"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
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Cheri