Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by DanBC 2581 days ago
> A beef patty is in essence just a steak, ground up, and mushed together.

Some beef patties are ground steak.

Others use mechanically recovered meat, where the bones left after butchering are sprayed with high pressure water to blast off any remaining scraps of meat.

One country had significant health scare where MRM was thought to be the highest risk product: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1482140.stm

1 comments

Can you still buy MRM beef patties in the US? From what I can find the process has been banned since 2004
The US still allows "pink slime", which is a different form of MRM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime#Current_use