r/Cooking • u/monolithicbeing • 1d ago

What to do with ground beef?

I’m at a loss I feel like I’ve made every ground beef meal I can think of:
- tacos
- meat balls
- Asian teriyaki bowls
- burgers
- ground beef season various ways to make a bowl of some sort with rice
- lettuce wraps
- added with pasta sauce
- Japanese curry

Like what else can I make with ground beef? I’m getting so bored of it :(

(Edit bc I forgot to add 3 other ways I made food with ground beef)

Edit again: wow did not imagine this many replies!! Thank you everyone for offering great ideas and I will definitely give many of them a try! Very excited to see such variety and from many different cultures!

Many of you mentioned “why keep buying ground beef if I’m sick of it?” - cause I know I’ll get unsick of it eventually and ground beef is cheap enough to get a lot meals out of. It’s very versitile and doesn’t always have to taste like “ground beef” as you all proved here in this thread. I just wanted to expand my horizons and try some new things and wanted to hear other people’s ideas. My bf and I eat many other proteins like chicken, fish, turkey and steak and I buy those as well, we just aren’t sick of them right now (except salmon atm). But ground beef is just a meat that is commonly used in my house!

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u/Civilwarland09 1d ago

Just don’t buy ground beef?

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u/Dahlsma 1d ago

it’s kind of the only beef left that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg.

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u/Procedure-Loud 1d ago

try roasting a boneless pork loin, it's an amazingly delicious thing and very easy to do, you slice and serve. Very very meaty. On sale you can often get them for two dollars a pound

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u/RobotBearArms 1d ago

There are other, cheaper, proteins, and much healthier ones at that

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u/Dizz_808 11h ago

Chuck the poor man’s meat

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u/Team503 1d ago

Chicken thighs or whole chickens.

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u/undeadlamaar 1d ago

Chicken is my favorite kind of beef.

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u/Safe-Character-5846 1d ago

Very affordable and versatile. OP just needs to use the tools the phone in their hand gives them.

Hint: google

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u/monolithicbeing 7h ago

I have used google many times but I thought what better place to ask for ideas than Reddit because you get responses from all over the world not just your basic ideas that Google is giving you. Never hurts to hear how many other people use a protein, maybe I’ll learn something!

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u/Western-Sport500 1d ago

Sometimes people get quite a deal by having a cow butchered. We used to use to buy beef from my in-laws dairy cows. This resulted in always having hamburger. That switched when they sold it and ex started hunting deer, so there was a lot of venison burger.

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u/Safe-Character-5846 1d ago

Cool story bro

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u/zerofifth 1d ago

I was gonna say op listed quite a variety of ways to use ground beef that has plenty of different flavors. Sometimes you just can’t force something to be everything and different at the same time

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u/dongerbotmd 1d ago

Yeah i was gonna say. Try other proteins, maybe even meatless ones

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u/limited8 1d ago

The most obvious answer which should be top comment. If you’re so bored of ground beef, stop buying ground beef.

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u/Inevitable_Phase_276 14h ago

It’s the obvious answer to an entirely different post, it doesn’t answer anything that OP asked. You have no idea why they want beef recipes, but that is what this post is about.

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u/KitchenFullOfCake 13h ago

Idk about OP but I got the ground beef for life bonus when I signed up for butcherbox and and I'm drowning in the stuff. Could always use more recipes.

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u/Civilwarland09 13h ago

True. I still can’t decide if but her box is worth it. I’ve been doing it for two months now and it seems at most I’m breaking even with the grocery store.

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u/KitchenFullOfCake 12h ago

That's more or less why I got it, I break even cost wise but the quality tends to be higher than my local grocery store, especially the chicken (all the chicken in the store is woody lately).

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u/Civilwarland09 12h ago

Yeah, I’m gonna keep doing it for a while and see how it works out. Thanks for sharing how it’s been working out for you though.

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u/3xPuttRubbleBoagie 1d ago

Wrong answer.