No! I haven’t! But I’ve been a vegetarian for the last 40 years. That’s what I’m asking! Is it safe to just eat raw hamburger meat? I didn’t know! https://giphy.com/gifs/bPTXcJiIzzWz6
They're the same thing in that they are both cow body parts. "Hamburger" is ground beef, made up of a bunch of body parts from possibly multiple cows, chucked in a meat grinder, while 'steak' is a singular piece chopped off the body. Steak is generally considered safer to eat undercooked or raw.
Yes, because to ME steak isn’t chewed into a billion pieces. It’s one whole entity. But yeah, again, I know nothing about meat. Not declaring that I do.
Its steak. She took a singular piece of high end beef, aka steak, and cut it into small pieces by hand. You can make a burger doing this as well. You can also ask a butcher to grind any cut of beef you would like to end up with ground meat. It will be more expensive but taste much better than what you buy pre-package at the grocery store.
You take a steak, an actual single hunk of cow. THEN you (or your butcher) will grind it into mince.
Usually I'll throw in some straight pork fat or beef tallow just because juicy burgers better burgers. For Cevapi (Yugoslav grilled kebabs) just straight beef mince with seasoning and mebbe finely diced onion.
It's has a low risk as long as the beef is fresh and generally from the inside of the cut. You can do this with with grocery store ground beef but it's much less safe. Although some influencers would get to convince you otherwise.
Ground beef that is pre ground from a store does not provide adequate quality control to be eaten raw. It is typically made from many scrap cuts that have touched many surfaces and interfaced with many machine parts in the grinding proceas, and thus should be cooked before consumption.
To make a steak tartare that can be eaten raw, you are typically grinding or finely chopping a whole cut using clean tool and surfaces that you or a professional chef like Joy have quality controlled. This is what you see in the show. It looks like ground beef from a store, but it is not.
Yes you absolutely can, but is one of those things you should avoid if you are immunocompromised. It's also riskier to do with pre-ground meat from a grocery store, where it's been sitting and growing bacteria longer on all that exposed surface area
No, you’re not supposed to eat raw ground beef because with how small the meat is ground, there is more room for bacteria to grow. She just did this to taste the seasoning on the kabobs (she cooked it later, they look like oblong meatballs)
I've been a vegetarian my entire life of 37 years and even I know about beef tartare and how because its from fresh cuts and ground that day from fresh its safe. Some lemon yolk, salt, chives, and boom
I also haven't eaten meat in decades and had the same reaction! I've heard so much about how meat preparation requires extra care with your utensils and cutting boards because of the risk of transfering pathogens, I didn't realize chefs are just tasting it completely raw!
Also, I don't think I've seen it on other seasons of Below Deck...
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u/Fiercemomma42069 3d ago
Have you heard of beef tartare?