Beef burger.

GordoSD · Oct 13, 2017

Local market had ground chuck on sale yesterday. New place I've never shopped.I bought couple lbs, made up 6 patties, 5 in the freezer one for hamburger at dinner. Pan fried in cast iron. Medium. But when I ate it, it just crumbled apart. Package was not marked as to % fat. What caused that?
Then when skillet cooled I had the devil of a time scraping some kind of sticky residue off the skillet. Fried medium heat teaspoon of peanut oil. What could be in the burger to cause that residue?

Mike M · Oct 13, 2017

Pink slime ?

ss55 · Oct 13, 2017

I've been afraid to try the 70 percent lean hamburger that stores advertise.

flying belgian · Oct 13, 2017

I second "pink slime"

ohiojim · Oct 13, 2017

reminds me last year when I thought it would be a good idea to save and cook deer ribs,....the grease that came out of that was almost imposable to clean up....

BarnyardEngineering · Oct 13, 2017

I thought "pink slime" was outlawed after the big controversy.

The meat was probably old. A local grocery store chain periodically has a sale where they sell 6-10lb packages of supposedly 80/20 ground at $1.99 or $2.99 a pound.

What they do is take a bunch of steaks and roasts that are getting close to their sell by date, and throw them in the grinder, thereby extending their sale window by another week. The meat is dry and tastes like a roadkill woodchuck smells.

rrlund · Oct 13, 2017

It wasn't outlawed,the company that made lean finely textured beef had to close the plants because of lies in the news. They sued ABC for undisclosed billions and it was settled out of court.

It wouldn't have done that anyway.

Greg1959 · Oct 13, 2017

I had the exact same results when I ground up Bobcat meat and fried it in a skillet like hamburger patties......Little to no fat and the patties crumbled apart.

mgriff543 · Oct 13, 2017

I always use 8% ground sirloin and it holds together good so I doubt low fat content is it. Sounds kinda strange to me.

in-too-deep · Oct 13, 2017

Thank you.

Mark - IN. · Oct 13, 2017

Remember that episode of the Andy Griffith show where Aunt Bea went behind the back of the local butcher that always provided her with fantastic quality beef and instead bought a whole freezer full of not quality beef in an alley from Diamond Jim because it was cheaper? My guess, whether you know it or not Diamond Jim appears to have struck again.

Mark

teddy52food · Oct 14, 2017

Horse meat??

JT · Oct 14, 2017

I had the same issue one time with some "breakfast sausage" no grease to speak of, crumbled, and had a sticky residue in the skillet when cooled. threw it out, did not trust it.

rrlund · Oct 14, 2017

Not unusual for a place to try to get rid of old stuff. That's why I'd be suspicious of what's on sale. A livestock hauler was at one of the slaughter houses one time when a restaurant called them needing some burger. Their shipment hadn't come in and they were running short. The owner told one of the kids working there to put some blood in some old pale stuff they had laying around and send that to them.

Beef burger.

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