- Using a food processor or meat grinder, grind the
meat into hamburger (for more specific
instructions on meat grinding, see here). - Form each portion into a patty and cook in a hot
skillet or on the grill. - Taste the cooked patties.
Results
How did the cooked patties taste? Most likely you
found that the first patty tasted like a regular
burger, while the second patty tasted like a lamb
burger. The bacon-laced patty, well, you get the gist.
Still unconvinced? Try the same thing replacing the
lean beef with lean lamb. The patty with beef fat will
still taste very much like a regular all-beef burger.
DEFATTING A STOCK
In most situations, outside of fancy restaurants and
fashion shows, a little extra fat is not necessarily a
bad thing—go to any Japanese ramen house, for
example, and they’ll actually add fat to individual
bowls of noodles for extra flavor—but there’s a big
difference between just enough and too much. A bit
of fat emulsified into a broth and a few stray bubbles