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Originally Posted by Rathji
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Just a note: There was a problem at Costco, relating to steaks being contaminated, due to the tenderizing machines needles being dirty, so it is not cut and dry.
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Yes. Further to this Costco was never targeted by the Media the way XL was. Luckily for Costco the Media automatically linked the two and for good reason, however it was never brought up that the sanitation and product handling at this particular Costco was obviously an issue.
What they do is they have a machine with a bunch of needles on it that they use to manually "tenderize" bonelss cuts of beef, they do this before it gets sliced up for the retail counter. They can press all the little needles into the cut and the needles will puncture or cut through all the connective tissue (connectice tissue is very tough to chew and doesn't break down during cooking). Something I find interesting is that Customers are never made aware of this practice and there is no legeslation to disclose this on any product labeling.