Cooking with whey
 

wasn't sure whether to put this in tilted cooking or here.

Making shakes and other foods that don't include heating whey protein is fine and all, but i was wondering if I made say, cookies with whey protien in them if it would denature the proteins leaving me with a gross? tasting snack that doesn't even do anything good for my body. This ties on with putting whey in hot porridge, or cooking it one way or another.

Im pretty sure heating whey past a certain point nullifies the protein in it
not certain tho

Here's a really informative site on milk proteins and cooking

milk proteins and cooking

another site I read talked about all proteins coagulating under heat: eggs get firmer as does meat, but that firming up doesn't keep you from being able to digest it.

Thanks for the great link. I never thought about this but the thread really got me curious!

i'm still confused. since the whey is unstable at high heat, that means that it denatures and seperates from the milk, correct? and that's how we get our whey protien powder? or is that a seperate process?

Does the high heat nullify the protien that would be in the whey?

I used to make protein bread all the time a while back. It wasn't bad, it tasted a little flat but once you toast it and put something on it it wasn't bad. It's like anything else, you get used to it after a while and when you cut out all those carbs and replace them with protein it makes it worth while. As far as I know the protein content isn't affected under heat. There a tons of recipes for making bread-like foods from protein powders.

If you want to build muscle, you still need a lot of good carbs. You don't want to "cut out all those carbs".

Absolutely not. Without the energy from carbs you wouldn't be able to increase muscle mass. However this thread is concerned with "cooking with whey" and the ONLY reason you would do this is to increase your protein intake and to "cut out all of those carbs" that you will get by cooking with any type of flour. You certainly wouldn't cook with whey because it tasted better. :thumbsup: