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Do you have any personal recipe recommendations for hamburger?

ArgentCorvid — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:20:53 -0800

Can you help me come up with a recipe plan to use up this glut of hamburger that I have? I went deer hunting this year, and had good luck. This is great and all, but now I have ~30 lbs of ground venison (in addition to the steaks/roasts).

I'm looking for personal, specific recipe ideas/recommendations that you have featuring ground beef/venison so I can use all this up throughout the year. I will undoubtedly be making some into good-old-fashioned burgers and chili, but I would like some ideas to break it up a little.

Yes, there are plenty of recipes on the web, but this is MetaFilter after all.

The meat is vacuum packed and stored in a deep freeze, so safe storage through the year isn't much of a concern. Also, we mixed in a small amount of pork with some of it, so that it wouldn't be TOO lean.

Yo beef is so fat, when it goes to the beach, the tide comes in.

Tbola — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:55:34 -0800

I was just browning some ground beef - and I was struck with a moment of inadequacy. Am I doing this right? Maybe some people do this in a much more sensible way than I do. So, my question - how do you drain the fat off of your ground beef? Here's what I do:

Brown ground beef in a frying pan.

Remove from heat.

Push the meat off to one side of the pan.

Tilt the pan so the fat pools up on the other side.

With a tablespoon, I slowly scoop out the fat - depositing it into a disposable plastic cup.

When I'm done, and the fat is close to room temperature, I wrap the cup in plastic wrap, and store it safely in the fridge.

On garbage day, I put the (mostly re-solidified) fat cup into the garbage.

Critique me, please.

Grilling Burgers

sonicgeeza — Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:21:52 -0800

BBQFilter: I'm going to make some burgers tonight to throw on the BBQ, but every time I have done it in the past it has been a failure (either fall-apart burgers, or less than satisfactory in the taste department). I have googled, and tried many recipes, so that is where you wonderful people come in. What are your tried and tested burger recipes and tips? I have some ground beef for me and some ground turkey for the missus thawing as we speak... make my mouth water!