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Recipe - Classic Sloppy Joe sandwiches

Recipe - Classic Sloppy Joe sandwiches

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Classic Sloppy Joe sandwiches - RECIPE ground beef (a pound / 454g will make at least four big sandwiches) fresh pepper (I like a jalapeno but most people use a bell pepper) onion (not much, so I just use a shallot for a pound of beef) carrot (if you want) ketchup (a lot) mustard Worcestershire sauce brown sugar or molasses oil, salt, pepper, spices, etc (I like celery seed, garlic powder and onion powder) burger buns Chop up the onion, pepper and carrot (I like to cut the carrot into really big chunks, but they take a little while longer to cook. Get the vegetables frying in a little oil in a wide pan. When they seem halfway soft, push them over to one side of the pan and shift the pan a little off the burner so the vegetables don't get too hot. Turn the heat up and drop in the ground beef, smashing it into the surface of the pan so that it's like a giant burger. Let it sit and brown on the bottom. When you scrape and you see golden brown, stir up the beef with the vegetables a lot of water will come out of the meat and you can use it to deglaze the pan. Keep stirring and cooking until there's no pink beef left (I'm careful to not break up the meat chunks too much at this stage. If you're using celery seeds or other whole spices, now would be a good time to throw them in so they can fry a little in the beef fat. Squeeze in a ton of ketchup, a little mustard, a little Worcestershire, a little sugar/molasses, and your remaining seasonings. Stir and taste. Adjust any of the quantities and maybe loosen it up with some water so that you have a thick, saucy consistency. When in doubt, add more ketchup. Lightly toast the buns before serving, to make the sandwiches less sloppy.
Date: 2023-06-17

Comments and reviews: 20


Might want to try a few drops of liquid smoke.
The difference between grass finished beef and corn fed beef, is that the grass finished cattle graze right up until their date with the butcher. Corn fed beef are removed from the pasture, penned and fed a mix of crushed, rolled, dried corn with a variety of other treats like molasses. Since they are penned, they cannot be over active. That encourages them to put on weight as fat. Only meat from corn finished cattle is subjected to USDA grading. Grass fed has no official definition, since all cattle are grass fed. Corn fed beef became a thing because the flavour profile is more uniform and far easier to work with when cooking. But, cattle are not evolved to consume much grain, nor are they well adapted to being penned up in close quarters to other cattle for as much as a year. Consequently, corn fed and organic are highly unlikely to be found on the same label. Penned up cattle are likely to be dosed with antibiotics which may protect their health, and also helps them gain weight. Grass finished beef is generally organic, though not necessarily. It also may have darker colored, brown fat rather than the snowy white fat of corn fed cattle. That brown fat indicates a healthier, active animal. Grass finished beef also tends to have a terroir like wines, and beef from cattle pastured on different types of range will taste differently, ranging from mutton like, through a spectrum, to flavors only good for stew.

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For all of my mom's little culinary tricks and money saving tips she passed on to me. our sloppy joes were always canned and heated up in the pan with some additional brown sugar cause that's what my dad liked. It always tasted like someone poured these little tough pebbles of beef into the sauce you got out of a can of chef boyardee beefaroni, and then finished with some extra sugar. I thought I hated sloppy joes for basically my entire life until my girlfriend showed me her family recipe and I am now among the sloppy joe faithful. THis one looks great, and we eat a lot of carrots so it might be a good one to try next time we have them.
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Or a cheaper and easier way is to get a 1. 00 packet of the store brand Sloppy Joe Seasoning mix, a. 65 cent can of tomato paste, and a pound of ground beef. Brown the ground beef in a skillet and then add the packet, tomato paste, and a little water, simmer till it thickens a bit. Spoon onto sandwich bread, i like to toast it, or hamburger buns, enjoy. It's the version i grew up with and it's guaranteed delicious.
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I don't live in the USA, but Butcherbox sounds great! But my pet peevee is that wild-cought seafood is not neccesarily better than farmed seafood.
Especially wild-cuoght shrimp. AFAIK, there is no defendable way of fishing wild shrimp in a decent way, because it is always trawled, so farmed shrimp would actuall be better and more sustainable. But I'd love to be proven wrong.

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100% agree about the browning. In fact I think you could do a whole video about how many cooks tend to take things to suboptimal extremes. Maximum browning, maximum crunch on fried foods, maximum moisture/juiciness, etc. The search for optimal has ruined many a dish by trying to amp up each ingredient/texture/component to 10 rather than a cohesive whole.
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Butcher Box is NOT a public benefit corporation. A public benefit corporation is a legal status as filed with state incorporation paperwork. Butcher Box calls itself a B Corp, because they pay a private organization for the right to use the B Corp logo, which means absolutely nothing other than they paid a company called B Lab to use it.
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i live in EU and get a good meat in general, but i can give you interesting tip, good cow meat have milk taste in it, like if you boil it, it smell like pot of milk, so i recommend you to hack meat and use full milk powder about 10 g for 100g meat, after you put in and mixed well wait for like 10 min, it will taste divine
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Sloppy Joy was the first recipe I tried to solo as a kid. My family seasons using 3 parts ketchup, 1 part BBQ sauce, and either 1tsp of soy sauce OR Worcestershire sauce. I didn't catch the OR part and this was in the days of the Heintz colored ketchups, so the Joe's were saltier than the sea and charcoal black.
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I never had sloppy Joe s growing up, but one time I had it at a friends house. I really didn t like it, I could eat anything with Tomato in it when I was little. But I randomly but a carrot in it and that made it edible for me. Good to know I wasn t crazy for combining carrots and sloppy joes.
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I saw one of your videos where you said you wouldn't use olive oil in making a cake, just to say in Croatia there was a s chef that made an olive oil chocolate cake (I remember it has only 4 ingredients) and it is quite nice. Maybe check it out, you will be presently surprised!
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Big fan of this newer style of video where you cook everything live but provide voiceovers during the sped up portions line chopping up/prepping vegetables. Makes the video seem way more homely and like a friend teaching me how to cook as opposed to a cooking lecture
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I must say, I'm still not a fan of this new style: The delivery felt less precise, less energitic, less enthusiastic. Less Adam'y.
They kind of feel like videos made as a chore while hung over, and not of passion. I don't know. They feel kind of 'off'.

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watching you pull out all the white flesh and seeds from the jalapenos with your hands and then rub your face near your eyes made me wince. I know for me if I pull that out with my fingers it lingers for a super long time on my fingertips or under my nails.
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I love your videos Adam, always have. I've been eating sloppy joes for 50+ years, and in all that time, there's NEVER been a carrot in the same room, much less in the pan. The shallots and pepper, . The carrot can stay in the fridge.
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I really appreciate that you:
1) Like me, were raised on Sloppy Joe s.
2) Added celery seed, which is an under appreciated taste
3) Possess the ability to pronounce the word Worcestershire correctly!

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I was casually enjoying this video then Adam came out with a near-perfect pronunciation of Worcestershire and the brit inside me suddenly awakened with joy. Worth it just for the correct pronunciation of that!
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This might sound blasphemous but for a less sloppy sloppy joe, serve it in a hot dog bun. Especially a Martin's hot dog bun. Fantastic and you actually get more sloppy joe in your face than on the plate.
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7: 48 -- Got any tips for how to prevent hard clumping of your garlic powder and onion powder? I don't use these often and my bottles of these powders become rock hard after a short while. such a waste.
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I've made my own sloppy joes for years; more of a method than a recipe really. There are so many ways to make variations on the theme that knock the canned joe sauce out of the water.
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Sloppy Joes is actually m favorite food, I love it! I never thought about adding carrot, don't know if I'd add big chunks like that, but I'll definitely try it next time I make them.
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