24. Why can you get away with cooking a steak rare but should cook a hamburger a

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24. Why can you get away with cooking a steak rare but should cook a hamburger all the way through? a. Steaks come from cattle that have been fed antibiotics and are sterile inside, thus they do not need to be cooked as long. Hamburgers come from less expensive cattle that have not been fed antibiotics and are thus full of bacteria. Steaks have been injected with a saline solution, which kills all bacteria and do not need to be cooked as long. This saline solution is not used on hamburger. Hamburger, being a ground meat product, may contain remnants of fecal matter spread throughout the meat and must be cooked all the way through to kill all the bacteria. Since this fecal matter may be on the surface of steaks it takes less cooking to kill the bacteria b. c. Actually you are perfectly fine fixing your hamburgers rare, just like steaks. There is no potential problem doing this d.

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The choice is (c).

While making hamburger we are using ground meat, all the inside meat is turned into outside meat, hence it has to be cooked well to kill all the bacterias. When we cook steak, the aim is to kill the bacteria on the outside of it.

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