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Interesting. Paleo diet has the right foods in it, but I suspect you're not gaining anything by not cooking your meats (except possible food poisoning). As ot
by illumin8 17y ago
Interesting. Paleo diet has the right foods in it, but I suspect you're not gaining anything by not cooking your meats (except possible food poisoning). As others have said, cooking just denatures proteins, which is similar to what your stomach does anyway.
- maxharris 17y agoHow am I at risk of food poisoning if I eat blue-rare steak (which is beef)? I agree that cooking hamburger all the way through is necessary (because the outside gets in when it's ground up), and that doing this doesn't work for chicken and pork (you need to cook those meats). But I still don't understand why you think my microbiology professor is wrong. She says that all you need to do is to kill the E. coli on the surfaces of the steak (which can get there from fecal contamination during butchering), and doing more than that is a waste. The outsides of the steaks I make are crispy, but about .5 cm below the surface, it's nice and red. (I don't eat cuts with huge veins and the like inside them.)
- illumin8 17y agoYou're fine then. I assumed you might eat other raw meats. I still enjoy a nice medium rare steak from time to time, although I don't like mine quite as rare as yours.
- wooster 17y agoCattle rancher here. You can get tapeworms by eating uncooked beef. Thankfully it's usually easily, albeit unpleasantly, cured. However, you need to know you have them first, which can take some time.