# Making hamburgers with part pork
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 22, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861 "2009-07-22T15:08:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/1 "2009-07-22T15:08:52Z")
At my inlaws last week, they had on some cooking show, and the guy was making burgers with half pork and half ground beef. I think he also sauteed some onions in some chili powder or cayenne or something, and added that to the meat before forming it into patties.
I was intrigued by the half-pork business, so in preparation for a cookout tomorrow, I bought 1.5 pounds ground beef and 1 lb ground pork. But now I can’t find that recipe anywhere.
I can fake it, of course; I make decent hamburgers anyway. But does anyone have any advice for making burgers like this? It just occurred to me that I probably don’t want to cook them medium-rare, as I usually do. Bonus points for anyone that can find that specific recipe!
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/2 "2009-07-22T15:20:52Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> I can fake it, of course; I make decent hamburgers anyway. But does anyone have any advice for making burgers like this? It just occurred to me that I probably don’t want to cook them medium-rare, as I usually do. Bonus points for anyone that can find that specific recipe!
You’re pretty much good to go as is. There’s no big secret about it except make sure you have at least 15-20% fat content total (in other words, don’t use a mix of something like ground sirloin and ground loin). This is a good rule in general for hamburgers, but especially so for these, since you will probably want to cook them beyond medium rare.
While I generally am straight-beef when it comes to burgers, from time to time I like to mix it up, and, when I’m feeling so, I find that ground lamb in the mix makes for a very tasty burger. You can go 50-50 lamb-beef, 50-25-25 lamb-beef-pork/beef-lamb-pork, or 33-33-33 lamb-beef-pork. In that case, you’ll be making something called [pljeskavica](http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/croatianserbmaincourses/r/pljeskavica.htm), a traditional Serbian/Yugoslavian grilled meat patty.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/3 "2009-07-22T15:24:28Z")
Use a 75/25 mix of ground chuck and hot Italian sausage.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/4 "2009-07-22T15:27:06Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Use a 75/25 mix of ground chuck and hot Italian sausage.
Yum. Chorizo is another option.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/5 "2009-07-22T15:30:54Z")
[Found one.](http://www.justhungry.com/hambaagu-or-hambaagaa-japanese-hamburgers)
When I make a meat loaf, I use two pounds of ground beef and one pound of ground pork. I’ve never tried, but a courageous experimenter might try taking their standard meatloaf recipe and cooking it up in individual patties. If I were to attempt it, I’d use less or no milk and maybe about half the breadcrumbs, so I didn’t have so much moisture to cook off.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/6 "2009-07-22T15:40:33Z")
I made a meatloaf that was half ground round, a quarter ground pork and a quarter ground veal (plus a bunch of non-meat ingredients). It was awesome.
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### Author:  [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/7 "2009-07-22T15:49:44Z")
[Here’s another.](http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/787247/german_hamburgers_for_the_fourth_of.html?cat=22) [And another.](http://homepage.interaccess.com/~june4/hamburgers.html)
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/8 "2009-07-22T15:55:19Z")
Y’all rock! Thanks for the ideas. I’ll go with the ground pork I already have this time, but the other ideas (especially lamb) sound delicious!
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### Author:  [@Judith\_Prietht](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Judith_Prietht)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/9 "2009-07-22T16:38:36Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Yum. Chorizo is another option.
My husband recently made burgers that were 1/3 ground beef, 1/3 ground pork and 1/3 Spanish chorizo chopped into small bits with a food processor. Highly recommended.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/10 "2009-07-22T16:48:01Z")
> [@Judith\_Prietht](#):
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> My husband recently made burgers that were 1/3 ground beef, 1/3 ground pork and 1/3 Spanish chorizo chopped into small bits with a food processor. Highly recommended.
Intriguing. I was thinking fresh Mexican chorizo, but food processed Spanish chorizo (or similar cured sausage) I had never tried.
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/11 "2009-07-22T18:11:00Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> I made a meatloaf that was half ground round, a quarter ground pork and a quarter ground veal …
They used to sell that (I don’t seem to find it these days) pre-packaged in every supermarket meat case as … “Meatloaf Mix”!
CMC fnord!
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### Author:  [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/12 "2009-07-22T20:59:56Z")
Every summer when we make the trek up to my in-laws camp, we have to have some bacon burgers which the local butcher prepares by grinding some slab bacon along with the ground beef. Yummmm!
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### Author:  [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/13 "2009-07-22T21:26:47Z")
> [@pulykamell](#):
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> Yum. Chorizo is another option.
There is a restaurant I always use as an upmarket date option that has this on their lunch menu. So I take interview candidates there if I get the choice… It is a heavenly combination.
[Ceiba, in DC.](http://www.ceibarestaurant.com/lunch.html)
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### Author:  [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2009, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/14 "2009-07-22T21:59:58Z")
I normally got 3:! with lean beef and Jimmy Dean hot sausage.
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/15 "2009-07-23T13:55:03Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#):
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> They used to sell that (I don’t seem to find it these days) pre-packaged in every supermarket meat case as … “Meatloaf Mix”!
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> CMC fnord!
hehe. And here I thought I was on to something!
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2009, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-hamburgers-with-part-pork/503861/16 "2009-07-23T15:02:26Z")
> [@kayaker](#):
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> hehe. And here I thought I was on to something!
My supermarket doesn’t have it pre-packaged, but there is always a big tray of that very mix in the butcher’s case. Seems to be very popular.