Sun, Jul-21-02, 20:42
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Plan: Atkins
Stats: 245/205/175
BF:
Progress: 57%
Location: Longmont, CO, USA
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Carb Counts for Marinades
What's the best way to translate the carb count of ingredients in a marinade into a carb count for the resulting food?
I've been making home-made beef jerky to keep around as a snack. A web search finds about a bazillion recipes for jerky marinade, many of which sound worthy of a try. Some of them have things like honey or brown sugar in the marinade.
A simple-minded way to do this would be to distribute the carbs across the weight of all of the beef I'm marinating -- but that assumes the marinade is fully absorbed, and it isn't.
So how 'bout this: say I start with three cups of liquid marinade containing 30 grams of carbohydrate. I use it to marinate 6 lbs of beef strips. After marinating overnight, I have 1 cup of liquid remaining. Is it fair to say that 1/3 of the carbs are in that remaining cup, and that 2/3 are distributed evenly over the marinated beef strips?
Inquiring minds want to know.
-M.
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