Ostriches are the new Chickens.

[Elok]

Is there no video of the Persian horde devouring a giant sandwich piranha-style?

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Lancer
Japher, you've tried cooking buffalo meat in bacon grease and it helped?

I have a problem with this in the Phils.

You could add something to help improve the dryness. Put some butter and herbs into the ground buffalo meat and mix it all up. If the butter makes it hard for the meat to stick together and form into patties then scrabble one raw egg and add that to the ground meat. That ought to make it stick together nicely.

[Elok]

If he's talking about cooking in the Phils, he's probably referring to water buffalo or something, not American bison. The fat ratios and other qualities may be significantly different.

[Dinner]

True but he complained about the meat being lean and butter would help add a bit of moisture and fat.

[Lancer]

No, Japher mentioned buffalo. While they do cook up the water buffalo over there I'm talking beef. Skinny, scrawney cows who are happy to be gone from this earth.

I'll try the butter and egg Oerdin. What do you think of mixing the grease in really well?

[Dinner]

Couldn't hurt. Never tried it but let me know how it goes.

Honestly it sounds like the PI has some grass fed beef instead of the "corn finished" beef we have in the US. 90% of the world has that type of beef so just try not to over cook it, keep it on the rare side, and experiment with cooking methods like braising or pan frying with butter.

[Lancer]

Thanks Oerdin.

[Japher]

You could just marinate the crap out of it. That'll shorten the cooking time. I've never had cow with steroids in them before.

[Lancer]

Yup, we do marinate and it helps. Steriods?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Japher
Pig fat rules!

QFT

[EPW]

I am pleased with the number of responses addressing this pressing topic.

[Lancer]

[Dr Strangelove]

I thought the whole point of the ostrich burger, the buffalo burger and the lean burger was to reduce the fat. If you add bacon, cook it in butter, or add grease aren't you negating the main reason for eating the leaner meats? Why not just go ahead and have a regular hamburger?

One problem with cooking it rare as Oerdin suggested is the possibility of getting an enterotoxigenic E.Coli
gastroenteritis.

[EPW]

Are you a Doctor or something?

[Japher]

of course he is, why else would he put Dr in his name?!