Does a Vacuum HURT Marinades??

Does using different forms of vacuum cooking help or hurt meat marinading?
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[@NFTI]

Hi everyone! You should come to OpenSauce, June 15-16 in San Francisco! I'll be there along with dozens of extremely cool and talented creators! It'll be amazing!!

[@8875rx]

What happened to king of random?

[@EGG45676]

Here before poplar

[@Rabbit505]

What if you poke holes in them first?

[@ikitclaw7146]

It makes sense the vacuum meat will be more tender, while sat in that vacuum the cells would start to burst and reduce the overall integrity of the meat.

[@motorcyclemayham]

I find freezing my left over fajita meat in a vacuum bag makes it more tinder on the reheat. my logic is the juices expand when frozen, tenderizing the meat.. left overs better than off the grill. something you can do a blind taste test with your friends with. tomatillo, avocado, onion, cilantro, lime. all that in a blender, great with chips or on a taco.

[@laser8389]

Quick math: 15 psi over a square foot is literally a ton. To open that vacuum chamber at full vacuum would require a literal ton of force.

[@quinton1661]

His pressure is closer to 13 psi - but the point still stands.

[@No_Way_NO_WAY]

a ton? everyone should be able to lift that lid off..... (after opening the valve)

[@nohjrd]

You only have to lift an edge enough to break the seal though (not saying I could do that, but someone might).

[@No_Way_NO_WAY]

@@nohjrd if you would lift a ton only on one edge, you would still have to lift at least 1/4 of it (probably even more than 50%). As long as there are no specific handles that could take that force, i would assume they would just break off, if a person strong enough would try.

[@ronwbrown]

Exactly, not a simple task. (15psi * 144² inches (12in x 12in) = 2160lbs per square foot)

[@krisqo]

it would be interesting to see if a pressure chamber did anything

[@keithsalter6832]

I agree, I think the marinade would soak in deeper than the other methods. So Nate, get a pressure pot and try different pressures etc. Or you can try a method used for epoxy, vacuum first then the pressure pot.

[@craftiebrown]

Put something heavy on it. A pressure chamber would crush it, so it's essentially the same thing. There's no way to simulate a vacuum without special equipment, though.

[@krisqo]

@@craftiebrown not really places like kfc use pressure cookers to cook food faster so doesnt really squash it. would would be really interesting is pressure pot then vacuum chamber then back to the pressure pot or even vacuum chamber to pull the air out then pressure pot to push marinade in where the air was

[@Graytail]

I was going to suggest this, I'm glad I looked to see if someone else had first ^_^'

[@Graytail]

@@krisqo I'm sure theres a way to hook both a vacuum and a compressor up to the same pot, to save swapping vessels for each cycle, but I was going to suggest this too. Maybe for a laugh, stick some of the result into a freezedrier too, just to see what that does ontop of everything else

[@jimbo386]

Another idea: Compare Vacuum marinated meat vs pressure marinated meat (putting the meat with marinade in a vacuum sealed bag, and putting the bag inside a pressure chamber).

[@pan2aja]

Don't forget ultrasonic sonication while we're at it

[@groper.not.grouper9501]

no simple deduction would assume it’s considerably less effective than the actual vacuum

[@100GTAGUY]

​@@pan2aja finally a reason to break out my turbo encabulator.

[@cbtillery135]

@@pan2aja the ultrasonic stuff is for making instant whiskey out of vodka, not steak

[@mrimmortal1579]

@@cbtillery135hmmmm…. Steak Whiskey. That sounds like a bajillion dollar idea!

[@sebebalios1906]

When I worked for Maple Leaf Foods, the process of making Pastrami deli meat included large steel rotating cylinders that used vacuum suction to stretch the meat so the spices and nitrates could penetrate deep in the meat, then we spiked them, hang them, cook to temp, cool, slice, packaged and shipped out.

[@sebebalios1906]

And using pressure to marinade meat would somewhat be useless due to pressure squeezing the meat rather than stretching with vacuum suction!

[@notuxnobux]

I dont know if food coloring accurately shows marinade penetration as food coloring binds to protein but the marinade doesn't, so the food coloring and the marinade can separate when you put it on protein

[@bochapman1058]

You might be right, but mixing it with the marinade. You would assume that it would be sucked in with the marinade because it’s diluted. It’s hard to say really.

[@Punnikin1969]

So essentially you would be eating a chicken flavored filter. That would explain the texture.

[@Dtr146]

"I've never tried that so that's why I'm doing this experiment today" God I love that mindset

[@YaztromoX]

I have a consumer vacuum chamber for marinading meat. It attaches to the accessory hose port on my food sealer. It works by cycling between pressured and unpressured states (i.e.: depressurizes, holds for several minutes, repressurizes, and repeats this cycle 3 or 4 times). I can’t say it works _better_ than just leaving meat in a marinade in the refrigerator - but it does seem to complete the same process much faster (15 minutes instead of hours).

[@EthanReesor]

It makes sense that cycling would work. I'm guessing depressurizing does very little. It seems like it's the repressurization that would push the marinade into the meat. So I can believe cycling would do that more.

[@markylon]

Marinating meat, not marinading. You marinate with a marinade.

[@javadkhusro]

I wonder if the vacuum caused the cells to rupture. It would be interesting to compare the vacuum chicken/beef to one that got freezer burn.

[@100GTAGUY]

Freezer burned space chicken, lets just make it a whole new thing and combine the two. Plus it could be a pretty cool jazz fusion band name.

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

Both of what you guys said are what I thought might've happened... Except I think it wasn't freezer burn, but that it started to COOK from the water boiling as it was drawn out. (vacuum lowers booking point) So the rubbery/chewy texture was from the outter layer being basically cooked twice, is my thinking.

[@MoltenPoo]

Great video, as usual. One point of note... "Marinate" is the verb that food soaking in a marinade, "Marinade" is a noun that refers to the liquid or sauce used for marinating.

[@T.BG822]

Marinades aren't known to be particularly effective after an hour. There's a reason it's typically 6-12 hours depending on tradition, and I'd wager that an hour isn't actually enough time for valid data.

[@bluej511]

Right, but most people who marinate don't do it in a vacuum sealed bag or under vacuum, thats the reason it takes 6-12hrs is because it just sits in the fridge and naturally seeps in. This is a fast way to do it.

[@Zaviex]

A vacuum will be much quicker because the pressure from air is so low to 0. Once the pressure hits max, it will not take long for you to get functionally the maximum amount of marinade into the meat. What Nate has done is basically recreate the numbers from the papers that Ragusea was referencing in his video

[@T.BG822]

What neither of you seem to get is that no, his numbers aren't comparable - it's just another variable, adding complexity rather than a side-grade measure. Calling it the same is lazy/bad science.

[@bluej511]

@@T.BG822 neither one of us called it the same lol.

[@RKBrumbelow]

@@T.BG822 this video is lazy on many levels. In addition to the issue you mentioned, there is also the issue of osmotic movement of food coloring vs anything else. This video really just shows how people make assumptions about science but don’t actually think it through, generally because of a lack of understanding what is really happening and why.

[@nathanjames.]

I’d be interested in seeing the results after multiple hours, maybe even comparing the different methods at different time periods.

[@WastedDad]

And smoke it as well

[@bobweiram6321]

Marinade the meats in an ultrasonic cleaner.

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

Next stop: overnight vacu-marinade test

[@DUKE_of_RAMBLE]

​@@bobweiram6321That would be tenderizing the MEAT, and I think Nate - or maybe King of Random, while Nate was running it - had tried this already... Or SOMEONE did... Gouga maybe? 🤷‍♂️ _(my old brain ain't what it used to be!)_

[@bishopcorva]

I believe that the meat pieces, like the marshmallows, had a fair number of the inner cells burst resulting in texture differential. Only for the meat it was water being moved from a relative higher pressure to lower of the chamber. Which didn't really allow for salts to transfer in since there was a stronger force moving outwards. As for the beef being more tender, similar principle of water being pulled out of the cells. It would be interesting to see the meat thing done again, only this time weight prior to vacuum and then again after to see if there's a appreciable difference.

[@alex_stanley]

Vacuum infusion only works with porous materials with air pockets, like wood being stabilized with infused resin. The best vacuum infusion food recipe I've come up with is watermelon infused with fresh squeezed lime juice. I got the vacuum infusion idea from the NY Times website, where there's a video of cucumber being vacuum infused with a martini.

[@zierlyn]

Exactly. While it didn't occur to me right away, I realized it after the first blue chicken marinade example. The point of the vacuum chamber would be to replace air pockets with liquid. Meat doesn't have air pockets. The vacuum isn't pulling anything out of the meat for the marinade to replace.

[@Slop_Dogg]

Enjoyed this experiment! Anything with food is a plus for me, cooking & baking are just an edible form of chemistry

[@SateenDuraLuxe]

What if you put the marinade in a 100psi pressure pot? Maybe the hige pressure air will infuse the meat more. Or you could also put the meat in a hydraulic chamber with no air, but 3000psi of liquid pressure.

[@averagegremlin]

I’m honestly so happy you almost have 1mil, you and Cass seriously did amazing on TKR and actually made it educational.

[@GeoffreyMoran]

I remember, as a kid, my mom had a food saver vacuum saver. It had an attachment for mason jars or mason jar like vessels that you could use to “vacuum save” items in jars or as the infomercial advertised shorten marination times of meats.

[@elementary7283]

The preasure of the pressure chamber changes the boiling point of liquids and changes the stability of compounds it also won't infuse flavour unless you do a proper vacuum infusion like prepreg infusion. Chicken is a very easy to break down protein so it's not recommended for this type of experiment

[@ultraokletsgo]

Really good editing on this video, Nate. Tight script, succinct, entertaining. Keep up the good work!

[@jamesbreckenridge4484]

i use vacuum marinading when i make beef jerky. i have found that the marinade flavor seems to have better penetration and a more consistent flavor throughout instead of the flavor just being on the surface of the meat. but that's just my experience.

[@hamilde]

My vacuum bag sealer is a vacuum chamber. You put the bag in the chamber with the opening between heating elements. The chamber is pulled down to a pretty good vacuum, the bag gets sealed, then the vacuum is released.

[@kingofstrike1234]

instead of pulling out the air after instant vacuum in the chamber, you should let it suck air for those marinating hour, bc my theory is the instant vacuum that you're pulling from the chamber is basically the same as the vacuum sealer

[@JackSalzman]

4:52 Every man felt that

[@adamb89]

6:40 I do a lot of home canning, you don't need the ring once the lid seals. The ring is just there to keep the lid in place BEFORE it seals. Matter of fact, with canned foods, you SHOULD remove the ring. If the canned food isn't perfectly preserved and something alive in there starts spoiling and producing gas, eventually it'll pop the seal and the lid will come off. But if the ring is still in place holding the lid on, it'll form a false-seal, and you've now got yourself a jar of botulism probably. So here's something I'd like to try. Take raw meat and just straight up freeze dry it. Pull out all the moisture while keeping the structure intact. Then pressure-cook it in a bowl of marinade, and see how THAT works.

[@davidelzinga9757]

I gave up asking people to try this stuff years ago. Thanks for working on it!

[@charleswise5570]

Marinating also uses the process of osmosis. Depending on the level of salinity, adding moisture to a piece of meat, and possibly carrying flavor in to it as well. I would do the test a second time, also using a brine solution.

[@parasharkchari]

I wouldn't be surprised if the tenderness has more to do with the mechanical stresses that the meat fibers experienced in the cycling of vacuum and much less to do with marinade exposure. A good way to test that is to see what happens with a marinaded piece of meat in the vacuum chamber vs. one that was cycled through vacuum and then marinaded afterwards; maybe also throw in one piece that was cycled multiple times before marination just to see if it's really all about the vacuum action.

[@SuperbeastOR]

Marinades are usually done from any where 4-12 hours because it takes time for the marinade to really work plus you need salt to help with the osmotic action which helps the marinade to penetrate as well as deepen the flavor because well salt. Try it again with those variables in mind.

[@Lorentari]

Biochemical Engineer here: The cell membranes in the meats have ruptured from the vacuum, releasing the juices into the space between the cells, causing a rubbery texture as you eat the deflated cell membranes. I would suggest trying to pressurize the meat (maybe 10 bars) to push the marinade into the tissue (inside of the meat will be at lower pressure than the outside of the meat because of the cell membranes

[@twtchr44]

Fascinating that the texture changed. Never would have thought of this, but it makes sense possibly due to cellular rupture?

[@RAMA-gu8cs]

Nyquil chicken flashback just hits hard 😂😂

[@OrionXBlaze]

Install a larger dump valve in the lid and you can simulate removing the lid under vacuum.

[@93lozfan]

My guess is the vacuum chamber applies an almost stretched force on the meat while marinating. And since bird meat has more collagen than cow meat, and it doesn't break down in acid as quickly that's likely what's being left behind and making it feel gummy while the beef just breaks apart.

[@riuphane]

I imagine the vacuum chamber ruptured and separated the cells and fibers of the muscle, leading to the different texture. As many others have pointed out, both the method and time would probably have a bigger impact if changed. Trying a longer time and comparing it with high pressure instead of low pressure would likely have more interesting results. Another comment i liked suggested that using the vacuum chamber and then after a short time repressurizing it repeatedly might have a more significant impact, but again I'd be worried about the texture, especially at that extreme of a vacuum.

[@juggawest]

Does a marinade penetrate and taste different via tenderizer {Thor's hammer with spikes, vs stabs via fork} also what's usually suggested 4 hours vs overnight!

[@adambarron4015]

So the pink color in cured meats comes from the nitrates in the curing salt binding to the myoglobin in the meat and the pink smoke ring comes from nitrous oxide from the incomplete combustion of the wood binding to the myoglobin. I'd be interested in see you use your vacuum chamber to remove the ambient air and fill the chamber with nitrous oxide to see if you could either make a fake smoke ring or completely cure the meat.

[@bluej511]

Very cool video Nate, btw the cook on the steaks looks SO good.

[@AuroraGw2]

Bro casually cooks perfect chicken breasts for an experiment

[@tjiddenl]

I always use a vacuumbag because you need a bit less marinade. And it will also prevent meat from floating on above the liquid.

[@TheArthurs92]

My guess is the vacuum is pulling down the acid through the meat, and also my guess would be the denser the meat fibres the more difficult it would be to pull the marinade. I would love to see this in a longer time scale

[@floramew]

Nyquil chicken vibes 💀

[@100GTAGUY]

Man it feels like a fever dream, but i definitely remember somebody making nyquil chicken.

[@danielcole2667]

Almost all marinated industrially made chicken is vacuum tumbled to 28psi for between 10min and 1 hour depending if it is a membrane cut or a nonmembrane cut. Everything from chick fila to walmart pre marinated packages are done this way. Ideal temp is between 25-35f. Tumbler rpm can vary a lot by bone in vs boneless, membrane vs nonmembrane and the type of marination. The internal flights of the tumbler can vary too by angle. You can absorb 10-15% more marination by weight with proper tumble for surface area and vacuum. More with soy based marination.

[@Alphadragon1979]

I wish you had used a vacuum chamber sealer as well. I know it's pretty close to a normal vacuum chamber but I have never noticed a texture difference and I do taste a difference when marinating in a bag using it.

[@cruzcastillo6984]

With that experiment of Adam's how do you know that the food coloring can penatrate the meat? I watched his video a while ago, so maybe he addressed this. It could be possible that the food coloring can't go that deep, but things like salt can.

[@omegasight]

My understanding of stabilizing (the resin method you compared the camber marinade to), is that you have to leave the object in the liquid for 2x the time in was under vacuum, to allow the liquid to get full penetration. Maybe that was a factor for the color test.

[@Antifag1977]

I always stab the hell out of meat with a fork before marinating. All those tiny channels seem to allow flavor to penetrate deeper and all the holes pretty much tighten and seal back up during cooking.

[@RavenRose91]

My father made a kind of low vacuum/pressure chamber out of a Sam’s club pickle jar and a hand pump that he used to switch between adding pressure & and taking it away. He said it helps the fibers “push & pull” apart to let the marinade get between them. He would spend hours marinating everything overnight changing between the low & higher pressure. He swears by it but I think it’s more likely the fact that he used one of those meat tenderizer blade things on anything he put in there 🤷‍♀️

[@NeoMatrixYT]

The knowledge that de-pressurized meat is squishier is helpful for scientists trying to “grow” edible meat in cultures. In other words, the meat may require some special “pressurization” to more-resemble traditional meat.

[@moe504]

Guga would be proud!

[@tobysstory4013]

Great video Nate.

[@thassalantekreskel5742]

I would like to see some experiments involving caramelization. In particular, I'm wondering if there are ways you can devise to get the same kind of reaction on seared steak or sautéed vegetables with foods you normally wouldn't expect.

[@3rdjrh]

Would love a nfti and Adam collab

[@vinstinct]

Same here. Adam is probably my favorite food KZbinr.. although he's doing less food and side projects like his fish tanks these days.

[@DerSolinski]

Vacuum bag -> Pressure chamber. Also interesting: vacuum bag > ultrasonic cleaner on low setting in ice bath < on high you cook it. And an hour isn't nearly enough for any results.

[@jordansorenson698]

An idea for a future video. Trying different methods to tenderize meat and see if that makes a difference in anything.

[@ReviewThisTestThat]

I’ve done this for years with my chamber you should do something like caribou it interesting how the meat expands and changes color it also boils the water at room temperature and breaks all the cells and it stays expanded when I released the pressure.

[@kgsbowtie]

It’d be interesting to see if *vacuum cycles* do something different, kind of like what you do with resins. Thinking being that might actually infuse the marinade in the meat.

[@TheRealAlpha2]

All these food experiments make me hungry. I'd even eat the blue chicken.

[@rachetl12]

Really wish this was a Guga cameo vid, or Nate going over to Guga

[@u2bst1nks]

If I had to guess the vacuum chamber is causing gasses dissolved in the meat liquids to expand and come out of solution. These expanding gasses are trapped inside the meat and this might end up rupturing cell walls or stretching meat fibers. This is my speculation as to why there's a tenderization effect.

[@EphyMusicOfficial]

Nate, you could try adding an electronic valve like a solenoid to the top with a separate, larger hole to allow a large, more instantaneous release of air in place of lifting the top off.

[@Sembazuru]

My vacuum sealer (foodsaver 5000 series) has an add-on and operation mode that is supposed to help quick pickling. I use it, but I haven't done any testing against a control. The add-on is basically a rigid vacuum chamber, but the magic is supposedly the operation mode. It pulls a vacuum, holds it for a few minutes, releases and then pulls another vacuum. It does three cycles over about 12 minutes. I think the idea is to use the pressure release to pump the marinade/pickling solution into the food. Maybe you could try to replicate this with your vacuum chamber to see if the idea is valid, or if it's just a marketing gimmick. See if it works for marinades, quick pickle on veggies, and ceviche. After this video, I'm skeptical that it is anything more than a marketing gimmick...

[@jordanamos1563]

We have to see a eye round with guga sous vide, inside of a vacuum chamber under vacuum for the entire cook and then again pressure say up to 30 psi

[@burtmacklin6443]

You should try to cycle the vacuum. Texas Distillers have a tough time aging their spirits because of the temperature fluctuation between day and night, forcing spirits in and out of the barrels via expansion and contraction. A 5 year age in some cases can be similar to a 20 year age in a stable environment. This same idea could be tested in with your marinade, sucking the air out and letting it return on a cycle.

[@user-rc3iu8hg8s]

Science based steak experiments? Yes please. Which ones? All of them. Actually propane vs charcoal vs wood to see which is more tender and juicy.

[@goffrd137]

One flaw in this experiment is on the observation side of how the marinade actually affects the food. Most people believe that it puts liquid/flavor inside the meat and more time will make better flavors. But like Nate said it creates a barrier around the surface of the meat, locking moisture and enzymes that make the meat tender and juicy when you eat it. Marinades do not tenderize the meat itself. Marinades ability to seal in moisture is its strength. So what if we cook it in the marinade? The quick answer is that the sugars will caramelize and burn before the meat cooks thoroughly. Burnt on the outside, raw in the middle. So what if we reduce the sugar and cook it in a higher moisture environment (boiling/steaming)? Without a barrier to stop moisture from leaving the meat, like what happens when you are searing the meat, more moisture leaves the meat than is introduced to it and it becomes dry and sometimes mealy in texture. So circling back to the beginning what a marinade does, like Nate said, is creating a flavorful barrier to hold the good stuff inside. For best results 4 to 6 hours is good but longer than 24 hours and you're not marinating it your preserving it. It will dry out and get like leather. Also don't use guava in your marinade because it will dissolve the meat

[@JeffreyKelley]

A followup on this would be cool. Maybe longer times. Try 24 hours, 48 hours and 72 hours maybe. Also maybe try a pressure pot. Sort of like a vacuum chamber but instead of pulling a vacuum you add pressure to it could force the marinade into the meat better. Also, the texture change is interesting. As far as I know the main use of vacuum marinators is to make jerky so the texture change might not matter as much there or it might even help it since it made the beef more tender

[@madroot]

Those poor Smurfs.

[@python2400]

What if you need to do multiple vacuum cycles to let the air out of the meat then the marinade in to replace it?

[@JRockySchmidt]

You do I've actually run this test but my vacuum wasn't nearly as strong...

[@rebeccaconlon9743]

6:28 the issue with fluids in vacuums is off gassing

[@IamJustJ.]

In a vacuum, the contents of the cells would have a higher pressure than the surrounding vacuum which should cause them to essentially explode. That wouldn't necessarily improve the marinade, as your experiment shows, but it would have some interesting side effects on texture (as your experiment also shows). But, it is similar in concept to frozen vegetables (and meat) growing ice crystals and rupturing the cell walls. (This is also why I hate the taste and texture of frozen vegetables and frozen meat in general.)

[@bbeck104]

A thought... Perhaps the desired outcome of marinade penetration could be improved with direct contact with the middle of the meat being treated and the source of the pressure differential. For example using a wedge shaped vacuum nozzle to draw the liquid through the meat because the marinade itself may be causing an impediment yo flow of pressure from inside the meat outward

[@ToxicSmasher]

How about puting it in a presurepot. With high presure the marinade might go deeper. Or first vacume and then presurepot.

[@Dave-zc6mx]

we miss you ... please make more videos. we really enjoy them, thank you

[@MrHubert1710]

Maybe positive pressure would force marinade in? Maybe even instead of pressure chamber, one could use hydraulic press as piston acting upon closed vessel with meat and marinade to achieve high pressures. Not a best way but interesting to think about :)

[@pyrosinugami]

I'd be interesting to see a crossover with Guga where he dry ages something in a vacuum and then maybe try the tenderizing thing but like with an actual like poking tenderizer versus like a hammer tenderizer

[@Connor_Crain]

Now you need to work with Guga again and try this as a tenderizing experiment!

[@75keg75]

Use pressure. Also try use the beef as reverse osmosis style membrave and force marinade through it.

[@No_Way_NO_WAY]

I work with pressure chambers in my company. I have noticed, that only applying a partial vacuum is not sufficient in my filed. In some of our applications, we have to pressure cycle. So basically applying a vacuum and afterwards slight overpressure. Since you only have a vacuum chamber, releasing and re-applying the vacuum might have a similar effect. (Cycling it in 1hour steps should be good)

[@setazeon]

same thing but with a pressure chamber

[@negpimawon]

It might be interesting to find out if there is a difference marinating overnight... also seeing what increasing the pressure would do, like others have said in both one hour and overnight

[@DrewCNewOrleans]

Please do a test about freezing meat and then thawing it. Different ways to freeze it, different temperatures, different lengths of time frozen and different storage vessels to freeze it in. Then that them in different ways. Microwave, room temp, fridge and maybe cook when frozen.

[@ETC_Rohaly_USCG]

If I understand correctly, vac-bags are more used to prevent oxidation and spoilage; meaning it can be stored for longer and not suffer "Freezer-Burn" I have a FoodSaver(tm), and that's what I use when I make a bulk shopping trip. The unit I have does have a sous vide setting, but I have yet to try it.

[@ETC_Rohaly_USCG]

It would be interesting to see that if you insert a vacuum probe in the middle of the item that it would pull items in versus out because looks like with the vacuum it's pulling everything outward versus inward

[@WrenchRepairsAndProspecting]

Ive often thought of this myself

[@cmawhz]

what about both vacuum and pressure, oscillating back and forth. like if you put a steak in liquid inside a hydraulic cylinder with the piston almost touching the steak (no air), then pulled and pushed on the piston over and over. maybe have 2 opposing bottle jacks or something to push and pull the piston. i hypothesize it would let the marinade soak deeper as the non-marinade juices are pulled out, then marinade forced back into the meat. also a good bit of tenderizing. it would heat and cool a bit possibly slightly cooking the meat.

[@jessseymour9246]

Hypothesis: the change in texture is caused by the water in the meat boiling off due to the lower pressure.

[@Spikeba11]

So if you want to marinade deeper just score the meat. Scoring is cutting 1/8 th to 1/4 inch into the meat about 1 inch apart in parallel lines or a crosshatch.

[@shadowtheimpure]

The 'liquid' problem is why I eventually just bought a chamber vacuum sealer. On the plus side, the bags are significantly cheaper.

[@sleepyseminoob2258]

Hey Nate! Did you remember to poke the meat with a fork before soaking? Poking it alot gives holes for the marinade to soak deep into the fiber

[@linearparadox9409]

Thank you so much for doing this! Id long wondered this myself, and i finally have an answer to my question. I have to say, though, I'm very surprised by the result; I very much expected that, if not the vaccum itself, then at least the repressurization would drive the surrounding fluid into the meat. Perhaps there's not enough rigidity in the protein/substrate of the meat to 'spring back' and exhert a drawing force on the marinade/atmosphere? Very strange. A part of me still expects the mechanics to work, even after very difinitively seeing them not.

[@EthanSeville]

Good ol amplified chewing and throat noise

[@hiddenloaf2302]

My question now is what happens if you bring the chamber to a vacuum, release the vacuum, and repeat it a few times rather than holding vacuum consistently to try and encourage the drawing of the marinade as the chamber regains pressure.

[@Zzz_top]

Interested in this one.

[@Mahkloompah]

We need to send this experiment to Guga and have him do it properly.

[@TheDarinseng]

I would think you want would want to release the vacuum on the vacuum chamber shortly after drawing it to allow the marinade to then be drawn in and have a chance to do at least it's tenderizing effects?

[@cristianmoore1996]

I was surprised this wasn’t a Guga Foods ad for his new vacuum marinade thing, but then I got to the results and knew why. 😂

[@SilverFoxCooking]

That was an interesting experiment! I am curious if there is a difference vacuum sealing in a bag, vs vacuum sealing in a bag with a chamber vacuum sealer. I have both and like the chamber because I can seal liquids. I vacuum seal for freezing and never thought it might change the texture.

[@CaptainQ2607]

Percy Jackson approves of that chicken 😂

[@themarveldude9317]

i was just gonna comment that

[@Ryoka242]

Food Coloring wouldnt penetrate through the surface of any food. The reason: Gel Based ones have gelatin and the sugars are too big to go through. Traditional Food Coloring is ionic, thus wont penetrate the skin.

[@Qermaq]

It's like the marshmallows, they got all stiff and gummy. The meat does something similar, but in this case it makes the surface bruised and gummy.