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What's wrong with brown butter?

• forgetfulness 4y ago
  Studies and headlines on media come out every so often linking burned/browned foods to cancer, and likewise comes every so often a meta analysis stating the contrary. Heck, until the writing of this comment, I thought that browned foods increased cancer risk but were in the category of "we all have to die of something" because I wasn't giving them up. BBC saying toast will kill you: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38680622 https://www.bbc.com/news/health-38680622 Meta analysis discrediting the idea: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25403648/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25403648/
• nordsieck 4y ago
  > What's wrong with brown butter Across the board, putting partially combusted hydrocarbons in your body is bad. This includes breathing the smoke from cigarettes, marijuana, and fires, eating food that is charred or burned, and consuming fat or oil that is oxidized. If you only do it occasionally, the effect size is probably too small to matter, though.
  • Taywee 4y ago
    I'm looking around, and finding that the effects are likely not significant, and may even be nonexistent. Inhaling smoke is entirely a different ballgame than eating brown butter. Any effect from eating browned foods seems to be minuscule compared to what the foods that you are actually eating are. It seems like the inhalation of the particulates given off by browning or burning food likely already dwarfs the effect of eating the food. I'm interested in this conversation particularly because I make brown butter in large batches, and eat several tablespoons worth of it every week.