Cheat Meat

A video shows how meat glue is used to mould scraps of beef together and sold to unsuspecting customers.

12:39 15 June 2015

When you go to a restaurant and order fillet, ribeye, or sirloin, you expect to be served the finest cuts of beef. However, in some restaurants, it was found that meat glue is used to mould scraps of beef together and sold to unsuspecting customers at a premium price. 

 

Greg Mrvich, the creator of YouTube cooking channel Ballistic BBQ, claims that some restaurants are practicing this to reduce costs in their kitchens. Chefs, he said, are using meat glue, known as transglutaminase has the ability to bind protein-containing foods together. 

 

In his video, he says: "The reason I'm making this video is because there's a lot of deception out there regarding this stuff.

 

"If you go to a grocery store, you'll see packages of meat - chickens that look like dinosaurs - and it says 'formed meat'. I think anybody will assume that there's something in there holding the meat together.

 

"Where I have a huge problem, however, are the dining halls and even restaurants that are fabricating filet mignon using scraps of meat. And they're not disclosing this to the consumer."

 

Greg then showed the process of using meat glue in creating steak.