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From: mmm@weitek.UUCP (Mark Thorson)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re:  Rapid Aging of Meat
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Date: Sun, 20-Oct-85 20:30:19 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 20 20:30:19 1985
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Keywords: poison, do not try

The responses to my original posting were unanimous:  don't try it.
Alas, the recipe for Beef Thorson will be lost forever due to toxicity.

The warnings fell into two catagories:  alkaline decomposition of meat
results in unpleasant breakdown products and alkaline environments promote
dangerous bacterial growth.

So I guess the message is:  cancel further research along these lines.

Mark "who let him in the kitchen" Thorson  (...!cae780!weitek!mmm)

ps I've been told that putting a spoon or fork into the pot will
   accelerate the cooking of dried beans by 2X to 3X.