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I don't find that beef ever tastes like tasteless cardboard, unless it is cooked completely incorrectly.

Without arguing about whether grass-fed beef is tastier in general, I wonder if anyone has ever done a blind test to discover if the grass (you know, the complex compounds flavoring the meat) can actually be tasted in the beef by an ordinary person.

As you observe, not everyone can afford grass-fed beef.

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I probably sound like a food snob, but when I'm thinking of beef that tastes like cardboard, I'm thinking of a Big Mac, for example. If you take all the condiments and just eat the beef only, it's pretty tasteless, IMO.

A lot of people say there is a taste difference, not just me. It's subtle though, your ordinary person may not notice or care. But I'm passionate about it because I'm big into food and I think the taste of grass fed is much better.

I definitely agree with you about the Big Mac, that clarifies what you meant. Like everything at McDonald's it is mostly edible insofar as it is very hot. I think what is going on there is that freezing and steaming it makes it tasteless.

But I have never found a homemade burger to be tasteless, and I don't eat McDonald's any more for health reasons, so I wasn't sure what you meant.

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