Grass Fed Organic 93/7 Ground Beef from Wegmans Review

Organic ground beef is starting to make its way into progressive grocery stores, such as Wegmans. I've been buying it from Wegmans, until I get a new freezer. Once I get a new freezer, then I'll buy a side of organic beef from a farm not too far away in upstate New York. I can't wait, since I'm not too happy with the 93/7 ( lean to fat content percentages ) organic, grass fed ground beef on which Wegmans puts its name and sells in its stores. Here's why.

Grass Fed Organic 93/7 Ground Beef from Wegmans ( Cooking )

I'm all for eliminating a lot of unnecessary fat from our diets; but the organic ground beef Wegmans sells is too lean: 93% lean to 7% fat. Meat that is too lean is somewhat difficult to cook. Too little fat means too little sizzle, among other things as we will get into under the next sub-heading.

I've cooked Wegmans Organic Ground Beef the way ground beef is most commonly prepared: as a burger seared in a skillet over a gas fire and as a meatloaf baked in bake ware in a gas oven. It cooks better as a meatloaf than a burger. Wegmans Organic Ground Beef may or may not cook better over an open fire in the barbecue pit, since fat only helps the beef to cook for as long as its still on it and hasn't dripped off of the beef down into the barbecue pit. But I'll be surprised if I cook Wegmans Organic Beef on a barbecue pit even once, since Wegmans only sells it in the aforementioned 93% lean, 7% fat content ratio, and so little fat content means it doesn't taste very good.

Grass Fed Organic 93/7 Ground Beef from Wegmans ( Taste )

Most of the time we want our food to taste, not only good but, very good. Wegmans Organic Ground Beef has so little fat content left in it that its taste is severely diminished. Ground beef simply has to have a little bit more fat in it for it to taste good than the paltry 7% Wegmans Organic Ground Beef has in it.

To the credit of Wegmans, the organic ground beef is from cattle that have been grass fed from start to finish. What kind of grass they're eating, I don't know. I'm not familiar with the grasses in Paraguay, where the cattle are raised. And it is for this reason too that the beef may not taste too good: the type of grasses the cattle eat.

The other factor involved in the taste of Wegmans Organic Ground Beef is its texture and how ground up it is to start; it's very ground, too ground. It's so ground up it's gummy and sticks together. It doesn't crumble apart, making it an unaerated glob to work with and cook. But I keep cooking it for now, because it's the only organic ground beef to be gotten locally at a grocery store and for a decent price.

Grass Fed Organic 93/7 Ground Beef from Wegmans ( Price )

Many persons would rightly raise an eyebrow upon hearing the price of Wegmans Grass Fed 93/7 Organic Ground Beef: $ 4.99 a pound. That's one and a half, two, three, up to five times as much as the ground beef that gets frequently recalled from grocery shelves. Which is precisely why I pay the extra money: I reduce my family's chance of getting seriously sickened, paralyzed, or worse, by avoiding inferior ground beef. But even further, anyone and everyone should rightly raise their eyebrows in that it costs so much more to eat safely and healthy. Wegmans Organic Grass Fed 93/7 Ground Beef affords that opportunity at present.