Rinsing cottage cheese to reduce sodium

I wouldn't rinse cottage cheese, but I do rinse canned beans, even low sodium ones. It does reduce the sodium content quite a bit.

Still wanna know who was flagging the posts - and why... Very mysterious.

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Zombie thread for something soooo disgusting! Is it for Friday the 13th? Ewwww.... don't wash your cottage cheese

I guess I just like gross stuff XD but I prefer the whey strained out of the curds and the curds rinsed off and let to dry a bit. And if I do it myself I can get it the way I like.

Gross bro.

Tacklewasher wrote: »

suzannesimmons3 wrote: »

Tacklewasher wrote: »

Just gotta ask.

Who is flagging the posts above? And why?

It was two years ago.....

Wow.

I'm usually good at seeing this and missed it completely.

K, call me a dumbass

I missed it, too!
Still gross though.

I don't care how old this thread is. I'm gonna respond anyway.

Rinsing cottage cheese for THREE WHOLE MINUTES? Put a timer on that. That's a long, long time. Is anything even left after all that water strains through the mush and runs down the drain? Plus, gross. No, I'll keep the sodium and the calcium, thanks. My blood pressure is excellent. I don't worry about stuff like that.

To reduce rinsing why not just get reduced sodium cottage cheese or no sodium cottage cheese.

Christine_72 wrote: »

missysippy930 wrote: »

I wouldn't rinse cottage cheese, but I do rinse canned beans, even low sodium ones. It does reduce the sodium content quite a bit.

By how much, and how do you log it?

How to Reduce Sodium in Canned Beans | Healthy Eating | SF Gate



healthyeating.sfgate.com/reduce-sodium-canned-beans-4219.html

^ see above, rinsing reduces sodium quite a bit, and many times low sodium is not available in some types of beans. My philosophy, why not rinse. It is quicker than using dry beans.

No, it wouldn't lower the carb count. Washing tuna doesn't take the fish away because that's the main ingredient. The gross part about rinsing your cottage cheese is that the water you're rinsing it in may be worse tasting than the sodium you're washing off. Depends on your quality of tap water but then you really kick it up a few notches by boiling the water first, cooling it down before your rinse. That's what clean eating is all about. Wash, rinse, repeat.

I eat cottage cheese several times a week and don't think I will be rinsing it.

jenilla1 wrote: »

JulieJoyScott wrote: »

I'm doing KETO, and wonder if rinsing 4% cottage cheese would lower the CARB count. (My brand has 5 carbs in 1/2 cup.) We don't have sodium concerns, so I probably couldn't do more than a 30-60 second rinse. Thanks in advance.

Carbs, fats and proteins are all part of the structure of the cheese curds themselves. That's like trying to rinse the carbs off your pasta or rinse the protein off your chicken. It would only lower the carb count if you rinse the cottage cheese right down the drain. That will lower all the macros and micros...LOL.

I'm gonna go rinse me some Reese's peanut butter cups right now.

Actually, it will increase the ratio of carbs to calories if you rinse off the cream (well, the liquid in old-fashioned homemade creamed cottage cheese was actually cream -- not sure if that's true of commercial cottage cheese) -- anyway, if you compare the USDA database entries for creamed and uncreamed cottage cheese, you'll see that the calories-to-carbs ratio in creamed cottage cheese is more than twice the calories-to-carbs ratio in uncreamed (dry curd) cottage cheese. The liquid that would be rinsed away is a different product than the curds you would be left with, and apparently the liquid is much less carb-y than the curds are. I guess if you didn't increase the serving size because you were rinsing part of it away, you might end up with slightly less total carb grams than you started with, but the food would be more carb-dense (proportionately) than what you started with.

runnerchick69 wrote: »

Ok admittedly this sounds really gross BUT with that said, I rinse ground beef. I've done this for several years now and it does sound disgusting to some people so I can't really judge the OP

I rinsed ground beef - once - back when fat was going to kill us all. Rinsed out all the flavor. Decided I'd prefer to live dangerously. Then it turned out that was all a Big Fat Lie.