/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>18300720
80/20

>>18300720
i get my butcher to grind a mix of chuck, short ribs, and brisket.

>>18300720
I am absolutely guilty of the sin of buying sleeves of costco frozen burgers. $27 for 40 burgers isn't that bad. Steaks? Yeah, I'm getting those fresh. Need a quick lunch? Not going to spend the same on it.

Make them from ground beef, just put a hands worth in my hand and make into a ball and smoosh between two pieces of parchment paper.

>>18300720
I buy grd beef from my neighbor that raises the cattle and I sell him hay. Best burgers Ive ever had. They ground alot of stuff besides chuck into the ground beef. High fat but no added water. Grocery stores and middle men will step on it by doing an extra grind and adding water for mpre weight

>>18300936
Same but I ask mine to grind sneed

>>18300958
>grind sneed
i don't get it

>>18300954
I've never seen ground beef with added water, that only happens with chicken. Cheap premade burgers use beef heart as filler sometimes which isn't too bad, or soy protein.

I love a good quality burger made with freshly ground beef in a perfect ratio, lightly seasoned and cooked to juicy perfection.

BUT the white trash 8 year old in my heart will always love and sometimes outright crave a thick, weirdly homogenous, dripping, oily frozen burger puck from the grocery store like I grew up eating. There's just something about them. It's the same for meatballs. They're so wildly different from homemade that sometimes you don't want homemade or quality. You want that childhood garbage on a white Wonder bun with a kraft single on top.

>>18300983
fuck grind

>>18300993
That big pile of ground beef in the groceru store case has added water also the cheap tubes. They will literally pour water over the grd bbef at night when they close. Simmer a pound of beef and watch the water come out. Most of what ypu drain is water and not fat

>>18301027
>>18301027
OOOOOOOOOhhh...i still don't get it.

>>18300720
i like frozen angus burgers because they have an interesting taste. also they're easy to prepare just throw them on a skillet or in the air fryer.

>>18300720
I've formed and have frozen my own patties. The pre frozen ones are too tightly packed and are more like paste than actual ground beef.

Ground beef, form, poke hole in middle

>ground beef
>it sneaks out at night

>>18300757
I found 73/27 at Von's out here in SoCal if you can believe that. $5.99 for a 3 pound chub. Not only did it make a delicious burger...but I made taco meat with it and then used all the grease to cook the peppers and onions.

Thought it would be "too much" but no it works great.

>>18300720
>Do you guys buy frozen burger patties or make them from ground beef?
yes

>>18300983
/pol/tard who's probably here because he was banned.

>>18301031
>Simmer a pound of beef and watch the water come out. Most of what ypu drain is water and not fat
Meat is naturally like 75% water. It's normal for it to get squeezed out during cooking as the protein contracts, especially with ground meat that has more surface area.

>>18300720
I sell hamburguers in my town in the third world, so to make them go further I use carrot fiber by making carrot juice in a juicer and then using the fiber leftover. I use 80/20 + 40 carrot fiber. I also add onion, pepper, salt and msg. Been on this thing for like 9 years so far. I recomend it if you are struggling or desperate enough to buy store bought. It lasts a long time and its hard to notice if you dont know.

>>18300720
I do both.

>>18300720
Beef ground in front of me by my butcher.

>>18301225
Based vonsbro

>>18301410
I will post a thread with cheap grd beef and hogher quality using a fat seperator. Its shocking that people dont get they soak it in water

I rarely make burgers, so when I do I just make them myself. Just mix some mince with salt, pepper, chopped garlic, and Worcestershire sauce. I enjoy the process of mixing by hand then moulding them.

>>18301687
Side view of proper grd beef. It looks like a hunk of steak and cooks that way. You have to break it up or ot staus solid. Wont do a front pic bc it has info

>>18300958
>>18300983
Sneed
Formerly Chuck's

>>18300983
Suck and fuck haha
Get it??

>>18301361
It’s not from /pol/ you fag

I can get eight frozen quarter pound patties for six dollars retail

Two pounds of 80/20 is pushing eight or nine dollars right now.

>read people saying to make your own burger patties with just beef and salt/pepper
>get 20/80 ground beef, make burgers
>they taste like ass
>Read more
>turns out if you want your burger to actually be nice you need to buy expensive beef like ribs and shit and grind that for the patties
Is anyone actually buying expensive beef for a burger? Doesn't that defeat the point?
>

i just buy them already cooked form my local McDonald's™ family restaurant

>>18301410
They temperature control it to increase absorbency, brine it, add nitrites to keep it red, then vacuum seal it so the water doesn't drip out while it's on the shelf. In the countries with the best food standards, added water would be on the ingredients list with a quantity. Failing that you do still typically get a measurement of protein per 100 grams, which you wouldn't expect to vary when comparing two different packages of 80/20 beef. But of course it does.

>>18301117
sneed => chuck

He gets his butcher to gring chuck for him, as in the cut of beef

>>18301361
It's not off-topic, smoothbrain, see: >>18302630
Also the meme is originally from /tv/

>>18301211
That didn't even make sense you retard. Still chuckled though.

>>18300720
Frozen patties are significantly more expensive than fresh meat. They aren't more convenient because you have to defrost them prior to using (fresh requires no defrosting) and while you need to shape the patties with fresh that still doesn't take as long as defrosting. Frozen is only better for bbqs with lots of people.

>>18302982
Cooking patties directly from frozen takes very little time and actually allows you to get a great sear on the outside and keep it cool on the inside. They are also rarely more expensive.

>>18302733
The beef was grounded, as in, told to stay in its room and think about what it has done.
>>18301410
Listen, we know that stores do this with things like scallops. I bought a package of Jennie-O ground turkey on sale and after a minute in the pan the turkey was half-submerged in water. That's not normal.
Some years back this may not have been the case, but as our fake economy slowly falls apart you're going to see more shenanigans like this. We've seen cereal and potato chip manufacturers slowly increase the percentage of air in their bags, why is it so shocking that meat suppliers would try to trick you as well?
it wouldn't bother me except I tried to make pepperoni in a smoker a month ago and the extra water made it take like twice as long to reach a safe internal temperature. I would rather just have higher price tags.

>>18300720
Yes