• Kairos@lemmy.today
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    2 years ago

    Real talk, “pasteurize” is the stupidest most misaligned word that could have possibly been used for the process of sterilizing via heat.

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      2 years ago

      It should be “Pasteurize”, as it’s named after Louis Pasteur. And the specific process he invented dramatically increases the shelf life of milk using very high temperatures for a very short time… Without changing the milk texture or cooking it very much.

      So pasteurization is a process that sterilises did with heat. But I don’t think it works on meat.

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        2 years ago

        It works just fine meat. The graph is often presented in the context of sous vide cooking of meats.

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          2 years ago

          Yes. But that is cooking the meat, as in changing the taste and texture by denaturing proteins.

          Pasteurized milk does not get cooked in the same manner.