Need Idiots guide to buying beef.

[Throttle]

Like hay fed beef. The taste is truly in the cut of the beef not what's inside the eventual handbag.

you mean like corn fed beef?

hay = cut grasses (not exactly, but close enough)

 

[KarmaSutra]

you mean like corn fed beef?

hay = cut grasses (not exactly, but close enough)

Whatever it is. They could feed the motherfvckers chicken for all I care.

Beef = good eats.

 

[JohnnyIrish]

I just cooked my first ground beef. Just shredded it in the pan, added some soy sauce and later some ketchup. Bought 6lbs of 12%fat or less from cosco and just cooked 2lbs of it. According to my math, every half pound is about 40-44g of protein so I'll be aiming for a half pound of ground beef per beef meal.

My question is do any of you have any special technique for removing the grease? I managed it with a slotted spoon.. so I got most of the grease out.. but I figured some of you have been cooking much longer then I so you might have a quicker/more efficient way.

 

[penkitten]

My question is do any of you have any special technique for removing the grease? I managed it with a slotted spoon.. so I got most of the grease out.. but I figured some of you have been cooking much longer then I so you might have a quicker/more efficient way.

i drain my ground beef into a colander in the sink .

 

[KarmaSutra]

I drain the fat into a bowl from a collander then once it cools I mix it into the dog food for my girls.

 

[JohnnyIrish]

i drain my ground beef into a colander in the sink .

Thats a good idea, the only problem I see with me doing that is I'd then need a funnel so as to make sure the grease goes into the can and not down the drain (I put the grease in used soup cans and then chuck em when they harden).

 

[penkitten]

Thats a good idea, the only problem I see with me doing that is I'd then need a funnel so as to make sure the grease goes into the can and not down the drain (I put the grease in used soup cans and then chuck em when they harden).

or.. you could drain it on a plate with triple napkins under....
that works good.

 

[Crazy Asian]

we just got $300 dollars worth of meat as a gift from omaha steakhouse.

it's soooo good.
we got fillet minions, top sirloin, newyork strip, rib eye....

but why do you guys buy ground meat? i think it tastes a lot better if it's a whole chunk.... is it bad for you or something?

 

[Kerpal]

but why do you guys buy ground meat? i think it tastes a lot better if it's a whole chunk.... is it bad for you or something?

Ground beef is a hell of a lot cheaper.

Thats a good idea, the only problem I see with me doing that is I'd then need a funnel so as to make sure the grease goes into the can and not down the drain (I put the grease in used soup cans and then chuck em when they harden).

Why wouldn't you just dump the grease down the drain? That's what I do. Is it bad for the sink or something?

Bought 6lbs of 12%fat or less from cosco and just cooked 2lbs of it. According to my math, every half pound is about 40-44g of protein so I'll be aiming for a half pound of ground beef per beef meal.

Don't forget, some of that weight is water and fat and is lost when you cook and drain the beef.

 

[KarmaSutra]

Why wouldn't you just dump the grease down the drain? That's what I do. Is it bad for the sink or something?

Yes. As the fat congeals it will clog the drain. If it's a house you own and need to pay for repairs, don't put it in the drain.

If it's an apartment where the Maintenance people are a phone call away, fvck it.

 

[Throttle]

If it's an apartment where the Maintenance people are a phone call away, fvck it.

having made that phone call several times in different apts. due to previous residents' misbehavior...yuck. and this from a guy whose handle involves karma? heh.

whole chuck is more expensive partly b/c you can see exactly what it is. ground meat can be.....anything. old dairy cows, etc. that's how they keep the price per pound so low. then again i'm not really that picky

 

[KarmaSutra]

having made that phone call several times in different apts. due to previous residents' misbehavior...yuck. and this from a guy whose handle involves karma? heh.

Upon reflection, I'll rephrase.

If you live in an apartment complex and don't give a sh!t about the condition you live in or the Management, drop the sh!t down the drain.

Throttle, I didn't know you were a handy man :rock:

 

[Kerpal]

Oh ****, I didn't know that. I will stop doing it. I live in an apartment but I don't want to make the maintainance guys go thru that, sounds like a pain in the ass.

 

[Throttle]

Throttle, I didn't know you were a handy man :rock:

oh no, not me...i make the call, somebody else answers it's still disgusting to watch what happens when they snake out the pipes.......

 

[Throttle]

yah the maintenance guys for my apartments when i was an undergrad said most calls related to three preventable things:

- people pouring grease & other inappropriate junk down the kitchen drain.
- people using "1000 flushes" and similar products (they apparently work great until they don't, and then they can really mess up a toilet).
- long haired people (mostly women) clogging up the shower drain.

 

[penkitten]

yah the maintenance guys for my apartments when i was an undergrad said most calls related to three preventable things:

- people pouring grease & other inappropriate junk down the kitchen drain.
- people using "1000 flushes" and similar products (they apparently work great until they don't, and then they can really mess up a toilet).
- long haired people (mostly women) clogging up the shower drain.

i will add two more:
children flushing things down the toilet and women insisting that their tampons can be flushed

however, if you use dish soap and bleach down your drain, the grease usually does not back up very bad. i bring this preventative stuff home now and then and i hardly ever have to repair anything.