How Many Cows Are in a Pound of Ground Beef
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| If I grind one cod for ground beef then it's one cow..lol...I think the history channel should keep covering history..lol | |
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| Mass produced beef will be the end of our trade as local butchers. | |
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| At my company, we do not utilize any tube grinds..everything is produced from block trim and whole muscle meat..shoulders, clods, tips...etc. We have full traceabilty from farm to customer.. | |
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| 1700 animals seems like a high number. The possiblity is certainly there, if a slaughterhouse kills 1700+ head a day, but for it to all end up in one pound of finished product?? A quick calculation.. 1 lbs = .454 grams/1700 animals = 0.00026g. | |
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| that caint be rite can it? HUNK IT AND CHUNK IT | |
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| I am sure it is probably fairly accurate. Have you ever seen the size of the hoppers that lift the meat into those gigantic mixers, each mixer on the higher end of mass producers can hold up to 10,000 pounds of meat at once. Thus the trackability back to the ranch from tube grind is so unpredictable. They can only trace whole batches. | |
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| we offer both. we have chubs we label ground...but we also offer fresh grind from trim and lean muscle meat we label chopped, but it is from boxed beef. I explain it to customers but most of them get a confused look on their face. lol. jeffrey d. wilkey | |
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| we have chubs we label "ground' but we also grind fresh from trim and lean muscles(tips, clods) and label chopped. I explain this to customers and they get a confused look on their face.lol. jeffrey d. wilkey | |
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| We use no tube grind. It all comes from trim and whole muscle. Given current cost, right now it's clods, under blade chucks, mocks and that ratty piece out of the gooseneck. It pains me to grind tips so I don't if I can avoid it. Have you seen or heard of the vacuum machines that suck meat off of bones? They use them in the huge processing facilities i.e. cargill, excel, swift, nebraska beef. It spins the bones at a high speed and at the right temperature and velocity the remaining meat on a bone will slide off and they'll use that in their tube grind. Nothing goes to waste...but do you necessarily want it in circulation for human consumption? I don't think so. | |
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| I don't use any of that tube ( ready) grinds. I get in the frozen import and use that along with my trims . Holds up a lot better for me. Holiday Foods, Santa Claus, Ind. Santa's favorite butcher shop. | |
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| I just use the trim as well | |
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A History Channel statistic, One pound of hamburger that heads to a chain store could include parts from as many as 1,700 cows.