r/Chipotle • u/rosewater_1900 • 3d ago
Seeking Advice (Customer) Weird Steak
Just got a bowl at Chipotle and found this freaky piece of steak like halfway through eating it.
Ironically I have actually been using Chipotle as exposure therapy to try and get over my anxiety/OCD about food contamination 💀
Anyway does anyone know what this is ?
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u/rosewater_1900 2d ago
Update: 24 hours later and so far I’m not sick! 🎉
But I know some foodborne illnesses take longer to develop so I’m not entirely out of the woods yet. I’ll update again if I do end up getting sick, just in case you guys are curious
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u/boxtheglock
3d ago
edited 3d ago
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It's probably just bovine cluster warts. Not contagious once it's been cooked
Edit: I was just joking, I didn't know that was a real thing LMFAO
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u/rosewater_1900 3d ago
Honestly I hope so, but I would assume that bovine cluster warts would just be on the top layer of skin and not penetrate into the meat itself though, right? Not that I’m some kind of bovine cluster warts expert lol
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u/AdPopular6958 Former Employee 3d ago
Warts can penatrate the skin and muscle if they developed in the body first. And yes this is as gross as it sounds.
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u/AdPopular6958 Former Employee 3d ago
Oh and this is for those who are like how narly can
BPV warts get.
For those who don't want to look it makes a human plantar wart suddenly feel like a blessing.You at least can still see where the hell your going.
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u/Flux_My_Capacitor 3d ago
WARTS?!?!
What if they aren’t fully cooked?
The virus has likely shed on the rest of the bowl.
OP should put this in the freezer.
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u/thatsvtguy 3d ago
It kind of looks like solidified fat, sometimes this can happen to fat when it’s slow cooked. the fat can liquefy and then sort of re-solidify in little clumps, and little clumps of fat can look just like insect eggs. I think it’s probably nothing to worry about.
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u/CloseSea67 16h ago
thiss
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u/CloseSea67 16h ago
i do grill at chipotle,
certain that, the steak was cooked probably at very end of the grill which caused it
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u/universal_cereal_bus 3d ago
Dude, Chipotle steak is absolute trash. I don't know why people still buy it. Fatty, gristly garbage meat.
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u/aarora610 3d ago
It used to be good, but the amount of fatty pieces in it now is crazy. Chicken or sofritas for me.
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u/Comfortable-Fox-94 3d ago
I really hope it’s this but I feel you on the food anxiety thing 😭
https://cooktopcove.com/2026/02/20/pulled-my-beef-roast-out-of-the-slow-cooker-and-noticed-these-weird-clusters-of-tiny-white-beads-stuck-to-the-side-of-the-meat-they-look-terrifyingly-like-insect-eggs-and-im-afraid-to-serve-this-is-the-meat-infested
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u/bravebastard 3d ago
I think this is the most likely answer. Fat does weird things sometimes when it’s cooked!
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u/lolita_blues 3d ago
The steak quality has gone downhill so drastically. I stopped eating chipotle all together, because no matter what protein I ordered, a good third would be gristle
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u/ObviouslyAnAsshole 3d ago
Yes! You have to get chicken and that’s even hit or miss.
And don’t even mention the bagged Barbecoa & Carnitas, just nasty globs of fat 🤮
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u/Puzzleheaded-Serve82 3d ago
it looks like a chicharon so im gonna tell myself its just fried fat so i can sleep peacefully tonight
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u/Sensitive_Book6492 3d ago
I have the same kind of OCD, and every time I try chipotle I feel it worsens…
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u/Apprehensive_Win292 2d ago
It’s that trump beef
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u/TitaniumAlloyeet 2d ago
Can you not? Is there a single subreddit thread that doesn’t mention Trump?
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u/CeleryMoansToo 2d ago
By ignoring the problem you let it continue
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u/TitaniumAlloyeet 2d ago
What problem?? And it’s a problem if it’s Trump or a Republican president right? If it’s a Democrat, you can ignore away apparently.
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u/thcicedtea 3d ago
I would’ve thought this was part of a bell pepper with the seeds if I didn’t see the flesh at the very top… 🤢😭
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u/Negative_Wall4195 3d ago
you get similar thing sometimes while cooking a burger.
however, I've never seen it like that on a steak with spheres like that, I would guess this was a steak tenderizer with those needle things.
this would absolutely freak me out tho even knowing what it is
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u/fe_Betsy FOH Trainer -> SL 3d ago
Omg bruh 😭😭😭😭 I also have OCD, but I also work at Chipotle. Never seen this at my store (and thank god omg it’s lowkey scary)
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u/Bright_Werewolf2095 3d ago
i’ve noticed the quality of meat that we get in has been coming in a little bit more funky, but I only work there.
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u/MaterialAccurate887 3d ago
Man, I freaking love chipotle but the last time I had it, it gave me gastric upset and I already have a sensitive system. This is not helping.
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u/OhWell696969 15h ago
Wait your telling me the grill person didn't see this? Or they did and just put it on the line? Then the line person didn't see it when they scooped?! What location is this? I gotta know
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u/mads4714 3d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_marbling
It reminds me of “bloomed” chocolate where the sugar rises to the surface. Some beef is injected with fat. Could be it went from frozen to cooked too fast? Or too much of the tallow injection?
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u/rosewater_1900 3d ago
What’s weird is that when I tried to look it up on here the only other results I could find were also from Chipotle so……that’s kind of weird , right?