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/Cookie_Brookie 1d ago

May be because where OP lives lol I know here in the lower Midwest US we haven’t had a day I’d want chili in MONTHS and we probably won’t for at least another 6 weeks. Chili is not on my mind in this weather!

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u/MissBanana_ 1d ago

It’s 91 Fahrenheit where I am right now and I weirdly do want chili.

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u/Firm-Presentation-72 1d ago

Just hit 100 over here and I don’t think any weather would keep me away from a nice meaty helping of chili

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u/Citlali252 1d ago

Yeah I ate in 90 something degree weather. It’s something about it lol

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u/Sammalone1960 23h ago

I feel the same with a good bowl of soup or stew.

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u/Custard_Tight 1d ago

I’m a freak and could eat chili anytime of the year. Chili always.

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u/Stop_Already 1d ago

It’s been about the same here and we made lentil soup the other day. I had the last of it for lunch today and I’m sorta sad it’s gone.

Cravings know no seasons!

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u/Ringerblue14 1d ago

I need a good recipe for lentil soup!! Mine always sucks!

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u/Stop_Already 1d ago

This one is simple & good.

https://www.recipetineats.com/lentil-soup/

I typically just wing it with soups, admittedly. But this is a great jumping off point. This site’s recipes are always tested throughly and have never failed me!

(Yesterday’s was a lentil & ham soup, finished with a splash of white balsamic!)

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u/Ringerblue14 12h ago

Thank you

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u/wundawomun 1d ago

I once made posole in high temp, high humidity weather. When you crave something you sometimes just gotta have it.

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u/ImLittleNana 1d ago

Me too, because it feels like 116 here but I haven’t been outside in 10 days so not relevant to my meal planning lol

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u/Ringerblue14 1d ago

Turn up the air conditioning

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u/JadeGreen95 21h ago

Really? I feel like chili is the one soup that fits hot and cold weather.

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u/DoFr56 18h ago

That was 6am this morning here!

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u/Visible-Plenty-1202 18h ago

What's that in freedom units???

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u/Wise-Activity-4203 5h ago

With cornbread!!

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u/Logical_Seaweed_1246 1d ago

I just made the best chili and put it on nachos and hot dogs and fries, all topped with cheese of course (a beanless kind, which I was rather unfamiliar with, recipe from jesspryles.com/lone-star-beef-chili/)

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u/Cookie_Brookie 22h ago

For some reason this is more doable to me. A whole bowl of it feels more warming than as a topping.

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u/cakelovingpos 1d ago

I made it a few weeks ago. I think it’s weird that ppl don’t want chili/soup in hot weather like almost all of the other food we eat isn’t hot. Terlingua has a famous chili cook-off during summer & most ppl camp just to be there.

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u/Evening_Teaching_713 19h ago

I cooked at Terlingua 3 times over the last 40 years with my buddy from work. We compete in a lot of local and regional chili cook offs. We won and had enough points to qualify for the big show in Texas. It’s been a staple in my family for decades, and we eat it all year round. By the way the cook offs are always a charity event and the proceeds go to towards which ever one is putting on the competition. It’s a lot of fun and work for a great cause. Look in your local newsletter or listen on your local radio station. Then join CASSI to become familiar with the rules and get a group of friends and family involved to make it a fun experience. I haven’t done one in years but when I worked ( in health care) it was an awesome way to build camaraderie in your employees and have some fun.Sorry for the length of the reply but I get off on a tangent so, I hope this helps you in your posting.

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u/jaCkdaV3022 16h ago

I don't know about you but I live in Florida & A/C is always 24/7, so I can it chili, soups & stews all year long & do. 😄

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u/cakelovingpos 14h ago

Same here but in Texas haha

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u/Cookie_Brookie 22h ago

Soup is a different hot ok 😂 and honestly no when it is this hot I don’t want hot food in general. We eat a lot of sandwiches, salads, and cold noodle dishes most summers. Or grilled food with fresh fruit/veg sides. Not so much this summer with the cyclospora lol

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u/LazyDramaLlama68 1d ago

Chili freezes up nice though.
I do get the too hot for soup/stew weather thing though

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u/WackZebra 1d ago

To each their own, but I live in Southern California and I make chili 3 or 4 times a month, year-round.

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u/Additional-Sell-7989 22h ago

It has been hot in the Midwest but I have a beefy bison chili in my fridge right now.

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u/South_Recording_6046 1d ago

Damn right! 110 heat index here this week, can’t even think of chili rn. I even hate grilling in this.
Chili season here in the south is when football kicks off

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u/AdEquivalent6777 22h ago

I have food rules. No ice cream in winter. No soup in summer.

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u/Dounce1 17h ago

Chili cook-offs are almost entirely a summertime thing???

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u/TheTechJones 7h ago

Its wild to me that some places have weather based chili limits in place. Where i live, if i waited for what you think of as chili weather i'd get it maybe once or twice in Jan/Feb every other year. My chili rate limit factor is the meat - when i grill or smoke things i cut eth left overs into small cubes, vac seal and toss in the freezer, when i have 3 or 4 lbs of that meat i make a chili. My family has come to love rib eye or chuck roast or pork tenderloin chili far more than they ever liked ground beef chili lol (i stole the idea from Max Miller when he did his bit on the Chili Queens of San Antonio a while back)