After hearing about the pink slime I bought a meat grinder.
I won’t buy hamburger meat again.
“After hearing about the pink slime I bought a meat grinder.
I won’t buy hamburger meat again.”
Not a bad way to go at all. Nothing beats fresh ground beef from fresh cuts of beef.
Our local Safeways will custom grind beef from meat you buy in their store. We wait until chuck goes on sale and have them grind it for us. Talking with store employees that work in the meat department, they do the exact same thing themselves.
Meat ground this way can be cooked ultra rare, say for grilled burgers, without fear of e coli because germs grow on the outside of fresh meat, not the inside. The problem with ground beef of course is that when it is ground, the surface germs get mixed up quite nicely throughout the whole ground beef product where they incubate if the ground meat isn’t properly handled.
Fast food restaurants “solve” the problem by cooking their hamburger patties into little disk-shaped pieces of coal, removing all flavor, all juiciness, and a great deal of the nutrition.
With fresh, custom ground meat, one can make truly yummy and nutritious burgers at home.
Not a bad option. I an lucky enough to have a local butcher that makes their own and I know what goes in it.