Re: Nuclear device for the kitchen, yes really

In article <aqHte.8849$U4.1200966@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Terry Given wrote:
>Rich Grise wrote:

<SNIP>

>> It doesn't taste any different than it would have tasted fresh
>> just before it went into the irradiation machine. The radiation
>> doesn't alter the food in any way, except that the bacteria are
>> dead. Cooking also kills bacteria, but it changes the structure
>> of the food. Gamma radiation doesn't do that, it merely sterilizes
>> it. Admittedly, a raw chicken breast in a plastic bag can look
>> kind of gross just lying there limp; but you could store them
>> in the kitchen cabinet with the soup, and when you opened the
>> bag and the breast slid out it'd be just like you just got
>> it fresh at the meat market.
>>
>> Hope This Helps!
>> Rich
>>
>
>Heres an interesting analytical technique: 5-why. Ask why 5 times.
>Specifically, ask why gamma radiation kills the bacteria (read as:
>biological material). Then ask why it has *no* effect on the rest of the
>biological material.

OK, actual percentage of molecules damaged is not quite zero, just some
small fraction damaged slightly. Fatal to living things, hardly anything
to anything already dead. Irradiate live chicken cells to the extent of
causing damage comparable to 1/20 of the difference between chicken and
turkey and what happens - sure looks to me like you get over 99% chicken
and the other 1% more like chicken than like turkey, let alone any
significant presence of anything that does not taste like or digest as
poultry!

- Don Klipstein (don@xxxxxxxxx)
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