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Question

how come if you eat a burger not cooked right you get food poisoning.....but if you eat steak thats still bleeding you dont?

Answer 1

The burger is made from minced beef, this could consist of meat from all areas of the cow including some that are not so nice or meat which has come into coatact with this not so nice meat! Stak however is a nice juicy lump of meat!

Answer 2

The problem is almost never with the meat/beef itself but the handling of it. For Decades, the Japanese serves raw beef, and so does the europeans in steak tartar without any epicdemics.
The insides of a steak are naturally protected as most food born bacteria takes long to penetrate into the center unless it's cut open. As you cook a steak, it's done from the outside in, so effectively killing off the majority of bacteria which is on the outer surface areas.
But burgers passes through a grinder and that is far more the problem than mixing different parts of the animal together. A lot of the past problems with burgers were due to improper cleaning of the grinder. When a contaminated grinder mince up pieces of beef, it effectively spreads the germ through out the entire content inside and out which will multiply at a much faster rate. Thus causing food born illness when eaten undercooked.
Don't take my word for it. Next time, buy 2 pieces of identical steaks in one package and chop one up into burger by hand with a clean knife on a sanitized cutting board. Now, cook them the same way and you'll get the same results after you eat it. I assure you.

Answer 3

Bacteria on a piece of steak will spread over the surface but will not migrate below the surface. When the steak is cooked any bacteria on the surface is destroyed by the heat, that's why it's safe even if it's bloody inside. Burgers are made from meat which may have had bacteria on the surface, and should therefore always be ordered well done. Anyone ordering a burger otherwise is asking for trouble.

Answer 4

Its probably not a bug in the meat that makes you sick from the burger, but from the conditions its cooked in or the other bits and pieces which get put in it. Steak is just a slice of meat, so hasn't had the same amount of additional ingredients and products which can make you ill.

If you have a decent, homemade or high quality burger, you can eat it rare.

Answer 5

The reason is that burger meat can be preground and human handled more and also sitting around for a much longer period in order to possibly collect bacteria to cause food poisoning while steak does not usually stay around that long nor handled as much by store personnel.

Answer 6

Minced meat has a larger surface area.
It is still possible to get food poisoning from Steaks. I am a great fan of fillet steak cooked 'blue' and in some restaurants I have had to give my name and address details and sign a disclaimer so that if I become ill I can't sue them!!

Answer 7

You can get food poisoning from both!
Blood is what contains a lot of problems.
So eating your steak bleeding is bad too.
For burgers... as everyone has said... basically more bacteria.
ALSO,
High temperatures cause bacteria to go into "hibernation" (they create spores)... when the conditions are back to normal, they "wake-up" again, and thatz when you are about to EAT IT!
So you need to cook your meat ENTIRELY so you kill the spores as well.

Answer 8

burgers are made from minced meat so before it is made into the burger it has more surface area in proportion to its size this means more meat comes into contact with air and pick up more bacteria, then when the meat is shaped it gets all mixed in together.
thats why burgers should always be served well done. If you want to eat rare burgers it would be safest to make your own minced meat with a good piece of rump, but why waste it on burgers ?

Answer 9

Not sure but I would guess the fact that beef burgers the meat has been minced thereby breaking it down and exposing more of the surfaces to bacteria thereby making it less safe. Also burgers tend to be made with eggs which of course we all know should be properly cooked to be safe.

Answer 10

it's because the meat is minced, therefore more surfacd area has been exposed to the air/elements, including the inside of the burger, whereas a steak the outside is only exposed and not the inside.

does that make any sense at all ? I just bored myself saying that, but strangley we were talking about it at work today and someone else mentioned it.