doesthingswithstuff
Assistant Cook
Hi there,
I'm brand new to cooking meat and this forum. I'm colorblind and am usually unable to tell the difference between red and brown (or at least, that seems to be the case with ground beef.) Overall, I don't want to rely on color when browning meat, and having people say things like "just feel for the consistency" and "go by smell" have been demotivating, since I'm not exactly sure what the ideal is. Again, I'm experienced with cooking, but not with meat (was a vegetarian until very recently.) I've also had food poisoning, so I don't want to rely on my own inexperienced instincts right now, or what I would evaluate to be "crumbly" or things like that.
I've tried to find this online but haven't yet- I need a guide for how long I need to cook different types of meat, on what types of flame (I'm mostly interested in how to fry ground meats at this point, but cooking times would be useful for other types of meat and cooking styles as well I suppose.)
Does this exist, or would anybody be willing to summarize this for me? Basically, how long I need to fry ground beef, ground turkey, ground veal, and ground pork on what sort of heat before it's done? Recipes usually just say "brown the beef" so looking up recipes has been unhelpful for me too.
Thanks in advance
-A very frustrated colorblind cook who wants to learn to cook meat
I'm brand new to cooking meat and this forum. I'm colorblind and am usually unable to tell the difference between red and brown (or at least, that seems to be the case with ground beef.) Overall, I don't want to rely on color when browning meat, and having people say things like "just feel for the consistency" and "go by smell" have been demotivating, since I'm not exactly sure what the ideal is. Again, I'm experienced with cooking, but not with meat (was a vegetarian until very recently.) I've also had food poisoning, so I don't want to rely on my own inexperienced instincts right now, or what I would evaluate to be "crumbly" or things like that.
I've tried to find this online but haven't yet- I need a guide for how long I need to cook different types of meat, on what types of flame (I'm mostly interested in how to fry ground meats at this point, but cooking times would be useful for other types of meat and cooking styles as well I suppose.)
Does this exist, or would anybody be willing to summarize this for me? Basically, how long I need to fry ground beef, ground turkey, ground veal, and ground pork on what sort of heat before it's done? Recipes usually just say "brown the beef" so looking up recipes has been unhelpful for me too.
Thanks in advance
-A very frustrated colorblind cook who wants to learn to cook meat