"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 18:31:14 -0500, cshenk wrote:
>
>> Gary wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>>
>>> Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I never buy burger buns either, I much prefer hard rolls... in fact
>>>> I have five pounds of top round thawing that I intend to grind
>>>> tomorrow and use for burgers, two for dinner tomorrow and four to
>>>> freeze.
>>>
>>> You're making 6 hamburgers from 5 pounds of meat? How much do you
>>> weigh?
>>
>> Actually once he trims the excess fat, thats 3/4lb burgers.
>
> There's is very little fat on top round. You'd want to keep all the
> fat you can on top round for grinding into burgers. And een then
> you're gonna end up with something about 93% lean, which makes for
> shitty burgers. 85% lean is as low as you'll want to go for proper
> burgers.
>
>> 1/2lb is
>> common so he's going a little bigger. For all we know, 1/2 is lunch
>> and 1/2 is dinner.
>
> No, he basically said he was going to use almost 2lbs of ground round
> "for dinner tomorrow" and freeze the rest. He will give half of one
> to the cats. That's still 1.3lbs of beef for dinner.
>
> -sw

Well, somebody has to counteract those damn vegans.