poor man's breast filets

BunsenBurner
Fri, 29 May 2009 12:22:27 +0000

galoisien, it sounds like a Costco (or Sam’s club or BJ’s) membership might be of some benefit to you, if you can split the membership cost and the “loot” with some of your fellow dorm dwellers. I read an article about students at the local flagship who mastered such “conquer and divide” technique using Excel spreadsheets. Costco (in my neck of the woods) sells great skinless boneless chicken thigh meat for 99 cents a pound.

For marinating meat, you do not need to add any other acids to vinegar. Vinegar is ca. 5% acetic acid, and it is sufficient to tenderize meat. And please do not use any glacial acetic acid from your org. chem. lab even if it says that it is 99.5% pure. There might be some stuff in it that you would not want in your body (e.g., traces of heavy metals), especially if it has been opened and dipped into by students ( but my labmates and I once ate molecular biology-grade sucrose because we ran out of sugar for our coffee, and the nearby stores were closed at 1 am)