hoops
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Post by hoops on May 28, 2011 12:13:05 GMT -5
This has been bugging me for quite a few years now. I'm hoping a butcher whose an old timer can answer some questions. I'm 67 years old and have noticed over the last 20 years or so that the beef you buy in stores has changed. There use to be a time when you could reheat leftover beef and it would taste just as good as it did the day you first cooked it. Nowadays if I reheat leftover beef in the microwave, on the barbecue or in the oven the beef tastes terrible. Besides that, sometimes when I'm cooking beef I get the idea there's water in it.
What has changed over the years? Why does beef taste so bad when reheated? Are the meat producers injecting water in the beef? Is there a work around for reheating beef so it will maintain the original flavor?
Thanks in advance.
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Post by BBQ Butcher on May 28, 2011 12:37:58 GMT -5
This has been bugging me for quite a few years now. I'm hoping a butcher whose an old timer can answer some questions. I'm 67 years old and have noticed over the last 20 years or so that the beef you buy in stores has changed. There use to be a time when you could reheat leftover beef and it would taste just as good as it did the day you first cooked it. Nowadays if I reheat leftover beef in the microwave, on the barbecue or in the oven the beef tastes terrible. Besides that, sometimes when I'm cooking beef I get the idea there's water in it.
What has changed over the years? Why does beef taste so bad when reheated? Are the meat producers injecting water in the beef? Is there a work around for reheating beef so it will maintain the original flavor?
Thanks in advance. What has changed over the years is a lot of your beef, pork and poultry have been enhanced with a salt solution, water, natural flavors (!!! LOL) and other goodies by the processor. In return, they get longer shelf life and more profit (by adding weight). They even pack the beef with a whiff of carbon oxide before they wrap it in order to keep the meat red Here is a good link about Enhanced MeatWalmart and Super Target are the major offenders, as far as I'm concerned and I will not buy meat there. I know of no good way to serve the leftovers, sorry.
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Post by hoops on May 30, 2011 18:33:58 GMT -5
BBQ Butcher, thank you very much for the info. It solves the mystery and it's criminal. It seems the stores would give us a choice between enhanced beef and non-enhanced beef. I think I'm going to start buying range fed beef.
Thanks again for the info.
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