Is raw meat okay to eat?

Is it okay to eat raw meat? I know poultry is off limits but I've eaten raw beef for a while and I've never had any problems. As I understand it, it's better for hair because there are less anti-oxidants when the meat is cooked, am I right? I've stopped eating the raw beef for a while though cause I'm trying to lower iron levels though.

My uncle used to slice up veal from the butcher, sprinkle some sea salt on it and eat it as is. When we have a BBQ we cook his steaks five seconds on each side and serve it up for him.

I'm not sure about research on the matter but I assume the less process the meat has been through the better it is for you.

Yeah I'm sure it's better for you but I'm worried about getting some kind of parasite or tapeworm.

Espio - Eating it raw is the healthiest way. To ensure safety, only eat from pasture fed-cows.

Okay thanks. And i guess raw chicken and raw eggs is off limits because of salmanella? or is that problem pretty rare?

Espio - Salmonella only comes from the outside of the eggshell. It's possible that during preparation that chicken can get "infected with it." Eating raw chicken is not common, but I've heard of places in Japan that serve it. If I had to eat it, I'd only go for organic, free range, etc.

I second IH, if you are consuming free-range chicken eggs, then you can eat the yolk indefinitely with no worries raw.

If I boil eggs, I often eat the entire thing (shell as well). It's basically a crunchy egg, no taste.

nid-
shell = gnarly.
nice dude.

crunchy egg

eat the shell? nidge has been watching pumping iron

zerx wrote:crunchy egg

Nidhogge is a pretty funny dude )) A CRUNCHY EGG

I feel I can speak on this. For several months last year, I embarked on an all raw diet of sorts. I ate raw chicken, raw beef, raw lamb, raw eggs, and raw dairy. I never had a problem with contamination of any kind, but I believe this was because I ate only pastured meat and eggs. (Indeed, the eggs and dairy I bought straight from the farm from good friends.)

My experience was that raw chicken is VERY tough to chew. Indeed, you will probably never be able to chew the skin, so you can forget about that right now. Chewing the muscle tissue is also very difficult and frustrating. Raw red meat is much easier to chew than chicken, but still takes quite a bit of work. Raw fish is no more difficult to chew than cooked fish in my experience. Not surprisingly, raw fish is the most common raw animal flesh served in restaurants, followed by raw red meat, with raw chicken a distant third (indeed, I have never seen raw chicken on a menu).

Ultimately, I stopped eating raw meat because I grew tired of the difficulty of chewing it and because I prefer the taste of cooked meat. I still eat raw fish and raw eggs/egg yolks, but prefer to slow roast any fowl (duck is the bomb, BTW). By slow roasting, you can use a lower cooking temperature and spare enzymes, retain more moisture, yet instill some robust flavor. I prefer to either cook my red meat rare so that I get the taste of the cooked meat, yet a nice red center. I also like to slow roast red meat in a crock pot, again using low temperatures and a long cooking time. Hope this helps.

Haha, glad you guys liked the crunchy egg.

EIC--

Thanks for sharing that man. That was my impression of raw chicken as well...it'd be a bitch to chew. I like to put my Foreman on high, let it heat up, then throw the beef on for under a minute to brown it on the outsides a bit but keep the insides mostly red. Tastes good!

I am going to try a crunchy egg, but I am not liberal enough for a raw chicken. Or a hockeymum in the whitehouse.

Now a hockeymum in Penthouse--that I'm liberal enough for. *grin*

nidhogge wrote:Haha, glad you guys liked the crunchy egg.

EIC--

Thanks for sharing that man. That was my impression of raw chicken as well...it'd be a bitch to chew. I like to put my Foreman on high, let it heat up, then throw the beef on for under a minute to brown it on the outsides a bit but keep the insides mostly red. Tastes good!

Best of both worlds!

THanks for the replies everyone. I just got some raw, grass fed beef today and it's delicious raw

Dude, you wont feel so happy after a few days when the microorganisms has gained a foothold in your digestive tract!

You take a chance with raw meat. Eating raw chicken should be penalised by law!

Espio wrote:THanks for the replies everyone. I just got some raw, grass fed beef today and it's delicious raw

Penalized by law? What the fuck? It's not the government's job to tell you what to do with your body. I'm for freedom, not slavery.

And, you're not listening--raw meat is perfectly fine for you as long as the cows were fed the way they would naturally be in nature--grass, no hormones, no antibiotics. Salmonella and other microorganisms as you put it are not a problem in regular, grass-fed meat.

In fact, you COOKING your meat is putting you at a much higher risk. Cooking of meat releases carcinogenic agents (the name is slipping my mind here, hydrocarbons maybe?) that accumualte in the meat, meaning you're eating your way to cancer.