{"id":9074,"date":"2013-05-18T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T17:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=9074"},"modified":"2013-05-18T10:05:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-18T17:05:22","slug":"extra-value-frozen-beef-patties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=9074","title":{"rendered":"Home Cookin’ Test – Extra Value Frozen Beef Patties"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve\u00a0 reviewed a lot of these frozen patties, and to date, I\u2019ve liked Ball Park<\/a> brand the most, even though they are a \u2018heat and eat\u2019 product, not a raw patty.<\/p>\n

Extra Value is an economy brand, manufactured by the Holten Meat Company<\/a>, outside of St. Louis.<\/p>\n

\"20130518_074809\"<\/a>I bought a package of a dozen quarter pounders, and out of the box, they look like the pictures on the left.<\/p>\n

They require a medium\u00a0 heat cook, for a few minutes on each side.\u00a0 Usually the instructions for frozen patties say to cook on one side, until \u2018blood\u2019 runs from the top of the patty, and then flip for a couple minutes.<\/p>\n

I followed a similar regimen with this product.<\/p>\n

The ingredient list reads:\u00a0 beef, beef hearts, water, textured vegetable protein, seasoning, MSG, sugar, salt.<\/p>\n

I wasn\u2019t put off by the hearts, but I was curious about\u00a0 the vegetable protein. \u00a0Vegetable protein is a \u201cmeat analogue\u201d, which according to Wikipedia, is \u00a0also called a\u00a0meat substitute<\/b>,\u00a0mock meat<\/b>,\u00a0faux meat<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0imitation meat<\/b>, approximates certain aesthetic qualities (primarily texture,\u00a0flavor<\/a>\u00a0and appearance) and\/or chemical characteristics of specific types of\u00a0meat<\/a>. Many analogues are\u00a0soy<\/a>-based.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s that textured vegetable protein where the Extra Value patties fall apart, both literally and figuratively.<\/p>\n

While the general \u201cflavor\u201d of a beef patty is present, the expected texture of cooked ground meat is completely lacking.<\/p>\n

The texture while cutting, chewing, is more akin to the vegetarian patties I\u2019ve had.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t really \u2018cut\u2019, it crumbles.<\/p>\n

And for me, that\u2019s a deal killer. \u00a0Here’s what the end\u00a0product looks like:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve\u00a0 reviewed a lot of these frozen patties, and to date, I\u2019ve liked Ball Park brand the most, even though they are a \u2018heat and eat\u2019 product, not a raw patty. Extra Value is an economy brand, manufactured by the Holten Meat Company, outside of St. Louis. I bought a package of a dozen quarter… Continue reading Home Cookin’ Test – Extra Value Frozen Beef Patties<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,16,34],"tags":[1489,1720,1722],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}