Ground meat

Meat is ground meat . Usually it is made ​​of beef or pork but also chicken or mutton meat can be made. Also, a mixture of types of meat is possible. Minced is made ​​by the meat chunks in a meat grinder through a die plate to be pressed with multiple holes.

Originally chopped a waste product consisting of small pieces of meat remaining in the slaughter and filleting together with fat and connective tissue residues. This cutting waste was then chopped into smaller pieces (hence the name) or ground and mixed.

Today, chopped, due to increased demand, made partly of better quality meat. Often is imported meat which is used in its entirety in order to make chopped there of.

The standards for the fat content of minced meat in the Netherlands are stuck in the Commodities Act Meat, meat and meat products . Ground beef should not exceed 25 grams of fat per 100 grams of meat, lean beef up to 15 grams. For (steak-) tartar is a maximum of 10 grams per 100 grams. [1]Minced is also on sale under the name of half-and-half (or halfom), that is to say that it partly from beef and partly from the minced pork exists, with a mutual deviation of at most 10 percent. A variant occurs in some Islamic butchers, a mixture of beef and lamb mince.

Minced meat is widely used in casseroles and for making meatballs , meatloaf and burgers . In American cuisine for their Salisbury steak . ==[Wednesday  Lumberjack edit ]  == Well into the 20th century meat was a luxury that was limited for many people to Sunday. Halfway through the week there was then "Wednesday Lumberjack" because of the availability of (cheap) chopped on this day. On Monday, the animals were slaughtered, on Tuesday boned, and the rest of boning meat was put on sale on Wednesday.This Wednesday Lumberjack is the popular name become Accountability Day on the third Wednesday in May, when the Netherlands in parliament evaluates the financial management by the government. [2]

Wednesday Lumberjack is also the title of a novel in which Richard Klinkhamer describes how he kills his wife and turns her remains through the meat grinder.