For All You Barbequers & Meat Cookers

[cabinetman]

Found some health warnings about cooking meat, especially well done. News to me.
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[Hellrazor]

bah.. next month they will tell you that cooking meat causes cancer and you should eat it raw.

[jonmulzer]

So basically searing your meat may cause cancer? I will take my chances rather than eat a lifeless, gray burger. According to them we may as well ditch our grills. The whole point of grilling is to make the meat brown with black streaks on the outside while keeping that nice rosy hue inside.

[cwithboat]

I will skip a cigarette while cooking. That will lower my cancer risk more than not charbroiling.

[shoottx]

I think it is only a problem if you are a "Laboratory Animal". I think I might qualify as a shop animal but not a lab animal so I'm safe.

[Daryl]

If you grill my steak until it is well done your health is in danger for sure, and not from cancer.

[jonmulzer]

I may be wrong, but I don't think it requires well done. I think they are talking about the char marks. And I agree, when people come over for cookouts they know that if they want their beef anywhere beyond medium they better bring their own grill.

[Richard in Smithville]

LOML and I fight over who's steak has more pink in the middle. It's SIL and her boyfriend who like the burnt sacrifice.

[Gator95]

Heterocyclic amines formed from the charring of meat will definately be carcinogenic. But the level injested and increased risk of cancer would be pretty marginal compared to major risk factors like smoking.

You might be more at risk from inhaling the smoke from the BBQ charcoal than eating a nice blackened steak.

[gsmittle]

If you grill my steak until it is well done your health is in danger for sure, and not from cancer.

True that!

g.

[Hellrazor]

If you grill my steak until it is well done your health is in danger for sure, and not from cancer.

Chef Crispy Critter

We have one of those guys who hunts with us. When he says the grilled food should be done in 10 minutes, you get yours now or you might mistake it for charcoal.

[MikeMcCoy]

Heterocyclic amines formed from the charring of meat will definately be carcinogenic. But the level injested and increased risk of cancer would be pretty marginal compared to major risk factors like smoking.

You might be more at risk from inhaling the smoke from the BBQ charcoal than eating a nice blackened steak.

I can't believe you made me break out a dictionary 3 times in one post.

[Tom Slick]

Just the fact that you are cooking over burning hydrocarbons should be a clue.

I love grillin'! cookin' beer in the butt chicken tonight for the 4th.

[jackellis]

We do steaks and fish over direct heat. Steaks until just barely medium rare, fish until just done.

Chicken and tri-tip are done using indirect heat. Chicken until just done and tri-tip medium rare.

We don't cook over direct heat often enough to worry about cancer. Driving to and from around here is a bigger risk, especially on holidays.

[Uncle Cracker]

I am convinced that someday it will be discovered that "laboratory animals" are born with cancer...