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> What's wrong with brown butter Across the board, putting partially combusted hydrocarbons in your body is bad. This includes breathing the smoke from cigaret
by 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 agoI'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.