Even though, i do not eat or prepare meat alot, but i thought i should share this what i know.
when you bring the ground meat home or mince it yourself, prior to cooking definitely, wash the qeema, in a netting container for at least 20 minutes, let water from the tap with a sprinkler faucet, run over it. the blood should definitely not be there after this.
keep a tray underneath from all the running water to get drained into it.
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and I thought you never wash Qeema, seriously
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Dush, I always tilt the colander…the blood comes out faster!
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this is good, Niksik. i do that too, tilting.
TLK bhai, qeema has to be washed, seriously. :>
the cooked qeema is not washed, the uncooked is, so that it is clean of all blood.
and I thought you never wash Qeema, seriously
Yup, Mom and I always practice these
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I mostly wash it in a big strainer and then just let the strainer sit on a bowl for few mins so the excess water drains out... sometimes I use the colander the way nikki baji said...after washing the keema tilt it so excess water/blood drains...
I always wondered about ground beef and cleaning it, as I always clean all of my meat. But the ground stuff I never do because I am afraid it'll be too wet. So this is not an issue? The ground meat can be washed with water and will be ok?
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I always see my MIL washing it and i have never done that! As i find it annoying! All the pieces get strained out and down the plughole!
Oviously when cooking, all the germs get killed...dont they?
well cooking can kill germs but who wants to put that type of germy stuff into their food directly. A lot of people wash their meat. I wash mine always with water and vinegar. Plus it gets out that meat smell, especially when it comes to lamb and goat. Some people use lemon juice as well.
It's a very good practice and safer.
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Maybe i should adopt that practice! Jst dont like the look of the keema when its in the water or being drained.
hhehehe :)
I think the washing part is the most difficult for keema...
When I was new at cooking - I did not wash it because I thought that's how you prepare hamburgers... but I saw my mom washing it once when I visited - and she told me it gets the "smell" out... so I tried it since ... and it's true it does not have that smell to it anymore...
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i was 14 and my parents were away and i decided to cook for them before they came. so i defrosed Mince, didnt know how to wash/drain it. i put it in a big bowel and rinse it several time and half of it went into the drain.......................as i didnt know what strainer was or whether to use it for this purpose.
Seriously, thank u!!! i was going nuts thinking it’ll take foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr for the blood to drain out. 
i was making beef kababs this weekend and i was going nuts cz the keema was taking foreverrrrrr to be drained. A few months befre i’d made chicken kababs and they were just too wet and i told my mom i washed it and she said u dont wash it. But this time the kababs came out pretty well thank god.
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What about boiling it without having to wash it first and then draining that water? Wouldn't that work the same way?
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You are wasting all the nutrients and flavor by boiling and throwing away the water.
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Qeema should not be washed due to water bacteria embedding a certain smell and taste into the mince.
Do an experiment with both ways and taste the difference your self. You'l be amazed.
Tilting or other spice remedy is the best.
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I have never seen it on cook shows that they wash the keema, I dont I just put lots of garlic in it or when boilding it I throw the brown stuff that gets on the top.
and I thought you never wash Qeema, seriously
well the blood left after zibaaH is consider Halal .. so there is no need of washing it .
but for the sake your own concern ya can give it a rinse ..
I normally dont .. as it just ruin the taste