how much liver do yall eat a week?

16characterstwas

Close to zero, but working my way up to once a week, chicken livers sautéed with lots of chopped onions, generously salted with a good squeeze of lime or lemon juice right before serving.

chudlord

@hcwilliams I've done up to 150g (6oz?) of liver daily for two weeks and felt basically fine, though for me vitamin A doesn't really do anything if I don't take zinc.

FitnessMikey

i got insomnia eventualy from daily 100g liver patee i make myself, but i am sensitive when it comes to folate, even if im deficient in folate, so yea it will be probably once a week bigger amound for me.

hcwilliams

@LucH large amounts of milk usually covers it for me. And oysters when I can muster up the palate

LucH

@hcwilliams said:

large amounts of milk usually covers it for me.

As long you listen to your body and take into account that your lactase enzyme is limited. Mind if bloating...
No problem for most people, unless your feritin level in under 15 µg/L. Then don't drink milk at the same time as your meal (2 hours window).
Explanation for other readers:
When there is a deficient crisis (Ferritin < 15 µg/L): When ferritin drops below 15 µg/L, the bone marrow is starving for iron. The liver completely shuts off hepcidin production, screaming at the enterocytes to upregulate DMT1 and absorb every single microgram of iron available.
For other people: a drop in 50 % for non-heme iron (plant) shouldn't cause any problem (reserve).

Mossy

I usually eat 2oz. of liver, twice weekly. But recently I've gone back to 1 serving of 4oz. The reason for the single, larger portion is so I can get it over with! I'm not a fan of straight liver, but liver pate can be considerably tastier. Coffee after eating liver is a natural compliment for me.

hcwilliams

@Mossy said:

I usually eat 2oz. of liver, twice weekly. But recently I've gone back to 1 serving of 4oz. The reason for the single, larger portion is so I can get it over with! I'm not a fan of straight liver, but liver pate can be considerably tastier. Coffee after eating liver is a natural compliment for me.

I couldn’t stand liver and I started frying mine in lots of butter and HEAVILY salting it and now i find it delicious

Ena

I agree that proper salting makes a huge difference in flavour. When you find the right seasoning, lamb liver becomes delicious.

I buy the smallest portion of fresh lamb liver I can find and fry it all. It must not be overcooked. I store it in the fridge and have a little every 2-3 days for lunch together with cold, well-cooked broccoli, also from the fridge. Just cut both into pieces and add more salt.

hcwilliams

@Ena does overcooking it destroy the nutrients or is that your preference

Ena

It's just my preference, but because of your question I became curious about nutrient status, so I did some research.

First, there seems to be consensus that overcooked liver becomes grainy, tough, and bitter, but mostly retains its nutritional content.

In addition, I learned that liver is not just liver. Chicken liver, lamb liver, pork liver, veal liver are not the same.

I was puzzled by an article discussing different cooking methods of chicken liver,
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7600162/
not so much because of the preparations, but because it deals with folate, which I didn't consider particularly important in liver.

But I was wrong, and it turns out that lamb liver just doesn't have that much.

Cronometer comparison of 100 grams of liver

hcwilliams

@Ena duck liver ftw

Mossy

@hcwilliams Funny you mention this. I just fried some in a pan last night, and then covered it with sage butter, and it was considerably better than without it. Sage butter takes roughly 5 minutes to make, and adds quite a bit of flavor. There are variations of sage butter recipes. Some are as simple as butter and sage, I used butter, sage, salt, and garlic power. If I had more time, I would've used minced garlic.

P.S. Maybe most important of all, I soaked it in milk hours before cooking.