How Meat Glue Transforms $1 Ground Beef and Eye of Round Into a Fake Filet Mignon

Guga uses meat glue (transglutaminase) to reconstruct cheap cuts — ground beef patties and thinly sliced eye of round — into filet mignon-shaped steaks, then blind taste tests them against the real thing. The eye of round version shocks the tasters by passing as a legitimate filet mignon, while the ground beef version falls flat on texture. A wild food science experiment that exposes how the meat industry could (and does) use this technique.