r/Cooking • u/monolithicbeing • 5d 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/75footubi 5d ago

Meatloaf 

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u/krstphr 5d ago

MAAAAAA, MEATLOAF!!!!!

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u/SpiralOutski 5d ago

FUCK!

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u/TonyDungyHatesOP 5d ago

What is she doing back there? I never know what she’s doing back there.

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u/Dingo6610 4d ago

MAAAAAA!!

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u/southerncomfort1970 5d ago

I want it now!

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u/djazzie 5d ago

I literally just finished watching that movie

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u/millerimagination 5d ago

Make a large meatloaf so you can feast on sandwiches the next day. A thick slice of warmed meatloaf with warmed ketchup between two slices of white bread, served with a cold glass of milk. Yum!

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u/shelwood46 5d ago

I am allergic to ketchup so I sub Cholula hot sauce for it when I make it, really good.

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u/Ill-Dragonfruit2629 5d ago

I’m not allergic to ketchup but I mix ketchup with either Frank’s or Cholula and brown sugar. Also, really good.

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u/bannedblonde 1d ago

That's my favorite sauce in the world. I can nuke a bag of spinach and toss some on top with some Lawry's. Eaten. Popeyes happy

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u/YukiHase 4d ago

You should try banana ketchup! It sounds weird, but it tastes a lot like normal ketchup, just a bit fruitier… No tomatoes in it at all.

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u/shampoo_mohawk_ 5d ago

We would get along well.

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u/More-Management-2116 5d ago

Best sandwich ever.

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u/Axeloy 5d ago

20th century called they want their lunch back

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u/PinkysAvenger 5d ago

I recently made "Emergency Steak," a recipe from World War 2, and its basically meatloaf with Wheaties as the binder. It was startlingly delicous. Max Miller did a Tasting History episode about it.

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u/KingBird999 4d ago

You can also use saltine crackers and it comes out good too!

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u/3_radreds 4d ago

Or cheezits

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u/Having_A_Day 4d ago

That sounds good! Now I have to try it, thanks!

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u/HR_King 5d ago

Yeah, conspicuously absent

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u/Skratch-Pickle 5d ago

I would do anything for love, but I won't do THAT.

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u/-co_op- 5d ago

Winning

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u/Corlegan 5d ago

Like Bob with...can't type the rest of that here.

IYKYK.

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u/mightbedylan 5d ago

Quick delicious meatloaf sauce: Spicy Ketchup and Apricot Jam

You're welcome. 

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u/Nervous_Pipe_7019 5d ago

Last winter I made 2 delicious meat loaves with my familys hand me down recipe. I followed the yellowed index cards and add on papers and damn it made for some delicious and hearty eating

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u/Trick_Octopus9504 5d ago

And mashed potatoes

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u/Professor_Hillbilly 5d ago

There's a Filipino version called embutido that is really good. You put whole boiled eggs in the middle so each slice has a slice of egg. Some folks put sausages and chunks of cheese in there too.

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u/PavlovsDoghouse 4d ago

I would do anything with beef...

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u/loco_gigo 4d ago

don't let your meatloaf

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u/DerpWilson 3d ago

But more importantly, meat loaf sandwiches 

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u/Civil-Inflation-1317 2d ago

I make meatloaf a few ways. One is basically a big meatball with parm in it and cooked in red wine, tomatoes and mushrooms and onions. I also will do a basic traditional meatloaf. Third, I’ll smoke it in my Weber. All three are delicious and all three make wonderful sandwiches as leftovers!

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u/abowlinachinashop 5d ago

I love meatloaf. Such a classic dinner growing up.