I didn't see the plastic soaker pad on my roast and cooked it. Will it ruin the meat?

Been there, done that -- lol. Here's what I found on the Internet when I checked my own cooking error:

Sometimes meat or poultry is accidentally cooked with some of the packaging materials. For example: giblets cooked inside the turkey in their packaging; a beef roast cooked with the absorbent pad from the fresh meat packaging underneath; or a ham with the plastic bone protector or brown paper left on. These packaging materials are clearly not intended to be cooked, however if this happens and the packaging materials remain unaltered (that is, do not melt or come apart) the cooked meat will not pose an imminent health hazard. If the packaging materials have melted or changed shape in some other way do not use the product because harmful chemicals may have leached into the surrounding meat.

I did the same thing last night, cooked the roast with the blood pad still attached. no burning plastic smell while cooking, and, when I took the roast out, and noticed the pad, it was only barely melted, but, not sticking to the meat or the pad. I wasn't sure whether I should use it or not? I think I'll just cut the meat away that touched the pad.

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I didn't see the plastic soaker pad on my roast and cooked it. Will it ruin the meat?

I didn't see it and cooked it for about two hours on high in my slow cooker. The meat still had about 3 hours to cook so I'm hoping I caught it in time.

So long as it didn't stick to your pan, you are fine!! This happens to people all the time. Remember to always turn the meat over and really look at the bottom side.

Depends really on the pad, if it was just cloth it would be fine but since yours was plastic then I suggest not eating the meat for the chemicals in the plastic can be very harmful to you when ingested.

I ate the meat, and white and black blood soaker after it had melted altogether. I'm still here.