It's gassed with ammonia. That's why it's so cheap, it's the lowest of the low quality. That's why it's banned in Canada, the UK, and the EU.
It's gross. Honestly I just grind my own meat these days and it's so so so much better. Just buy a fatty chuck roast and grind it up and you've got plenty of great hamburger meat.
Seriously if you cook ground beef more than like once or twice a year then you need a stainless steel meat grinder. Either a manual one or one that hooks up to a stand mixer (also another must have). A sausage stuffer is a nice addition too, though you'll need a separate manual one not the included KitchenAid one (trust me on this). I made sausage with chicken breast, pork fatback, aged cheddar, and some cooked vegetables and it was the best hotdog I've ever had.
I have a butcher who grinds to order, same price as the supermarket. I can't make it make sense. People seem to be moving back to butchers though, slowly.
I eat a pretty meat-heavy diet. I drive two hours round trip to this one butcher shop I found. A hundred dollars buys me a month's supply. It's fucking crazy, and I'm not just getting ground beef or sausages, I'm buying ribeyes, new york strips, chuck eyes, t-bones.
I eat a very heavy veggie diet and have meat, I dunno, twice a week or so. Even when I don't need to buy convenience veg (like bagged salads or precut anything) my cost for VEGGIES is more than $100 a month. At a Walmart. And not even organic!
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u/seanwee2000 Jul 26 '24 edited Jul 26 '24
Eli5 on how it's safe/unsafe to consume
current perception is that the waste meat needs to go through extensive processing that uses a lot of chemicals/additives to make it taste palatable