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Originally Posted by redforever
You can eat rare steak, but should not eat rare hamburger. Here is why. Usually the bacteria that is harmful to humans exists on the outside of the cut of beef. So when you buy a steak, it will be on the outside and that part, unless you eat your meat blue rare, should be well enough cooked to kill the bacteria.
However, with hamburger, all the meat is ground together, the outside and the inside all gets mushed together. So now the bacteria that was previously on the outside is now all throughout the meat. And if you cook the hamburger rare, the inside bacteria will not be killed.
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You can have hamburger rare as in Steak Tartare but only do this in the fancier expensive restaurants (don't know why you would anyway). They will get a fresh cut and then ground it up before you and put it on your plate with a raw egg and scallions.