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The Burger Lab: The Myth of The 12-Year-Old McDonald's Hamburger

Ah, I see the comment where you said you were going to test the salt theories too, Kenji. Good stuff. Looking forward to the results.

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The Burger Lab: The Myth of The 12-Year-Old McDonald's Hamburger

A few small points:

1.) Of course there is some nutritional value in McDonald's food. If there wasn't, by definition, there'd be no calories, no fat. Clearly those things are in the burgers, which means that, while they're certainly not healthy, they certainly do at least contain real food.
2.) The extremely high level of salt, as someone else mentioned, probably goes a long way to keeping the burgers from decomposing. I'd recommend heavily salting a homemade burger for another data point.
3.) Regardless of the quality of the beef used, American, grain-fed beef is (as Michael Pollan says) basically fat disguised as meat. Whether all of these burgers rot or none do, none of them are healthy to eat.
4.) I love burgers, sometimes even fast food burgers. I just eat them very rarely.

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Meet & Eat: Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark

Corrected link to Food2: http://www.food2.com/

You left off the http:// on the first link, so the link ends up going to http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/09/www.food2.com

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What's So Great About North Carolina Barbecue? An Exam of the Lexington Style

Oh, by the way, you said "the some of its parts." I assume you meant "sum of its parts."

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The Burger Lab: The Myth of The 12-Year-Old McDonald's Hamburger

Ah, I see the comment where you said you were going to test the salt theories too, Kenji. Good stuff. Looking forward to the results.

From A Hamburger Today

The Burger Lab: The Myth of The 12-Year-Old McDonald's Hamburger

A few small points:

1.) Of course there is some nutritional value in McDonald's food. If there wasn't, by definition, there'd be no calories, no fat. Clearly those things are in the burgers, which means that, while they're certainly not healthy, they certainly do at least contain real food.
2.) The extremely high level of salt, as someone else mentioned, probably goes a long way to keeping the burgers from decomposing. I'd recommend heavily salting a homemade burger for another data point.
3.) Regardless of the quality of the beef used, American, grain-fed beef is (as Michael Pollan says) basically fat disguised as meat. Whether all of these burgers rot or none do, none of them are healthy to eat.
4.) I love burgers, sometimes even fast food burgers. I just eat them very rarely.

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Meet & Eat: Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark

Corrected link to Food2: http://www.food2.com/

You left off the http:// on the first link, so the link ends up going to http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/09/www.food2.com

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What's So Great About North Carolina Barbecue? An Exam of the Lexington Style

Oh, by the way, you said "the some of its parts." I assume you meant "sum of its parts."

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What's So Great About North Carolina Barbecue? An Exam of the Lexington Style

I live in Winston-Salem, and I have many friends from Lexington (including my wife). I have to say that while your description (more wet than moist, a bit dry chew, etc) are true, those are actually some of the qualities I love.

Being less than a fan of the white hamburger bun in most cases, I just love the soppy, drippy quality you get when Lexington BBQ is sitting inside of one.

Mmm, I'm hungry. Need to go "visit my in-laws" soon :)

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Slice Poll: How Do You Reheat Your Leftover Pizza?

I usually don't reheat it, but if I do, on a stone. Microwaved pizza is nasty.

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Shamrock Shake Returns to Select McDonald's, But Disappoints This Year

My McDonalds in Winston-Salem, NC had never heard of it. Girl looked at me like I was crazy.

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Meet Your Farmers: David Falkowski, a Mushroom Farmer in Bridgehampton, NY

Obligatory "I bet I know what other kinds of mushrooms he's growing" post

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What Foods Are Banned from Your Office?

My office is in a building with several others, so there are microwaves, coffee machines, etc in the building we have access to. However, when the microwave in our own office break room broke, the boss decided specifically not to replace it. There were tons of complaints of fish, popcorn, and indian food that caused such a fuss he figured we were better off without it.

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What Are Your Best Vending Machine Memories?

Oh yes. I went to this crappy day camp at a local park when I was a kid. This was in the NC Summers, so it got very hot. They had vending machines inside - at least drink machines. I don't remember if they had snack machines, but I assume they did. Our parents would always give us money to take with us for drinks and snacks.

One day, we arrived to discover the drink machine broken. Being, as I said, a crappy day camp, they didn't seem to have any contingency plan. We were all going to have to drink... horror... WATER. Begrudgingly, we did, for at least 2 or 3 days.

One day, my cousin and I got bored and wandered into the rec building where the drink machines were. Lamenting the loss of the machine, my cousin punched the grape soda button... and out came a drink! I don't remember too clearly, but I seem to remember it wasn't a grape soda. Still, with eyes twinkling, we dropped some coins into the machine and hit the Cheerwine (It's a Carolina thing) button.... success!

Excitedly, we ran to the playground and yelled "The drink machine is working!" Chaos. A horde of kids came careening up the hill to the building, almost knocking us over.

High fructose corn syrup and artificial colors and flavors for all. Victory.

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Do You Ever Eat Raw Eggs?

I'm sure I eat at least a dozen raw eggs over the holidays between home made nogg and tasting cookie / other batters. No worries on my end, though I do always use the freshest organic eggs (or local!) I can find.

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What Was Your Favorite School Cafeteria Food?

They called it vegetable-beef soup, but what it really was was leftovers from everything they'd made the previous few days - hamburger, veggies, and even spaghetti sometimes. I always loved it and the obvious layers of grease on top.

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The Joys of Unnaturally Flavored Sodas

Nobody's mentioned celery soda yet?

Also, Cheerwine. It's a Carolina thing :)

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'What We Eat When We Eat Alone'

I always have sardines in the pantry, and kippers, and that's usually what I break out when the wife's away. Those, maybe alone or on some crackers, or if I'm feeling frisky, cooked quickly with some onion and tomato.

I love to cook for people, but I rarely do any "real" cooking when I'm alone. I dunno why.

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Photo of the Day: Root Beer Float

French Broad Chocolate Lounge in Asheville, NC makes a great beer float using local Pisgah Stout and local vanilla ice cream. It's amazing. They also make floats with house sodas.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/keribeth/3201563567/

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The Greek Non-Breakfast

You're going to greece... you have EVERYTHING to look forward to. God, how I want to go back!

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Come on in 'The Kitchn'

"Traditionally made hard cheese (such as Swiss cheese) and soft ripened cheeses may create less reaction than the equivalent amount of milk because of the processes involved. Fermentation and higher fat content contribute to lesser amounts of lactose. Traditionally made Swiss or Cheddar might contain 10% of the lactose found in whole milk. In addition, the traditional aging methods of cheese (over 2 years) reduces their lactose content to practically nothing.[2] Commercial cheese brands, however, are generally manufactured by modern processes that do not have the same lactose reducing properties, and as no regulations mandate what qualifies as an "aged" cheese, this description does not provide any indication of whether the process used significantly reduced lactose."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance

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