Is it unsafe to cook chili in a slow cooker without browning the meat first?

Although I agree with shakespearegeek, I would add that grease/fat usually float to the top, and can be carefully skimmed away. IMO, browning's primary purpose is that it gives you a chance to season the beef; in addition, the searing of the outermost layer imparts that special "cooked, meaty" flavour (it's called "umami"), but if it's more of a "burned" flavour, you're risking intake of mangled prions, which have been implicated in mental diseases. Just a nice, light browning is all you need, and it shouldn't take longer than 3 minutes (with fresh chuck).

You don't have to brown ground beef (or any meat for that matter) before you add it to a crock pot; however, you may want to do so anyway for reasons other than food safety. If you do not brown it first, it will clump together and take on a bland color that is not very appetizing. Also, by browning ground beef, you can drain the fat that separates from the meat during the cooking process.

If you add it directory to the slow cooker recipe, all of the grease will remain in the meal. Also, never add any type of frozen meat to the slow cooker.

Yikes! All those answers are right, more or less, but I don't think any of them has ever made chili. The purpose of browning is to make the meat taste better and retain more moisture.It does eliminate a little of the fat but only a fraction.

The key to lean chili is to use lean meat. If you are a fat fanatic. Let it set in the cooking vessle or something you can put in the refigerator until it cools.

- Cool, not room temprature. All the fat will float to the top and you can remove it in one large slab. The real answer is that it is not dangerous but you shouldn't be making chili in a slow cooker at all unless you simply can't be there to watch it.

Not because it is dangerous but because it is an inferior way to make chili. A slow cooker on low will not simmer it fast enough to develop a good broth.

I wouldn't say "unsafe" - the meat will still get cooked. The problem is that you haven't drained off all the fat, so you're going to end up with a big greasy mess, which is arguably pretty unhealthy at that.

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