It's much better and safer to buy beef and grind it yourself. For ground beef or hamburger meat, just use chuck. Why do I say this?
Your pack of ground beef usually comes for many cows from many countries
all mashed up into that 1 pack. The problem with that it that each cow
that goes into each package increases the odds of diseases like E.coli entering your meat.
Worse, when the meat is ground, the surface area is increased many fold, allowing for more risk of contamination. When you buy a piece of meat to grind at home, all these factors not only fall away, you get to choose the piece you want as well!
Most places don't label the country source of their meat but they do at Costco. The label scared me - one pack of beef contained beef from like 6 countries including (if I remember correctly) - USA, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand etc. Ewww...
Worse, when the meat is ground, the surface area is increased many fold, allowing for more risk of contamination. When you buy a piece of meat to grind at home, all these factors not only fall away, you get to choose the piece you want as well!
Most places don't label the country source of their meat but they do at Costco. The label scared me - one pack of beef contained beef from like 6 countries including (if I remember correctly) - USA, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand etc. Ewww...
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