Carbon monoxide, nitric oxide, and nitrogen dioxide levels in gas ovens related to surface pinking of cooked beef and turkey
1998
Cornforth, D.P. | Rabovitser, J.K. | Ahuja, S. | Wagner, J.C. | Hanson, R. | Cummings, B. | Chudnovsky, Y.
Carbon monoxide (CO) and total nitrogen oxide (NO(x)) levels were monitored duri ng meat cookery with a standard Ovenpak and a new ultralow-NO(x) (ULN) cyclonic gas burner. With the standard burner, CO varied from 103 to 152 ppm, NO(x) was 1 .3-10.7 ppm, and surface pinking was observed on both beef and turkey. The ULN b urner at optimal efficiency produced only 6.7 ppm of CO and 1 ppm of NO(x), insu fficient to cause surface pinking. To determine the relative contribution of CO and NO(x) to pinking, trials were also conducted in an electric oven with variou s pure gases. Pinking was not observed with up to 149 ppm of CO or 5 ppm of NO. However, as little as 0.4 ppm of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) caused pinking of turkey rolls. Beef roasts were pink at >2.5 ppm of NO2. Thus, pinking previously attri buted to CO and NO in gas ovens is instead due to NO2, which has much greater re activity than NO with moisture at meat surfaces.
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