/ck/ - Food & Cooking

For historical context, this fear of undercooked burgers goes back 3 decades to an isolated incident where a number of people got sick from eating a bad batch of meat from Jack in the Box, and is very much akin to the stigma created by some random Karen claiming that she got migraines from eating at Chinese restaurants because of the MSG. Now every Chinese restaurant needs to commission a neon “No MSG” sign to hang in the window if they want to do business, while the Karen will happily walk to the bar across the street and drink a gallon of ranch with her boneless hot wings without issue despite the second ingredient in Ranch seasoning being MSG. Likewise, the JitB incident led to reforms in the fast-food industry whereby every major chain now cooks their burgers well-done without exception.
Jack in the Box is, and always has been, one of the worst fast-food chains. Regardless of that, and the fact that the supply chains supplying ground beef to restaurants are completely different from those serving fast food places, the quality control and overall awareness of food safety issues has increased just as much as the technology surrounding it in the past 30 years.
The question then arises: if eating a burger with a little pink in the middle is so dangerous, how come every restaurant will cook your burger however you want? Yes, they put a disclaimer at the bottom of the menu about how eating raw meat/seafood/eggs can be dangerous so that they can’t get sued, but for a regular restaurant a single bad Yelp review could be enough to kill their business. If it was such a liability places wouldn't do it, and yet they do. Obviously, people aren't getting sick from eating medium-rare burgers, and being afraid of a little pink is basically on par with being afraid of going outside if there’s a slight chance of a thunder storm occurring in the vicinity.

B, obviously. It just eats better, which is why it's always been the standard. "A" is a literal meme, by places just trying to be different.

>>16243848
Reminds me of an ex. Convinced me for life that I'm definitely not into fat girls. I'm sure there's some good muscle under all that fat, though, and yeah I'd be really curious to see what it tastes like. Probably really depends on the location. I mean, Okavango Delta vs Ngorongoro Crater probably taste like night and day.

>>16225489
What's the problem?