Chewing of raw meat

[mango]

Hi Peoples
I've slowly been transitioning to more raw ZC, and usually eat almost all my ground beef about 70% raw/30% cooked on the outsides ( usually cook a big patty for about 60 seconds on each side, and leave the inside tender).

When eating raw meat, is it necessary to completely chew the meat before swallowing? I notice that if I do half the chewing and just swallow (maybe after 10-15 bites), then it goes down much easier and with less thought.  And maybe by chewing less I can decrease the cooking time and get used to even more raw meat.

Mind sharing on average how many bites you chew your food before swallowing?
Thanks!

[eveheart]

Stomach acid digests meat of any sized chunks. Chew or cut the meat so you don't choke on it.

Me? I love chewing - it gives me satisfaction to chew meat. Ground meat is disgusting, IMO. But, to each his own.

[jessica]

if you let it air out and age in your refrigerator, in my experience, becomes easier to chew.

[LePatron7]

The foods I like I chew. Like beef, lamb, buffalo, goat. But for stuff I don't like, like raw beef fat for example. I typically don't chew and swallow it with some water. I do that with other foods I don't like too, like liver and high meat. I just can't get myself to swallow those w/o water.

Stomach acid digests meat of any sized chunks. Chew or cut the meat so you don't choke on it.

Just cut it up into sizes small enough to swallow so you don't choke.

[TylerDurden]

Most RPDers prefer to chew as little as possible. I instinctively chew once and then bolt the meat down. Only rarely do I chew more than that, and then only when thinking of something else.

[mango]

Thanks for all the responses

Really surprised to hear that you can chew once and swallow - I will have to give that a try sometime soon !

[Iguana]

Most RPDers prefer to chew as little as possible. I instinctively chew once and then bolt the meat down. Only rarely do I chew more than that, and then only when thinking of something else.

If it's when thinking of something else, isn't it the automatic, normal  way? Bolting insufficiently chewed  food is painful, showing us we've done a mistake. I wonder how you can do that and feel no pain in the throat. Do you cut your meat in very small pieces?

[Iguana]

The foods I like I chew. Like beef, lamb, buffalo, goat. But for stuff I don't like, like raw beef fat for example. I typically don't chew and swallow it with some water. I do that with other foods I don't like too, like liver and high meat. I just can't get myself to swallow those w/o water.

Just cut it up into sizes small enough to swallow so you don't choke.

No animal would ever swallow (even more so with water!) something he doesn't like. You're certainly doing repeated mistakes.

[LePatron7]

I feel good when I eat raw beef fat. I also take supplements with water after a raw meal, something else an animal wouldn't do.

[panacea]

Statement: Pain and pleasure are poor indicators of what is healthy/unhealthy for us.

Logic: Modern food is engineered to fool our senses and create addiction. Cultural upbringing to modern foods or natural foods unnaturally processed/heated creates habitual pleasures that would otherwise not exist.

Closure statement: Obviously.

[cherimoya_kid]

Even animals can learn to prefer cooked food. Pet cats that never get to hunt live prey are especially prone to this.

[goodsamaritan]

I would listen to Iguana and not eat foods you do not like the taste of.

I actually like the high meat I make sometimes... if it tastes like blue cheese... yummy.

I like, enjoy, liver when I get the good ones that mature to extreme yumminess in a few days to a week or more in the refrigerator. 

I like different durians immensely... but I have an almost raw paleo diet healer friend who does not like the smell nor the taste of durians.  He does not bother eating durian because he knows durian is most likely incompatible with his body chemistry.