.
Have a nice day.
Thanks for the wine report. Greatly appreciated.
micha05 Thank you
Report read. Thanks!
thank you king
God bless
I really value your incorporation of research into your videos. In this day and age providing good source information contributes to a better society at all levels and I value that you do that on your channel.
UA-cam has blessed me this day with pedantic detail on a topic i have never thought about before, and I love it. +subscribe.
“Perfectly seasoned, as all things should be.”
Damn
Once a Weissman said that
This made me laugh 2 much
Plot twist: he's cooking Smurfs meat.
Yum 😋
What?
@@LargeWatermelon ohh boy dont think about it
Taste like chicken. I would recommend eating smirfs in front of other smurfs for the full experience
what
Great video. Informative and well edited! Thanks for the ideas 💡
In fact the purpose of marinating not only to add flavor, but also tender the meat as well. A traditional Chinese dish Char Siu is a perfect example.
"Marinading is pointless, it only penetrates a millimetre or two into the meat!"
Adam: "Well yes, but actually no."
That is why you beat your meat before dishing it out.
I don't care how far it goes into the meat or the chemical science behind it. Does it taste good, will my family eat it, were there leftovers for tomorrow's lunch is all that matters. I also don't care if its from 1961 or 2021 if it tastes good and doesn't kill me im down, now i have come caribbean jerk chicken marinating overnight for tomorrows dinner. Is it rice or pasta i want with it??
@@niccatipay 👀
@@niccatipay 😳 beating meat
@@noori2105 I do that every second
Marinade does nothing...
JAMAICANS have left the chat.
Indians were never here
literally just placed some pork in a jerk marinade lol
China, Greece, Egypt deleted their accounts.
Portugal just tossed their internet out the window.
@@ShortHandedNow Japan just cleared their browsing history
Thank you for giving the answer right up front instead of trying to drag it out past your advertising... and for that I watched the whole video. Also, my wife and I have been using Hello Fresh for almost a month now and have been very happy with it.
The main thing I use marination for is curry, and because the chicken is cut into small pieces, it means the marinade has a lot more surface area to work with.
Love how you answered the statement of the video immediately
Markus Kromli Right? This channel is fantastic
The Adam Neely anti-clickbait technique
Bob Joeman I was about to say that. Good on you m8.
He ain't bsing all over your face.
"We removed the marinated part and found that it didn't taste like the marinade"
@@Dreamingofivoryart it doesn’t need to travel through for it to still taste good
@@Dreamingofivoryart sugars work with osmosis too
@@Dreamingofivoryart That's why you let it sit and get that flavor painted into the meat. Which is kinda what the video talks about. You did watch it right?
@@Dreamingofivoryart I still don't get why this is important, what kind of people just cuts of the sides of meat anyway
I yelled at my high school senior students for this kind of logic in their research papers. "I excluded the outliers before analyzing the data."
EXCUSE ME THE OUTLIERS ARE *PART OF* THE DATA
My great-great-grandmother's cookbook has a recipe for fried chicken (published posthumously) and it calls for the chicken to be brined in a buttermilk, rose water, and salt solution (it's actually rather convoluted). But she always won the blue ribbon for her chicken at the county fair, so there was certainly something to it, beyond regular brining in buttermilk.
If there's ever an odor in a meat that is a little off-putting, like with mutton from older sheep, try adding some rose water to your brine.
I always season my meats before grilling them. I started vacuum bagging them when they marinate in the fridge. I do not soak the meat in water because a lot of the meat juices leach out in to the water and I think dry rubs and seasonings do better with the meat juices for flavor. I still use lime juice or lemon juice, or a bit of vinegar to help break down the meat. Then I cook as slow as I can to keep the meat juicy... Works like a charm.
“Marinade does nothing”
They say as they eat the bland-ass skirt steak they made as I enjoy my delicious, acidic skirt steak
Well if yer gonna eat trash meat like skirt, then yeah, you need to marinade. If you marinade a proper steak, you've ruined it.
@@leadbones Meh, unless you're buying the super expensive steak I would marinate it.
@@user-tg3jl1mt4e nah, marinades do not add good flavor compared to just salt, pepper, and butter.
@@leadbones what about garlic and maybe rosemary or thyme.
leadbones oh you’re one of the anti-marinade crusaders
Title: "Does marinating do anything"?
First 5 seconds: "Yes, marinating absolutely does do something."
Me: "Good enough" *clicks next video*
That's enough. I'm satisfied
He did give some extra tips later and told what's the reason to marinate over cooking in sauce
FoxThief26 I love this character you just made up, here’s some fanfiction
“Hey, want to see a dead body?”
“Yes!”
“There it is!”
“Thanks!”
there's another youtube channel I visit sometimes that has a habit of putting questions in the title, and a two-word short answer in the thumbnail
Lmao getting to the point in the first minute is unprecedented, but I kept watching because I've always wondered why theres this big anti-marinade movement
I'm only 50 seconds into the video and I love it already. You answered the question right away, you talk about the social trends on the topic, so history and different perspectives with other sources to give your claims crediabilty
There is also the effect of osmotic pressure. A salty marinade will pull water from the remaining intact cells effectively increasing the salt concentration of those cells. If left to reach an isotonic state, those cells can then exchange juices with the marinade.
U should start a series about debunking cooking myths
Yesss !!
I debunk other people's debunks. Call me the dedebunker.
@@aragusea doesn't that make you the bunker?
@@aragusea ultimate debunker
@@KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin hello Dr doofenshmirtz
"Salt, pepper and garlic goes a long way with me."
A man after my own heart.
Honestly the garlic is often optional. Especially if you have a meat with a lot of its own flavor.
Guga is watching
Plus olive oil and lemon is godly
Ad Worcestershire sauce to that and that's basically what I do.
How basic.
Galbi, korean short rib, marinate for a few days and it tastes wonderful. Also they're cut in slices so the marinade soaks into the entire meat making it soft and delicious.
"Let's make cheese booger."
Man I'm dead. 💀
From how thumbnail alone, I thought Adam was gonna marinate some Infinity Stones
Culinary delights require the strongest wills
They called me a mad man.
i see you everywhere
Algorithm: "Does Marinating do anything?"
Me, who can only make instant ramen: "Interesting."
cooking is easy, just try it. Comrade Boris can help you see if you need.
Comrade Boris showed me the beautiful art of Plov and since then I haven’t looked back
@@509megsy Entertaining and informative. Blin, it is good.
@@kanmeridoc1784 Oh look it's Plov time!
As a ramen and toast maker of my youth, I found Alton Brown of Good Eats. Now there's another good food instructor man
I thought that was an opal mining video, but no it is Adam making food.
such a great description. And I've been in culinary for years now
As someone with an eating disorder I'd like to thank you for your videos! Food doesnt feel taboo here, but objective, scientific and enjoyable. This is really helping me get through it... so thank you!
Which type? (Too much or too little? Or just wrong types/no variety?)
@CRAB-20 because a lot of other things are classified as eating disorders also
@@aterack833 it's really not your business lol and pretty rude to ask. i.e. your takeaway from hearing someone is recovering from illness isnt "glad you're doing better and this is helping you" it's "oh woah no way did you have one of the cool ones?!"
@@vivianloney8826 How is that rude at all. OP shared that they have an eating disorder and then @aterack833 wanted to know more. If OP doesn't feel comfortable they can just not answer. you know this is the internet not a televised interview. It's anonymous and OP has no obligation to answer.
@@vivianloney8826 its more like if you hear someone recovering from an illness, and you go: 'oh? what happened/what was it?'. its not as rude as you are making it sound, just personal, and op has the freedom not to answer.
Next video: “Why I marinate my cutting board and not my steak”
season my hand sanitizer, brine my balls, beat my meat
Haha haha I’m literally dying
@Christian Juarez r/whoooosh
@@deadbeatbrad5484 pause
Shut up already these jokes are not funny anymore.
You can also perforate the meat before marinating. Then it goes deeper in. Or apply sauce with a syringe.
Thks for sharing didn't know scientific studies were made on the topic.
About the color you used, is not so easy. In fact, it shows that the color stays outside but doesn't show that nothing goes inside.
It's like when you go for medical imaging, and you need to look for something. You need to: first) find a molecule that will allow you you observe something (i.e you can follow a dose of sugar you inject), second) attach something to the existing molecule injected to be sure to see it with the imaging device (say gadolinium for MRI). And then you will be able to observe it through the body.
"My son is a doctor!"
"Well, my son is a Meat Scientist"
“Ah I see... can we trade?”
"My son talk about organs when we eat"
"My son talk about how to season cutting board when we eat"
@@suryafadillah5263 “my son understands all the complexity’s of the Liver”
“My son is addicted to White Wine and knows how to make Liver cook good”
How do I become a meat scientist?
@@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney youtube...
Bread crust is a myth, it doesn't exist. Once the dough comes out of the oven* there's only the white crumb left.
*and the crust is removed
Mossmyr Amen
They say fighting straw men is bad for the lungs. It doesn't penetrate therefore marinading, the idea of immersion over time to penetrate the meat, does nothing at all.
I'm a little late to the party but for anyone coming in recently like me, yes, marinating does work, and if I have to be clear it works a lot better than a rub. I did an asian style marinade and put my ribs in the fridge for 12 hours and the flavor I had on my ribs was completely different to when I did a rub.
Well done! Most of what we “taste” is the flavor on the outside of the food!
Damn this is good science. As someone who reads scholarly articles literally hours a day I become absolutely furious at how often even researchers/doctors misinterpret or erroneously extrapolate results. Wish you were in the medical research field, but I'm pretty damn sure you've found an amazing niche. Good stuff.
i gained a few iq whilst reading your comment
@@wolfleader2 😎 dope
@@GlaciusDreams 😎
i dont wanna take anything away from adam, but have you ever heard of "french guy cooking"? youre welcome.
Even smart people are dumb.
I read the thumbnail as "Do Mermaids Work" I was confused, and the colorful meats didn't help either 😂😂
Rip
Lol
Great video! It would be great though if you could take it one step further and do multiple blind tests.
The fact that before the test you expect the longer marination to have a better taste can actually affect your taste. A famous experiment with this is that you cut a normal banana in two parts and then ask people to taste both parts, but you tell them that one part is from an organic banana and the other part is regular. A lot of people will tell you that the parts taste different and probably that the “organic” part tastes better.
Criminally underrated comment.
such good info, thank you man!
Papa smurf will never forgive you for slaughtering his people to harvest their smurf meat.
He succeeded where Gargamel failed
In my opinion his biggest offense was, to not serve the dish with smurfberries
Lol, absolutely true.
Papa Smurf is a sinner
Fun fact: what the meat industry also does with the clever injection trick is enhance the mass of any particular cut to reach even up to twice the original value by injecting a protein-salt mix in addition to seasoning. Then the meat is mechanically "massaged" so that the fibers can accommodate the increased volume of fluid and distribute it uniformly.
That's why free range chicken is usually way smaller and leaner.
@Squad 47 if you live at the dutch border try and get meat from there to see it.
Our chicken shrinks like no tomorrow in the pan, imagine the surprise we had when the German chicken didn't and we couldn't fit all of the pieces in the pan 😂
you sure its not a genetics thing? My families a big name in our branch of livestock and having spent sometime around names in the poultry industry your standard bird you buy from a local farmer is nothing like the stuff that the universities engineered. Breast size and laying capabilities are night and day. We aren't in food processing so I can't say its not done but i've seen plenty of birds with grocery store sized breasts (and bigger on non-commercial varieties). Is two times common practice? The genetic stock out of Purdue I saw reached that size naturally.
"outside of giving marinated food flavor, marinating does nothing" FeelsOkMan
This man is out here educating the world! Thank you sir 🎩
"The hip thing all the cool kids are soaking their meat in" was my nickname back in college
😣
Underrated 😂😂
Ooooohhh noooooo
OOF Size: *Large*
I dont get it lmao
Who else was hella confused by the thumbnail...
Got that it was some type of color/heat/chemical/something filter for an experiment probabaly to assess the effects of marinating on meat but yea interesting choice for a thumbnail. I like it.
@@samyrandome425 people really don't watch the video, he explained why
Me
They legit look like rocks, I was glad Adam acknowledged them as such.
@@user-lb6xi3nf3o i know it's food coloring lol, i'm watching it rn. That was just my early assumption.
In germany we have "Sauerbraten" that is translated to 'sour roast beef'. The beef gets layed in vinegar + other aromatic ingredients for several days. The outer surface is soft yes, but it is not bad at all.
I don't cook, like ever, but your channel is really good. Almost like a reboot of Alton Brown's Good Eats.
**marination is a myth**
As a lover of Filipino BBQ I am offended that statement even exist.
Actually any foray into the world cuisine will tell how nonsensical this statement is.
@@dancheb I agree - if marinades weren't effective at making food tasty, they wouldn't have been use making food tasty for the last six thousand years or so.
adobo pa more
Filipino BBQ is a myth.
@@Wertsir *laughs in isaw*
If I'm marinating meat (like steak), I just "fork tenderize" it first. No need for a meat mallet, just fork both sides prior to marinading. Works great for enhancing the flavour AND mechanically tenderizing the meat.
Need one of those sharp forks, or thin tong ones, some are wider (which is good to not stabith thy tongue
That's how I do it and it does taste yummy to my taste buds, and that's all that counts, eff the naysayers.
last time I forked my steak, I was banned from the Steak House.
That's if you don't want to also flatten it
But using a mallet is fun.
I was going to say Phosphate, then you included it. You can get butchers phosphate fairly easy and it works great with my brines and marinades. I does help open up the meat and let it in. Meat packing companies do inject steeped brines into those pre-packaged kits, many, maybe not all
he really answered the question in the first 5 seconds i love this guy
1:51 "Salt, pepper, and garlic go a long way for me."
*MY MAN!!!*
I also add parsley and oregano.
I was surprised just how much salt you can put on raw meat before it starts to actually taste salty when cooked.
Baste in some butter to finish, all you need. Marinating is for people who can't cook meat right.
I'd add butter to that, even on richer cuts (maybe not, like, wagyu), but otherwise yeah
In the wise wisdom of Letterkenny, "S&P is the choice for me."
"You can go too far with acids" Boy howdy I wish someone would've told me that in the 60s.
Hahaha too right, I'll never be the same after some of those trips
🤣
@@ReinventingTheSteve Drugs are for degenerates and losers.
@@nobelissimos8719 you must do a lot of drugs then
What happened in the 60s
idk why I got this video recommended nor why I watched it, since my cooking skills are so low that I'm happy when i make myself pancakes and stuff on the same level, but I actually enjoyed watching it and even learned something.
It's interesting, in my Central European cullinary tradition, when you say "marinade" you don't mean something made from limes but more like a mix of oil, paprika, soy sauce and maybe wine or vinegar, but not that much, simply said, they don't tend to be that acidic, their point is more to spice the food rather than disolve it :D
Adam is one of very few people I actually trust with food facts on UA-cam because of his extensive research and quality he puts into each of his videos.
Dude was a journalist and it shows!
The wall analogy is so smart and funny at the same time.
@Sweet Maiden of the Spit That's a lie the painted wall tasted like paint. You just have to use the right paint.
Love the pfp lol
I ran across the over acidification of meat problem when I learned how to make tandoori. Traditionally, the meat is marinated in a highly acidic marinade overnight, but the extreme temperatures of a tandoor bring that mushy crumbly meat back into proper form. I tried all sorts of things to fix the problem, but didn't know what was happening until I read a Bangladeshi Chef writing about the problem, who recommended cutting back on acids if you can't afford to splurge a couple grand on a specialty clay oven.
Very well described. Can understand the purpose of marinade very well. Loved the paint analogy. WE ARE!!!
I just started watching this channel. I love how, even though the titles sound like clickbait, the question always gets answered right in the beginning of the video. None of that "watch until the end to find out."
Also “Like and Subscribe!”, “Join my Patreon!”
@@Keithustus "Join my patreon to find out!"
Speaking of blue chicken, Alfred Hitchcock once had a dinner party with all the food was prepared to appear blue. He had a peculiar sense of humor.
Agreed that marinades and brines are both valuable tools. Am on a “dry brining is better” kick right now (I got the idea from the Food Lab). What do YOU think of dry vs. wet brining? Have you done a vid about that?
About the chicken dye experiment: it may be possible to get a deeper penetration over the same time period by using a different type of dye. The degree of hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity will affect the result, as well as the inclusion of acid or surfactant type agents that may be present in a complex marinade.