Whether or not it is sausage for Traditional Sage and Sausage Stuffing, floor lamb and pork for No Holds Barred Lasagna Bolognese, and even some floor turkey or beef for my home made pet food, crumbling floor meat in a saucepan is step one to many recipes.

For years I used to do it the best way you are in all probability doing it now: by painstakingly making an attempt to chop massive chunks of meat into smaller items with assistance from a picket spoon. It is tedious, time consuming work that does not even ship the perfect outcomes.

Today, I flip to a distinct instrument: the potato masher. By urgent on the bottom meat within the skillet with a potato masher because it cooks, you shortly and evenly break it into small, homogenous chunks which incorporate extra easily into sauces.

As you mash, you may see bits of meat urgent up by the again of the potato masher. Use your flat-headed picket spoon to scrape and minimize these bits off. They’re going to drop proper again into the pan.

And right here you had been, feeling responsible since you thought you had one among Alton Brown’s dreaded uni-taskers in your kitchen drawer!

October 2014