Re: When cooking pork, can fat evaporate like the other juices and water?

Date: Mon Sep 12 19:10:24 2005
Posted By: Don Schaffner, Faculty, Food Science, Rutgers University
Area of science: Biochemistry
ID: 1122053086.Bc

Message:


The short answer to your question is no... fat will not evaporate.

Eventually, if you get it hot enough, you will start to burn the oil, but 
that won't happen until most of the water is evaporated.

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