Calories in mince after drained of fat

apollox1
apollox1 Posts: 7 Member
edited November 27 in Food and Nutrition
100g of uncooked 20% fat mince is 206 calories. Once the 500g has been cooked, drained of all fat and rinced with hot water, it now weighs 360g.

Any idea what that cooked mince now is in calories? I'm assuming it's a lot less than the 206 calories per 100g?

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  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    I don't know for sure, but it wouldn't surprise me if the USDA has a value for something like "ground beef, 20% fat, cooked and drained" or something like that.

    Out of curiosity, why would you rinse it in hot water?
  • rachel780mpg
    rachel780mpg Posts: 83 Member
    You rinse your meat after cooking? I have never heard of that!
  • apollox1
    apollox1 Posts: 7 Member
    I just rinse hot water over it while it's in the sieve as I've heard it helps to remove some extra fat.
  • kimny72
    kimny72 Posts: 16,011 Member
    apollox1 wrote: »
    I just rinse hot water over it while it's in the sieve as I've heard it helps to remove some extra fat.

    Well, I don't know if that's true or not, and I'd think it would rinse off most of the flavor too. But there's really no way to measure that part. As I said, I do think a little research will turn up a value for cooked and drained though. Good luck!
  • trich97
    trich97 Posts: 7 Member
    There are about 50-55 calories in one ounce of cooked and drained ground beef. Rinsing saves just a few calories. Each gram of fat has 9 calories.
  • mph323
    mph323 Posts: 3,563 Member
    apollox1 wrote: »
    I just rinse hot water over it while it's in the sieve as I've heard it helps to remove some extra fat.

    Way back in the 70's "Cooking Light" magazine had recipes that had you rinsing ground beef to remove more fat. I guess that bit of advice has persisted down the years. I used to do that too, but I found it made it dry and somewhat tasteless, since most of the flavor is in the fat.
  • WholeFoods4Lyfe
    WholeFoods4Lyfe Posts: 1,518 Member
    When cooking, it isn't just the fat that is cooking off, there is water as well. It's very difficult to get an actual calculation for this. Maybe just try using 95/5% instead so that there is already minimal fat if that is a concern for you.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    Why not just buy the 5% fat mince?
  • COGypsy
    COGypsy Posts: 1,365 Member
    I rinse any and all ground meat after I cook and drain it, whether it's ground turkey breast or 80/20 chuck. Always have, it just looks too gross with fat all over it. I generally find its easier to use vegetarian crumbles instead of ground meat since it doesn't need the rinse.
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    Good God, please don't do that! It's disordered, and sad, and wrong. It's wasteful, it's laborious, you'll clog the pipes, the fat improves taste and mouthfeel, fat is healthy, it's necessary in itself, and to absorb vitamins.
  • COGypsy
    COGypsy Posts: 1,365 Member
    That's so funny! I've never eaten it any other way. To me it seems lazy and short-cutty (is that a thing?) to leave the grease on. My parents always drained the liquid fat into the grease can and then gave the meat a quick rinse in the colander to get the rest off. Then back in the wiped out pan to get whatever flavor was going in the meal....it never occurred to me that someone would eat ground meat any other way!
  • kellya252
    kellya252 Posts: 12 Member
    I drain off the fat but don't rinse it. I doubt that it would make that much of a difference anyway. You could measure and weigh the amount of fat drained off and estimate the number of calories remaining.
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