Well, I lived in Belgium for 5 years and have eaten the filet américain
numerous times. Either I am a lunatic or the Belgians know what they are doing.
Cheers,
Nathan
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On Feb 23, 2013, at 12:27 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Sounds safe but it's not. Even if you get the butcher to mince/grind the meat
> before your very eyes, you have two problems.
> A. Is the grinder clean? They need to be rigorously cleaned frequently as -
> B. When meat is ground, the process heats it slightly. This encourages the
> rapid growth of any pathogen. It also distributes that pathogen throughout
> the meat and provides it with a vastly multiplied surface area on which
> to...multiply. When testing meat they reduce it to a paste and watch what
> grows. Ground meat is usually not too much of a problem if you eat it quickly
> as our gut can deal with low levels of most contaminants but any residual on
> the machinery is festering fast. And the machines are very difficult to clean
> adequately -especially in a small shop or even if you do it yourself at home.
>
> In other words, mincing meat scrap and even whole meat is a most effective
> way of poisoning people. Eating it rare is lunacy. Tartare should be chopped
> by hand with a broad knife.
> Andrew Fildes
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> On 23/02/2013, at 4:07 AM, Mike Lazzari wrote:
>
>>> Right, it just goes to show that one should not buy "frozen hamburgers made
>>> by Cargill" or any other such junk. The ground beef I eat is actually
>>> "simply a chunk of meat run through a grinder".
>> Same here (but mostly mutton). And I like to see it running around in my
>> neighbors' fields before I eat it. No mystery meat for me.
>>
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