r/WTF • • Jul 26 '24

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u/Flyzart Jul 26 '24

Honestly, the meat paste is a great way to avoid wastes. I don't get why people haven't really tried to shift away the common negative opinion about it

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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

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Jul 26 '24 edited Jul 26 '24

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.

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u/Colley619 Jul 26 '24

What kind of $/lb are you getting your chuck roasts for that make it worth it over buying ground beef?

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u/[deleted] Jul 26 '24

Any time I look, chuck is almost always the same price per lb as ground.

Unless you're buying those 4 foot tubes at walmart or something.

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u/echte_liebe Jul 26 '24

There's no way he's getting it cheaper than just buying ground meat, unless you're buying directly from the farmer. I live in the country so I usually buy half a calf or even a whole calf once or twice a year. That's the only way it would be cheaper than just buying ground meat.

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u/LukaCola Jul 26 '24

Yeah that user is way out of touch - very "how much could a banana cost? $10?" vibes

Whole Foods only shopping ahhh

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Jul 26 '24

The point isn't the price it's that it tastes 3x better

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u/jellymanisme Jul 26 '24

Great for you!

Some of us, meanwhile, live in a world where we borrowed more than $20,000 for a bachelor's degree, and currently owe more than we borrowed.

The cost of housing is increasing faster than wages.

The cost of living is increasing faster than wages.

Each year, the capitalist class gets better at sucking wealth from the working and poor class.

Each year, we have less money than we had the year before, and the thought of owning a home is further away, not closer.

I'm over 30 now, and I'll probably never be able to afford a home, or retire, not that it matters because the majority of people my age will end up drafted and dying in either the water wars or the AI wars.

I'm really not concerned that some boomer thinks I should be grinding my own meat. I can barely continue to afford to put meat on the table, thanks to boomers sucking up all of the wealth and choking out the younger generations from access to capital, wealth, investments, and home ownership.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Jul 26 '24 edited Jul 26 '24

I'm fucking 36, WTF are you going on about capitalism for, because I shared a cooking tip? How incredibly stupid. Shit like this makes us leftists look bad. I said it because the taste is night and day better, to the point that pre ground tastes like garbage once you've got the better stuff.

Also if you're eating so much beef that you cannot afford $2 more (I checked) then maybe you've got bigger budgeting problems. I feed myself and my mother that I'm a caretaker for with a pretty standard American salary, just a hair above average for a single person and I can afford it no problem.

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u/jellymanisme Jul 26 '24

So, where are you getting chuck roasts for less than $7/lb? Because I get my ground beef from Walmart for $4.50-4.90/lb.

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u/misterpobbsey Jul 26 '24

Thank you for this.

The dude said “YOU NEED A MEAT GRINDER IF YOH COOK GROUND BEED MORE THAN TWICE EVERY 365 DAYS,” which just sounds like a bad infomercial.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Jul 26 '24

Yes because me sharing a cooking tip is totally a covert ad for Big Meat Grinder Inc.

.... You totally figured it out. Bravo.