How to Tell Horse Meat From Beef
How does one know the difference between beef and horse meat?
I'm unsurprised by the current issues with ready meals. The drive for cheaper foodstuffs will always reveal shady goings on with food preparation but my current concern is now about joints of meat.
How can we be sure that supermarket cuts of meat are what they say they are? Having never tasted horse, I'm not so sure I could tell the difference! We could have been eating it for years! :eek:
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Horsemeat has far more threads on DS than Beef.
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You probably wouldn't know the difference simply by taste. But of course, that's not the issue.
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I always wondered why a certain range was called 'Taste the difference'!
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Horsemeat is pretty strong. I can't bear it. If your ready meal tastes gamey and a bit 'off', it's probably horsemeat.
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Horsemeat is more common?
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Lasagne, lasagne, my Kingdom for a lasagne.
Sorry I think I have my threads crossed....
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If the pie has horns sticking through the pastry,it's beef. If it's wearing a bridle, it's Findus.
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LOL
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One goes moo and the other neighs when you prod it with your fork.
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It could be a unicorn.
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Stick with uniquorn, it's safer.
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Does it have a similar texture?
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Last time I had that it turned out to be phoney pony.
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Desperate Dan
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It doesn't taste the same though. It just doesn't have the same magic.
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Well, horse meat has a sour and sharp taste. Although I don't think one could tell the difference between beef and horse meat if they put it in processed foods. They often put different spices garlic,rosemary etc. to mask the taste altogether.
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Last time I had it in Austria, it was very tasty, with a slightly course texture, although it was done in a stew, with herby dumplings.
I didn't have a problem eating it and as long as it's given a good life, not pumped with things that are not safe for our consumption and humanly killed, then I don't see an issue.
That's not to condone people passing it off as something it isn't.
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Maybe not in processed food where you can't taste anything but there is imo quite a marked taste difference between unprocessed horse and beef.
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Isn't horse meat more dear than beef?
Plus with more of the benefits than plain beef.
If so, I probably wouldn't complain.
Unless there's some way that the horse meat is inferior to beef - old horses perhaps?
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It's made me wonder about the aged, well hung beef that's sometimes sold. Also the cuts can be odd, especially continental cuts which are alien to us. They cut along the muscle rather than across.
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Must point out, I'm not averse to the idea of eating horse. I'd just like to know what I'm eating and that its been well husbanded and not full of cr*p.
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I'm quite sure we have been, retailers are so greedy and unscrupulous. Just look at how many 'new' cases are coming to light now that some testing is being done.
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If you eat horse meat you can run faster :cool:
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