Quality counts at Grind Burger KitchenVoice-Tribune review by Robin GarrWhen you're buying a car, a suit, a pair of shoes, a watch, or even a hamburger, quality makes a difference. Leather seats or plastic in your family limo? All-weather wool from Armani or shiny polyester from T.J.Maxx? Mephisto loafers, or sneakers from Payless? Tag Heuer or a fake Rolex?
Oh, hell, this is too complicated. Let's go get a burger.
Or not.
When we're in the market for luxury, quality may look and feel good, but you can cut corners without jeopardizing life and limb. Cut corners on ground beef, and you may be taking more of a risk.
It may not happen often, but cheap ground beef has a record: It can kill you. A food poisoning outbreak in 1993, attributed to a virulent form of E. coli in hamburgers, sickened 700 people and killed four children.
The problem with industrial ground beef, experts say, is that you don't know where it comes from, and you don't know where it's been. Worse, everything gets mixed together. "If pathogens are present when meat is ground," warns the United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, "then more of the meat surface is exposed to the harmful bacteria. Also, grinding allows any bacteria present on the surface to be mixed throughout the meat."
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But there's a way to have your ground beef and eat it too, safely and with real enjoyment: Stick to meat from locally produced, grass-fed critters, grown by folks you can meet face to face at the farmers' market. In Louisville, I suggest Bluegrass Burgers, 3334 Frankfort Ave., or the subject of today's dissertation, Grind Burger Kitchen, the recently established land-based operation of the city's popular Grind Burger Truck. ...
Read my full review on LouisvilleHotBytes.com:
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/quali ... er-kitchenand in the Voice-Tribune:
http://www.voice-tribune.com/life-style ... r-kitchen/Grind Burger Kitchen3311 Preston Highway
851-7333
http://louisvillegrind.blogspot.comhttps://facebook.com/louisvillegrindRobin Garr's rating: 85 points