Need cooking advice (shame)! Butter or olive oil?!

[Seeker]

Get the George Foreman Grill...it's the next best thing to barbecue.

And no, don't cook hamburgs in butter you sick puppy...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Why the hell are you using either? The ground beef itself, even if it's ultra-lean, will provide you with more than enough fat for cooking the hamburgers.

[alva]

If you use mixed burgers ( pork and beef) that might work but with burgers made out beef only, I doubt it.

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Why the hell are you using either? The ground beef itself, even if it's ultra-lean, will provide you with more than enough fat for cooking the hamburgers.

At least in the USA, ground beef is 30% fat by default, unless it's called something else (Ground Chuck is like 15%, Ground Sirloin like 7%). 30% fat is more than enough to fry without an ounce of oil, as long as the meat isn't nearly frozen (and if it is, heat it up on low heat to melt some of the fat).

Any meat product with at least 12% fat should fry fine with its own fat, as long as the fat is well marbled throughout or the meat is cooked fat side down if applicable.

Cooking a Ground Sirloin burger, or Ground Turkey, you should use olive oil mixed with butter, or canola/etc. plain vegetable oils.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Seeker
Get the George Foreman Grill...it's the next best thing to barbecue.

And no, don't cook hamburgs in butter you sick puppy...

I actually have one of those. I think I've used it two or three times in the last five years but in college I used it a lot.

[KrazyHorse]

Re: Re: Need cooking advice (shame)! Butter or olive oil?!

Originally posted by Oerdin


Any barbarian who does not cook a burger on an open flame should be drug out into the street and shot.

Any time you want to visit Baltimore I'll make you some delicious ****ing burgers on my charcoal grill.

Ground beef, worcester sauce, chopped onions, garlic salt, pepper, egg

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by snoopy369


At least in the USA, ground beef is 30% fat by default

Most of the ground beef I see is either 20% or 7% fat. I usually take the 20% fat. It's cheaper and makes a better burger.

[Dinner]

True that.

[Ecthy]

Bull**** the latest comments.

1. Experience shows the beef will stick to the pan if you don't add fat.

2. For regular hamburgers made at home, there's no open flame available. I'm not going to fire up the barbecue for 2 hamburgers.

3. Only true statement done: fatter beef makes for better burger.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by Ecthy
Bull**** the latest comments.

1. Experience shows the beef will stick to the pan if you don't add fat.

Sounds to me like experience shows that you own crap pans, and/or don't know the secret of quickly browning each side before letting it cook.

[Ecthy]

That's what you do with pork. Only Brits roast the outside of their beef without making sure the inside is done as well.

[Provost Harrison]

That is different, it gets roasted for long enough so we know it is cooked inside

[Ecthy]

No it isn't. The British roast the outside of their beef to coal, the inside of it staying rawly pink.

Which is NOT what medium means.

[Provost Harrison]

No, fool!

[Ecthy]

Which is why you're nothing but ignorant rosbifs