The main difference between a beef shop and a duck shop (duck meat passing off as beef) lies in the difference in product cost, smell, taste, arts and sciences, touch and so on.

Food safety has always been a sensitive topic for ordinary people. If fake beef uses fresh duck breast meat, it will be safe at least, although it has already constituted deception. However, it is abhorrent that fake beef not only uses frozen duck breast meat, but also adulterates other things harmful to human health, which is very dangerous. Consumers should practice a pair of golden eyes to distinguish between true and false beef.

For example, a while ago, there was a heated discussion about Korean barbecue shops passing off "duck meat" as "beef", which attracted the attention of many foodies! Whether this matter is true or not is not mentioned for the time being. What we should think about is why duck meat can be used as a fake instead of other meat.

First of all, duck meat is very cheap. The price of a kilo of beef is about that of 51 yuan, while a kilo of duck meat is only 1.5 of the cost of beef in 5 yuan. Duck meat has even become the cheapest animal husbandry meat variety in China, which is cheaper than chicken. Therefore, using duck meat as beef can greatly save costs.

Secondly, the meat quality of duck meat has a strong "camouflage". Duck meat not only passed off as beef, but also passed off as mutton and other higher-priced meat. Duck meat (especially duck breast meat) is really similar to beef and mutton after being crushed by a meat grinder and added with special red sauce.

The difference between real beef and fake beef pretending to be duck meat is as follows:

1. Visually, observing and distinguishing:

The texture of real beef is more delicate, the meat quality is more shiny, the surface is red, the color is even, and the fibers of beef are milky white. The fake beef that duck meat pretends to be is synthetic, with rough texture and dim meat quality;

2. Smell with your nose to identify the smell:

Smell with your nose to see if it has a special smell. Real beef should have a normal meat smell, and there is no peculiar smell or strong or pungent smell. Fake beef, which is pretending to be duck meat, often has a pungent special smell;

3. Touch and press by hand:

Touch the elasticity and feel of beef by hand. After being pressed, real beef has good resilience and is not easy to collapse or sag. The meat feels smooth and tender. Fake beef, which is pretending to be duck meat, is deformed or cracked when pressed;

4. Taste with your mouth:

Many times, we can't be 1111% sure whether the beef is true or not, so we can choose the way to taste it. There is a great difference in taste between real beef and fake beef. After being cooked, real beef should be piece by piece, and it looks even in thickness, and there is no "disconnection" between meat texture, and its color is even, so it tastes more delicate and chewy. But duck can't pass for fake beef. When eating, you can also find that the tastes of the two are too different, so fake beef often doesn't chew hard.

above content reference: beef (meat food)-Baidu Encyclopedia