It’s the cornerstone of many a midweek meal and a family favourite that’s budget-friendly to boot. As grocery costs climb, is this mince’s time to shine?
At the centre of so many midweek meals around the world is that cheapest of proteins: mince. It’s also regularly among our top-five most-searched ingredients online.
Two hundred years ago, making mince was a time-consuming task requiring endless chopping. Mince only really came into its own, both commercially and in the home kitchen, when the German in the 1840s. This was the world’s first hand-cranked mechanical meat mincer, and it opened up a world of meal possibilities, with everything from burgers and meatloaf to dan dan noodles following.
