What is the white stuff that comes out of sausages?
Chef's answer
It's the same stuff that comes out of salmon. "In cooking, syneresis is the sudden release of moisture contained within protein molecules, usually caused by excessive heat, which over-hardens the protein shell. Moisture inside expands upon heating. The hard protein shell pops, expelling the moisture..
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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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