Technique: draining any browned ground meat

For those of you who don't know this, you should never dump grease down your kitchen sink drain or any other sink for that matter. Grease can harden up when cold water runs through the pipes and I'm sure you don't need me to explain to you what happens after that. That's right a huge drain CLOG! If you are currently doing this, please stop this process NOW! You're only asking for trouble sometime down the road. I would like to offer to you another idea for this very common procedure in our daily cooking.

1. Turn off heat once your meat has cooked.
2. Take a small glass or ceramic bowl like a ramekin and prop up your skillet enough to let the grease run to one end of the pan without making the ground meat run with it.
3. Separate ground meat and wait for all the grease to run to bottom of the pan.
4. Place a few paper towels over the grease and let the towels soak up the grease. This may take a few minutes to do. (This is a good time to prepare the rest of your recipe that your meat is for.)
5. Once your towel looks heavy-ladened with artery-clogging, cellulite making grease, bring your garbage can to the stove or carefully bring your pan to the garbage and remove the towels using a fork or tongs.
6. Throw towels into garbage and return your pan to the stove. There is usually a tablespoon of grease left behind, but that's okay. You'll need that to help keep your meat from looking dry. Just stir to coat.

There you have it! Pipe friendly, drained ground beef. I've been doing this for many years and I would like you to give it try and let me know what you think. Happy cooking!