How to pronounce “chew up” in English

Well, the experiment never ended. Here it is 2010, we're running out of address space, we need larger address space. We actually argued 32 bits, 128 bits, andvariable length. The variable-length guys lost, because the programmers said it's going to chew up a bunch of computer cycles to find the fields andthe packets, and so they didn't want to do that, so that was out the door.