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Why would hamburger smell like urine?

Updated: 10/7/2023
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10y ago

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Not necessarily. To begin with, urine smells like urine primarily due to it's ammonia content, not it's uric acid content. And secondly, the uric acid content of meat should not be that high - in bovine cattle it is excreted efficiently in a similar way to how it is excreted in humans. Also, some uric acid is present in human blood, but if you accidentally cut yourself and lick the wound, it does not taste like urine.

However, I cannot explain why hamburger meat would smell like urine during cooking.

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12y ago

yes it is bad when a hambutger cooking smells like pee because you can get sick very bad if you eat it

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If hamburger smells like urine, the meat may be old or ruined and should be thrown out.

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