Have Your Meat & Save Money, Too | Struggle Meals

From breaking down a pork loin to getting the best bang for your ground beef buck, Frankie Celenza shows us how to make budget-friendly meats taste better than the pricey cuts.
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[@cluelesscrispy]

Struggle meals should have its own channel

[@ggtay9727]

Syahidah Abidin looks like wish granted

[@cherylT321]

What for, when we can watch it on KZbin and he can still get paid for it!

[@esmeraldaparker2137]

He's on Hulu. Thats how I watched him at first. I didn't know he had a YT channel lol

[@heymissdl]

I've been watching him on snapchat haha

[@sjtiernan5841]

I found this on tv

[@rhijulbec1]

Has anyone else noticed that Frankie always seems surprized when he tastes his food? It's like "WOW! This IS good." 😂 😂 😂 Of COURSE it's good Frankie~YOU made it. Jenn in Canada 🇨🇦

[@Trubaseballer011]

Would love to see you do a video all about cast iron. Care/seasoning along with struggle southern comfort skillet meals

[@Drewbe821]

I want to thank you, because of this episode, I've taken to buying larger portions of pork and butchering them myself. It really is much more cost effective. I got a decent slow cooker roast and 8 boneless chops out of it. I'm very satisfied.

[@constancefaulkner9002]

Buying the larger cuts of meat is almost always a money saver. I also like buying the 2 or 4 pound package of smoked sausage, because I can do so much with it (I have an almost unhealthy appreciation of Cajun/Creole food, I live about an hour and a half east of New Orleans). Hamburger is another budget friendly go to for me. Anyways, keep up with the experimenting.

[@Nico-te6ts]

I enjoy this series soo much and it is also very inspirational when it comes to ideas on what cook. Keep up the good work.

[@johnthebull]

His Italian-American accent was the true star of this episode!

[@JanglesPrime999]

Someone mentioned struggle meals on Binging with Babish comments and that sent me here. Subscribed.

[@Criminal_Turtle]

Same now

[@dillpicklewes50]

Honestly this is one of my favorite struggle meal videos. Please do more like this. Teach us how to butcher our own things to make them more cost effective.

[@luau5974]

The deglazing with the raisin water was nothing short of BRILLIANT!!

[@constancefaulkner9002]

While I enjoy a good steak as much as the next person, buying a good pork loin, a Boston butt, hamburger meat, a beef roast, and some smoked sausage are my go to meats. There are just so many things you can do with these meats AND they tend to be more budget friendly since you can stretch them into a variety of meals.

[@misscndnwoman2177]

Raisin water brilliant, your WHOLE channel shows your brilliant mind. Thanks from B.C. Canada 🇨🇦

[@kevdayao]

What kind of a god finishes a crossword puzzle in 20 minutes?

[@nat4288]

How about thanksgiving on a budget?

[@jillgott6567]

I love Pork Loin. I often cook it with onions and fruit to make a delicious sauce to go over mashed potatoes

[@monikakonrad2951]

I love your videos and I watch them every day. Thanks for all the good ideas.

[@jacquelinearmstrong5650]

Love this! Please more ideas on how to get many meals from one type of meat and how to break larger cuts up! Thanks!

[@justincenname3984]

I am a simple man I see Frankie and I click

[@Rosemary33399]

Frankie could you do a video someday talking about tips on purchasing your grocery list, what places to go & what to look for in the store? I love you thanks so much

[@billh.1940]

I have been breaking loins down for years. Easy to do, and the savings just in the chops , pays for the rest. Many meals cheap.

[@angelasheppard7197]

Thank you for this video. Ive been on keto and it fits perfectly.

[@thewolfsgrimoire3910]

Thank you I needed to learn this

[@Firsona]

The store near my house will cut the meat you buy any way you want. =x we've been eating pork instead of beef for awhile in my house, so much cheaper.

[@orionwesley]

Thank you Frankie! I always wondered how people used those giant slabs of pork.

[@bengali481]

I use the tapered part for stir fry.

[@Thompers]

Always a fan of Frankie

[@4eversonic]

Best cooking channel on YT

[@jeanlujan6129]

I get a whole pork tenderloin for about 13-15 bucks and use part of it for pulled pork

[@tinataylor5575]

really happy I found struggle meals! thanks Frankie!

[@divineoracle7459]

Frankie your personality has bloomed as your style I watch struggle meal just 4 U...peace❣

[@tnfatbelly]

Just discovering this channel. Love it!!!

[@darkzerox2555]

Great work. Would there be any ideas about the cheapest ingredients that will be able to be split between 2 or 3 diff meal ideas? I often use ground meat mixed with fried potatoes then the next day i make an enchilada style casserole with the left overs but it has exhausted itself. Need help good sir!

[@christianrenztorres5757]

I caught that snicker when he says "The beauty of the ball" LMFAO

[@stephiboo6982]

Loveeeeee these videos!!!!! 😁💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

[@misscndnwoman2177]

I buy 3 pork loins under 20 bucks each every few months, I also make sausage and Canadian bacon no need to smoke.

[@WarrenWinter]

Thanks again Frankie!

[@Oanjoexterminador]

I loooooove raisins 💕 ground beef and raisins are perfect together. Specially in empanadas and salteñas and our brazilian bolivianos, a delicacy filled of spicy ground beef and raisins, deep fried and coated with sugar and cinnamon. Savory, sweet, spicy... Deeeelicious.

[@rhijulbec1]

That ALL sounds deeeeelicious! I'll bet you're a good cook! Jenn in Canada 🇨🇦

[@Oanjoexterminador]

@@rhijulbec1 I cook since I was a little kid. If you ever get to visit Brazil, taste as many food as you can. Hope you enjoy it.

[@rhijulbec1]

@@Oanjoexterminador I hope you have many, many meals with loved ones for a very long time. Being passionate about food is always a good thing. I'm going to look up a number of Brazilian recipes! Perhaps you might have an idea of two or three dishes to start? I'd very much appreciate it. Thank you. Jenn in Canada 🇨🇦

[@Oanjoexterminador]

@@rhijulbec1 There are some recipes that require some very unavailable ingredients out of Brazil, like Moqueca which is a very staple dish from the state of Bahia, a fish stew made with dendê (a tree from Africa) oil, which is rare outside of South America and Africa. But cartola, a savory and sweet dessert from my state can be easily pulled out by grilling some ripening bananas, served under some lightly toasted cheese (we use queijo de coalho or queijo manteiga) and molasses, optionally, you can flambée the bananas with cachaça and put a pinch of cinnamon (we love spices in our desserts like cinnamon, clove, star anis, fennel seeds, etc). Farofas are a very nice side dish to accompany grilled or braised meats we make using cassava flour, sauted aromatics, scrambled eggs, dried fruits like raisins, pickled vegetables like olives, you name it, anything you'd put in a stuffed meat's stuffing goes well in a farofa (which is a very good option to stuff a bird). We also like a lot of dry aged meats, like carne de sol, which is salted and sun dried, what makes it taste very savory and stay very juicy. We, as many south american countries, love corn. We have lots of desserts made with corn like pamonha (which kinda looks like a tamale, but is firmer and yellower), mungunzá and canjica/curau. We love peanuts, cashew nuts, castanhas do pará, we used them in all kinds of dishes. Our couscous made with corn goes very well with long stewed meats. Speaking of which, we have lots of braises and stews, I particularly love the vaca atolada which is a stew made with beef ribs cooked with lots of onions, peppers, tomatoes, finished with some cassava cooked until tender in the meat broth. We love cilantro. Our amazonian cousin is very rich with dishes made with duck (pato no tucupi, tucupi is a fermented cassava product with a very characteristic flavour), seafood (like tacacá, made with shrimp), beef (like maniçoba, a stew very similar to feijoada but made with the cassava leaves alongside the beans), etc. Our cousin has thousands and thousands of dishes. I suggest you watch some brazilian food channels. You'll love it.

[@Oanjoexterminador]

Oh, if you ever go to Bahia, eat acarajé. It's a dense white bean deep fried dumpling stuffed with a dried shrimp paste called vatapá, caruru, an ocre stew and a tomato and onion vinaigrette.

[@orionwesley]

Thank you, Frankie! I am going to try to butcher my own ginormous loin of pork on Friday! (Grocery DaY)

[@kylawootton7006]

Hey, thanks for showing us how easy it is to cut that giant pork loin. I had no idea.

[@angelasheppard7197]

Brilliant use of raisins

[@patriciabarth6803]

I love this series! Is he related to Rachel Ray! They both speak with their hands and I love it!

[@a.r.6259]

Raisins in Meatballs? Interesting!

[@HappySmile248]

One single prune in the middle for larger meatballs gives also a more complex less sweet taste, honestly thought my family is the only ones that did it lolol

[@christianrenztorres5757]

My grandmother swears by it. Growing up, I was in charge of inserting three to four raisins to each meatball. (We used pork.)

[@iautonomos]

That's exactly what i need!

[@mariadasilva4379]

A mi me gustó mucho muy delicioso

[@AllThingsTashia]

What do the raisins add to the meatballs in terms of flavor? Does it make them really sweet? Are they for moisture?

[@shawnswain5826]

Great video!

[@Davena]

Very appropriate in May 2020.

[@mariadasilva4379]

Se ve súper súper rico

[@caelidhg6261]

I am 53.. I wish I had YOU TUBE when I was in College ... my mother could cook, but as a doctor she was very busy so I didn't really learn to cook until later in life.. and it has evolved... and now.. I Have a very picky bf who is more about pizza and hamburgers and I can't even cook with garlic cause it gives him a headach.. OY

[@connierosario9474]

Sadly,where I live, we only get pork tenderloin in two skinny strips in a package.

[@gretchenamirault829]

He is using a loin, not a tenderloin. Some stores do not carry this cut on a regular basis.

[@monicasanders9228]

Can you do recipes with spaghetti squash?

[@stephensmith6462]

I live in England and I wish this was something I could get and brake down myself even if I could that's still £50-£60 worth of meat

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

Pork is cheaper than beef here but I prefer beef. The grease tastes better.

[@MsPdizzle08]

I don't want to knock the raisins tell I try it, but I'm struggling lol

[@nanalaan]

I was wondering why this episode felt different, there was no music in this one haha

[@Burlandivy]

See but acidic things, like tomatoes,dont mix well with cast iron, it just makes the food taste like iron

[@melissacomer8404]

Get enameled cast iron. Problem solved. I have some.

[@billh.1940]

Highly acidic foods will harm cast iron. But it is still the best for most foods. I use a big cast iron pot for stews. It just tastes better. Once we'll seasoned and nice and grubby, mostly nonstick. Great stuff and cheap, too.

[@PlayboiJordann]

Snapchat sent me here

[@claremccullough]

MARRY ME FRANKIE

[@amyc3054]

i KNOW right?! very talented and charming-if i were 30 yrs younger.....trying hard to keep it clean,lol-plus much respect to him,he looks like he loves what he does!

[@sciencelabvideosl7558]

I think you should teach people all the different things they can make with bechamel. So cheap.

[@missclarksartclass8929]

Why the raisins

[@TanyVenutiVEVO]

noice

[@Malibustacy1982]

Why does this guy strangely turn me on?? LOL!!! I found the complete series on Hulu and knew right away it must be a youtube thing. So here I am!

[@jeanlujan6129]

Pulled pork

[@andyhoster3902]

Meat producers in 2022: Yeah, about that. We're going to need you to pay $7 US per pound for 80/20 mince, and $5 per pound for that whole pork loin. $7 if you want only part of it. That pack of nasty, trimmings-laden hot dogs and the ultra-cheap store-brand bologna are going to cost you a whole $5, too, because we cannot allow anyone to eat cheap anymore, apparently.

[@keysersozae]

NEED.....PORK......DADDY!!!!

[@romeliaarmstrong6143]

Life saving I theis inflation

[@MatrixDownload5150]

$2.00 a pound... where?

[@dalemills8052]

Here in southern Missouri we get it for 1.79 a lb often

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

I got it for slightly under $1/lb (shoulder).

[@melissacomer8404]

I have a whole pork loin in my fridge now I paid $1.99 for in NC. Will be cutting it up into chops and cubes. Been doing this with beef, chicken and pork for years.

[@billh.1940]

I'm in NYC and loin was 2 bucks, but more now. You can go to a wholesale butcher or a club, get whole cuts and a good sharp knife, cleaver. You will have a month's supply of meat, beef works well, in many places you can rent freezer space, used by hunters and restaurants, saves enough to pay for it self. It is harder to save now, but not impossible. Oh! Forgot about victory garden.

[@suzannesanborn1384]

raisin in meat?????

[@Xenophoresis]

You lost me when you said raisins

[@JVerschueren]

"Delicious pork tenderloin", which will now taste like petrol because you let the vapours of the cooking oil flare up...

[@melissacomer8404]

It wasn't a Tenderloin, it was the pork loin. Very different cut.

[@erins1676]

Raisins are already bad, but then you put them in meatballs? Blasphemy!

[@misselizabeth6631]

No!! No pork!!!! ☠️☠️☠️☠️ there is a reason why it’s cheap

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

It has issues yes

[@silvsilvsilv]

Here's an even better tip to save money on meat: go vegan.

[@necrogenesis1981]

I knew one of you idiots would pop up eventually, how does the chronic inflammation from all of the rabbit food feel? www.healthline.com/nutrition/are-vegetable-and-seed-oils-bad#section2

[@amy3971]

silvsilvsilv not an option for everyone but go off sis.

[@silvsilvsilv]

@@amy3971 I've found that like 90% of people who say "it's not an option for everyone" totally have the option to go vegan, but they just don't want to and hide behind that empty platitude.

[@silvsilvsilv]

@@necrogenesis1981 Are you serious? You're literally talking about cooking oils. Something pretty much everyone uses, vegans and non-vegans. PRetty sure that makes you the idiot, you idiot.

[@amy3971]

silvsilvsilv I AM a vegan, idiot. And again, not everyone can do it; be it health or money.

[@gzgeorge]

literally just go vegan

[@PlayaSinNombre]

George Z I love vegans.... they are crunchy, and good with catsup!

[@MT-zu2uq]

Did you go to this "How to cook meat" video just to say that?

[@mayaramirez4163]

It’s very intimidating for me to cook pork, every time I do it turns out so tough and dry unless I put it in a crock pot.🥹so defeated😆