Holy Crap, I made a great Burger!

[lildude8218]

So there was some leftover Ground Chuck in the fridge from something my mom made yesterday so I decided to experiment and made a burger.

I started by cutting up and then browning 4 slices of bacon. While that was going I seasoned my burger with salt, pepper, and some granulated garlic. Once the bacon was browned and cool enough to handle, I then took the pieces of bacon and mashed that into the meat.

There was a lot of bacon so I put the remaining pieces on the bottom end of my bun with mayo on the top. I cooked the burger, threw it on the bun and then added some KC Masterpiece BBQ Sauce to the top.

It is so freaking good! This is definitely a multi napkin burger too!

Sorry but I felt that I should share this.

[The Scuba Guy]

Cool beans dude

[drclaw]

I'll have to try making that sometime. It sounds delicious.

[willywonka666]

thanks for the tip, i'll get on this, think cheese would help or hurt it?

[Insomniac]

Job well done. Two questions though: (1) About how many ounces would you say the burger was before cooking? And (2) How did you cook it? Personally, I take mine medium rare.

While we're talking about burgers here, a couple weeks ago I made a delicious one myself. It was about 16 oz prior to cooking with bacon, muenster, and A-1. Grilled (charcoal) to medium rare with a lightly toasted bun. It was as good as it sounds.

[jzbadblood]

Don't make the mistake of too much seasoning though. I used everything in my cupboard once and destroyed the burger, but at least I had seasoned curlys.

[lildude8218]

willywonka666 said:

thanks for the tip, i'll get on this, think cheese would help or hurt it?

I don't see why it would hurt it. I just didn't feel like having cheese today.

insomniac34 said:

Job well done. Two questions though: (1) About how many ounces would you say the burger was before cooking? And (2) How did you cook it? Personally, I take mine medium rare.

I just sorta grabbed a chunk and made it into a patty, it was a bit thicker than I usually make them though. I personally like my burgers more on the well done side, this was probably around medium-well.

I only like steaks on the medium rare to medium side.

[Insomniac]

lildude8218 said:

I just sorta grabbed a chunk and made it into a patty, it was a bit thicker than I usually make them though. I personally like my burgers more on the well done side, this was probably around medium-well.

I only like steaks on the medium rare to medium side.

Yeah, even with ground chuck, which is fatty, you can cook it medium-well and still have it turn out very juicy. If I use anything that's 90% lean or more, I have trouble getting a juicy burger unless it's medium or medium-rare.

[lildude8218]

insomniac34 said:

lildude8218 said:

I just sorta grabbed a chunk and made it into a patty, it was a bit thicker than I usually make them though. I personally like my burgers more on the well done side, this was probably around medium-well.

I only like steaks on the medium rare to medium side.

Yeah, even with ground chuck, which is fatty, you can cook it medium-well and still have it turn out very juicy. If I use anything that's 90% lean or more, I have trouble getting a juicy burger unless it's medium or medium-rare.

You HAVE to have some fat in there for the flavor. I think I heard somewhere that 12% fat is perfect.


And just a little word of advice:

If you attempt this, you MUST brown the bacon first. I tried doing this one time and put raw bacon into the meat and it didn't come out right at all. It takes longer for the bacon to cook than the burger, so I got an extremely overcooked burger with just brown enough bacon.

[Insomniac]

lildude8218 said:

insomniac34 said:

Yeah, even with ground chuck, which is fatty, you can cook it medium-well and still have it turn out very juicy. If I use anything that's 90% lean or more, I have trouble getting a juicy burger unless it's medium or medium-rare.

You HAVE to have some fat in there for the flavor. I think I heard somewhere that 12% fat is perfect.

I agree. The best burger I've ever had from a restaurant was from this steak place near my house. It was extremely juicy and fatty, but was so delicious. Most of my hamburger meat is 80/20 when I buy it because it's usually the cheapest (5 lbs. for $10).

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Oh, I thought you were able to recreate a Big Kahuna burger...but the burger you made sounds amazing!

[anotherheadlock]

sure it was great! but was it a GOODBURGER

[Cibernético II]

I would never undercook hamburger. That's very unappealing to me. Undercooking steak or fresh fish is good, but burgers? YUCK

so what kind of bun or bread you use?

you know I never like hamburgers that I make for myself. They're only good if somebody else makes it. No matter what I put in my own hamburger I'm always disappointed by it.

[lildude8218]

cibernetico2 said:

I would never undercook hamburger. That's very unappealing to me. Undercooking steak or fresh fish is good, but burgers? YUCK

so what kind of bun or bread you use?

you know I never like hamburgers that I make for myself. They're only good if somebody else makes it. No matter what I put in my own hamburger I'm always disappointed by it.

I only had a plain old store bought hamburger bun, nothing special.

[Chucklehead,baby!!!]

nothing upends a BLEU CHEESE burger

[Deleted]

That sounds freakin' awesome. I've never tried to make my own burger before.