I meant easier to chew, not easier to digest. I think raw meats are easier to digest, as I have said many times in the past. Using a knife was mentioned, which is true, but with tenderizing via low-and-slow cooking or fermenting or marinating, a knife is not needed for even tough cuts of meat.
The point being that rawists don't need to chew. I mean, I might quickly chew once as a reflex before bolting a bit of raw meat down and that's it. And rawists don't really need knives, that's purely for social reasons or convenience.
That makes less sense to me than what I wrote. Grinding meats is basically partially pre-digesting them.
I disagree. Grinding isn't the same as improving digestion - if that were true, then many highly-refined/processed foods would be much easier to digest than raw, whole ones, which isn't the case. That's why I'm highly sceptical of dodgy pemmican/easier digestion claims. At any rate, this point re easier digestion with bolting rather than chewing is widely reported in RVAF circles. Also the fact that carnivores don't bother chewing and just bolt meats down does indicate the lack of need to do so on a raw diet.Though, given the lack of enzymes in cooked meats, it's obviously essential to chew those for better digestion.
I'm glad you mentioned the bolting method again. This is a carnivore method of eating. I know you don't view humans as carnivores, so why do you think humans are adapted to bolting?
Omnivores such as bears are also adapted to bolting. It doesn't mean a thing, therefore.
I specified tough (raw) meats. If it's not tough, it's not what I was talking about. Not long ago I was eating a tough cut of raw meat and it was taking far, far longer to eat it than ground raw meat, because I had to cut it up in small bits. My time was limited that night and the next day, so I quit and the next day I low-and-slow cooked the remainder and was able to finish it at a far more rapid pace. It was way too chewy when raw. I doubt anything I say or show you will change your mind, so you are free to disagree. I'm just reporting my experience. Maybe it was a fluke piece of raw meat, but I guarantee it was tough.
Precisely my point. It's not natural to chew raw meats, just tear off bite-sized chunks and bolt it down. That's what I did, in the past with raw lung which is full of cartilage. As for claims re toughness of raw muscle-meat, I've never come across anything too tough that had to be cooked. Unless you count those irremovable left-over connective tissues left connected to the bone on leg of lamb/mutton, but those are so tiny they are not worth bothering with.
1) I prefer not to use your bolting method, 2) this meat was too tough for me to tear and not worth the risk of potentially damaging some of my still-somewhat-fragile lower teeth, 3) I was eating with my parents who would likely have thought me insane if I used your tear-and-bolt method with a big, bloody piece of raw meat--just eating raw meat in front of them was probably about the max shock they could handle at the time, and 4) my parents ate their cooked meat much faster than I was eating my raw meat (until I later low-cooked mine), so they weren't impressed, unfortunately. Next time I'll use ground raw meat, which I can eat much faster with a spoon or fork than I can tough meat with a knife.
It's sad that when eating a natural diet that people feel the need to avoid more natural methods of eating that same food. In my own case, I often just tear off with my teeth and bolt when by myself, but, of course, in public, I just select raw animal foods that don't require that method such as scallops or raw oysters.
I should mention that when I first started rawpalaeo, my teeth were practically about to fall off, so that I was absolutely terrified of chewing any raw muscle-meats in case my teeth came off. The result was that I was willing to age raw meats/organs for several days so as to soften them, plus I was more willing to eat the softer organs or softer raw animal food such as raw seafood, and I was forced to bolt down my raw foods without chewing.Once my teeth became really strong with this diet, I had no problems with chewing but didn't go back to it as I didn't feel the need any more.
I don't consider RawZi necessarily "a very finicky kind of" person just because she used a knife. Nor do I consider people who chew their food to necessarily be very finicky. I do consider calling people very finicky for such minor, strange reasons to be insulting.
That's just absurd. "Finicky" is not a terribly wounding word, it just suggests that people who use knives/chew a lot are wasting their time, nothing more, and I wasn't singling our RawZi in particular, just you.
Yes, that's the essence of my original point. I was using a knife at the time. A standard stainless steel steak knife wasn't even able to cut the meat, so I had to switch to a very sharp knife.
Well, if you feel you have to use a knife then fine,but it's then not accurate to suggest that raw meat is more difficult to eat, in a general sense.
