if you need fat for your food to taste good then you're doing something wrong in the seasoning process

>>21911815
I mean I prefer to get the leaner grinds so any fat I just leave in the pan to sear the beef once it starts to brown off. But I could see why you would when using the cheap stuff or when making a dish like chilli or tacos which you are just going to reflavor anyway.

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>>21911817
I hope your well fed in this thread.

Mince fat is good in bolegnese

>drain the fat
No, "draining fat" is never acceptable. You're throwing out all the good, tasty juice.
It's acceptable to skim the fat from the top of broth or sauce however. Save it for later cooking. I have a jar of duck fat in my fridge skimmed from making duck broth, which is absolutely delicious.
>>21911817
something right*. Fat is delicious.

>>21911815
Usually people say to drain fat for health reasons, not for a better eating experience. There are times that you need to remove some fat, though. For example, if you cook something and end up with a lot of fat in the pan then go to make a pan sauce, it could split unless you make a shit ton of it.

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>>21911815
No that beef is way undercooked. I keep cooking it until it is super brown. When it's really brown and almost crispy it's like little oily hamburger bits. That's when it's perfect. There's no liquid to drain off, just meat and pure beef fat for flavour

>>21911815
One time my friends made like tacos with ground beef but didn't drain any of the grease and i had mega diarrhea.

Im pretty sure this is why india has a poo problem. Just grease in everything

>>21911839
I thought most of the food they eat is vegetarian? how is there grease in everything

>>21911815
Yes. You heard wrong. Ground beef fat is nether desirable nor good.

>>21911839
Some people may not digest every type of fat well. I don't have problems with butter, olive oil, etc. but beef fat can give me diarrhea.

>>21911840
They use a lot of ghee which is a kind of clarified butter

>>21911840
Tossed in oil and hummice with oil and fried in oil and grease and its all dirty. Doesnt just need to be meat grease.

>>21911849
>hummice
wat

>>21911854
>he doesnt sing to his ice.

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>>21911858
ice sings to me

>>21911815
>Should I follow a recipe when it tells me to drain the fat?
if you don't drain the grease from the beef you're adding to the hamburger helper it will not cook correctly and you will not like it.

>>21911815
What retard drains fat like that?

>>21911815
Fat is a flavor carrier.
Draining is never ever acceptable.
Shows a recipe by a cook with no taste.

>>21911815
depends on the leanness of the beef as >>21911820 points out, if you dont drain 80/20 or any higher fat percentage you are disgusting swine

>>21912160
speak for yourself, faggot

>>21912212
I will say you dont necessarily have to drain when using 70/30, but please cook your beef in small batches so it doesnt just gray. Ya its a pain, but then you have something to cook onions or peppers in. Hell I'll even toast buns if I still have fat left in the pan, but ill never add any butter or oil when using a fatty cut of ground beef.

>>21911815
Depends on the dish but generally I would say you don't need to.

I get 90 or 93/7 and never drain. There's nothing TO drain. It gets reabsorbed and cooked into the meat. It's hyper efficient.

>>21911825
Too much fat is bad

I drained a full mug of solidified fat from my ground beef and I'm glad I didn't put that stuff in my body. Just drain most of it.

>>21911839
Yes, India eats lots of ground beef

>>21912351
I was referring to the grease, not the beef

It's just ground beef. Drain it.

If it were a cut of chuck or shank, that would be another story.

>>21911815
Depends on how much you like fat and how fatty your meat is. Don't throw the fat you drain away though, it's useful for sauteeing veggies and adding some flavor to dishes on days when you skip meat to save money.

>>21911815
There’s probably about a litre of fat in a pan of ground beef, I feel physically ill at the thought of ingesting pure grease

>>21911815
Depends on what you are making and what you want. If you drain the fat because someone said ''drain the fat'' then you are just an idiot. If you never drain the fat because someone told you that it's not something you should do, you are retarded.
You should try whatever you are making with draining and not draining fat. See how it changes the dish. Then you can make your own opinion. Same goes for any stupid shit people tell you about cooking.
Like people tell you to salt the water when cooking pasta while others tell you that you shouldn't salt it because it's a waste and the concentration of salt is too low. Instead of just taking the word of one side I just tested it and turns out salting the water makes a big difference.

>>21912340
My bolognese is god tier, I put bacon in it

>>21912668
20% fat beef is way more fat than a few bacon strips

>>21911815
It was already cooked in fat. Drain it and save it.

>>21912684
I don't think you've tried my bolognese, it's very full bodied and has a lot of umami flavour

And it's that way because I cook it down in the mince and bacon fats until the sauce is imbued with a disturbingly tasty taste

>>21912688
>I don't think you've tried my bolognese

I sneak a spoonful behind your back when you aren't looking.

>>21911815
Don't drain it permanently. Add it in again towards the end. Most of the time grease also contains some residual water.

>>21911815
I don't give a fuck about a bit of fat, but I scoop it out of the pan when cooking mince for bolognese (I just buy general supermarket mince) since you taste the fat on the tongue in the finished dish, and that just isn't appealing.

Try with or without the fat and just go with whatever you think tastes better for the dish

>>21911815
depends on the amount of fat

>>21911815
>Anonymous
Fat is bad for you

I usually buy the cheaper beef mince which has a much higher fat content. Draining the fat as you brown the mince helps improve the texture of the mince (because you want as much dry contact with the pan as possible, instead of essentially boiling/steaming it in grease). Of course a bit of fat is good for flavour and you'll never drain it all, but draining the fat also means your end product won't have layers of grease which is fucking gross and undermines the entire effort.