Store Ground Beef vs Grinding Your Own: Blind Test Results Shocked Me (I Didn't Expect This)

Is store ground beef really worse than grinding your own? I bought a pack of ground beef and a chuck roast, ground the roast myself in my wife's old food processor, made burgers from both, and put them in front of my neighbors Ted and Donna without telling them which was which. Ted has told me for twenty years that he can taste the difference from across the room. One of their answers surprised me more than anything in thirty one years. I am Earl. Thirty one years behind the meat counter, and a lot of those years I was the one packing the ground beef into the trays. Three rounds. The price and the grind: the one word on the label that tells you whether extra fat can be added, and how to grind a roast in ten minutes without a grinder. What you see in the raw meat before it touches a pan, and the part about ground beef I never told a customer. And the table, with a card face down under the salt shaker and six words from Donna I will not forget. If you have not seen the stew video, watch it next: why the little cubes of stew meat cost more than the whole roast right next to them. Nobody paid me for this. There is nothing here to buy. I do not work for any store or any brand. Your homework: buy one pound of chuck and one pound of store ground beef, make one burger from each the same way, and do it blind with somebody at your table. Then tell me in the comments which one they picked, and whether they were right. --- About this channel: this is a fully owned and operated media property. All scripts are written and researched by our team, all voiceover and visuals are produced in house, and every video is edited by hand. We are not an aggregator and we do not republish other people's work.