Can someone tell me, how an you get food poisoning from mince beef in burgers that you haven't cooked?!
Can someone tell me, how an you get food poisoning from mince beef in burgers that you haven't cooked?
properley on a bbq, yet you can eat rare beef steak????
Answers:
All meat contains bacteria on the surface of the meat, only very few inside, which is why you can eat steak rare. Minced beef is mixed about and processed, so the bacteria on the outside makes contact with every part of the meats surface. This means that when you come to make a burger, bacteria is on the outside, on the inside and everywhere on that particular part of meat, so needs to be cooked well done at above 70 degrees centigrade.
Food poisoning occurs when the bacteria is still present or produces toxins which are heat resistant.