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Check out all this fat

ChuckgM3
ChuckgM3 Posts: 302 Member
edited September 2024 in Food and Nutrition
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This is how much visible fat you can cut off of 2.5 lbs of boneless, skinless chicken breasts.

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Ahhh, that's better...

Does anyone else do this? Or am I just OCD?

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  • ckmama
    ckmama Posts: 1,668 Member
    I do, only cause it grosses me out to sit down to eat and have fat on my meat.
  • brooke0206
    brooke0206 Posts: 255 Member
    I do it too! I CANT stand to have the fat on there!!! YUCK!!!
  • kianaik
    kianaik Posts: 48 Member
    I buy the hand trimmed 99% fat free kind.....and then trim again myself before using. Can't stand to have any on it at all.
  • garedds
    garedds Posts: 251
    i do! I can't handle the fat on them. I also buy the ones that are trimmed already.
  • rshunk
    rshunk Posts: 167 Member
    Yup, I also do that. Chicken, beef, pork... if I can see the fat, it's getting cut off!
  • chardero
    chardero Posts: 3
    But...but...that's where all the flavor is!

    Or so I've been told. lol

    :blushing:
  • WalkingGirl1985
    WalkingGirl1985 Posts: 2,046 Member
    I usually trim/cut off any fat on any meat I get.
  • Manda1987
    Manda1987 Posts: 207
    I do it too. I don't like any skin or fat on my meat.
  • eillamarie
    eillamarie Posts: 862 Member
    I do it. But not to that extent. I don't add any oil when I cook it so I need a little bit of fat on the chicken otherwise it sticks.
  • xarrium
    xarrium Posts: 432 Member
    I usually do a really good trim for all my meat, although it's more because I *hate* the texture of fat--chewy, slimy, and oily. No thanks...
  • LastFighter
    LastFighter Posts: 175 Member
    fats where all the flavour lives
  • Lyadeia
    Lyadeia Posts: 4,603 Member
    I trim it all off like that too. I get a package of about 8 total, then I cut off all the fat and repackage them 2 to a bag which is what I need per meal for me and my fiance.

    I disagree with the flavor being in the fat. I think fat tastes disgusting which is why I cut it all off before I started losing weight. The chicken itself tastes pretty darn good without all that slimy chewy mess on it. :flowerforyou:
  • Sweet13_Princess
    Sweet13_Princess Posts: 1,207 Member
    I don't understand the saying "the fat is where all the flavor is." Have you ever bit into a wad of fat... it tastes nasty.:-P I'm all for trimming off the fat on my food. If I get it in my mouth, I spit it out... gross!

    Shannon
  • ChuckgM3
    ChuckgM3 Posts: 302 Member
    I don't understand the saying "the fat is where all the flavor is." Have you ever bit into a wad of fat... it tastes nasty.:-P I'm all for trimming off the fat on my food. If I get it in my mouth, I spit it out... gross!

    Shannon

    I think this is true for chicken... However, if you've ever had a rib-eye steak (marbleized), or toro sushi (fatty tuna), you would definitely understand that statement... I know I do.
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