All I have to say to all that burger porn is holy shit are hamburgers expensive in the UK.
Sorry, my British friends, but you’re missing the point. A hamburger is supposed to be simple. If you’re making a fancy gourmet meal out of it, you’re doing it wrong. What you have may taste good - but you’ve lost the quintessence of the hamburger.
Definitely. A good hamburger is simple: a bun and quality meat that’s cooked neither too much nor too little. Everything else (cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, onions, ketchup, etc.) depends upon the personal tastes and preferences of the customer or chef.
That being said, one of my favorites is the Bleu Cheese N’ Bacon Burger prepared at the Red Millin Seattle. Of course, if you don’t like blue cheese, you’d probably disagree.
Now that the Brits have figured out how to make an edible burger, they need to inform the rest of the EU.
To be fair, the most expensive ones on the list are from restaurants in some very prime locations.
I was just wondering how you are supposed to eat the ones that are about a foot tall with a stick holding the layers together.
It was interesting how many “tower” burgers there were in that list.
Like they described several burgers - close, but not quite. The UK still has a ways to go before they discover the basics.
Face it, the reason the British Empire existed in the first place was the driving desire in people born with taste buds for something decent to eat.
A ‘good hamburger’ is kids food.
Many of them look like they must taste good. But why do so many of them have a ball of meat? I should be a disk. The disk can bed a thick as you want, but It must be a disk.
From “100% mad cow disease free” beef?
To be fair, the pictures I see there aren’t all that different from what you’d find at a nice pub or similar establishment that specializes in burgers here in Chicago. In my mind, there are broadly, two main types of burgers: the thin, 1/4 lb and under “fast food” burgers, and the larger 1/3 lb and up “pub” or “restaurant” burgers. The fast food burgers usually come on a simple white bread bun, possibly with sesame seed. For the bigger burgers, pretzel rolls seem to be the “in” thing right now, but you generally will get a soft roll of some sort with more structural integrity than with your fast-food burger.
The Shake Shack burger–the second one listed–looks like a perfectly respectable, normal fast-food style hamburger.
But even the Shake Shack burger, which seems to be a cheap burger as the commentary says its “only” 5 GBP (about US$7.50). That same burger at In N Out would be under $3. (I can’t remember the prices, but I think it’s actually close to $2 for a single cheeseburger.)
Yes, I know the UK is expensive. I’m just always surprised at how dear even the fast food is.
Reperusing the list, there are actually a couple of burgers that look pretty good. They must have hired an American chef! 
Hobgoblin has a good-looking burger in the “Ain’t I Fancy” division, as does The Wargrave Arms. But htere are too many with no clue as to what makes a good burger. More than a few reviews say “well-done,” which is an offense of the first order.
Geez…talk about prices!
Plus, most of them seem to have that awful British hamburger bun that is really chewy and tastes sort of like a wet bagel.
I can remember when I first went to Berlin - they had a “Wimpy’s” burger in the center of town - it was/is a British chain of burger shop. They were truly horrible - I would NOT pay you on Tuesday for any of those burgers today. They went out of business a few years later and I think any Americans in Berlin would have been happy to help them tear the place apart.
However, there are certainly high-end restaurants in the USA who also have obscene varieties of hamburgers/cheeseburgers that look equally ridiculous and also cost the price of 10 gallons of gas for your car.
The truly good burgers are usually found at sleezy diners for a couple of bucks.
That is a cheap burger for Covent Garden, but I take your point. A Double Whopper is more than £4 in most places.
I agree. That’s why we’re headed to The Hat for lunch tomorrow. The wife can get her chili-cheese fries, extra tomatoes and pickles, add pastrami (which will also be her dinner, and probably breakfast the next day!) and I can get a double burger, extra onion, hold the tomato.
I’ve eaten at Annie’s Burger Shack many times (October 24th from the link in the OP), and I can confirm Annie is, indeed, American. Her burgers are certainly the best I’ve ever had.
Did you ever have a burger made in Europe back in the 80s? Damn things were inedible and contained things like ground pork or weird fillers. And the taste: I still have nightmares. Even places like McDonalds and BK couldn’t get it right over there. Now why would I even buy a burger when in Europe? Well, I lived overseas for about 12 years, and even though the food there is excellent, you start craving all manner of things uniquely American. While they invented and mastered the French fry early on, a decent burger was impossible to find, and a good pizza nearly so.
You couldn’t get a good pizza in Europe?
Did you try Italy?
I’ve never had one. Was just curious about what the accepted eating method was? I assume it’s a knife and fork job?