What’s your receipe, method and favorite condiments?
Here’s mine.
1 lb ground chuck or sirlion
1 pkg Lipton Golden Onion Soup mix
1/4 cup Worchestershire sauce
1 egg
2 Tbsps Bread Crumbs
Mix well, divide into 4 patties and cook on the George Foreman Grill.
Serve on toasted kaiser rolls with A-1 steak sauce, a slice of mild cheddar, dill pickle chips and mayo. Lettuce and tomato optional.
Fast, filling and tasty! 
I don’t mess around when I make burgers. My burgers are (in)famous amongst my friends. They’re huge. I’m guessing the patties are almost half a pound.
Seasoning: Garlic salt and pepper.
Cooked on the grill.
That’s it.
No complaints yet.
I take 2 “normal” patties and load up the middle with crumbled blue cheese, then grill. A little garlic salt on mine. Sliced avacado, red onion slivers and bacon.
Ahhhhhhhhh…
85% lean mix of ground chuck & sirloin, formed into patties with chilled hands, and salted right before grilling to medium. Mustard on top, maybe.
Mmm… Homeburgers. I do them on the indoor grill. Lean ground beef, fresh ground pepper, salt, garlic. Sometimes minced onions or chives. Fresh cheese buns. Mmm. Delicious, fast dinner.
80/20 ground beef, kosher salt, a little pepper.
That’s it. Leave the other stuff for the table.
Hamburgers should not contain egg or breadcrumbs, IMO. At that point it’s really more like a mini-meatloaf. Also, lots of seasoning isn’t that good, either. It’s about the meat, people! But, to each his own. That said, I make mine as follows:
85% lean ground beef (I look for the one that does say ‘beef’ if possible, cause it’s the scraps and might aCtually have a few pieces of good cut in there. Otherwise, I go with either sirloin, or chuck if I’m poor that week.)
Kosher salt
Fresh ground black pepper
Dash of worchestershire sauce
Dash of onion powder
Cook on grill or in a pan on the stove-top. I then usually top mine with a thin layer of mayo and ketchup on both sides of the bun. Sometimes, I’ll make a ‘wing burger,’ in which case I use hot sauce instead of worchestershire, add chili powder, and top it with blue cheese dressing and more hot sauce.
A good amount of salt and pepper, and thats all that I season my burgers with. To me, its all about toppings. Avocado, fried egg, roasted poblano, mayo, lettuce, raw onion, probably. I usually don’t like cheese, cuz it tends to just cover up flavors (for me, at least)
75% ground chuck/25% hot Italian sausage. Form into patties, grill well over charcoal. Serve on a kaiser roll with lettuce, mustard, onion and a touch of BBQ sauce.
Alittle hijack, but if you want to challenge yourself, I give you the most complicated burger recipe ive ever seen!
See the bottom of the article. I’d copy and paste the recipe in here, but i kindof feel guilty making a post that long…
That is not a burger. Burgers do not require 25 ingredients and 4 hours of prep work.
Dayum. That’s just nuts.
In my book, burgers need to be simple. Adding onion soup mix, worchestershire, and the like just make the burger taste like a steak. If I want a steak, I’ll grill a steak; when I’m eating a burger, I want it to taste like a burger.
My recipe: patties. Usually 80/20, usually chuck. Season both sides with black pepper and onion salt. Grill. Serve. You will be thanked and praised.
Ditto. I use all chuck (at least 20% fat), handle the meat as little as possible, just enough for form into loose patties. Do not smash the hell out of it. I just use kosher salt, freshly ground or cracked black pepper, and that’s it.
And I agree that once you start adding binders and stretchers like egg and breadcrumbs, you’re making meatloaf, not hamburger.
I prefer to use ground chuck, if at all possible. Generally, I just slosh some Worchester sauce on the patties and sprinkle some garlic powder on them. I put cheddar or American cheese on some of the patties, but not on my daughter’s. I have a platter of fixings available, as each of us prefers a slightly different combo. And, I am ashamed to say, I frequently fry the potatoes in leftover bacon grease. I slice up an onion and add it to the potatoes when they’re about halfway done. I dare anyone to find a tastier side dish for home burgers.
This thread is going to get ugly.
My burgers are typically a pound of 80/20 ground chuck, with a handful (my official man-measure) of Montreal Steak seasoning, about ten turns of the pepper mill (a medley pepper, natch), two or three good shakes of garlic powder, and about 15 squirts of Worcestershire Sauce. Knead mercilessly in a large bowl, and form into burgers that are about half as high as they are wide (big fat burgers). Makes three 1/3 pound burgers. Put on the top rack of a prewarmed grill set as low as it can go with two warmers, about 20-25 minutes. Gives the outside of the burger a little toughness, and the inside nicely warmed to medium.
I don’t even know what this is describing.
“knead mercilessly”?
My burgers are ground beef, typically somewhat fatty although 80/20 can be a little TOO fatty.
They should be handled AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE. Grab a handful of beef, and flatten it down. Shape the edges. You’re done.
You still want to feel and see the texture of ground beef when you eat them. And, they cook through faster without toughening the outside if they’re loosely packed.
Plenty of salt and pepper.
Grill over high heat, or in a saute pan over high heat.
Let people top with whatever condiments they want.
As soon as I get the hamburger home, it goes into freezer bags with beer, either to be frozen or to maranade for a day before cooking.
Garlic & onion powder, black pepper, maybe some rosemary or thyme (no parsley or sage, however). I’ve been tempted to try oregano &/or basil but I haven’t done that yet.
Damn tasty meatloaf you’re describing. Add ketchup–and presto!
I take a small ball of ground chuck and press it in my tortilla press and fry them in rendered beef fat in my cast iron pan. A dash of season salt while they cook and you’ve got hot dog stand style greasy skinny ratso burgers. MMMmmmm.
Okay, some of you guys are purists. I can respect that. Me, I have no sentimentality to ground beef. I stand by my meatloaf burgers. They are delish. 