Round Steak Mince - Nutrional Value

Jonny303

I know i know, its a nutrional issue really but more of a chance of a response here. Making homemade burgers atm, simple enough just good quality round steak mince, onion, pepper and curry powder. Mixed together, made into burgers and stuck in the freezer for an hour.

Slapped on the george foreman and bang.

Struggling though to find a nutrional value for round steak mince grilled, anyone help me? You will probably NEVER eat mince again if you have it grilled and see the pure SH!TE that comes out:eek:

Baldie

Jonny303 wrote: »

You will probably NEVER eat mince again if you have it grilled and see the pure SH!TE that comes out:eek:

It's the same when making bolognese! I always drain off all the crap before I add the sauce! It's unbelievable the crap that's in it!

BrokenArrows

no idea of the nutritional value but why are you putting them in the freezer for an hour before cooking them?

Degsy

Round steak is good quality protein,its not quite as good or as tender as sirloin but its okay.
There'd be quite a lot of fat in it though so buy it from a butcher or get the "lean mince" option if you have to buy it from a supermarket.
My own butcher does round mince thats 95% lean(or so he says but meh).

all_smilz

You will probably NEVER eat mince again if you have it grilled and see the pure SH!TE that comes out:eek:[/quote]

better OUT than in i always say!

Roper

BrokenArrows wrote: »

no idea of the nutritional value but why are you putting them in the freezer for an hour before cooking them?

Presumably to increase the chance of sh1tting yourself thin with food poisoning?

rubadub

Jonny303 wrote: »

good quality round steak mince,

You will probably NEVER eat mince again if you have it grilled and see the pure SH!TE that comes out:eek:

Doesn't sound like it was good quality so. I was thinking of getting a mincer like this http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.18681

It is usually far cheaper to buy round or rib steak and make your own lean mince. With burgers you can just liquidise the meat.

cats-pyjamas

The most accurate but least helpful answer is ... it depends on the type of meat and the size of your burger .

Personally, although I generally prefer to buy meat from a butcher, I tend to buy minced beef in packets because the nutritional information is on there - brands can vary widely, and you can actually get some that are 95% lean, which is pretty good considering most of the budget brands are pumped with fat to make them stretch.

However, if you've just bought regular round steak mince from the butcher, then using a database like CalorieKing is useful (www.calorieking.com).
When using this, I tend to calculate the nutritional information for the entire recipe (eg 8 burgers) and then divide by 8 to get the values for one.

According to that website, 100g of 85% lean minced beef comes in at
215 kcal
15g fat
18.6g protein

I would imagine that the average burger is more than 100g though.

The only thing is that this is an american website, so I had to search for 'ground beef'. Without having a label on the packet, I'd say this website is the next best thing. If anyone knows of a European/Irish/British version, please share!

Hope this helps.

PS here is the link to the NV for lean minced beef - you will have to change the drop down menu to grams and the quantity to 100 to get the same values as I did.

cats-pyjamas

I guess the freezing is to get them to hold together when cooking? I'd use the fridge, just to be on the safe side. Adding an egg white into the burger mix also helps bind the ingredients together.

slicus ricus

Fitday is a good site for finding out the nutritional value of food (link below). Weigh the mince you are using, enter it in and select mince grilled and it should give you accurate enough details.

http://www.fitday.com//