What's in your hamburger?

Grant · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:35 pm Post subject: What's in your hamburger?

http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/pinkslime-ammonia-ground-beef.htm

From another article:

The product is made from bits of meat left over from other cuts. It's heated and spun to remove the fat, then compressed into blocks for mixing into conventional ground beef. Because it's so lean and inexpensive, producers often mix it into fattier meat to produce an overall leaner product.

So they take the left over scraps and mix it with cheap, fatty ground chuck to make the cheapest version of burger available. No wonder ground beef is $.99/lb at the supermarket and $5/lb at the Farmer's Market. It's not the same product. It's like comparing a shank to a T-bone and complaining about the price difference!

I buy my beef from a friend that raises cattle. I'm glad I know what's in my hamburger.
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jw · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 6318 Location: Nevada

wild elk is what's in my 'hamburger', no 'fat' added
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skookumchuck · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 1:59 pm Post subject:

Lips and assholes.

Kind of like the OT.

Grant · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 2:00 pm Post subject:

skifreeK · Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 11426

A bit more of this and you guys are going to have me telling tales from the time I spent working as the slaughter hand at the hog plant back in the day. Been there, done that.

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Should I be worried that my black bean burgers are full of seeds and stems?
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giffordpinchot · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:46 pm Post subject:

My hamburger used to graze a few miles away. The meat tastes quite a bit different from what I'm used to from the store and is really good. Not placebo different, but actually different. My only complaint is that it's so lean that it took a while to get used to cooking with it. (hint, bbq and bleu cheese burgers don't hold together very well on the grill).

I do struggle with the effective $8/lb I'm paying for it, though. That price includes t-bones and hamburger.

chemman · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2012 5:04 pm Post subject:

So almost always you can find round or chuck for the same price or a dollar more than ground beef, I usually grab a big old roast and give it to the butcher to grind, I like it better than beans!
Laughing

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jellero · Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 3:39 am Post subject:

buy local, grow your own, stay away from food places with plastic signs and/or those that sell tires. j

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