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Microwaving Lobster


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lithy 1687:97
I can’t wait until I can microwave a photoluminescent lobster. 10/31/2009 5:13:13 AM

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zappafan99 462:10
Long before you realize the evil in the Microwaving Lobster’s eyes, you’re are boiling from the inside. 10/31/2009 8:17:37 AM

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DerWeg 760:16
Originally posted by danielst
Originally posted by DerWeg
Sorry didn’t mean that about you specifically. I meant generally the drug company/food industry notion that isolated compounds should work exactly as they would as naturally occurring - and this despite millions of years to engineer the naturally occurring material, and our species along with it, presumably each adapted to the other.


Just to put a thread that’s gone way off-topic even more off-topic: humans are naturally not "perfectly" adapted to their environment. It is civilisation, and therefore also control over nature in some way, that extends human life expectancy significantly. A positive example of an "isolated compound" added to food that comes to my mind immediately is iodised salt.


All i can say is - FAIL.

Salt is NOT a biochemical compound like an amino acid or an enzyme. It is not carbon-based. It is about the only solid thing we eat that cannot be reduced to carbon if exposed to prolonged heat. Why the heck is iodized salt so great?? Because it prevents the uptake of radioactive iodine from the free environment?? True, that may prevent thyroid problems, but so may the consumption of seaweed like kelp, or other naturally-occurring sources of iodine.

The main reason we have processed salt is that it will run free from salt shakers. It’s not to make us healthy. it’s to make an industry of food production run smoothly.
11/3/2009 9:22:55 PM

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JoeMcPhee 5000:262
Originally posted by DerWeg
Originally posted by danielst
Originally posted by DerWeg
Sorry didn’t mean that about you specifically. I meant generally the drug company/food industry notion that isolated compounds should work exactly as they would as naturally occurring - and this despite millions of years to engineer the naturally occurring material, and our species along with it, presumably each adapted to the other.


Just to put a thread that’s gone way off-topic even more off-topic: humans are naturally not "perfectly" adapted to their environment. It is civilisation, and therefore also control over nature in some way, that extends human life expectancy significantly. A positive example of an "isolated compound" added to food that comes to my mind immediately is iodised salt.


All i can say is - FAIL.

Salt is NOT a biochemical compound like an amino acid or an enzyme. It is not carbon-based. It is about the only solid thing we eat that cannot be reduced to carbon if exposed to prolonged heat. Why the heck is iodized salt so great?? Because it prevents the uptake of radioactive iodine from the free environment?? True, that may prevent thyroid problems, but so may the consumption of seaweed like kelp, or other naturally-occurring sources of iodine.

The main reason we have processed salt is that it will run free from salt shakers. It’s not to make us healthy. it’s to make an industry of food production run smoothly.

Iodized salt is used to prevent goiter. It was a very common problem in inland/third world areas before the development of iodized salt, because most people do not get sufficient amounts of iodine directly from their diet. I suppose you’re against calcium too, because you can take it in the form of Tums? It’s worth noting that you can easily make non-iodized salt that flows from salt shakers... you just add an anti-clumping agent (not iodine, usually sodium aluminosilicate). You’re quite the piece of work, but you should try learning about which you speak, before actually speaking about it.
11/4/2009 2:14:32 AM

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