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I recently saw someone make a fake ribeye with "meat glue" (Transglutaminase AKA) on you tube. While this video talked about passing off cheap cuts as better cuts, I am referring to its legitimate uses. There is chat here and here on its use in veggie burgers, fake crab meat, etc., etc.

As a farm to table foodie, the fresher the better, the less processed the better. I'm not even a Michelin star fan since IMO I find the food generally over-processed and fussy. Plus I HATE smoke and foam! OK, grandstanding over.

How do you pros and great cooks feel about this stuff? I know transglutaminase is cost-effective, and easy. I understand you get what you pay for. I know that all food is chemical. But all that aside, are you comfortable eating it? And, why?
 

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Did a little research. Ewwww!

According to the LA Times, meat glue was developed by the US military as a less expensive way of feeding soldiers back in WWI and WWII. The military then backed out and industry took over.
The Seattle Times talks about how the meat industry has been operating in the dark for decades with this stuff. It is widely used in meat and non-meat products, and not listed on labels. It is everywhere! Caseless sausage, pizza toppings, tofu, dairy, thickeners, are just a few. It is scary how many items this blood derivative is in.
Chefross, look at Delishably: Food poisoning risk may be increased if this product is not cooked through since the outside of meat is now inside. Medium rare, lol! According to them, McNuggets are also in the mix. This referenced article is worth a read; interesting speculation on health issues too.

I wish this was fake news!
 

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What if I told you, the meat industry will take all the little scriggly bits of meat, and fat, even from different parts of the animal (the head, the RUMP, the ribs, even the tail maybe), going so far as to scrape down the bones...they'll even combine the scriggly bits from DIFFERENT ANIMALS in the same batch. They'll take these bits, all the nasty things in a pile that you don't even want to eat, and then they'll run them through this giant industrial machine that literally CHOPS THE MEAT MECHANICALLY into little tiny bits. It basically pre-chews the meat for you...it's so gross. PRE CHEWS you guys. It just chops and mixes all the meat and FAT together, and then these people will package it in boxes and add CARBON MONOXIDE GAS (a known POISON to all animals, including HUMANS, according the FDA, CDC and USDA) to keep the meat from oxidizing. They then send this POISON GAS CHOPPED MEAT on trucks into local supermarkets and restaurants. People eat this stuff!

This stuff must be stopped. I'm no expert or anything (I have read a couple of articles I found on google) but that won't stop me from rampant, baseless speculation about potential harmful effects (CANCER! LUPUS! FLOURIDE! VACCINES!) of a product I hadn't heard of until two days ago and have never seen nor used in real life!

What if I told you, there is a product that millions of people around the globe eat on a daily basis, that is based around the SLAUGHTER and processing of young veal calves!! These inhuman barbarians KILL helpless baby cows, and then rip out their stomach and freeze them, grind them, and mix them with chemicals like di-hydrogen monoxide and sodium chloride. This extracts an ENZYME made from calves stomachs that is used in industrial food production!

People actually hook helpless cows up to MACHINES that pull the liquid from inside the animals mechanically...this liquid is often left to SIT OUT at room temperature for several hours or even OVERNIGHT to sour! Then they add this chemically extracted enzyme (remember sodium chloride and di-hydrogen monoxide) to the liquid and heat it up so all the fat, gloppy sour protein chunks coagulate into a mass of lumpy white fat globs. Then they strain this mess and, get this, allow it to just sit there for anywhere from a few weeks to a few years!! Sometimes they even add MOLD on purpose to this stuff. People eat mold and might not even know it! This stuff is RIDDLED with bacteria that just feasts on it. GROSS! People eat this--they sprinkle it on their pasta, put it on pizzas! Both the FDA and the USDA say it is "safe." I'm not buying it!
You gotta love it! :rofl:
 
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