grinding your own lean meats

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  • stormsusmc
    stormsusmc Posts: 228 Member
    I buy bulk chicken and trim nicely myself. With the leaner trimmings I'll grind it up, season, make patties and freeze. Takes a few minutes to fry up with some coconut oil.
    Are you dead yet? Because you might be and not know it.

    Because I'm eating fat...? I don't see your logic. Chicken is quite lean, and I use the lean trimmings. I make my breasts weigh 10oz each. The excess gets made into patties and I know what I'm using, it's not getting made for me.
  • Gallowmere1984
    Gallowmere1984 Posts: 6,626 Member
    I buy bulk chicken and trim nicely myself. With the leaner trimmings I'll grind it up, season, make patties and freeze. Takes a few minutes to fry up with some coconut oil.
    Are you dead yet? Because you might be and not know it.

    Because I'm eating fat...? I don't see your logic. Chicken is quite lean, and I use the lean trimmings. I make my breasts weigh 10oz each. The excess gets made into patties and I know what I'm using, it's not getting made for me.

    Read the rest of the thread, and you'll get the joke.
  • acogg
    acogg Posts: 1,870 Member
    I buy cuts of meat as they are on sale, store them in the freezer and when I feel I have enough for a batch, I thaw it out, grind it and refreeze in quart freezer bags. It saves money and is much leaner than store bought grinds. When turkeys are on sale before Thanksgiving, I buy one or two extra and grind them up. I also make my own sausage out of ground boston butts, much lower sodium and fat than store packages of sausage. Alton Brown has a great breakfast sausage recipe that I love.
  • stormsusmc
    stormsusmc Posts: 228 Member
    I buy bulk chicken and trim nicely myself. With the leaner trimmings I'll grind it up, season, make patties and freeze. Takes a few minutes to fry up with some coconut oil.
    Are you dead yet? Because you might be and not know it.

    Because I'm eating fat...? I don't see your logic. Chicken is quite lean, and I use the lean trimmings. I make my breasts weigh 10oz each. The excess gets made into patties and I know what I'm using, it's not getting made for me.

    Read the rest of the thread, and you'll get the joke.

    >.< gotcha

    rbp i suppose
  • Hirgy03
    Hirgy03 Posts: 332 Member
    Disappointing thread is disappointing

    :frown: :ohwell: :smokin:
  • squeakyfish
    squeakyfish Posts: 109 Member
    I've been grinding chicken, beef, pork, and lamb in my food processor for years because I'm completely grossed out by what goes into commercially ground meat. As far as I know, I'm not dead yet. I was very excited to get a meat grinder attachment for my kitchenware mixer this year for Christmas. I think that definitely makes me a geek.
  • k_diddly
    k_diddly Posts: 11 Member
    1)
    His mom couldn't find organic ground chicken but the GI clinic said absolutely not to grind her own that it was not safe. It's not about cooking temp.

    -absolutely untrue for bacteria proper, but if your meat (or dirty grinder) is already infected with Clostridium, the botulism toxin they make can persist at temps up to about 180 F.

    2) I use my KitchenAid grinder to grind all sorts of meats and love it.

    3) Recently got the sausage stuffer bit for the KA, and homemade sausage is fantastically different from commercial or even Grocery Store prepared sausage. Plus you KNOW what is in it.
  • im sure it is because you are very charming. =)
  • im sure it is because you are very charming. =)

    Why thank you!
  • wibutterflymagic
    wibutterflymagic Posts: 788 Member
    Not all it's cracked up to be. Since I separated from my wife last year I've been grinding my own meat a lot more often. Leaves something to be desired.

    LMAO!! Hahahaha!
  • Contrarian
    Contrarian Posts: 8,138 Member
    If you grind it yourself, there will be no beaks or uteruses in it. I call that a win.
  • bikinibeliever
    bikinibeliever Posts: 832 Member
    Not all it's cracked up to be. Since I separated from my wife last year I've been grinding my own meat a lot more often. Leaves something to be desired.



    Bahaha! So many thoughts.....
  • starcatcher1975
    starcatcher1975 Posts: 292 Member
    I buy bulk chicken and trim nicely myself. With the leaner trimmings I'll grind it up, season, make patties and freeze. Takes a few minutes to fry up with some coconut oil.
    Are you dead yet? Because you might be and not know it.

    Because I'm eating fat...? I don't see your logic. Chicken is quite lean, and I use the lean trimmings. I make my breasts weigh 10oz each. The excess gets made into patties and I know what I'm using, it's not getting made for me.

    I wasn't going to respond to this but I swear to God I am laughing so hard right now I have tears coming down! My son is asking what is so funny