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poppinfresco t1_iy4046n wrote

Reply to comment by Birdinhandandbush in Patty melt [homemade] by JesusJugs123

Oh it’s that what it is? Fun fact, ground beef is meat from a shitload of animals. Unlike a steak. Which is a single cut of meat from a single animal. It’s highly recommended to leave link in the middle of steaks. But unless I personally hand ground that beef, I would never touch that with pink in it. Two decades of working in a restaurant taught me to know better. I wasn’t sure what this was at all. Kinda surprised to learn it’s food

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ABigAmount t1_iy4bxvy wrote

It's mostly that ground meat (of any kind) is all surface area and surface area is where the bacteria is. With a steak you can eat it rare/raw in the middle because the surface area is just the outside and it gets the heat which kills bacteria. With ground meat there is a fuck ton more surface area, all the way through the patty.

You're right if you grind your own stuff or eat at a place which does it right before cooking, you're much safer. It's not a guarantee though.

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deadly_toxin t1_iy63i8t wrote

I buy my meat a half cow at a time (myself and a friend split one), and you wouldn't believe the amount of ground beef that comes from one animal.

I get what you are getting at - that slaughter houses and butcher shops likely don't separate per animal. But most likely the ground beef you buy is from one maybe two different cows. Which isn't any different than when you buy four filet mignons - there's a chance they may each be from a different animal.

That's not why it's not recommended to eat pink though. When you cook a steak you are cooking the area that has been exposed to bacteria. You can't do that with ground beef because all of it has been exposed to bacteria.

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