"sf" wrote
>
> So, what you're really saying is home ground will taste like store
> bought if you let it sit for... how long?
>
>

If it's the prepackaged stuff one normally buys from the stupidmarket,
you're talking at least a week, probably more like two-three weeks...
because they don't grind cuts like roasts... first they wait until the
roasts pass the sell-by date and they turn those into smaller cuts like
steaks, than after the steaks pass the sell-by date they turn that into
generic stew meat, then after the stew meat passes its sell-by date they
finally grind it but not before adding all the scraps and trimmings they
saved from the previous day. When I say preground is mystery meat it's
truly MYSTERY meat.. now I just exposed some of the mystery but only the tip
of the iceberg.