Here's some mouth-watering facts about how McDonald's barfer... er, burgers are made!
1. Cooking the meat. Those small patties are cooked all of 35 to 38 seconds in between two giant heated iron cooking thing. When the time is up, the meat's not all the way done most the time; that's why employees are required to wait 5 minutes before they use it (it's left for 5 minutes on the standby area for meat, where it keeps getting heated). But you know what happens when it gets busy, like during the "39-cent burger" days?... Yeah. I guess profit overweighs safety. And hey, a little blood on the burger can't hurt, right?
FYI, quarter-pounders are cooked on the same machine, but for about 110 seconds.
2. Cooking the nuggets and such. The oil that these things bask in get dumped once at night right before closing. That's the only time it's usually changed. Yum!
3. The meat tray which cooked meat stand-bys in is cleaned off once in a while at the dishwashing room; however, swiftness overweighs a good, clean job, and therefore some old burger grease tends to stay on the thing.
4. i forgot when the tomato slicer got cleaned.
Well, I guess it's been over a year since I worked there, so things may have changed - but Mmm mmm, don't these juicy facts just get your taste buds working?
Muu