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How long to marinate meat before cooking?

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How long do I need to marinate a piece of meat for flavor to penetrate all the way into it? Are there easy calculations based on the maximum thickness? Does it also depend on the kind of meat or sauce?

I marinated a pork loin for something like 18 hours. The flavor only got 30% from edge toward center. It was a little odd having the core of each slice without the same taste as the outer ring.

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Cutting meat matters (1 comment)
Cutting meat matters

This is probably obvious, but cutting holes or gashes into meat also affects how quickly it marinates. Muscle fibers go in one direction and it's easy for marinate to enter through them, so any cuts that expose open fibers will accelerate it.