Why YSK: consuming too much sodium can lead to high blood pressure, increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke. In my country (USA), the average daily sodium intake is over 3,300mg, exceeding the recommended maximum of 2,300mg. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends an even lower maximum of 2,000mg.
Also: with the rising cost of food, being mindful of additives that increase sell weight is important.
Here in the US I avoid Aldi meat for this very reason. Plenty of good products at aldi… But the meat is terrible.
Let’s call it 500mg instead of a half gram because big numbers are always scarier.
Every single ingredient panel I’ve seen (per 100g) reports sodium in mg… so seems perfectly reasonable no?
This is done to avoid botulin toxin from being formed. It’s a much, much bigger issue than the sodium intake
Thats nitrate salts used in sausages, salami and such. The NaCl used in fresh meats is mostly to add weight and supposedly make it more “juicy”.
Turn that frown upside down, oh wait, you can’t move your face.
Ehh, a restaurant would salt it past there anyway. Culinarily, you’d be well within reason to brine fresh chicken.
Price per pound is pretty bullshit thought, making it cost at the price if meat is BS
Here in Denmark how much water is in the chicken is written on the label of the packaging. It is also required to list what ingredients are used to treat the chicken if anything besides water is used.
I think it’s like that in the whole of Europe.
Must be nice living in a functioning society.
Sure but you can read European history and find out why. People had to rise up to get this, along with vacations.
You can’t vote away evil since the ones who run things are not elected.
End it. End it all now, Japan, get revenge. Fucking A.
This is why I don’t buy chicken from costco. Thankfully theres a good provider (Sunrise Farms) from Richmond on the Lower Mainland that makes a frozen skinless, boneless breat that’s cheaper than Costco, cooks to nearly the same size it started as the water content is low, and is semi-local to Vancouver Island.
I bought a cheaper brand of meat than usual earlier this year. It was so wobbly it could have been a pillow in a water bed. Needless to say the cooked meat was salty but otherwise tasteless with a consistency of pre chewed porridge.
Buy halal meats. Or from an actual butcher.
Huh, what does halal have to do with this? Halal-slaughtered chickens are allowed to be plumped as well.
Butchers are so rare around me and far more expensive. I would love to be able to afford it as it’s a much more delightful experience and the meat is always so much better.
I justify it as “not paying for extra water” after cooking. Lol
There’s a butcher shop near my work that also has a fantastic café attached. The meat is all absolutely exquisite looking, but you’re god damned right that its insanely expensive like at least double or triple the price of meat at your typical store. We pretty much only ever buy their in-house pepperoni sticks and even those are around $16 a pound.
Look for “air-chilled chicken” to find chicken that doesn’t have this.
Also some organic brands don’t do this because of the laws around chemical use making chlorine not possible. Brands vary, though.
Farmers markets are another route.
I’d also add that if you cook those plumped up chicken breasts, they will immediately release all that extra brine into your dish and ruin it. Buy normal-size chicken breasts and resist the urge to go for the “best” weight to price ratio.
I always check the labels for this because I grew up seeing those Foster Farms commercials that would bring this factoid up all the time. Foster Farms does also do this, tho. They just do it with their “cheap” brands that don’t use the “Foster Farms” name.
Lol it’s called a brine
Jesus christ.
I prefer to brine my own meat. I prefer to salt my own butter even. I buy unsalted butter. Fuck salted butter.
Hero
Why do you like making extra work for yourself? Are you bored?
Oh you need someone to salt your butter for you? You need somebody to brine your meat for you?
You need me to fuck your wife for you too? Happy to help.
You need someone to make your butter for you?
You need someone to raise an animal and slaughter it for you?
You need someone to build a vehicle to transport yourself?
You needed a factory to build silicon wafers and assemble them into chips so another factory could produce a computer and install software on it that you didn’t write, so you could connect to the internet that someone else made?
Pathetic. Bet you don’t even live in the woods and grow your crops while trying to make solar cells out of sand to provide your own power. Absolutely pitiful that you participate in a society where goods and services are exchanged for money.
You missed the point completely. Enjoy the cuck!
Well butter my biscuit.
How do you salt your own butter?
Salt+butter+mixer. Some cinnamon and honey if you’re feeling decadent.
Put salt on top. Same as those biscuits with the sugar.
Layers.
carefully
Here is a short that tells of what’s going here. This short is also a reaction, from an independent farmer who farms chickens. I think the creator here, FarmingWhileBeige, offers a lot of good insight into what is bad and not bad in our current farming practices as a level headed not batshit crazy maga person.
Along with this, it’s probably wise to put the sodium numbers into context - the salt used to season your chicken is probably not going to be what’s going to put you over the top when it comes to salt intake. Highly processed foods, sauces and bread is more likely going to be the thing that gets you.
As soon as I seen this YSK I thought of that short! The guy is genuinely fun and educational.
I got 4 words into your post and immediately went “its FarmingWhileBeige, isnt it” and yeah, you name drop him a short while later.
He’s awesome.
“What is it now…”
and the visceral horror of a woman hammering nails into a chicken and frying it in what, by all appearances, looks to be used motor oil.
Chris also explains the chlorinated chicken myth and daily unpacks MAHA bullshit about food.
And here’s the short in a normal video format
I don’t disagree that you removed the short designation from the link, but what’s the difference between the two? It’s the same video with the same aspect ratio and the same obnoxious subtitles one word at a time. My sound is turned off so if there was a difference there it went unnoticed
Speaking for myself here:
- Shorts loop automatically, something I find annoying
- Shorts have loads of UI over the video by default; while there is a “clear screen” button in the context menu, it doesn’t persist, and is extra interaction that a normal video doesn’t require
- It’s easier to scrub through a normal video on mobile; while there is a progress bar at the bottom of a short, you can’t drag up on that bar to get fine-grained seeking
This is my “old man tells at cloud” moment and I’m okay with that.
Yep, I’m not old by any means and all these points ring with me as well
That man is such a gem. It’s great to see him out in the wild!
Set him free!
FarmingWhileBeige is highly recommended. He does a lot of good educational (and sassy) videos about different aspects of the farming industry, and has a good catalogue of funny shorts of reacting to stupid TikTokkers in-between. He has the experience and knowledge, and he’d be the first to tell you to stay the fuck away from the industry unless you’re ready to deal with a lot of bullshit.
interesting thank you
Also ham and almost all boiled and reconstituted meats.
As someone with POTS, I for one am okay with sodiummaxxing 😎
This guy gets it
Having an older phone system doesn’t protect you against heart disease.
You joke but honestly I would rather feel normal and live with an increased risk of heart disease than feel awful 24/7 for my whole like like I do on a low-sodium diet. At least I can exercise and reduce unhealthy fat intake to help my risk.
And the “lower sodium is more heart healthy” thing was, if I’m remembering a podcast I once listened to right, only consistently true for people that already had high blood pressure. Normal blood pressure people saw more mixed results with a low sodium diet.
source: a recent episode of the podcast Maintenance Phase.
I love this comment.
