Tacos for supper tonight and as I dumped the h’burger meat into the pan to brown it, I noticed an orange warning label.
“Thoroughly cook meat to 165 degrees. Use a meat thermometer.”
I know why this is there, because if you heat the meat to that temperature it will kill the bacteria living there. Didn’t they used to have Steak Tartar on the menus of restaurants? Is the warning label there to alert the one in 10,000 persons who might have a reaction to these bacteria? Or is it the more worrisome reason that the FDA has relaxed their standards at meat processing plants to such that bacteria that will harm everyone getting through?