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The Complete Guide To Burger Blends

Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:07 am
Posted by Stadium Rat
Metairie
Member since Jul 2004
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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.


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Posted by TypoKnig
Member since Aug 2011
8928 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:16 am to
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.
This post was edited on 8/27/14 at 8:16 am
Posted by LSUTygerFan
Homerun Village
Member since Jun 2008
33232 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:37 am to
"Using fancy cuts of beef is not important and kind of a bullshite move"
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
78101 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:41 am to
quote:

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 by Stadium Rat
Metairie
Member since Jul 2004
9560 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:47 am to
I like the fact that they say to vary the meat/fat ratio depending on how much you intend to cook the meat.
Posted by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
81210 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 8:51 am to
quote:

“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.

quote:

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 by Aubie Spr96
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Member since Dec 2009
41149 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:01 am to
Great article. Thanks for posting.
Posted by BottomlandBrew
Member since Aug 2010
27102 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:08 am to
quote:

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

Source
This post was edited on 8/27/14 at 9:10 am
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
78101 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:10 am to
i knew that wasd eddie murphy from the 'i wanna stop and get some mcdonalds..'
Posted by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
81210 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:12 am to
Posted by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
81210 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:46 am to
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.
Posted by ProjectP2294
South St. Louis city
Member since May 2007
70380 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:54 am to
quote:

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 by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
81210 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 9:56 am to
THAT'S THE ONE I'M WATCHING!

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 by Oenophile Brah
The Edge of Sanity
Member since Jan 2013
7540 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:03 am to
quote:

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 by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
81210 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:05 am to
The chef said the only time you should be shaking something is in the men's restroom
Posted by CAD703X
Liberty Island
Member since Jul 2008
78101 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:07 am to
have y'all not watched 'jiru dreams of sushi'?
Posted by Oenophile Brah
The Edge of Sanity
Member since Jan 2013
7540 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:11 am to
quote:

The chef said the only time you should be shaking something is in the men's restroom



Noted.

Posted by LouisianaLady
Member since Mar 2009
81210 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 10:11 am to
Yep. I've seen it. Never seen a film talked about as much as that. Gets brought up everywhere
Posted by Caplewood
Atlanta
Member since Jun 2010
39156 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 11:03 am to
Who is jiru?
Posted by arseinclarse
Algiers Purnt
Member since Apr 2007
34412 posts
Posted on 8/27/14 at 11:07 am to
quote:

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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