Canned Hamburger

[ronsmith100]

I like hamburger when I'm camping for pasta sauce, tacos, sloppy joes, etc

So I bought a can of Yoders hamburger.
(the life of a can of this stuff is 20 years by the way)
It is cooked in the can as raw hamburger and salt.

Here's my review:

Opened the can and the meat is bound together in the center with liquids and fat on the outside like a can of tuna. 20% shrinkage I would guess with the juices and fats on the outside.
The hamburger crumbles real easy and tastes ok except it is dry and salty. So I mixed some of the fat and juice back into it and sauted it with onions and it was very good.
I'll buy some more but for single can it was $6.75 plus shipping.
By the case of 12 cans it is $67 plus shipping

I will keep a few cans in my egg for sure.

If anyone wants to split a case let me know.


EDIT--------------
Wrong picutre and wrong prices. I bought a number of items.

[HerseyBA]

Ron,
Where did you find it?
If this is the same product from Germany that I read reviews of last year on ExpeditionPortal.com, you are much kinder than they were.
With a long shelf life, I agree that having a couple of cans tucked away might be handy. I carry SPAM now. Lots of garlic, onion, and hot sauce will improve most anything. Of course, I have found some MREs that aren't bad.
Bruce

[ronsmith100]

Ron,
Where did you find it?
If this is the same product from Germany that I read reviews of last year on ExpeditionPortal.com, you are much kinder than they were.
With a long shelf life, I agree that having a couple of cans tucked away might be handy. I carry SPAM now. Lots of garlic, onion, and hot sauce will improve most anything. Of course, I have found some MREs that aren't bad.
Bruce

UDA inspected. Canned in the USA from one of two makers.

http://www.internet-grocer.net

I guess I was too kind because I was expecting something awful... so I graded to high because it wasn't awful.
True that! onions and garlic can make almost anything edible

[Patrick Mc]

You can cook all the hamburger you like and dry it. We've done it for years. It keeps a long time. I can't tell you how long exactly since we eat it regularly, but we've had some for over a year in the pantry and several years in the freezer.

We started with the Hungry Hiker's cookbook and have dried tons of meals and/or ingredients for meals from when we were tent camping.

We got a free Ronco dehydrator by sitting through a timeshare campground sales pith over twenty years ago. It's still going strong!

Pat

[Terry R.]

I think GFS, a restaurant supply store, sells the canned hamburger. I always buy their canned chicken because I don't eat much beef. They also have chunks of beef and I think Turkey.

[Rick kl]

you can put it in jars and then use a pressure cooker, I used to this on canoe trips only problem was the jars are fragile great for bush chili and hambuger helper.

[Vivian]

Another option is browning and crumbling fresh ground beef, draining well, and packing in meal size portions in vacuum sealed bags to put in the freezer. We have a Food Saver vacuum sealer which works well to also keep cheese fresh.