Should I follow a recipe when it tells me to drain the fat? Because I also hear it's pointless and makes the dish taste worse because the fat is good.
if you need fat for your food to taste good then you're doing something wrong in the seasoning process
>>21911815I mean I prefer to get the leaner grinds so any fat I just leave in the pan to sear the beef once it starts to brown off. But I could see why you would when using the cheap stuff or when making a dish like chilli or tacos which you are just going to reflavor anyway.
>>21911817I hope your well fed in this thread.
Mince fat is good in bolegnese
>drain the fatNo, "draining fat" is never acceptable. You're throwing out all the good, tasty juice. It's acceptable to skim the fat from the top of broth or sauce however. Save it for later cooking. I have a jar of duck fat in my fridge skimmed from making duck broth, which is absolutely delicious.>>21911817something right*. Fat is delicious.
>>21911815Usually people say to drain fat for health reasons, not for a better eating experience. There are times that you need to remove some fat, though. For example, if you cook something and end up with a lot of fat in the pan then go to make a pan sauce, it could split unless you make a shit ton of it.
>>21911815No that beef is way undercooked. I keep cooking it until it is super brown. When it's really brown and almost crispy it's like little oily hamburger bits. That's when it's perfect. There's no liquid to drain off, just meat and pure beef fat for flavour
>>21911815One time my friends made like tacos with ground beef but didn't drain any of the grease and i had mega diarrhea. Im pretty sure this is why india has a poo problem. Just grease in everything
>>21911839I thought most of the food they eat is vegetarian? how is there grease in everything
>>21911815Yes. You heard wrong. Ground beef fat is nether desirable nor good.
>>21911839Some people may not digest every type of fat well. I don't have problems with butter, olive oil, etc. but beef fat can give me diarrhea.
>>21911840They use a lot of ghee which is a kind of clarified butter
>>21911840Tossed in oil and hummice with oil and fried in oil and grease and its all dirty. Doesnt just need to be meat grease.
>>21911849>hummicewat
>>21911854>he doesnt sing to his ice.
>>21911858ice sings to me
>>21911815>Should I follow a recipe when it tells me to drain the fat?if you don't drain the grease from the beef you're adding to the hamburger helper it will not cook correctly and you will not like it.
>>21911815What retard drains fat like that?
>>21911815Fat is a flavor carrier.Draining is never ever acceptable.Shows a recipe by a cook with no taste.
>>21911815depends on the leanness of the beef as >>21911820 points out, if you dont drain 80/20 or any higher fat percentage you are disgusting swine
>>21912160speak for yourself, faggot
>>21912212I will say you dont necessarily have to drain when using 70/30, but please cook your beef in small batches so it doesnt just gray. Ya its a pain, but then you have something to cook onions or peppers in. Hell I'll even toast buns if I still have fat left in the pan, but ill never add any butter or oil when using a fatty cut of ground beef.
>>21911815Depends on the dish but generally I would say you don't need to.
I get 90 or 93/7 and never drain. There's nothing TO drain. It gets reabsorbed and cooked into the meat. It's hyper efficient.
>>21911825Too much fat is bad
I drained a full mug of solidified fat from my ground beef and I'm glad I didn't put that stuff in my body. Just drain most of it.
>>21911839Yes, India eats lots of ground beef
>>21912351I was referring to the grease, not the beef
It's just ground beef. Drain it.If it were a cut of chuck or shank, that would be another story.
>>21911815Depends on how much you like fat and how fatty your meat is. Don't throw the fat you drain away though, it's useful for sauteeing veggies and adding some flavor to dishes on days when you skip meat to save money.
>>21911815There’s probably about a litre of fat in a pan of ground beef, I feel physically ill at the thought of ingesting pure grease
>>21911815Depends on what you are making and what you want. If you drain the fat because someone said ''drain the fat'' then you are just an idiot. If you never drain the fat because someone told you that it's not something you should do, you are retarded.You should try whatever you are making with draining and not draining fat. See how it changes the dish. Then you can make your own opinion. Same goes for any stupid shit people tell you about cooking.Like people tell you to salt the water when cooking pasta while others tell you that you shouldn't salt it because it's a waste and the concentration of salt is too low. Instead of just taking the word of one side I just tested it and turns out salting the water makes a big difference.
>>21912340My bolognese is god tier, I put bacon in it
>>2191266820% fat beef is way more fat than a few bacon strips
>>21911815It was already cooked in fat. Drain it and save it.
>>21912684I don't think you've tried my bolognese, it's very full bodied and has a lot of umami flavourAnd it's that way because I cook it down in the mince and bacon fats until the sauce is imbued with a disturbingly tasty taste
>>21912688>I don't think you've tried my bologneseI sneak a spoonful behind your back when you aren't looking.
>>21911815Don't drain it permanently. Add it in again towards the end. Most of the time grease also contains some residual water.
>>21911815I don't give a fuck about a bit of fat, but I scoop it out of the pan when cooking mince for bolognese (I just buy general supermarket mince) since you taste the fat on the tongue in the finished dish, and that just isn't appealing.Try with or without the fat and just go with whatever you think tastes better for the dish
>>21911815depends on the amount of fat
>>21911815>AnonymousFat is bad for you
I usually buy the cheaper beef mince which has a much higher fat content. Draining the fat as you brown the mince helps improve the texture of the mince (because you want as much dry contact with the pan as possible, instead of essentially boiling/steaming it in grease). Of course a bit of fat is good for flavour and you'll never drain it all, but draining the fat also means your end product won't have layers of grease which is fucking gross and undermines the entire effort.
You decide how much fat you're removing
>>21911815that's mostly water
in general yeah the recipe is shit if it tells you to drain the fat AND add another fat later on. Just low IQ cooking
>>21911815I learned to drain it before it’s fully cooked before it can soak the fat back up and it’s noticeably less greasy compared to draining it once it’s finished cooking. Good for dieting but it tastes so much better without being drained.
For ground pork, yes. A pound yields more than a half cup of fat.
>>21911837Mein Negroe.
>>21911815I was taught to drain all of it. At one point i forgot to and the extra grease was not pleasant for burritos. However in time i learned to drain most of it but not all of it. And also I can end up using a little bit of it with spices and deglaze it into a nice pan sauce.Sometimes when my dad used to make tomato sauce he wouldnt drain the grease and there would be a very gross orange fat layer solidified on top in the pot. So if i were gonna make that I would skim it off.It does make me wonder about ground beef though, what kind of fat do they add to the mixture to make it 80:20? Is it really beef fat or do they use some cheap fatlike substance?
>>21911817Can't decide if retard or troll
>>21911837How the fuck do you get it to fry? I put 1kg of beef mince in a pot and sometimes all of it browns very nicely and other times the bottom just sticks and i have to deglaze it before it gets burnt, leaving the rest whitePretty sure I've used the same type of meat every time, with the same fat ratio
Depends on the dish. The real question is what should I do with left over beef fat? I made some chili with 73/27 ground beef (it was on sale) and I've had 2 cups of beef fat I drained off that have been sitting in my fridge for a week.
>>21921169Stir in some corn starch until you've got a good gravy going.
>>21911817If you need seasoning for your food to taste good then you're doing something wrong in the fat process
>>21911815Sometimes if you just have way too much fat pooling up making your dish greasy then you should drain some, but most of the time it's boomer tastelets following the FDA guidelines they grew up with that gave them all diabetes and cancer doing shit like this.
>>21920390just hwhite
you can drain it and then use the fat as a spread on a toast later
I never drain anything. Fat is good for you
>>21911815I think the keeping the remaining fat is actually good in a Hamburger Helper, but I always used lean ground beef so draining it never occurred to me.
>>21921615I'm under the belief now that animal fats are the best option, and sneed oils are gay and cancerous.Which are you advocating for?
>>21922330whatever has the right smoke point for the temperature i need to cook the thing i want to make because i'm not a internet brained moron or a tv fried zombie.
>>21922330The same belief as you. I mean, you probably don't need your beef swimming in fat if you're cooking up something like 80/20 or fattier, but it also depends on the dish you're making. I'll use a fatty ground beef and drain it if I'm making something like burritos because I know I'm gonna be adding tomato sauce and maybe chili so the extra fat would do nothing but drip everywhere and make a mess, but when making burgers the fattier the better.
