Ground Chuck!

CANDLEQUEEN · ‎03-09-2010

My husband used ground chuck for hour tacos last night, instead of ground beef, how come I didn't like it? Maybe becuase I am so used to ground beef....It just had a different texture, and taste to me.....I think ground beef is better suited for tacos and ground chuck maybe for burgers?

RollTide2008 · ‎02-14-2017

Ground chuck is ground beer with a lean to fat ratio of 80/20. I think it’s a fine all purpose ground beef. Unless ground round or ground sirloin is on sales, it’s what I always buy. What kind of ground beef do you usually use?

wagirl · ‎03-09-2010

I used 93/7 ground beef for the longest time because of the lower fat content--but it was so dry and not very tasty---now I use 85/15 or 80/20 and the meat is a lot juicier as well as more flavor. I do still drain the cooked meat very well and wipe out the pan before I proceed with my recipe. Fat is flavor. I try to buy grass fed/ organic meat too.

CANDLEQUEEN · ‎03-09-2010

@RollTide2008 wrote:
Ground chuck is ground beer with a lean to fat ratio of 80/20. I think it’s a fine all purpose ground beef. Unless ground round or ground sirloin is on sales, it’s what I always buy. What kind of ground beef do you usually use?

@RollTide2008 I don't know, I think just regular ground beef.. Which I know is fattier, but ground chuck just had a different taste to it, not a bad taste, my husband liked it, but he also said he preferred ground beef for tacos as well.....lot less fat for sure........

Starpolisher · ‎03-10-2010

I always use 85/15. 93/7 is dry and 80/20 has to much fat. I discovered the difference when I was about 16. My mom was away for a week and my dad took my sister and I grocery shopping. We got the 80/20 ground beef to make hamburgers and nobody liked it. It also had little bits of skin and some bone in it. Not a lot but enough that I found some. To this day if I find that, I cannot eat it...yuck! When mom came home we asked her about it and she explained the difference. I've used 85/15 ever since!

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Pooky1 · ‎12-23-2015

i just started buying hamberger from bjs whole sale club. it 88/ 12. its really good. you dont have to drain any grease out when cooking it.it comes like allmost a 10 pound pak. then i separate it into 7 packages.

FranandZoe · ‎03-09-2010

@wagirl wrote:
I used 93/7 ground beef for the longest time because of the lower fat content--but it was so dry and not very tasty---now I use 85/15 or 80/20 and the meat is a lot juicier as well as more flavor. I do still drain the cooked meat very well and wipe out the pan before I proceed with my recipe. Fat is flavor. I try to buy grass fed/ organic meat too.

I bought 93/7 sirloin for yeeeaars. Recently bought 90/10 and that little bit of extra fat makes a huge difference - so much more flavor. I did have to drain it though which I never did with the 93/7.

Ground chuck is tooo fatty for me. Even a chuck roast - no way.

EatWell · ‎12-31-2012

@CANDLEQUEEN wrote:
My husband used ground chuck for hour tacos last night, instead of ground beef, how come I didn't like it? Maybe becuase I am so used to ground beef....It just had a different texture, and taste to me.....I think ground beef is better suited for tacos and ground chuck maybe for burgers?

@CANDLEQUEEN

What are hour tacos?

Citrine1 · ‎03-09-2010

@EatWell wrote:
@CANDLEQUEEN wrote:
My husband used ground chuck for hour tacos last night, instead of ground beef, how come I didn't like it? Maybe becuase I am so used to ground beef....It just had a different texture, and taste to me.....I think ground beef is better suited for tacos and ground chuck maybe for burgers?
@CANDLEQUEEN

What are hour tacos?

@EatWell Pretty sure she meant "our" tacos

EatWell · ‎12-31-2012

@Starpolisher

@Starpolisher wrote:
I always use 85/15. 93/7 is dry and 80/20 has to much fat. I discovered the difference when I was about 16. My mom was away for a week and my dad took my sister and I grocery shopping. We got the 80/20 ground beef to make hamburgers and nobody liked it. It also had little bits of skin and some bone in it. Not a lot but enough that I found some. To this day if I find that, I cannot eat it...yuck! When mom came home we asked her about it and she explained the difference. I've used 85/15 ever since!

There is no such cut of beef labeled ground beef.

“Ground beef” is made of different parts of a cow or cows. Basically it is butchers leftover mystery beef meat, unless you grind yourself a specific part of the cow.

I don’t eat pre -made ground beef because I don’t know what it is made of. And also a greater chance of E Coli from a sick cow(s) mixed in.