Pulled my beef roast out of the slow cooker and saw these weird white stringy things poking out of the meat. They look like little worms or parasites. Is the meat infested?
What you’re describing almost certainly isn’t parasites. Those “white stringy worm-like things” in slow-cooked beef are usually one of these completely normal things: In a beef roast cooked in a slow cooker, connective tissue (collagen, sinew, and silverskin) breaks down and can turn into pale, thread-like strands. As the meat becomes tender, these fibers loosen …









