What are McDonalds hamburger patties made of?
All jokes aside, it actually isn’t all that funny. McDonald’s purchases their ground beef from the cattle processing facilities that provide the same ground beef to all the other fast food chains as well as many restaurants, diners, as well as frozen hamburger patties you buy in the supermarket. So the real question is what are fast food hamburger patties made of? The majority of them, including MacDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King . . . are ground beef of the “cheaper” cuts from cattle. Commercially prepared ground beef is the fattier cuts of beef. When prepared in the manufacturing plant after slaughter, “beef by-products” are added. This includes the most widely used “by-product”: beef hearts. Ever wonder how they manage to get such a consistently perfect round size? They add large quantities of vegetable shortening to ground beef. This is highly cost efficient to the beef suppliers as it allows them a perfectly sized and measured beef patty every time. It also serves a secondary purpo
