What is that 'white stuff' you get from bacon? I know it's possibly related to the injection of water, but I get it from non-watered pork chops too.

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What is that 'white stuff' you get from bacon? I know it's possibly related to the injection of water, but I get it from non-watered pork chops too.

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Last updated Aug 23 2016.

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It's serum albumin -- Serum albumin, proteins of the the blood that are still present in the flesh of an animal after it's cleaned. It's not bad for you. You can certainly eat it, if you're into that sort of thing.

You get the same stuff when you fry...say...hamburger...only it's more brown-red tinged.

http://carlygoogles.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-is-white-stuff-that-oozes-out-of.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serum_albumin

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/623437

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Sep 28 2009, 7:56 AM

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Sometimes when you cook Bacon, some white gloop oozes from it. This is salt and water; it comes out of Bacon that has been cured with brine ("wet-cured"), either by injecting the brine into the Bacon, or soaking the Bacon in brine.

Response last updated by gtho4 on Aug 23 2016.
Sep 27 2009, 4:39 PM

What is that 'white stuff' you get from bacon? I know it's possibly related to the injection of water, but I get it from non-watered pork chops too.

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