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• How much meat extender do I add to a pound of ground beef?
  A common ratio is 1 cup dry TVP (88 g) to 1 lb ground beef. You hydrate the granules first with 1 cup hot broth or water, let them soak 5–10 minutes, then mix into the meat before browning. That single cup pushes a 4-serving pound of beef toward 6 or 7 servings of chili or taco filling without the texture giving it away.
• Does meat extender shrink or swell once it's in the pot?
  It swells. Dry granules are 88 g per cup, but after hydration that same cup roughly doubles in volume and weight as it absorbs broth. Recipes that call for 1 cup of meat extender almost always mean dry-measured before soaking — if you measure post-hydration, you'll end up with about half the protein the recipe planned for.
• Can I swap meat extender 1:1 for ground meat in a recipe?
  Not by volume. One cup of dry granules (88 g) hydrates up to roughly the bulk of half a pound of cooked ground meat, but it has none of the fat or browning. For full meat replacement in chili or meatloaf, most cooks use 1 cup dry plus 1 cup broth and a tablespoon of oil to stand in for about 8 oz of beef.

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