Hauora in Science

Aim: I want to find out how long meat can be preserved?

Method: Try to preserve meat with salt, sugar, and honey.

Which of these ingredients will preserve the meat the best?

1. Put 1 piece of beef the size of a potato into a zip-lock bag and then put salt into the bag. 

2. Then put the next piece of beef same size as the last into a zip-lock bag and then put sugar into the bag.

3.Finally put the last piece of beef the same size as the last two into a zip-lock bag and then put honey into the bag. 

Observations: 
Conclusion:

Honey Meat.

"The honey meat looked like a raw juicy piece of meat."

"The honey meat smelt like honey."

"The honey meat felt like a normal piece of meat."

"The honey meat sounded like a squishy plastic bag."

1 week later.

"the meat looked human feces and smelt so bad I can't even explain it, also it felt like tender hunky meat."

Discussion:

• What I found out:  Meat must be dried before preservation.
• I found out that salt, sugar and honey can kill bacteria. Salt drys out bacteria.
• You can dry out meat with salt.
• Why was my meat rancid. My meat was rancid because there was still moisture in the meat.
• What can I do next? Restart the procedure but to hang up the meat.

Video credits to Steve's Kitchen

Equipment:

• Honey
• Meat
• Salt
• Sugar
• Sanitary Gloves
• Zip-lock Bags/Sandwich Bags