Ground beef and hamburgers are two of America’s most beloved meat products, yet also among the most misunderstood when it comes to how they’re made. With that in mind, American Meat Institute (AMI) has developed a new video as part of its “Glass Walls” series featuring a tour of a processing plant that produces ground beef for several major restaurant chains. The tour is led by Birchwood Foods/Kenosha Beef President and CEO Dennis Vignieri, whose family has been in the beef business for nearly 80 years.
The video highlights the entire process of making ground beef and hamburgers and shows how beef trimmings are analyzed and ground into a specific lean to fat ratio that consumers enjoy and finally formed into patties that are packaged and sent to restaurants or grocery stores. More than half of the beef consumed in the U.S. is ground beef.