Just bought a vintage Presto hamburger cooker for $3.50 from Ebay. Talk about memories. When I was ten mom bought one in 1976. She worked all day and I was stuck at the house during the summers. She didn’t trust me to cook on the stove yet.
This little gadget was amazing. Mom would leave me a ball of hamburger meat (ice cream scoop size) in the fridge, and a bun on the counter. Preheat the cooker for 5 mins and put the meat ball in. It flattened into a patty when you closed the lid. 3 to 4 mins later I had a hot hamburger. Pure heaven for a latch key kid. Beats the hell out of cold lunch meat sandwiches.
I used my little cooker through high school and into college. Fresh burgers in my dorm room! It finally broke about 1985.
Can’t wait to revisit my childhood. Presto burgers just like the old days.
I bought vintage because all the reviews on Amazon said the new presto cooker breaks after a few months. The vintage 70’s ones last for a long, long time.