What’s your choice- 80% or 90% ground chuck

[Tink3815]

Which do you use in dishes like spaghetti or chili and (dare I say) Hamburger Helper
80% is 2.19 and 90% is 2.99 in our area . I like the taste of the 80% but end up draining off about 1/3 cup grease form each lb.
Which do you think is the better buy?

 

[TiggerTails57]

I hate draining fat.....90% Or ground turkey.

 

[Evi]

I buy 95% lean and add things like minced onions etc when I'm cooking to keep in moisture. I figure once you drain all the fat away it really is costing about the same.

 

[rantnnravin]

If it's something I want to add meat "flavor" to, such as pasta sauce or chili, I use 80%. Otherwise, for burgers or anything that would require draining (tacos, sloppy joes) it's 90%.

 

[DisneyNutMary]

80% the fat adds flavor. Draining may be a pain, but I like the juiciness of 80% best

 

[1Mouse2RulethemAll]

I use ground sausage instead. I can usually find it for $2/lbs or cheaper on sale. Almost no grease


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[debbiedoo]

Neither. Only use ground turkey. I can find at 3.48. Or 3.38 a lb. (we don't eat beef or pork only chicken/turkey/fish).

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[LJSquishy]

I use 93/7 ground beef unless there is a really good sale on 80/20 in which case I will stock up on that. Realistically, though, I only use ground beef once a month probably.

I mostly use ground turkey. I use 93/7 ground turkey and occasionally 99/1 if I find it on clearance (and it depends on the recipe also since the 99/1 will dry out). I drain all of my meat, no matter what the fat content is.

I use ground turkey for everything that I would typically use ground beef for: Spaghetti, lasagna, taco salad, etc. Sometimes I do prefer the taste of ground beef in certain recipes but I have just accepted the taste difference...just like how I accept the fact that brown rice isn't as yummy tasting as white rice, but it is better for you (wild rice, though...omg....love it).

 

[Pooh2]

93 percent for all recipes.

 

[*Seanaci*]

I hate draining fat.....90% Or ground turkey.

Neither. Only use ground turkey. I can find at 3.48. Or 3.38 a lb. (we don't eat beef or pork only chicken/turkey/fish).

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Ditto both of these!

I find you can't taste the difference between ground beef and ground turkey. I use it for meatloaf, meatballs, hamburger helper (on the rare occassion we have it), tacos, and my mom's goulash (when I'm making it at least...she still prefers 80% when she makes the goulash). Luckily, since I do 90% of the shopping and 95% of the cooking, all I buy and all I use is ground turkey.

 

[bookgirl]

I don't go any lower than 10% for the most part.

I prefer the 3% but because we buy in bulk we often have to comprimise.

The 10% is the lowest fat offered in the multipound so we buy that for most ground beef dishes pasta, casseroles, or soup/chili. If I expecially want to make something lower fat I buy the individual portions or if the family wants to make hamburgers we buy a fattyier blend (I don't eat ground beef for the most part) but even then we only go to 15%.

 

[North of Mouse]

I prefer the leaner ground beef in dishes that have other type seasonings involved (ie. casseroles). The flavor and moistness is in the fat unfortunately

The lean does NOT make good hamburgers - dry and tasteless! I prefer 85/15 for those.

If I use anything other than 93/7 I always drain the fat - then just enough remains to add moistness and flavor.

 

[Elainey]

I buy my ground beef at Aldi's and they have 85%, which I like and use in all my dishes that call for ground beef. For some reason, I can't tolerate ground turkey--I can taste the difference and it makes me sick to my stomach--wish I could use it because I know it's more healthy.

 

[si-am]

Burgers (on our charcoal grill) have to be 80/20.

I prefer leaner meat for everything else, though I don't actually buy red meat very often.

 

[scbelleatheart]

I love how everyone uses ground turkey but how do you get over the smell? It smells like a hen house. Cannot ever use it. I do use the leanest ground beef, 93% 7%. I add ground pork for meat loaf and meat balls.
Ground turkey, never. It just smells so bad.

 

[SaraJayne]

I love how everyone uses ground turkey but how do you get over the smell? It smells like a hen house. Cannot ever use it. I do use the leanest ground beef, 93% 7%. I add ground pork for meat loaf and meat balls.
Ground turkey, never. It just smells so bad.

Not only that, to us, it tastes awful. *shudder*

 

[Bete]

You can get a package of 80% and 90% and mix it together for 85%.

Also, you could try mixing ground turkey with ground beef similarly. You can use any ratio for it that satisfies your taste buds.

 

[mrsbornkuntry]

We only use 93% or 96% because otherwise the fat upsets me and my 13yo son's stomach, we're very sensitive to fatty foods. I use a lot of seasonings in our burgers so they don't taste bland and don't notice it at all in recipes with sauce like spaghetti.

 

[Nina1]

I only use ground sirloin, 93/7. We don't like the taste of the fattier beef. All we can taste is the fat. Yuck. I use seasonings for taste and veggies for extra moisture.

 

[luvmy3]

80/20 for burgers and meatballs. 90/10 for meatloaf (mix with ground turkey) and any recipe where the ground beef is crumbled.