mince beef - fat %

wersal gummage

I always buy the < 10% fat one. When I cook it, I always squeeze all the fat (?) and juices out of it just as it is browned.....

So that has me thinking. Am I better off buying the 20% fat meat which is about half the price ??? If i'm draining all the fat out anyway.... Or am I draining the fat out ???

Thanks very much.

rubadub

I was reading before about rinsing fat off mince and the site had various expected levels of fat after cooking. There was little difference between the high & medium fat ones, like 28% might end up 13%, 20% might be 12%. It is easily blotted with kitchen roll to take it down.

If buying high fat mince you will also be discarding this weight of fat so bear that in mind when calculating prices.

One method I used to do mince in bulk and easily lower the fat is to boil it, then strain off in a pasta strainer, then leave the strained water out too cool and you will be left with a layer of hard fat on top which can be lifted off & binned. This mince can be frozen in little bags, very convenient.

El_Dangeroso

rubadub wrote: »

One method I used to do mince in bulk and easily lower the fat is to boil it, then strain off in a pasta strainer, then leave the strained water out too cool and you will be left with a layer of hard fat on top which can be lifted off & binned and used to make delicious roast potatoes. This mince can be frozen in little bags, very convenient.

FYP

danbreslin

first post.

I am a qualified butcher,and if you are buying it from the butchers well then there is generally much more fat in the mince than they say.
I would say that mince that is marked as 10% then it is really 20% if not more.
You can get lean mince which is marked as 95-98% lean,that of course is bollocks but it is much leaner than the mince you buy in tesco and the likes.

Hope that helps

Mellor

danbreslin wrote: »

first post.

I am a qualified butcher,and if you are buying it from the butchers well then there is generally much more fat in the mince than they say.
I would say that mince that is marked as 10% then it is really 20% if not more.
You can get lean mince which is marked as 95-98% lean,that of course is bollocks but it is much leaner than the mince you buy in tesco and the likes.

Hope that helps

Proof. I'm a butcher means nothing. A butcher doesn't analysis the nutritional content of meat.

Meat sold in shops has a label with the data on it. There are strict controls on what they can print on that.

SteelyDanJalapeno

Whats wrong with a bit of animal fat?

rubadub

TiltedBrain wrote: »

Whats wrong with a bit of animal fat?

How much is a bit though, how much do people think is OK.

I could eat a 600g pack in a day no bother, at 28% fat this is 168g fat, if I did not bother separating it to some degree.