To ask you if you boil and cool your mince meat before cooking it?

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Because this is what mine looks like after boiling and cooling, and I took the pic after removing another heaped spoonful. It's sheep mince from my local butchers which sells halal meat (not that makes a difference). It's always the same.

I wonder what makes it have such high fat content. I think it was meat from the leg.

Fireside to be fair, I did say my mum used to do this

Boiled mince sounds like a prison menu!

I always brown it at a very high temp, to "seal in the flavour" as Greg Wallace might put it.

Doesn't it go all rubbery and weird if its boiled first???

I love cooking and eating! I always make all our food from scratch and I have friends lining up to have dinner at our house! I resent whoever made that comment! I love food!

Several points here. You do not love cooking. Nobody who loves cooking would do this. You might like eating but badgers and foxes like eating and will indeed eat any old shite. Friends lining up for dinner? Purlleeeeeeeeeease - real friends? Really? You do not love food. If you did you'd treat it with respect.

Sorry, but that is some really unpleasant looking mince there op, sheep mince, really?
I buy extra lean mince and get the best I can afford, absolutely never heard of boiling it before cooking.

I don't think boiling mince will do much negative, it's just ODD, how can it possibly save time, cooking mince doesn't actually take time anyway, although obviously depending on what was minced it may well be something that does better for longer cooking.

Burgers don't need fatty mince!

YY wishmiplass typical vipers, making mincemeat out of poor OP...

Fireside to be fair, I did say my mum used to do this

Don't spoil my perfectly flawed valid point.

I have honestly never heard of this or met anyone else that does it. I drain off the fat after frying the mince off.

Speaking of which, I must take out the mince for my chilli beef tacos.

And I'm assuming rinsing mince is as unhygienic as washing chicken before cooking it.

That took me longer than it should have wish

Its 'sheep mince' which will be fatty compared to beef. Or cow.

I don't understand how this saves time. I made chilli with beef mince last night, from scratch. The mince took 5 minutes to brown, then 15 minutes to simmer once everything else was added.

Oh god no, for one it stinks, for two you're double cooking the meat for no reason at all. I don't understand how it saves time at all.

I'm sure that's how my mum used to make it. Boil away all day in bisto!

The first time she watched me making a bolognese she was hopping on one foot saying I'd posion us all!

So that's the OP and two mums...

Ewe're right there Lonny. I'd tell them all to ram it!

When I first moved out at 17 I did actually boil mince once.

I was making cottage pie. I boiled the mince and stuck an oxo cube in the water and slopped on mash.

I am pleased to say I can cook now.

Keep up ghost x

BAWK u2 I'm so glad you can cook now haha

My exp used to rinse the mince.

He'd cook then rinse it off in a colander with hot water, absolutely no flavour in his cooking.

Hmm, that sounds more like cottage soup to me...

Am I the only one who thought the image as actually mash at first?

Anyway, OP do you do this with all your meats?

Rinse the mince

You lot don't mince your words,do you.

And no I would not eat your boiled mince OP.

It was disgusting.

I'm pretty sure my ex ate most of it though.