No other method removes as much blood. When salting and soaking of the meat is also done, the meat can be said to be free from blood and acceptable for consumption according to Biblical principles. Typically, when animals are killed at a non- kosher slaughterhouse, they are stunned with a bullet to the head, then they are killed, and often lay around for a number of hours before they are sliced open and drained of their blood. While the animals lay around waiting to be drained, the blood pools in the muscles. At this point no amount of draining or cooking will cause the blood to leave the meat.
Cooked blood is still blood.
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