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So if I want to eat nice meat cuts ground up, without getting slime, what do I do?

artificialLimbs 8y ago
Know your farmer.
jannyfer 8y ago
In Canada, you can go to a local grocery store or meat shop and choose meat cuts and have them grind them for you on the spot.
- prepend 8y ago
  In the US too, all major grocery stores in my area you can ask them to grind up a chuck roast or any cut of meat and they will. It costs a little more depending on the price of the cut you select.
analog31 8y ago
My mom had a crank operated grinder that was mainly for making sausage but worked pretty well. Where it came from is relegated to the forgotten past.
radicalbyte 8y ago
Given how bad ground beef is for your health you're better off swapping it for ground chicken / quorn / lentils. I've personally largely switched to veggie ingredients for Lasagne and Moussaka. That was for taste reasons too but the health benefits are a nice bonus ;)
- radicalbyte 8y ago
  I'm surprised that I'm getting so many downvotes for this post? Are people so scared by even the mention of eating a meal without meat? I eat a healthy and well balanced diet and I honestly don't understand that way of thinking from my fellow carnivores.
  - jon-wood 8y ago
    It’s because “don’t eat ground beef” isn’t a useful answer to the question “how do I best select ground beef”. There may be very good reasons to swap it out for chicken and veg, but this isn’t the place to bring it up.
mohaba 8y ago
You want ground ${Specific-cut-name} ground sirloin ground chuck ground round etc.
dzdt 8y ago
Go to a grocery store or meat shop which does their own grinding. The pink slime processing is only economical at the hugest industrial scales. Anything processed at a smaller, more local scale won't have that.
dragonwriter 8y ago
> So if I want to eat nice meat cuts ground up, without getting slime, what do I do? (1) buy a meat grinder, or (2) go to a butcher (often even a grocery store butcher) that lets you select a cut and have it ground. That's true even without the slime issue, because “ground beef” isn't coming from “nice cuts” with Abby particular consistency.

Know your farmer.

In Canada, you can go to a local grocery store or meat shop and choose meat cuts and have them grind them for you on the spot.

prepend 8y ago
In the US too, all major grocery stores in my area you can ask them to grind up a chuck roast or any cut of meat and they will. It costs a little more depending on the price of the cut you select.

analog31 8y ago

My mom had a crank operated grinder that was mainly for making sausage but worked pretty well. Where it came from is relegated to the forgotten past.

radicalbyte 8y ago

Given how bad ground beef is for your health you're better off swapping it for ground chicken / quorn / lentils. I've personally largely switched to veggie ingredients for Lasagne and Moussaka. That was for taste reasons too but the health benefits are a nice bonus ;)

radicalbyte 8y ago
I'm surprised that I'm getting so many downvotes for this post? Are people so scared by even the mention of eating a meal without meat? I eat a healthy and well balanced diet and I honestly don't understand that way of thinking from my fellow carnivores.
- jon-wood 8y ago
  It’s because “don’t eat ground beef” isn’t a useful answer to the question “how do I best select ground beef”. There may be very good reasons to swap it out for chicken and veg, but this isn’t the place to bring it up.

mohaba 8y ago

You want ground ${Specific-cut-name} ground sirloin ground chuck ground round etc.

dzdt 8y ago

Go to a grocery store or meat shop which does their own grinding. The pink slime processing is only economical at the hugest industrial scales. Anything processed at a smaller, more local scale won't have that.

dragonwriter 8y ago

> So if I want to eat nice meat cuts ground up, without getting slime, what do I do? (1) buy a meat grinder, or (2) go to a butcher (often even a grocery store butcher) that lets you select a cut and have it ground. That's true even without the slime issue, because “ground beef” isn't coming from “nice cuts” with Abby particular consistency.