meat loss from cooking

kickureface

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say i were cooking 1lb beef raw. afterwards, how much is left?
where is it going anyways?
 

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Hehe, you're not losing meat from cooking, it's mostly just water leaving => thus your cooked beef = lighter than your raw beef.

You might lose a bit of beef when you're cooking if you get some stuck in your pan or some daft reason like that
 

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The fat is what melts off and turns from solid to liquid. So when you drain the meat, yeah you're losing some of the original mass. Depends on if you want the fat or not.

I personally recommend using the grease for vegetables, but I'm a country redneck.
 

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oh yeah, my bad, fat loss as well. When you're cooking your ground beef drain the (liquid) off because that **** turns back into an aweful fatty paste if it solidifies again while you're eating it.

But you can keep it if you have a use for it like speed dawg :D
 

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hmmm. so 1lb or raw meat cooked will end up like 14oz (if not fat) and all the protein will still be there?
 

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It depends on the type of beef, like ground beef or ground chuck, different fat content. But you wont lose any protein.
 

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It depends on the quality of the beef as well. Low quality beef will have more fat and less beef. Ergo, low quality beef has a lower yield % than high quality beef.

BTW Grade A Alberta beef is the best.
 

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bull****. fat content & the quality of the meat are wholly unrelated. you can get great fatty meat from great cows, and really ****ty lean meat from ****ty cows.
 

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Throttle said:
bull****. fat content & the quality of the meat are wholly unrelated. you can get great fatty meat from great cows, and really ****ty lean meat from ****ty cows.
good choice of words...we are talking about beef after all :D
 

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yeh...and i didn't even bring up ****ty slaughtering practices, for those who like their beef literally ****ty.
 
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