You may have come across a slow cooker recipe like this delicious Mongolian Beef, which calls for tossing raw meat directly into the Crock-Pot, and wondered how safe that might be. After all ...

Marathon County inspections: Poultry not cooked to proper temp, 2 pets in food prep area in February ... on new gloves without washing hands; raw ground beef patties in cooks' line reach-in ...

Beef tallow also contains stearic acid and oleic acid, which "have got skin softening, hydration [and] repair characteristics ...

I don’t know why I find making corned beef from scratch so intimidating. Perhaps it’s the fact that the project requires almost a week — which means a lot of time for things to go wrong.

Raw beef is initially brined for up to a week or more, so it’s important that the brine mixture has enough salt to prevent the growth of bacteria and other detrimental micro-organisms.