Posts filed under Ground Beef and Everyday Cooking
Ground Beef and Everyday Cooking
Breakfast Hash With Pork Sausage
One pan, four ingredients, and one instruction that people ignore: stop stirring it.
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Cottage Pie With Ground Beef
Made with beef it is a cottage pie; shepherd's pie is lamb. Either way the filling has to be thicker than feels right.
Ground Beef and Everyday Cooking
Dry-Aged Smash Burgers
Smash burgers are not a seasoned-patty recipe. They are a surface-contact trick, and the window for it is about ten seconds wide.
Ground Beef and Everyday Cooking
Ground Chuck vs Ground Round: What Is the Difference?
Ground beef labels are cut names, and cut names are fat content by another route.
Ground Beef and Everyday Cooking
Ground Pork vs Ground Beef: When to Use Which
They are not substitutes for each other. They behave differently in a pan and they do different jobs in a dish.
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Meatballs With Beef and Pork
Three decisions make a meatball tender, and two of them are made before anything is rolled.
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Skillet Ground Beef Chili
One pound of ground beef, one pan, about forty minutes. The table shows which things go in together, which is the part a paragraph hides.
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Why Is My Burger Dry?
Four causes, and the first one is on the label rather than in the kitchen.
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Why Is My Ground Beef Gray?
Gray ground beef alarms people. Most of the time the color is telling you about oxygen rather than about freshness.
Ground Beef and Everyday Cooking
Classic Beef Chili
Chili is forgiving in every way except one: it punishes a rushed start. Brown the beef properly, take your time with the base, and the rest is waiting.
Ground Beef and Everyday Cooking
Easy Ground Beef Tacos, With Seasoning From Scratch
Taco night is the most reliable weeknight dinner there is, and the packet is the weakest part of it.
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How to Brown Ground Beef
Browning ground beef is the first step in half the dinners anyone cooks, and it is the step most often done at the wrong temperature in too small a pan.
Ground Beef and Everyday Cooking
How to Grill Burgers
A grilled burger is a short cook with very little margin, and almost every failure is self-inflicted: pressing it, flipping it repeatedly, or starting from beef too lean to survive the heat.
Ground Beef and Everyday Cooking
How to Make Hamburger Patties That Do Not Shrink
Patties shrink. All of them do, because fat renders and protein tightens. What you can control is how much, and whether the result still fits the bun. Three habits cover almost all of it.
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How to Make Smash Burgers
A smash burger is not a thin burger. It is a different technique with a different goal, which is maximum crust.
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How to Season Burgers
Almost every burger seasoning debate is really a debate about timing.
Ground Beef and Everyday Cooking
What Ground Beef Ratio Is Best for Burgers? 80/20 vs 90/10
Eighty-twenty. If you take one thing from this page, take that.
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Ground Beef Temperature: 160F, and Telling a Burger Is Done
One hundred and sixty degrees Fahrenheit. That is the USDA figure for ground beef and it is not the same as the figure for a steak, for a reason worth understanding.
