Tips: Beef Cooking and Buying Tips

• When cooking ground beef for Tacos or other Mexican dishes, cover the meat with water in a saucepan, break up with a fork, or potato masher, season well with beef and chicken boullion, and garlic powder, when cooked, drain off fat and water and you've got tasty meat without all of the fat. (You won't miss the good taste of the browned meat, I promise.) I generally add a can of fat free refried beans and use just a little of the water from the meat to moisten, then our Mexican Dishes are bean and beef ready. Enjoy! Nana Jams ^new (Added: 11-Oct-2005)

• Leftover Meatloaf makes a great meat for Tacos. Just add taco spices mixed with water (follow the packet's instructions) and reheat in a pan. Marsha, Washington DC ^new (Added: 13-Feb-2006)

• Freeze ground meat in 1 pound portions and place into freezer storage bags. Flatten out to the edges of the bag and remove all the air before zipping and sealing, then freezing. These flat bags of ground meats stack neatly laid flat or standing on edge in the freezer. If you want a smaller amount it’s easy just to break it off then reseal the bag. The meats also thaw quicker when stored this way. Audrey, Anacortes, WA ^new (Added: 14-Sep-2005)

• I buy ground beef in bulk and prepare for several meals in advance. I cook 5 or 6 lbs at a time and drain. I add taco seasoning, sloppy joe sauce, and leave some plain and freeze in vacuum sealer bags. I also add seasoning to the ground beef before I shape into patties and freeze. Saves lots of time and mess camping and on nights when time is short. Jeanne in Port Republic, MD ^new (Added: 17-May-2006)

• Instead of buying the more expensive beef stew meat, purchase a chuck roast on sale and cut it up yourself. Grandma Norma, Paducah, KY ^new (Added: 18-Feb-2005)

• Place a few pieces of dry bread in the broiler pan when broiling meats to soak up dripping fat. This can eliminate smoking fat as well as reduce the chance that the fat will catch fire. Jenny Wanderscheid ^new (Added: 22-Feb-2005)

• To make nice round hamburgers, place a round meat ball between wax paper and mash with a clear dinner plate. You can watch your progress and make hamberger size to your specifications. This also makes patties ready to freeze and easy to seperate when ready to thaw. Earl McCook, Ne. ^new (Added: 22-Mar-2005)

• Meatloaf on a stick: Wrap meatloaf mixture around a stick. Wrap meat with alumininum foil. Hold over a campfire until done. Also bring complete biscuit mix in a zipper bag add water and squish to mix. Stretch with fingers into a strip and wrap spirally around stick and hold in other hand to go with meatloaf. Sharon, Delmar, NY ^new (Added: 23-Sep-2003)

• Trim fat from beef after cooking as leaving a layer of fat preserves juiciness. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

• Slow cookers and pressure cookers are ideal for less tender cuts of beef. FabulousFoods.com ^new (Added: 25-Aug-2003)

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Tips: Beef Cooking and Buying Tips

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