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The Complete Guide To Burger Blends
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:07 am
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:07 am
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You could buy cellophane-wrapped burger patties languishing on styrofoam trays at your neighborhood supermarket. But are you serious—like really serious—about hamburgers? Then it’s about time you head to your local butcher shop and work with the staff to create a custom burger blend.
LINK
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:16 am to Stadium Rat
They left out the step where you add the egg and breadcrumb.
I kid. I use 80/20 ground chuck, salt and pepper. Cook on a screaming hot cast iron skillet.
I kid. I use 80/20 ground chuck, salt and pepper. Cook on a screaming hot cast iron skillet.
This post was edited on 8/27/14 at 8:16 am
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:37 am to Stadium Rat
"Using fancy cuts of beef is not important and kind of a bullshite move"
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:41 am to Stadium Rat
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Stadium Rat
i bought a whole filet a while back and they turned all the trimmings into ground beef.



best damn burgers i've ever made.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:47 am to LSUTygerFan
I like the fact that they say to vary the meat/fat ratio depending on how much you intend to cook the meat.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:51 am to Stadium Rat
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“If you want a good burger, 70/30 is definitely the way to go,” says Mylan. He explains that 30% fat is ideal if you want to cook your burger anywhere from medium-rare to medium-well.
100% agree with him. LOVE 70/30.
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Brisket: The meaty part of the brisket has tons of flavor and is super beefy, because it’s a muscle that’s used every day.
The brisket burgers I make are better than any other type.
Good article.
Funny how we know most of these tips as common sense here, but I see people wayyyyy over-handling their meat, buying lean meats, smashing the shite out of the patties, etc. all the time.
As a child, I thought I hated "homemade hamburgers", but it turns out I just hated the way most people make them.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:01 am to Stadium Rat
Great article. Thanks for posting.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:08 am to LouisianaLady
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As a child, I thought I hated "homemade hamburgers", but it turns out I just hated the way most people make them.
I didn't realize my mother was a good cook till after I moved out. When you're a child, if your mother doesn't take you to McDonald's, you don't think she can cook. I had one of those mothers, no matter what you want, she has the ingredients at house. You say, "Ma, I wanna stop and get some McDonald's and she go, "I got hamburger meat at home."
"But I want McDonald's hamburger."
"I'll make you a hamburger better than McDonald's."
"You cook better than McDonald's?"
"That's right. You can help Mama make it."
You say, "shite, that's better than McDonald's."
Your mother say, "OK, go get me the big frying pan." So you hand her the frying pan and she say: "I want you to go in the refrigerator and get the meat and while you in there, get me a green pepper and a onion."
And you say: "Ain't no green peppers at McDonald's."
"I'm not making McDonald's, I'm making Mama's burger. I need a green pepper and an onion and get me an egg out too."
"What you need eggs for? I want hamburgers. You making Egg McMuffins?"
"I'm not making an Egg McMuffin. I don't know what no Egg McMuffin is. Just get me the egg and shut your mouth."
She take the egg and the green peppers and chop the peppers up in big chunks. Don't even dice it. Big chunks of green peppers and onion and mix the egg in and put paprika and all this shite in it and make a big meatball and put it in the middle of this frying pan. At McDonald's, the meat is this thin. Your mother's shite is like this or fatter. Green peppers hanging out of it and shite. And there's a big split in the middle and grease is popping out. You're looking at it while it's popping. You're looking at the grease in the pan and thinking: "That don't look like no McDonald's."
Then your mother say, "Go inside the refrigerator and get me the bread out of the bread box." And you go
look in the bread box and you say:
"Ma, we don't have no hamburger buns. All we have is Wonder Bread."
"That's what I said. Get the bread out of the bread box."
"You gonna put it on square Wonder Bread?"
"Bread is bread. Bring me that bread before I slap you. Don't tell me about Wonder Bread. As much as that bread costs, don't tell me about Wonder Bread. This is Wonder Bread. A hamburger is a hamburger."
And she'd make it and put it in the middle of square Wonder Bread. At McDonald's, they use buns, the meat covers the whole bread. At your mother's, the meat's right in the middle of the bread, with grease running through the middle, making the bread stick to the plate. This big green pepper is hanging out the top of this big meatball on the bread. And you try to put some ketchup on it and it mixes with the grease, turn the bread into pink dough. Then you grab it and get fingerprinted and you got big, pink fingerprints in the dough. You stand there looking at it and you try to make it look like McDonald's, so you rip the edges off around it, make it round. And you got green peppers and grease running down your hand. And your mother say, "Now, go on outside and play."
And the other kids got McDonald's. They outside going, "We got McDonald's hamburgers. McDonald's. McDonald's. I got McDonald's."
And you standing there with this big "house burger". And kids are honest. They say, "Where you get that big, welfare, green-pepper burger?"
And you cry. "My mother made it."
-Eddie Murphy
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This post was edited on 8/27/14 at 9:10 am
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:10 am to BottomlandBrew
i knew that wasd eddie murphy from the 'i wanna stop and get some mcdonalds..'
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:46 am to LouisianaLady
Okay, I don't know why I've never seen the website you posted in the OP, but I have been lost in it ever since.
They have some kickass videos and articles.
They have some kickass videos and articles.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:54 am to LouisianaLady
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Okay, I don't know why I've never seen the website you posted in the OP, but I have been lost in it ever since.
Same here. I think I'm going to really enjoy that site. I just learned how to not eat sushi like a noob.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:56 am to ProjectP2294
THAT'S THE ONE I'M WATCHING!
I totally am guilty of tapping off the excess soy. I hate too much.

I totally am guilty of tapping off the excess soy. I hate too much.
This post was edited on 8/27/14 at 9:59 am
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:03 am to LouisianaLady
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I totally am guilty of tapping off the excess soy. I hate too much.
Can't watch at the office, is that consider a faux pas?
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:05 am to Oenophile Brah
The chef said the only time you should be shaking something is in the men's restroom 

Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:07 am to LouisianaLady
have y'all not watched 'jiru dreams of sushi'?
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:11 am to LouisianaLady
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The chef said the only time you should be shaking something is in the men's restroom

Noted.
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:11 am to CAD703X
Yep. I've seen it. Never seen a film talked about as much as that. Gets brought up everywhere 

Posted on 8/27/14 at 11:07 am to TypoKnig
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I use 80/20 ground chuck, salt and pepper
Me too. Sometimes I'll spice things up and add some ground hot sausage into it.
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