Me too.
And not to be all "beef conspiracy", but I used to drain the fat into a beer can and wait for it to solidify before throwing it out. It never did, mostly water.
Most people drain the "fat" too early when browning ground beef. What they think is fat/grease is mostly water with fat mixed in. If you brown it properly, you will hear the pitch of the sizzling change from a lower rumble when there is still water boiling off to a much higher pitched frying sound when all the water is gone and only the fat remains. You will discover that if you wait for this time to drain the fat, there will be a lot less of it than you thought there was. Most of the time you won't be able to drain what remains because there is so little of it, unless you're using something like 60/40 ground beef or something like it.
Ultimately fat is flavor and a necessity to properly digest and absorb the nutrients from red meat. If you brown it right and leave the fat behind in the meat, you will actually make the whole meal better and have an easier time with the digestion of the meat so leave it in! If people would do this more often and cut out the refined sugars and carbs, we'd all be a lot healthier. Humans are made to eat meat and fat so enjoy it!
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