/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18049793]

Good day Americans, I am making burgers and fries for dinner tonight. Which tips can you give me to increase the deliciousness using your burger wisdom?

[Anonymous No.18049814]

>>18049793
make a thousand island sauce. ketchup, mayo, mustard, pickle relish mixed together. lather heavily on both buns

smash the patties

use good quality bread

can't really go wrong if you do those 3 things

[Anonymous No.18049817]

>>18049793
do not make your burgers that thick
if you use tomatoes or onions cut them very thin
if using tomatoes, bacon and cheese the cheese should touch the meat, the bacon should touch the cheese and the tomato should touch the bacon, the saltiness bacon activates the flavors of the cheese and tomato

[Anonymous No.18049818]

Make the burgers thin enough you can actually eat them as a sandwich and not have to take them apart. Multideck burgers are a meme.

[Anonymous No.18049822]

>>18049818
>Multideck burgers are a meme.
this

[Anonymous No.18049833]

>>18049793
butter or mayo on your buns

[Anonymous No.18049842]

>>18049793
grill is possible, pan fried burgers can be quite greasy

[Anonymous No.18049856]

>>18049833
i mayo the bottom bun and put ketchup/yellow mustard on the top

[Anonymous No.18049859]

>>18049793
put a divot on the top of the burger while its cooking so that they dont ball up

[Anonymous No.18049870]

>>18049842
>grill is possible

[Anonymous No.18049874]

let the patties cool to room temperature before putting them on the pan/grill

[Anonymous No.18049894]

>>18049870
*If grilling is possible

[Anonymous No.18049912]

>>18049793
If you're not going to use American cheese go sparingly because it will turn into a oily mess

[Anonymous No.18049914]

>>18049814
this but DO NOT BUY PREPACKAGED SHIT BREAD
do whatever autism exercises you need to do in the mirror and walk up to the bakery and ask for fresh borger buns
I hate ball park bread so much it's unreal

[Anonymous No.18049957]

>>18049914
i fined kaiser rolls work well for homemade burgers because the can soak up the grease and not fall apart

[Anonymous No.18049984]

My burgers never taste as good as the one from the burger place. My fries are inferior as well.

[Anonymous No.18050013]

>>18049822
>>18049818
You guys don't like double cheeseburgers? They're manageable if the patties are thin enough.
>>18049912
False, plenty of other cheeses work better than American processed cheese product. Blue cheese, pepper jack, cheddar, etc.
>>18049793
For making fries, blanch them for 2-3 minutes to remove excess starch, and pat dry. Then put them in the freezer while you prepare your burger ingredients and get them started. Once you're done and the burgers are cooking, take the fries out of the freezer and put them in boiling hot oil to fry. Make sure it's not a shallow fry but you don't need to drown them in oil. When they're golden brown, take them out and put them on paper towels to soak up excess grease. Then you can salt them and put whatever other spices you like on em.

[Anonymous No.18050083]

>>18050013
any semi soft cheese when melted will separate and pure oil will come dripping off
you can make your own American cheese out of any cheese you want + sodium citrate and milk.
i make my own out of sharp habanero cheddar that way my burger cheese doesn't look like pic related

[Anonymous No.18050097]

>>18049914
shut up you fucking loser its a burger

[Anonymous No.18050102]

>>18050097
Not if you use shit bread it isn’t

[Anonymous No.18050105]

>>18050102
Can i use pee bread?

[Anonymous No.18050114]

>>18050083
That's never happened to me, and I've used brie for burgers. The only thing that happens with American processed cheese product is the edges get brown and burnt because the bullshit plebfeed doesn't melt right.

[Anonymous No.18050145]

>>18050097
the bread is the most important part of any sandwich you fucking loser.

[Anonymous No.18050147]

>>18050114
>The only thing that happens with American processed cheese product is the edges get brown and burnt because the bullshit plebfeed doesn't melt right.
it's so tiresome, the entire point of adding sodium citrate and milk is that it emulsifies the oil and makes it melt *EASIER*
Also if your cheddar cheese doesn't break like pic your cheddar isn't real cheese

[Anonymous No.18050153]

>>18050114
I have never seen american cheese burnt except in that fake ass webm that gets posted all the time

[Anonymous No.18050159]

>>18049793
Don't use soft lettuce, use something with crunch like iceberg

[Anonymous No.18050163]

Thank you based Americans for imparting your burger knowledge upon me.

[Anonymous No.18050192]

>>18049793
Toast your buns with butter or mayo.

[Anonymous No.18050193]

>>18050163
you should also give the inside of the buns a quick toast

[Anonymous No.18050195]

>>18050192
>>18050193
>great minds think alike

[Anonymous No.18050367]

>>18049793
get the griddle smoking hot, smash the burger onto it for a nice crust.

Get good buns.

Use american cheese.

Leave the center medium.

Add mayo, salt and pepper.

[Anonymous No.18050569]

>>18050153
I've seen it plenty, I grew up eating the crap. It always singes and turns dark brown/black on the sides when toasted.
>>18050147
Yeah that's nice and all, but it doesn't work that way. It's all the cellulose and filler in the cheese product that makes it burn. And yes, my cheddar does melt that way but I don't melt it that much. I don't put the cheese on the burger until right after it's done, because I don't like cleaning gummy cheese off my grill.

[Anonymous No.18050572]

>>18050163
Enjoy your burger and fries, anon

[Anonymous No.18050632]

>>18050569
singles are not American cheese and no you haven't see them burn
>all the cellulose and filler
again its just sodium citrate and water/milk and sometimes citric acid (vitamin C) as a preservative
i don't know what shit cheese you're buying that has cellulose in it

[Anonymous No.18050638]

>>18049814
>smash the patties
Don't listen to this retard.

[Anonymous No.18050648]

>>18050569
which ingredient is the filler?

[Anonymous No.18050685]

>>18049793
The heat from the buns cooks the patty

[Anonymous No.18050708]

>>18049814
this is very legit advice, OP. I just do pickles and cheese as the only toppings, but I love thousand island.

smashing the burgers is important. you can even split up the beef you're using to make more, thinner patties. this is the true old school way. the point is to maximize crust and crunchy, lacy edges. thick burgers with pink in the middle are good, but they aren't the old school american classic if that's what you're asking for.

>>18050632
>singles are not American cheese
take heed, this anon knows. real american cheese is just some real cheese mixed with sodium citrate. if you add milk, it will taste milky, though; I usually just bring water to a simmer, mix in sodium citrate and then mix in fresh shredded cheese. if it comes wrapped singly, avoid it -- it's wrapped singly because it would merge with the other slices otherwise. it's fake bullshit. and no, there is no cellulose -- that's only in pre-shredded cheese. cellulose anon is smoking crack.

[Anonymous No.18050926]

>>18050569
Do yuros really not know about Boar's Head American?

[Anonymous No.18051015]

>>18050926
apparently not
another good one is prima della sharp American cheese

[Anonymous No.18052613]

>>18049914
who fucking cares, go buy your jerk-off brioche cum buns in silence

[Anonymous No.18052617]

>>18049793
Be sure to parboil the fries, dry, and freeze them before you fry them in tallow.

[Anonymous No.18053259]

become obese to increase authenticity

[Anonymous No.18053434]

>>18053259
burgers were a American staple long before we became a obese nation and unironically it wasn't the burgers that made us fat

[Anonymous No.18053574]

>>18053434
look at the definition on that milf. I'm going to start feeding my wife more hamburgers.

[Anonymous No.18053606]

>>18050648
Whatever is in the kosher part. Also nice cherry pick. Here's what I was talking about. https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/e2eee31c-d417-4826-8dc9-fb990192ddc1_1.8491b45f45e9a95e32f9956973b86537.jpeg
>>18050632
>>18050926
Ok see now I get you guys, deli American cheese is what you all were talking about. I thought you were referring to the individually wrapped singles, which are trash. American cheese is fine I guess. Nothing special. Much better than the individually wrapped cheese product though.

[Anonymous No.18053790]

bacon
egg
slice of cheddar
a hashbrown
your choice of burger sauce
buttered brioche bun
juicy burger patty

frankly I have never been satisfied with a patty cooked on the grill and Ive tried doing all sorts of shit
frankly a griddle where a patty is meant to be cooked

[Anonymous No.18053802]

>>18050083
>you can make your own American cheese out of any cheese you want + sodium citrate and milk
Could you describe this process? My problem with that type of cheese has always been the lack of flavour. If I could make it with any cheese I want my life would be changed.

[Anonymous No.18053804]

>>18049793
I would heavily advise that you invest in several things.
A cast iron pan. You Euros know what that is right? Sure you do you fucking idiots invented it.
Learn what actual american cheese is. I know you get velveeta and the worst of you think that's what we're about, get the other shit we probably don't import it to you, lol.

Also use lard when you cook your beef patties. We don't even do that any more for the most part but, everybody should. Use beef fat (tallow) to cook your fries. That is classic american cooking, You're welcome, fuck you very much.

[Anonymous No.18053813]

>>18050638

[Anonymous No.18053825]

>>18049822
At that point I'd rather just put a rhubarb leaf on it and kill myself.

[Anonymous No.18053908]

>>18053606
>nice cherry pick

[Anonymous No.18053926]

>>18050013
>blanch them for 2-3 minutes to remove excess starch
It's not to remove the starch. Starch gets crispy when fried. You're just precooking the starch so it crisps more easily later, and traps some of the moisture so it doesn't leak out during the frying which prevents crisping.