Fridge burn?

[cjsmith]

Put a pound of ground beef in a self-defrost freezer and pretty soon it'll be brown around the edges.

Put it in the fridge and sooner or later you'll see a similar brown. I don't think my fridge crosses the freezing point, not since we lost an expensive bottle of insulin to that very thing and messed with the thermostat a tad. Is the blood simply draining out of the tissue? What's going on there?

Comments

[inflectionpoint.livejournal.com]

Be careful with ground meats. Unless you grind it yourself or see the butcher do it, you may be eating meat that's got a lot of bits and pieces of rather unattractive things in it. If it's coming from factory farmed meat that went through an industrial plant, there's a strong chance that there are bits of poop and other cow by products in it. Grinding will mix it all up together, and while most of us have enough of an immune system to not really care about these things, if you are elderly, or immune compromised, or just sorta sickly, it can be very bad for you.

Cook it thouroughly, and follow the usual food safety rules. I still eat meat, and I still eat ground meat, but I'm much more careful than I used to be, after learning more about Industrial Meat.

Friend of mine buys a half cow a year from a rancher, and grinds it herself. I wish I had enough meat eaters in my life and a big enough freezer to make that worth doing. I also wish I could buy a lamb and grind it myself. I'd be a Very Happy Girl, even if tired and covered in blood.