Ground beef

Ground beef, or, in British English beef mince, is a meat product, made of beef finely chopped by a meat grinder. Ground beef is sometimes referred to as hamburger meat or just hamburger because of one of its most popular uses is making the sandwich of that name.

Related Topics:
British English - Meat - Beef - Meat grinder - Sandwich of that name

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Ground beef also features prominently as an ingredient in:

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• meatloaf
• sloppy joe
• Mexican cuisine
• Tex-Mex cuisine
• Midwestern cuisine
• Italian cuisine: the Italians use it to make meat sauces for, for example, lasagna and spaghetti bolognese
• in the Middle East it is used to make spicy kofta and meatballs

In some cultures other meats are used ground, instead of beef. In South Asia both lamb (mutton) and goat meat are also minced to produce kheema, though the process of mincing is manual.

Related Topics:
South Asia - Mutton - Kheema

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40% of U.S. ground beef is from dairy cattle that have outlived their usefulness and are, in many instances, too lame to stand (downer cows). -->

Related Topics:
U.S. - Dairy - Cattle - Downer cow

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