Commentary for Menachot 41:6

ורב יהודה דידיה אמר אברים שצלאן והעלן אין בהם משום לריח ניחוח

The text [above stated]: 'Ze'iri said in the name of R'Hanina, If blood was cooked [and then one ate of it] one does not thereby commit a transgression'. Raba was sitting reciting this statement, when Abaye raised against him the following objection: If a man coagulated blood<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' He rendered it into a solid mass by much cooking.');">⁹</span> and ate it, or if he dissolved forbidden fat and gulped it down, he is culpable! - This is no difficulty, in the one case he coagulated it by the fire, in th other he coagulated it in the sun; if by the fire it will not resolve into its former state,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' So that it has lost entirely its character as blood, and therefore Ze'iri maintains that no transgression is committed when one eats thereof.');">¹⁰</span>

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