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Can you put a baby thorugh there?
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Not unless you stomp it flat first.
I once ordered a burger from Nathans while waiting for a train. They took a long time getting it ready to put on the grill, a very long time. I realized that I would miss my train if I waited any longer, so I told the person behind the counter, I have to leave now for my train, just put it on the bun as is.
It was what one would call blue rare, still cool on the inside, best dam fast food burger I ever had.
[QUOTE=BayleDomon]
I would imagine so. A common burger cooker at a fast food joint is a roller: you put the frozen patties in at one end, the chain conveyor takes them through the oven, and they come out cooked. There’s not an easy way to adjust the cooking process for a single burger patty. It’s about efficiency, not quality.
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When I worked at Macdonald’s this was not how we cooked burgers. Frozen patties were place on a big iron griddle and we pushed the button to start the timer some amount of time later the timer would beep telling us to flip the burgers then it would beep again telling us to put the patties on the buns. No choices about cooking time. Also not a lot in the way of tools or training to tell the state of doneness of the burgers I think that you would get anywhere from still frozen in the middle to done normally if you had the teenagers behind the grill try and make a rare burger.
[QUOTE=gazpacho]
Frozen patties were place on a big iron griddle and we pushed the button to start the timer some amount of time later the timer would beep telling us to flip the burgers then it would beep again telling us to put the patties on the buns. No choices about cooking time.
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Nowadays, it’s even more automated. The grills have a “clamshell” that closes on top of the patties, cooking them on both sides at the same time. When they’re done, the grill beeps at the cook, and the clamshell opens. There wouldn’t be any way to accurately cook them to a particular level of doneness, since you can’t even see them to judge.
[QUOTE=Ammonius Saccus]
I got a rare burger at a restaurant last week. I feel fine. They didn’t seem to be prevented by any laws. I doubt there is such a law.
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My search-fu isn’t up to much, because I can’t find it, but I do recall several months ago there was a pretty big piss-fest on the dope about food laws being enacted in some states that prevented burgers being served rare in restaurants. These came about because people demaned their rare burgers, the meat wasn’t as sanitary as they should have been, they got sick and sued the restaurant. Now I’m the biggest supporter of blue meat, but even I understand the simple concept behind why a restaurant (let alone one of the biggest food chains in the world) would want to avoid that sort of shit.
Besides, you’ve got to be a bit of a fucking retard not to understand “Have it your way” means “customise the already-prepared ingredients in a manner of your choosing”. Which includes a pre-cooked patty. You could choose to omit the meat from the burger, but you can’t un-cook it because the basic setup includes the patty in its fully cooked state.
It said “demanded” when I previewed, honestly!
[QUOTE=Sierra Indigo]
you’ve got to be a bit of a fucking retard
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I think the OP has already shown this to be the case.
[QUOTE=Ammonius Saccus]
I got a rare burger at a restaurant last week. I feel fine.
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For now.
This thread makes me nostalgic for a classic story of medical detection, Berton Roueche’s A Pig From Jersey.
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My friends in Belgium were always amused by my squeamishness about raw beef (ala steak tartare or “hamburger americaine”). “Whaddya whining about? It’s not like it’s chicken! Or pork! Sheesh!”
[QUOTE=capybara]
My friends in Belgium were always amused by my squeamishness about raw beef (ala steak tartare or “hamburger americaine”). “Whaddya whining about? It’s not like it’s chicken! Or pork! Sheesh!”
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Rare steaks are one thing-I love my steak medium rare. Rare burgers, on the other hand-huh uh. No way am I risking it. Besides, with all the crap I like on my burger (cheese, lettuce, onion, tomato, ketchup, mustard, and bacon), it’s not like I could appreciate the difference.
[QUOTE=FairyChatMom]
It’s amazing I have survived nearly 53 years, considering the number of rare burgers I’ve consumed, altho I will grant that I can only get that by cooking myself these days. Plus I’ve eated honest-to-goodness raw ground beef on more occasions than I can count with no ill effects that I can remember.
It probably helps that I keep my kitchen and my hands clean when food preparation is involved. Or maybe I just have a stomach of iron??
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And my best friend’s family, for most of her life, left the Christmas turkey out all night with stuffing in it and supposedly ‘never got sick’. I challenge people making this claim to verify that they never suffered ‘stomach flu’ after having done things like that.
Do you buy insurance? Well avoiding raw meat is like buying insurance; you might not need to do it all the time, but if you haven’t done it you’ll curse yourself should something happen.
Turns out my dad never refrigerated mayonnaise! Not sure how they managed other than maybe the vinegar was sufficient to keep organisms at bay but that’s not a chance I’m willing to take either.
Bottom line; you’re welcome to decide you’re willing to accept the risk and fly in the face of caution, but never think that just because it hasn’t happened to you it never will. My house hasn’t burned down but I still buy insurance.
Since the OP had it his way, it’s time to close the thread.