{"id":10329,"date":"2012-04-30T11:48:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=10329"},"modified":"2012-04-30T11:52:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T18:52:51","slug":"searing-meat-does-not-seal-in-the-juices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/searing-meat-does-not-seal-in-the-juices\/","title":{"rendered":"Searing Meat Does Not &#8220;Seal in the Juices&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/searing-meat-fact.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10330\" title=\"searing-meat-fact\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/searing-meat-fact.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/searing-meat-fact.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/searing-meat-fact-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Myth: Searing meat seals the juices in. In fact, water in seared meat evaporates at either the same rate or higher, in some cases, than non-seared meat. What searing does do is play a role in browning, which can affect the flavor. But, in this case, the browning is caused by caramelization of sugars combined with a chemical reaction with amino acids and the sugars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/why-red-meat-turns-brown-when-cooked\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sources<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Myth: Searing meat seals the juices in. In fact, water in seared meat evaporates at either the same rate or higher, in some cases, than non-seared meat. What searing does do is play a role in browning, which can affect the flavor. But, in this case, the browning is caused by caramelization of sugars combined with a chemical reaction with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[910,1478,267,647,1480,2464,1615,2463,2484,2483],"class_list":["post-10329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-cooking-facts","tag-cooking-myths","tag-facts","tag-food-facts","tag-food-myths","tag-know-it","tag-myths","tag-now-you-know","tag-searing-meat","tag-searing-meat-myth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10332,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10329\/revisions\/10332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}