DailyDirt: Bacon Tastes Good. Pork Chops Taste Goood.

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Fri, Feb 3rd 2012 5:00pm — Michael Ho

Pork is one of the most commonly consumed meats worldwide. Interestingly, even though it was marketed as the "other white meat" (that slogan was retired in 2011), the USDA always referred to pork as a "red meat" on its website. Here are just a few more fascinating tidbits on pig products.

A severe nosebleed (caused by a rare blood disorder that prevents normal blood clotting) can be stopped with a rolled up piece of salt cured pork. This salt pork remedy has actually been around for several decades -- but it doesn't work with bacon, so don't grab just any slice of deli meat. [url]
Bacon-flavored toothpaste is available for folks who like to brush their teeth as an appetizer for breakfast. Don't swallow this stuff or use as a condiment. [url]
The use of lard isn't too common in cooking anymore -- but who's to blame for that? Pig fat just doesn't sound as appetizing as hydrogenated vegetable oils... does it? hmm. [url]
To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]

By the way, StumbleUpon can also recommend some good Techdirt articles, too.

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AG Wright (profile), 3 Feb 2012 @ 5:10pm

Lard
Somehow the benefits of eating a saturated fat with all of the penalties involved with that diet just don�t seem to appeal when canola oil is so cheap.
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TwentyTwo (profile), 3 Feb 2012 @ 6:37pm

Re: Lard
Given the small amounts used in everyday cooking, spending a little more to get much healthier cooking fats (coconut oil, ghee, lard) is one of the smartest and cheapest ways to start eating healthier. You're right that price is a driving factor of cooking oils, but the high amounts of terrible fats combined with the low oxidization point make canola a terrible cooking fat.
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Anonymous Coward, 3 Feb 2012 @ 6:55pm

Re: Re: Lard
I'm not even convinced they are more expensive after you factor in the reduced quantity needed. I find I need less then half as much grapeseed oil then I did canola, and just half that when using coconut oil (my latest discovery). Plus it turns out coconut oil is not just 'less bad', it's outright good for you.

I've been using grape seed oil for barbeque sauces, marinades, and vinaigrettes for years now, and the price is far from crippling. Of course, now that I've said that the price will double... :/
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The Devil's Coachman (profile), 3 Feb 2012 @ 7:48pm

Re: Lard
What penalties? Do you get fined? Imprisoned? If I had a choice between frying eggs in canola oil and frying them in bacon fat, I think canola would come in a distant third. Pork fat rules! Now I need to go out and buy some lard. And maybe some beef tallow. Yeah, baby!
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Anonymous Coward, 3 Feb 2012 @ 9:48pm

This reminds me of the videos I saw yesterday.

Making casein:
How to Make Plastic -easy

Making bioplastic from starch, vinegar, glycerin(plasticizer) and water:
Home Made Plastic

Homemade plastic extrusion system:
Homemade Plastic Extrusion System

iModela, which can carve a piece of plastic, you make the plastic block and put it in there tada!
iModela_Roland_Howto iModela3.0

Not to mention that lard is good for making soap.
How to make: Old Fashioned Lard Soap - Hot Process Method

How to make lye with electrolyze:
How to make sodium hydroxide (lye) at home

There was this one video showing how to use gelatin to create a osmotic membrane to produce lye. Those filters generally cost tens of thousands of dollars and there was this guy showing how to do it for just a few bucks, now that is innovative thinking.
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Anonymous Coward, 3 Feb 2012 @ 9:56pm

Re: Re: Lard
...or just don't use fats at all, the Biosphere 2 project was a failure but one thing that came out of it, was the diet paper that was a success.

Quote:
They consumed the same low-calorie, nutrient-dense diet which Roy Walford had extensively studied in his research on extending lifespan through diet. [13] Medical markers indicated the health of the crew during the two years was excellent. Strikingly, they showed the same improvement in health indices such as lowering of blood cholesterol, blood pressure, enhancement of immune system. They lost an average of 16% of their pre-entry body weight before stabilizing and regaining some weight during their second year.[14] Subsequent studies showed that the biospherians' metabolism became more efficient at extracting nutrients from their food as an adaptation to the low-calorie, high nutrient diet.[15]

Source: Wikipedia: Biosphere 2

They cooked for 2 years without oil, they didn't had any at all.
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Anonymous Coward, 3 Feb 2012 @ 10:15pm

Re: Re: Lard
Also eliminating fat can as hinted in the UK NewCastle study reverse and or prevent type II diabetes.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/biomedicine/news/newsitem.htm?id=diet-reverses-type-2-diabetes

And atherosclerosis.
www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/atherosclerosis/

Vox Populi, atherosclerosis is a zit inside the human plumbing if it explodes inside you in a vein(blood vessel that brings blood) you have a heart attack. It is an inflammatory process that is linked to fat(cholesterol), if it grows it blocks and reduces blood flow or reduces the flow of where it is growing it can be in other places like in the case a zit appears in the pumbling of the kidneys is called renal atherosclerosis.

http://www.stockmedicalart.com/medicalartlibrary/atherosclerosis-renal.html

Y ou will noticed if patches of dark skin start to appear in your body specially on your chest.

Renal insufficiency and atherosclerosis in type 2 diabetes mellitus - Diabetes

Youtube: MEDICAL - How cholesterol clogs your arteries (atherosclerosis)
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Pixelation, 3 Feb 2012 @ 10:20pm

Re: Lard
Somehow the benefits of eating Canola oil with its lack of flavor just don't seem to appeal when bacon fat is sooo tasty.

Live a little longer, MAYBE, or enjoy my life...
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Xombie Rainbow, 25 Jun 2015 @ 6:38pm

More Bacon Please.
Viva the People's Republic of Bacon! In Pork we Trust. Long live the Baconate.
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