Grind Your Own Burgers

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Why I Started Grinding My Own • Welcome friends and fellow meat enthusiasts, I had some beef shoulder roasts in my freezer, as well as some excess beef fat. At most butcher shops and grocery store meat departments, if you call ahead they will save you their extra beef fat free of charge. You can cook it down into tallow and jar it, or you can use it as we intend today. I would recommend asking your butcher to specifically save you fat from steak meat like NY strips, ribeyes, or short loins, as well as fat from oxtails. The fat from these cuts are high quality, and excellent for grinding with leaner meat to make delicious blends for the perfect burger. Some of this fat here was left over from our smoked oxtails video, some from our video titled save hundreds on steaks where we processed 2 whole bone in ribeyes at home. It may be a little more work to do it this way, but it allows for endless customization, experimentation, and options. • • Today we are setting out to make the perfect burger. When it comes to the toppings, the bread, or the condiments, there are infinite delicious combinations. Today, my focus is on the meat itself. I have tried most popular brands of pre-pattied burgers off the shelves, and the marketing on some of them just makes me laugh. I love it when in their description they include the cuts of meat they grind and use the term “marbling”. This is pure marketing, as marbling applies to the texture of a steak, once you run it through a grinder, there is no marbling. You couldn’t tell the difference between a beautifully marbled steak that has been run through the grinder, versus a totally lean piece of meat run through the grinder with pure fat. If the fat percentage is the same, the original marbling makes no difference. • • There is a lot of misleading and uneducated marketing on this topic. Some may say, I don’t know, that ground ribeye burger was the best burger I ever had. Okay, maybe it was, but it is a sin to grind a high quality ribeye. It is your money, you can do what you want, but I could have achieved the same thing with lesser cuts, creating a lot more value, where for the same price I would have a lot more delicious burger meat, and still have the delicious ribeye in my freezer. That’s right, you can have your ribeye and eat it too. • • We are also doing a little experiment today. We are going to cut up and grind 2 different batches of meat. With one, we are using a tabletop grinder. With the other, we are using a simple household food processor, proving that anyone can do this at home, you don’t need to own a meat grinder. We will start by removing all the fat from the shoulder roasts, as it is lesser quality and won’t taste as good. We are going to cut the lean meat into pieces that the grinder and food processor can handle, and the same with the fat. Personally, I am just going to eyeball a blend that I know will be good. If you want to achieve an exact 80/20, or just want results that you know you will be able to replicate, all you have to do is weigh the lean separate from the fat before you mix. • • You can season with whatever you like, leave it plain, whatever you desire. We did this over a year ago in our “Burger Hack” video. The results were delicious so we are going to make it the same way. Let me try the burger that went through the grinder. Wow, delicious. Exactly what I was hoping for. Now let’s try the burger that went through the food processor. Incredible, there is almost no difference. The texture is ever so slightly different, but I couldn’t say that one is better than the other. • • If you guys enjoyed this video I encourage you to give this a shot. Please hit the thumbs up button, subscribe if you haven’t already, hit that notification bell to keep up with what steak wolf and I are doing next, thank you for watching. • #burger #homemade #cooking #foodie #foodprocessor #grinder #homemadeburger #food #delicious #recipe #chef #cookingvideo #tasty #burgerrecipe #grilling • Subscribe today / @steakwolf • Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

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