How does our stomach know which food should be passed on to the intestine and which should still remain there for digestion?

Question

Assuming I eat some food which needs 4 hours of digestion in the stomach. 3 hours and 55 minutes later I eat something else which can get more easily digested but still needs, let‘s say 1 hour, of digestion. How does our stomach know what to pass on and what to keep?

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Answer 1

Everything gets dumped into the small intestine. Digestion happens there, too. The stomach breaks down proteins mostly. The carbohydrates and fats are digested mostly in the intestines.