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Strange Thing in a Burger!!
This afternoon my family thought that it would be a good day to have a cookout. We had plenty of food left over and I decided to have the last burger we cooked before going to bed. Well, I noticed something sitting inside this pit that looked very suspicious. It looked like a cluster of eggs or larva. It wasn't moving or anything, but it made me a bit paranoid about what was in the meat we used to make the burgers everyone ate. My dad told me not to worry about it, that if it was some sort of parasite it'd be dead. I really don't feel good about it though, and I don't know what we should do. Should we just wait to see what happens??
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I agree with Dragonflymagic in that as long as the meat was well cooked, to 165 degrees or higher which is well done, you have nothing to worry about. What I believe you may have seen were bits of bone or some tendon pieces which can look like eggs and larva if clustered together.
Next time you buy ground beef from this same store examine it closely before putting it in the refrigerator or freezer. Spread it out on a cutting board and see if you see anything like you saw in your burger. If it's bone it will be almost rock hard prior to being cooked. If you see any contamination at all take it back to the store or call the Health Department.
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When one considers that beef goes through some kind of machine to get ground up, depending on the size of the cluster, my guess would be that everything else going in with the beef gets ground up too. If we're talking some eggs the size of pin heads, probably they'd survive. If it's bigger like fish eggs size, a whole cluster wouldn't be disturbed. Most companies have standards to make sure nothing that isn't food or supposed to be in the food doesnt make it in. But accidents can happen. this is likely a one time deal. The heat from cooking would have killed whatever it was, as long as your burger meat was very well cooked. It is for this reason, that it is best not to eat any meat that still has some red in it, partially uncooked.
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