Remember this? Well you can “put aside your beef with their beef.” J. Kenji Lopez-Alt at Serious Eats gets to the bottom of the myth of the non-rotting McDonald’s hamburger that recently circulated the internet.
Per his experiment, it turns out that the McDonald’s hamburger does not mold not because it is made from “inorganic materials,” but rather because its small size and large surface area help it to lose moisture very fast. Without moisture, there is not mold of bacteria growth. Read about his Burger Lab here.
