Diff Between Patties and Ground Beef

June 04, 2022 Post a Comment

A human being claiming to be a McDonald's worker has revealed the one crucial difference between hamburger and quarter pounder patties, in a now viral video.

TikToker @essentialmcdonalds, who regularly shares behind-the-scenes footage coverage all aspects of the fast food giant, recently filmed the boxes both patties come up in.

The explanation says: "For those that recall the quarter pounder are frozen." It's had more than a meg views since being posted earlier this month.

He films the beginning box, which says "x:1 pure beefiness hamburgers," zooming in on the stamp which says "keep frozen."

While he next films "4:1 pure beefiness hamburger patties," used for the quarter pounders, which for contrast says "proceed refrigerated." And he zoomed in on the expiration date, revealing their short shelf-life.

In the comment section, the U.S.-based poster revealed what the numbers mean, proverb: "So 10:1 is ane 10th patties so 10 patties to a pound. 4:1 is quarter pound patties and so 4 to a pound."

While he added: "I've personally thrown abroad xiii boxes of these at once. They are NEVER frozen."

Their exclamation was backed up by some in the comments, with Ginna Dgo writing: "Let me tell you I'one thousand a managing director at McDonald's and the quarter pounder beef is non frozen."

Kendra Sauve wrote: "Quarter pounder meat is refrigerated and regular meat is frozen... I'thou a director at a McDonald'south."

Caleb J added: "It'south the 10:1's that are frozen. The 4:1'south are freshly made every time."

While BluGriff added: "Their walk-in cooler is connected to the freezer so it looks like information technology's in the freezer. I inspected 6 McDs and none were frozen!"

Some people expressed their surprise at the storage, as Roxi Anne Wilson claimed: "x years agone information technology was all frozen. It'due south squeamish to see real fresh ingredients existence used again."

Caleb Wilkie thought: "I'll never understand the anti-frozen food move in the kickoff place. It's an incredible nutrient preservation applied science and frozen food is oft fresher than the "fresh" alternatives."

POOPIEDO41 pointed out: "They don't understand that matter have changed ALOT since the 80s."

While Insubordinate Beauty Courtney commented: "Yes yous tin too gustatory modality the departure from fridge vs frozen."

A Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese. A viral video claims the quarter pounder patties are never frozen. McDonald'due south

The fast food concatenation is among the virtually popular in the world, with 39,198 global restaurants as of 2020, Statista reported.

McDonald's website claims its meat is "100 per cent real beefiness with no fillers, additives or preservatives."

Information technology wrote: "Nosotros use the trimmings of cuts like the chuck, round and sirloin for our burgers, which are footing and formed into our hamburger patties."

In the FAQs, the company explained cooking time varies on the burger, and how decorated they are.

It added: "As an example, if there are no other orders, the average time from when an club is placed to cook and set a Hamburger is a full of 112 seconds (the beef patty is cooked on the grill in 42 seconds) and a full of 180 seconds for a Quarter Pounder with Cheese (the beef patty is cooked on the grill in 112 seconds.)"

And seemingly explaining the difference betwixt the patties, the website added: "Our 100 percent beef is ground, formed into patties, and and then flash frozen. Flash freezing is when beefiness is quickly frozen to seal in fresh flavor.

"From the mean solar day information technology was formed, it commonly takes about 2 to iii weeks until the burger is served. We add salt and pepper to our burgers when they are cooked on the grill at our restaurants to bring out all that great beef taste."

All the same they had separate notes regarding the quarter pounders, saying: "We will serve 100 percent fresh beef Quarter Pounder burgers cooked right when you lot order.

"Quarter Pounder with Cheese features a quarter pound of 100 pct fresh beef that's hot, deliciously juicy and cooked when you lot society."

They clarified the quarter pound equates to "weight earlier cooking 4 oz. (ea.)," adding information technology's available at "most" restaurants in the U.South., except Alaska, Hawaii and U.South. Territories.

Newsweek reached out to @essentialmcdonalds and McDonald'south for comment.