Kokopelli wrote:
>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>Gary wrote:
>>> graham wrote:
>>> Bruce wrote:
>>>>> But isn't hamburger meat beef?
>>>>>
>>>> Here we go again! :-)
>>>
>>> Hi Bruce. "Hamburger" is officialy zebra meat, or sometimes wolverine
>>> meat. Nothing special. Occasionally you get some horse meat mixed in.
>>> I like it.
>>
>> Um, most hamburger is mystery meat.
>>
>
>I call BS on that one.

Any resto burger or stupidmarket preground is indeed mystery meat.
There is only one way to know what/who is in ground meat, grind it
yourself. The fanciest priciest butcher shop is the biggest cheater,
even if you pick a steak to be ground and watch it being ground you
have no way to know what was ground previously and is still in that
(probably dirty) grinder body, a large commercial machine can easily
hold two pounds of meat... you'll get some ground scraps/trimmings and
the butcher will get your ground steak. When I was a kid my mom would
send me to the corner bucher shop with a few stale rolls and and
onion, the butcehr know to grind the rolls first, then the two pound
boneless chuck steak and then the onion... no butcher would do that
nowadays, but they did back then or the business moved acoss the
street. I have two 'lectric meat grinders, I haven't bought mystery
meat ever. My grandmother never bought mystery meat, my mother never
bought mystery meat and neither have I... I always grind my own. It's
no big deal, when roasts are on sale I'll buy twenty pounds worth, my
machine will grind five pounds a minute, and takes five minutes to
clean up. No mystery meat burger tastes so good as one ground not ten
minutes ago, and when ground yourself you can cook it as rare as you
like, in fact you need not cook it at all and it's still perfectly
safe to eat, eat it raw if that's your thing. I prefer to trim beef
myself, I don't want any tendons, silver skin, gristle, and tumors in
my ground beef. And if making meat loaf/meat-a-balles think of all
the knife work saved by grinding the veggies and bread too. I'm
always shocked at how many who think they're a cook who don't own a
meat grinder... anyone who doesn't own a meat grinder is no kind of
cook, and a food processor does not substitute for a meat grinder, no
way, no how. In fact I'm always suspect of those who use food
processors, means they have no knife skills... someone who's
proficient with cutlery would not ever want a food processor, they'd
be embarassed to own one, and should be very ashamed.