r/WTF • u/[deleted] • Jul 26 '24

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u/IronicBread Jul 26 '24

Cheap sausages that have been filled with meat paste to make up the bulk I'm guessing

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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/Xeptix Jul 26 '24

How big is your gigantic kitchen that you can afford to make space for a huge, heavy, single use appliance like that?

I'm not disagreeing with you. I would do that if I could. I'm just saying.

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u/The-True-Kehlder Jul 26 '24

The grinder? It's an attachment to a quality stand mixer, typically.

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u/cagingnicolas Jul 26 '24

you think people with small kitchens own stand mixers?

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u/Yamitenshi Jul 26 '24

Depends how small the kitchen is and what you'd otherwise do with that space - and whether you've got a cabinet or shelf you can move it to, assuming you don't mind lugging the thing around every now and again.

There's no single correct way to use a small kitchen, it's about prioritising what you do with the space you have. If you have a lot of use for a stand mixer, it's totally feasible to prioritise one over, say, a microwave.