What is the white stuff on corned beef?
Chef's answer
It can be like what you see on your steak, or, it can be the breakdown of connective tissue in the meat. There will be times when you think you have removed every itsy, bitsy, microscopic piece of "extra stuff" in your beef, but after canning - WHAM! - there it is.
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That white slimy stuff is called albumin, and it's actually just a harmless (albeit pretty gross-looking) protein that solidifies as salmon cooks..
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Sometimes when you cook Bacon, some white gloop oozes from it. This is salt and water.
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Sometimes when you cook Bacon, some white gloop oozes from it. This is salt and water.
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Answer has 5 votes. Sometimes when you cook Bacon, some white gloop oozes from it. This is salt and water.
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That white slimy stuff is called albumin, and it's actually just a harmless (albeit pretty gross-looking) protein that solidifies as salmon cooks..
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The hepatopancreas of a crab is also called tomalley, or crab "fat".
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According to the peerless Alan Davidson's North Atlantic Seafood, brown meat "consists mainly of the digestive gland or 'liver' and reproductive organs". So the website was right, up to a point. However, as every crab lover knows, the brown meat packs a far bigger flavour punch than the white.
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