Grilled Chicken

[Ibanez]

In an effort to save time during each week, I generally cook all my chicken breasts each week (12 in total) on my bbq, and then freeze the 10 I don't eat that day...

Question is this? Does freezing/refridgerating them lose any protein content in the breasts? I don't know if anyone out there has an answer, but I thought I would ask away, cause you never know....

Cheers :)

[proteinpowder]

I don't see why. The frozen chicken I buy has the same protein content. Its just a change in state from solid (frozen) to semi-solid (cooked).

[wedgylx]

I never heard of it affecting the macronutrients

[Ibanez]

Great, thanks for the reply. I wouldn't have thought so either, but always worth double checking :)

Cheers ppl!

[dinoiii]

Freezing actually tends to "stabilize" the protein!!!

Believe it or not, it is the heating it in the primary cooking process that tends to be the most detrimental (i.e. - protein degrading through separation of peptide bonds, etc...)

While I wouldn't encourage you to not cook your meat...it is likely a good idea to degrade it to the least degree. What I am trying to say...is that if you choose to freeze it - ONLY LATER TO REHEAT (again, heating doing the detriment to the peptides, etc...), this could be the potential problem thereby rendering your protein less beneficial (i.e. - measured in total quality grams).

[mismarymac]

Try marinating it in a simple teriyaki sauce with some powdered ginger, then grilling it partially, then when it comes time to re-heat it after defrosting, you won't be totally over cooking it.

[max von]

Try marinating it in a simple teriyaki sauce with some powdered ginger, then grilling it partially, then when it comes time to re-heat it after defrosting, you won't be totally over cooking it.

Sounds really good, Ill have to try that