Britain's Most Disgusting Food: Meat

[GreatGazoo]

10. I like leg of lamb but you have to cut out the three pyramids of fat and gland

or the whole thing has an off taste. I really suspect this is the difference because I have had roast lamb in commercial settings where I suspect that they did not cut the glands out and I have made it myself and removed all 3 glands and as much of the fat as possible. Roasting on a rack also helps get more fat away from the meat.

Lamb fat, unlike duck and chicken for example, has an unpleasant taste so things like lamb burgers where it is all ground together depend heavily on how fresh the lamb is. To me it is also a mistake to roast other things in the pan with leg of lamb like potatoes or even heads of garlic because of the fat.

At 7:40 in this video he shows the first pyramid: