You can dehydrate ground beef, but there’s a trick.

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How To Make Hamburger Rocks

The first step in making hamburger rocks is to precook the meat. Fry your ground meat. I prefer using cast iron, but any pan will work.

Next, drain off the grease and put the meat in a colander. Here’s where it gets a little different than your run of the mill meal prep. You need to rinse the cooked ground beef really well. Get as much grease off as you possibly can. When you think you’ve rinsed it enough, rinse it some more.

Once you’ve removed as much grease as possible, replace the meat in the pan and fry it a second time to remove the excess water.

Once the water from the rinsing has cooked off, transfer your meat onto a drying rack or cookie sheets in the oven. If you have a dehydrator you can use that too. Dry the cooked ground beef for two hours or longer if needed until dry. If it doesn’t seem to be drying, it’s possible it may be too greasy. I did mine overnight because I thought it wasn’t getting dry, but it turns out it was just too greasy.

Once the meat is completely dry, you can store the hamburger rocks in mason jars in the kitchen or pantry. They are easily rehydrated by soaking in twice as much water. For example, use two cups of water per one cup hamburger rocks.

The rehydrated hamburger rocks can be used in any recipe calling for cooked ground beef. I suggest using it casseroles. I used mine in lasagna and it was good.