McDonalds: You can make 7 quarter pounders from 1 lb of beef

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

humans are basically meat, and are 60-78% water. I wouldn't expect cattle to be vastly different.

 

[Red Squirrel]

TBH I'd be surprised if there is more then 10% beef in there. Fast food burgers don't even taste close to a real burger you'd make on the BBQ. Whatever filler they add, it still taste good, but it ain't beef.

 

[BUTCH1]

TBH I'd be surprised if there is more then 10% beef in there. Fast food burgers don't even taste close to a real burger you'd make on the BBQ. Whatever filler they add, it still taste good, but it ain't beef.

Well you wrong, McD's uses 100% beef patties, no fillers. Nowhere near as tasty as a backyard-cooked burger but it's real meat, not that fillers (mostly soy products) aren't allowed (they are) to a company as large as McD's it's not worth the hit the company would take if they used them in their products and besides when you buy in the kind of bulk they do your prices will be cheap enough anyway..

 

[Mike Gayner]

TBH I'd be surprised if there is more then 10% beef in there. Fast food burgers don't even taste close to a real burger you'd make on the BBQ. Whatever filler they add, it still taste good, but it ain't beef.

I can't speak for McDonalds in America, but the burgers here are 100% beef. I would imagine they're also 100% beef over there. Why people insist their must be some grand conspiracy is beyond me - doesn't it seem simpler that they just might use 100% beef?

 

[RadiclDreamer]

hmm when i worked there (granted its been damn near 20 years) we refered to them in the grill as 4 to 1 and regular hamburgers as 12 to 1.


also you guys do know even though its 1/4th pound BEFORE cooking it will not be 1/4th pound after right? so it is possible to have 7 of them (after cooking) to equal 1 lb

16 meat and quarter meat when i worked there 10 years ago

 

[iamwiz82]

Who cares? If it were any bigger it would be even worse for you. Stop being a cheap ass.

 

[Hacp]

http://liechtybuffaloranch.com/Buffalo-10-lb-Bulk-Burger.htm

 

[Red Squirrel]

Well you wrong, McD's uses 100% beef patties, no fillers. Nowhere near as tasty as a backyard-cooked burger but it's real meat, not that fillers (mostly soy products) aren't allowed (they are) to a company as large as McD's it's not worth the hit the company would take if they used them in their products and besides when you buy in the kind of bulk they do your prices will be cheap enough anyway..

How can they raise and kill enough cattle though? Don't they serve like 99 million (or is it billion?) people daily around the world? Considering not all cattle farms are strictly for mcdonald's it just does not seem possible to raise, slaughter and process and ship that many in a single day. Not only do they have to slaughter enough, but there has to be enough in process of being raised, so they can then be killed the next day etc...

Then there's chickens, that's even more crazy,though I think they aare killed much younger, so there are more produced in a shorter period of time, and they take less space.

Then again guess 1 cow can produce 100's of patties, so maybe it is possible, with millions of acres of farms dedicated to each fast food place. Would actually be interesting to see stats on this, probably quite impressive numbers.

 

[Red Squirrel]

http://liechtybuffaloranch.com/Buffalo-10-lb-Bulk-Burger.htm

Woah, do they also book you a room at the ER as part of the order?

 

[Zenmervolt]

%30 is the maximum fat that ground beef can contain, McD's almost certainly demands their supplier do better than that. If anyone remembers the "Mclean" which came in at just %10 fat and was healthier for sure, customers shunned it in droves and it had a short run because of it's dry texture. I also only use chuck for my burgers, just can't beat that taste!..

Eh, I doubt they push for anything much better. They certainly aren't going to push for anything better than the 20% fat in ground chuck since that's what most people buy for their burgers. I'll bet that McD's beef hovers right around 30% fat and I'm fine with that.

ZV

 

[Mike Gayner]

How can they raise and kill enough cattle though? Don't they serve like 99 million (or is it billion?)

99 Billion? You have a warped view of reality.

 

[Red Squirrel]

99 Billion? You have a warped view of reality.

Well that's what they state. Whether or not it's true, or what kind of time line it's based on, I don't know. Maybe it's yearly? They probably count the same person more then once, it probably goes by "transaction" but still, that's a lot of burgers per day.

 

[biggestmuff]

99 Billion? You have a warped view of reality.

You think McDonald's has only sold 99 million hamburgers? Talk about warped.

 

[Mike Gayner]

You think McDonald's has only sold 99 million hamburgers? Talk about warped.

Don't they serve like 99 million (or is it billion?) people daily around the world?

That's about 15 burgers per person per day for every single person on the planet.

 

[Newbian]

It's 99 billion hamburgers served since they have opened, not people in total.

 

[BUTCH1]

That's about 15 burgers per person per day for every single person on the planet.

I see Fleabag potential here, really I do, this man is now on my watch list...

 

[Mike Gayner]

I see Fleabag potential here, really I do, this man is now on my watch list...

Me? WTF? Did you read what he wrote?

 

[biggestmuff]

That's about 15 burgers per person per day for every single person on the planet.

Learn how to quote, dingus.

I was replying to your comment posted at 0319Z in which you partially quoted RedSquirrel. You omitted an important phrase.

 

[BlackTigers]

Sigh, I work at wendys....

Pre cooked weight: .25lb

Actual weight, after cooking is (0.63)(.25) = 0.15785 lb

 

[Mike Gayner]

I was replying to your comment posted at 0319Z in which you partially quoted RedSquirrel. You omitted an important phrase.

So you fail at reading comprehension, and that's my fault? The guy said they serve 99 billion burgers a day. I said "99 Billion? You have a warped view of reality." and you interpreted that (wrongly) as 99 billion overall.

 

[Red Squirrel]

lol I love these forums. So easy to get people going with a simple troll comment. Like throwing a match in a gas drum.

 

[biggestmuff]

So you fail at reading comprehension, and that's my fault? The guy said they serve 99 billion burgers a day. I said "99 Billion? You have a warped view of reality." and you interpreted that (wrongly) as 99 billion overall.

Holy shit. You are dense. Read your post at 0319Z. Look at what you quoted. You ommited the rest of RedSquirrel's sentence; "people daily around the world?" Without that crucial portion of his comment, it makes your post look silly.

That is what I was basing my comment on.

 

[BUTCH1]

Eh, I doubt they push for anything much better. They certainly aren't going to push for anything better than the 20% fat in ground chuck since that's what most people buy for their burgers. I'll bet that McD's beef hovers right around 30% fat and I'm fine with that.

ZV

18% would be typical http://www.nytimes.com/1991/03/13/business/low-fat-mcdonald-s-burger-is-planned-to-answer-critics.html?pagewanted=1 when I worked at Swift packing we did a 30% grind for a few customers, usually the "all you can eats", cheap but the shrinkage is huge. Interesting is the latest strategy is 1/3lb burgers, seems like McD's (and others, Baconator, ect.) are just saying "give up and gorge yourself, you know you want to"..

 

[Mike Gayner]

Holy shit. You are dense. Read your post at 0319Z. Look at what you quoted. You ommited the rest of RedSquirrel's sentence; "people daily around the world?" Without that crucial portion of his comment, it makes your post look silly.

That is what I was basing my comment on.

So you failed to look one post above mine? I didn't quote him at all, which is a pretty good indication that you should read his post before making (wrong) assumptions. At the end of the day, you were wrong, I was right and you looked like an idiot.

edit: nvm I did quote him, but you still fail at reading comprehension.

 

[BUTCH1]

Me? WTF? Did you read what he wrote?

No, Red Squirrel from previous post, sorry..