Re:Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers n...
by scruple on Monday April 29, 2019 @04:16PM
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If I'm working the burger station and I'm cooking an impossible burger at the same station as regular burger patties there will be transfers between one and the other, no? I didn't mean they were _literally_ cooking them in animal grease but rather figuratively.
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Re:Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers n...
by adrianmonk on Monday April 29, 2019 @07:59PM
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OK, I can understand that's not the point you were making. I thought you were saying that because at many fast food places they are literally cooking them in animal grease.
Many fast food places (McDonald's, Wendy's) use a flat surface similar to this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Flickr_X...
Typical ground beef is 20% fat (80% lean), and if you cook it on that, the fat will melt, it will hang around on that surface, and whatever else you cook next will be cooked in animal grease left over from the beef patty.
If you flame broil, the burger sits on a wire mesh, and the grease drips away.
I'm not just picking nits. I'm really trying to make a sincere point that I think one method will have significantly less transfer (not zero) than the other.
Re:Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers n...
by iamnothere on Monday April 29, 2019 @09:09PM
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To add to your comment, Burger King uses an automated broiler machine similar to this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSuLWkBt5MI
They are fairly large and probably expensive, so a separate broiler may not be an option.
Re:Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers n...
by wendyjreichert on Monday April 29, 2019 @04:29PM
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If you have a care for the environmental impact, would not having an additional grill be a waste of resources and harmful to the planet?