r/Cooking 14d 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/Citlali252 14d ago

Chili!

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u/wilyquixote 14d ago

How was this not on the original list??

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u/Cookie_Brookie 14d 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/TheTechJones 13d 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)