UPDATED - need to brown 6 lbs ground beef. How?

Brown and then freeze in one pound packages.

As in how to brown it all at once?

I have a huge stainless steel pot we use for mussels. I’d put in on my extra large/combo stove top burner.

Also could use a large roaster on the stove top.

Just kept stirring and breaking the chunks up.

Do you need it browned our cooked through? If it just needs to be cooked through for other uses, I’d cook it in 2-3 batches in the Instant Pot.

If you have large cookie sheets, you could also brown in the oven.

This article has some good instructions: www.bhg.com/recipes/beef/how-to-brown-ground-beef/

I wouldn’t do more then one pound at the time or it will never brown.

I do a lot of cooking ahead this time of year, and that includes a lot of browned ground beef.

I have a couple pretty large skillets, and I do 3# in each. I have one of those ground meat choppers, that makes breaking up ground meat so much easier while browning. I have an OXO one, but Pampered Chef makes a good one too.

If I am making meat for walking tacos or maidrites, I season in the pan when cooking. Transfer to a cake pan to cool. Then I weight out 1 pound amounts and put in freezer quart bags. I lay them flat and flatten the meat and squeeze out as much air as possible. I use the dull side of a bread knife the make a 'cross' indention. This way I have 4 quarters in each bag - if I only want a small amount, I can break off a chunk without thawing it all out.

I freeze plain browned ground beef, spaghetti meat, taco meat and maidrite meat.

I often brown more than a pound at a time.
I think it depends more on the size of your skillet or pan. I have a pretty large iron skillet that I used to use to brown 2-3 pounds at once. Six pounds might be too much for one pan, though. 

I would just do it in 2 batches.

too late but I brown large quantities in my slow cooker

www.momables.com/how-to-cook-ground-beef-in-a-crockpot/

This sounds so much easier than what I have been doing.  Especially having to wash two heavy cast iron pots and the Instant Pot.  When I started thinking about using the oven, I was worried about splatter mess.  It didn't occur to me to cover the meat with more foil.  Duh!  I think I have been away from cooking for too long already and I have several more months to go before I get into a kitchen of my own.  But when I do, I am absolutely using this method for cooking large batches of ground meat.

Me too, but the past few years we've boughten a 4H steer from my niece so everything is already frozen. I miss grabbing some frozen cooked ground beef right at supper time and having something ready right away.

I know you've already done yours in the oven, but for future use, I do mine in the microwave.

I put the ground beef in a plastic colander over a larger bowl and cook on high. Timing depends on how much you're making of course. I can do about two pounds in around 10-15 minutes. About halfway through, I break it up a little, then continue until it's cooked. The fat drains into the bottom bowl. I dump the cooked beef into a large bowl and use a pastry cutter to break it up.

When it's on sale, I buy lots of it, cook it and freeze in one pound packages.

A type of loose meat sandwich, I think they're like sloppy joes but no sauce. Maybe cheese on em.

Using so much foil gets expensive.  Have you checked the price of foil?

I use my larger electric skillet.  Very easy & quick with minimal cleanup.