• girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Hint: Don’t eat any raw, rare, or medium cooked ground beef.

    ‘Well done or none’ is the general rule.

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        6 months ago

        I’m Canadian and ALL hamburgers are cooked to well-done up here, no matter where you order from or who cooks them.

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        6 months ago

        Not really. E coli is found on the outer layer of mass-killed beef meat so can be destroyed by “light” cooking. Grinding meat up mixes the E coli throughout so to destroy it you have to cook the meat completely.

        In smaller abattoirs the contamination problems may not be so bad … but there aren’t many of those left.