Ground Beef Experiment

We've always wondered if buying less expensive higher fat beef is really a better deal. Or, are you just paying for a bunch of fat? Is buying the lower fat meat better because you get more meat even though you're paying more? Or is it not worth the cost. 

We decided to do an experiment. We bought a pound of 27% fat ground beef and a pound of 20% fat ground beef. The beef with more fat was .30 less. 

Here are the boys cooking up both pounds of meat. 

It looks like the pan with more fat has less meat (the one on the right) but Jeremy says it was about the same amount of meat, the camera just didn't capture it. So the amount of meat is about the same. 

Here is the fat that was sucked out. The cup on the right was the beef with more fat. It looks like a tiny bit more fat was sucked out. Not much though. 

So our conclusion was that you get about the same amount of meat whether you buy 27% or 20%. You suck out a little bit more fat with the 27%. 

We should really do this experiment with the 27% and the 3%. Then, we'd probably see a big difference. You'd think since you pay more for the 3%, you'd get more meat so it's worth the cost?  This was not seen with with the 20% however.  I guess we'll have to experiment.