/ck/ - Food & Cooking

The 1994 Jack-in-the-Box poisonings lead to e.coli being branded as an "illegal adulterant", meaning restaurants could face litigation if they were caught serving it. Thinner burgers cook faster and more consistently.

>>15522441
People like the frizzled edges.

>>15522441
My gay husband prefers a long thin hamburger but I like a short thick one. Thickness is king in my opinion. Thick and uncut. I can't stand a burger sliced in half. Uncut, pink and super juicy. It should just glide into your open mouth. It should feel warm in your hands and taste good too. Like a guys cock.

Thin burgers can be cooked perfectly, huge ones cannot.

>>15522448
This is the stupidest thing I've seen in a while. I'm sure it happened, but thin smashed burgers have been popular since the 1950s at least. People have been smashing burgers on a flat-top grill since then, at least.

The short answer is it's easier to cook en masse and you don't have to deal with 'doneness'.
It also has more grizzled surface area to meaty center ratio which some people like.

>>15522441
You get more of the surface area to get the flavour of mallard ducks or something.

browning/crust > meat juices

>>15522514
>mfw someone doesn't like meat juices

>>15522441
Quicker to cook, easier to season well

>>15522520
When it's ground beef, it's different. Likewise, a fully cooked huge burger isn't that tasty either because consider....meat loaf and meatballs are it's closest relatives, and those are more flavorful because they're made with egg and spices. A giant ground beef wad just isn't that great, when it's thin it's got more going for it.

>>15522529
a good hamburger should be made with quality cuts that can stand on their own

>>15522533
It absolutely should not. A good hamburger is made of very fatty ground beef. More fat the better.

>>15522537
You know what's very fatty? A well marbled ribeye steak.

>>15522542
And you'd grind it up and make it a hamburger?

>>15522570
I'd grind up the scraps from trimming.

>>15522441
more patties = more maillard = more flavor

>>15522578
Lol, do you know how many ribeyes you'd have to cut to get enough scraps to make a few lbs of ground beef?

>>15522596
Do you know how much meat a butcher processes?

Thin burgers are almost always dry. Which is like the antithesis of what makes burgers desirable in the first place
>you have to cook it right
But they almost never are. So what is the point?

>>15522485
>huge
Who said anything about huge. Just don’t make it cracker thin. That’s the optimal thickness

>>15522542
I like both

Nobody is gonna believe me, but I'm gonna post anyway. I'm known around my office as sort of the big cooking guy, or at least everyone thinks so. We have this office picnic thing (inside) the first Friday of every month and I always cook hamburgers. What my coworkers don't know, is that I always mix in a little bit of my own shit into the ground beef. I always bring the beef mix prepared and people always ask "Oh my God anon, what's in this?" and I just smile and say "Oh you know, onion powder, paprika, and a little of my own secret ingredient hahaha. I can't tell you or I'd have to kill you." Everyone loves it.

>>15523393
Make this and tell me it's dry again.
https://youtu.be/3yX_bpbCmfo

>>15522441
Char is where it’s at.

>>15522441
Because the market demands new fads. Thick burgers were a fad now thin and crispy are back.

>>15523442
Where's the beef?

>>15522441
by burger you mean the whole thing, not just the meat pattie like some Seppos are deluded into calling a "burger", right?
to be clear, a "burger" is the act of putting meat and cheese between 2 bread rolls or burger buns.
it seems what you're talking about is the meat pattie.

>>15523442
"American" Mustard
Tomato "Sauce"

Ozpost detected

>>15524546
You are wrong. Burger is short for hamburger which refers to both the meat patty and the sandwich which contains it. You're also spelling patty wrong. Pay more attention in English class, kid.

>>15522441
Make them thin and double or tripple them with cheese in between each slice of beef.

>>15522441
I typically prefer a thin crispy patty because most people dont season their hamburger meat well enough or let it rest. They also have a tendency to flip and press it constantly so all your left with is a dry, underseasoned meat ball

>>15523442
Why are you keeping books in your kitchen? Aren't you afraid of liquid and oil splatters ruining them?

>>15522485
>Thin burgers can be cooked perfectly, huge ones cannot.
Wtf are you talking about. Thin burgers are impossible to get perfectly bleu.

>>15524871
rare burgers suck. awful mushy texture

>>15522441
Smash burgers have more surface area to get crispy and brown.

I like my burger medium though so I get you anon, the thin burgers are just a different style.

>>15522441
2 reasons
1. with thin burger you can adjust how much meat you want, you just add more burgers and you have the desired amount of meat, if you add too much you can just take one off, if you start off with a thick burger and you notice its too thick you can't just cut pieces off of it so you're shit out of luck
2. more surface area means more maillard reaction means more flavor chromosomes tingling your taste buds

>one inch thick patty with one slice of cheese and only two layers of sear
Vs
>4 quarter inch thick patties with 4 slices of cheese with 8 layers of sear
>same amount of meat but more seared edges and cheese
Hmm I dunno gay lord why do they?

>>15522460
/thread

>buying house burgers from a restaurant

>>15520166
>>15520411
6ft 85kg, i excercise often so i eat a lot

>>15525635
thank mr skeltal

>>15525647
literally cannot win here

>>15524611
>literal who dictionary
opinion discarded

>>15522478
nice

>>15524546
There's a reason we're called "Burgerclaps". We know burgers, and we know clapping.

>>15524159
In amongst the flavour.

>>15522441
i recognize that burger you sneaky fucker

>>15524546

The only thing an Aussie can have an opinion on is putting sprinkles on toast. So until the Dutch are making threads on that, leave the burgers to the Burgers

Same

>>15528356
>cleaning products near the food
triggered
>>15528398
huh?

>>15527345
>Merriam-Webster
>literal who
I'd cite the Oxford English Dictionary for you but I'm not going to pay for a subscription just to look up words online.

>>15528398
Hey, I made that. I also made hothothot.swf and made "Xena tapes and Hot Pockets" into a meme on /tv/

>>15522460
Yeah, the texture is nice

still you better put 2-3 of those on because I also like actually eating meat with my burger

>>15528587
>>15528730
assmad that the shitposting was called out, lol