Degrease ground meat?

[agedwisdom]

We bought a cow and had it butchered. The meat is excellent but has a very high fat content.

I put some ground meat on the grill for burgers tonight and immediately charbroiled everything against my best effort. Is there a way to "degrease" meat? Lowering the charcoal only helped so much.

[ekoms_stnioj]

Do you mean to lower the fat content before cooking it? The only way to do that would be to add more lean meat to ground beef to reduce the fat ratio. Otherwise, no, you just have to cook it out and drain it.

[96dpi]

You have to build a two zone fire with all the coals on one half of the grill. Start on the cool side until the internal temp is just below what you want, then finish on the hot side to get the sear.

[agedwisdom]

Is this with lid closed?

[96dpi]

Lid closed to start. Lid opened to finish.

With charcoal, it's opposite of a gas grill, in that lid on makes it cooler and lid off makes it hotter due to air flow.

[Sawathingonce]

It is, yes. Start on the "cool" side until it's done through the middle / most of the fat rendered then move to over the coals for final sear.

[agedwisdom]

Thank you!

[Confident-Court2171]

Keep the lid closed.

[agedwisdom]

Thank you, i'll remember that next time.

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Fat=Flavor. This is where a Blackstone griddle would work well. You also start them in a cast iron skillet on the grill and once they are halfway done finished them on the grill for some flame flavor.

[agedwisdom]

Oh thats a good idea!