Making a burger you made yourself with your own custom ingredients with the meat you cooked yourself. Burger joints ain't got nothing on it. Am I right?
>>22063208My burgers are never as good as a Whopper
when you're a high level chef, this can be said for pretty much anything.
>>22063208Does one buy preformed supermarket burgers, or make your own burger patties from ground meat?Which meats? Which meat combinations - Ground beef/beef steak / rump etc.- ground lamb leg /shoulder / cuts etc-combining ground pork into one of the aboveDoes butchers burgers make any difference?>>22063213>only one of these has mastered the grilled chese.
>>22063208Correct. Especially once you unlock the secret patty tech
>>22063265The pre-formed burgers tend to have a lot of water weight in my experience. It’s why i started forming my own.>>22063210Use msg and high heat>>22063267What’s your secret patty tech
>>22063208no thanks five guys, you do it for me.
>>22063269(Flüstert) Zucker
>>22063265I use my own ground meats. One half is always chuck or brisket, whichever was on sale (amazing how similar they are); the other half is generally round of some sort, as long as it's lean and cheap. I started doing half and half because 100% chuck shrinks bad, the lean half keeps it a good size.
I make a good burger but want some of DQ's flamethrower sauce.
I have a secret ingredient that no one can figure out that makes them the best burgers ever to the point where nobody else is allowed to cook them when we have block parties. Just me.So yes. You are right.>>22063210I don't remember what a Whopper tastes like but I had a Big Mac for the first time about a decade ago and thought it was crap. I want mad at it. If was just a dollar. But it wasn't very good at all.>>22063265I usually buy the meat already ground but today, I bought 25lbs of bone-in chicken thighs for $3.87 and will run several through the mincer to prep some chicken burgers for The Fourth cuz my wife doesn't eat beef. There will be beef, too, but my chicken burgers are also good. >>22063313How much you paying for brisket? Cuz that's my preferred meat for ground but that shit is expensive as a motherfucker in my area now. I get trimmed brisket and solid beef fat and run the pair through. Or I used lean chuck and mix it with chunked (not sliced) beef bacon I run through the mincer. Perfect amount of fat, already salted and flavoured and the burgers taste fantastic. That's not my secret ingredient for a plain burger, though.
You really want the taste the charcoal grilling gives the food, and thats one of those things restaurants routinely do but its tought to do in an apartment
>>22063542>tought to do in an apartmentDo you have a window and a lidded pot?
>>22063559I would have to buy a pressure cooker and somehow burn shit in that with the food or the smell would leak into the hallway and Id get evicted
>>22063560Nope. Just cook a stack of burgers, put them in the pot, burn a chunk of lump charcoal, put it in a makeshift foil plate in the pot, drop s spoonful of melted beef grease or warm oil over the coal, prop the lid open a little with chopsticks or something and set it on the sill. After a few minutes, the coal smoke will flavour the burgers and the sill keeps it out of your apartment.
>>22063539Found it on sale for maybe $4-$5/lb? I think it was just been the point, definitely had a short shelf life. Overstock at Kroger if I remember right.
I vastly prefer home made burgersmostly because I make them with a nice sesame roll from a local bakery instead of those horrible spongy burger buns
>>22064905typically restaurants use brioche buns with a lot of butter and egg, which are intentionally soft and easy to compress so the burger is easier to eattough breads can wound your mouth or something and are harder to eat and are typically better for eating open sandwiches
>>22063208I guess. I'm not great at burgers but they're nice when made at home.
>>22064917No.>>22064905My fav burger joint in Philadelphia uses Kaiser rolls for their half pound burgers so I'm with you here.>>22064925If that's your homemade burger, I would tear that shit up long before I would bother getting one of those $27 gastropub cunts with a knife stuck into it. Proper scran that, innit.
>>22063265Never ever buy pre made patties. I like making my own patties the exact size I like. Since I make doubles with really thin wide patties.
>>22063271
Behold 2 burgers i just made my forming the patties by hand
Learn to steam your buns. Makes frozen bread taste fresh and soft and the whole thing hotter. The wrapping fastfood gets gives it this effect so you could try that if you need to.
>>22064925>chips and potato salad on the burger That is unnecessary. Eat the sides separately. Mixing it all up interferes with the burger
