George Foreman grill burgers

[Titan]

I have been googling like crazy and can't find an answer to this question.

I just got a food scale and have been weighing everything, so I made up some foreman burgers using 90% lean ground beef.

Before cooking, one batch was 20.6 ounces, after cooking, 12.3 ounces. So I lost over 40% of the weight but obviously a lot of that must be water that drains with the fat and a ton of steam comes out. Once they are almost done, I rotate the burgers 90 degrees to get criss-cross marks and squeeze a ton more steam out by putting pressing my weight on the top of the grill.

I'm guessing if I somehow rendered the drained liquid I could figure out how much fat by weight gets drained? Crazy that 10% of the stuff is fat that accounts for half of the calories (according to the nutrition sticker). So if I get down to 5% fat I've cut 25% of the calories out.

I guess the big point is amount of protein doesn't go away.

My main goal is to get a nutrition data chart for cooked forman burgers. I've tried to compare using burgers cooked with other methods and they suck, have more fat then uncooked, probably from cooking oils.

Anyone have any facts or a method to determine them?

EDIT: also if anyone uses a foreman and has good burger recipes I like to hear 'em. Making cardboard taste better is a feat! I'm thinking of working some minced garlic in.

 

[Titan]

Ok according to Nutrition Data this is how 90% lean ground beef breaks down by weight:

100 grams =
27g protien
11g fat
61g water

So the question boils down to the effectiveness of the foreman, I'm guessing I removed about half the water in cooking, could I say I removed half the fat?

 

[dealmaster00]

from what I've heard cooking meat removes practically no fat. even on a george foreman.

 

[xboxist]

Well, I don't have hard data for you. All I can tell you is the other night I grilled up 4 patties of a beef that was labeled as 92% lean. And it completely filled the fat reservoir to the brim by the end of it. I don't know how much liquid that thing holds, however.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I always just go by whatever the nutrition sticker says. It's got to be pretty close calorie-wise because after the fat and water drains out I'll have to use more of the actual meat to get the serving-size weight. So more protein calories make up somewhat for the fat calories lost. It throws my calculations off somewhat I'm sure, but if I'm taking in more protein and fewer calories than I actually record then that tends to work in my favor.

 

[NAC]

Leave everything that drips into the tray out overnight (or put in the fridge if you want).
The fat will solidify and separate from the water. Pour out the water and weigh the fat. Wala!

 

[NAC]

That was my 100th post in 8.5 years

 

[KingGheedora]

Originally posted by: dealmaster00
from what I've heard cooking meat removes practically no fat. even on a george foreman.

This is not true, there is tons of fat left in the fat catching thing after cooking burgers on the foreman grill.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: NAC
Leave everything that drips into the tray out overnight (or put in the fridge if you want).
The fat will solidify and separate from the water. Pour out the water and weigh the fat. Wala!

Tada. It was a good 100th post, NAC. Seems to be the most valid option for comparison.

 

[xboxist]

Originally posted by: NAC
That was my 100th post in 8.5 years

Whoa whoa whoa!!! Slow down there, buddy. Don't overdo it. If you post any more this year, you'll bump that PPD from 0 to 0.1

 

[Howard]

Too much. Eat something else if you don't want to consume dietary fat.

Also, stop pressing on the god damned grill.