OT: Burgers!

I usually grind brisket for burgers. Medium rare, salt, pepper, catsup. Sometimes extra sharp cheddar cheese.

Burgers should be formed by hand and not too tight and not overworked. Grill should be very hot. Get a good sear, flip, finish cooking to desired doneness.

Somebody conducted a survey of who had the best burger recently.

Several divisions were specified based on size of chain.

"Wendy's" won for best burger in the large chain division; however, when it came to absolute best burger, a little place here in California, "In-N-Out Burger" won hands down.

If you want one of their burgers, be patient.

They don't start to cook your burger till you order it.

Sometimes it is a long wait, but the place is almost always full, so people are willing to wait to get the food.

They also have a bumper sticker that the kids shorten, as you might expect, before attaching to bumper.

Lew

"Little"? I saw plenty of In-N-Out Burger places when I was in CA recently. We have a couple of good burger places here. "Roscoe's", a real cholesterol factory and "Great American Steakburger." For a chain, "Fuddrucker's" ain't bad. Better than "Wendy's"

Max (Great American fan in El Paso)

With a sliced up jalapeño pepper on it.

All this talk about burgers reminds me of when I was sixteen. There was a walkthrough store with a donut shop one side, a pizza place on the other and a five foot wide burger take out window smack dab in the middle. They had the best burgers I've ever eaten @ .50 each. Every night when heading home from the pool hall, I'd stop in and buy six burgers. Three I'd eat on the way home and the other three after I got there.

The place closed down a few years later when the mall got retrofitted. It's now almost forty years later and I've never found another burger that has even come close to tasting as good. It might well be that my palate has changed so much that they wouldn't taste the same even if I did, but I can still distinctly remember how great those burgers tasted.

Sometimes I like to fantasize how great it would be to have those sixteen year old taste buds again, (and a few other sixteen year old characteristics) but one look at my burgeoning stomach quickly brings me back to earth. (chagrin)

Can't be too small - we have one in Casa Grande.

Hard to beat In-n-Out, but a little mom/pop joint where I used to live did it. No great crowds, no far n' wide fame. Just a simple burger grilled in typical fashion, Wonder buns, tomato, lettuce, onion, and off the shelf condiments. I don't know the trick and can't explain it, but I'd pay the $3.50 price over a Double-Double every time.

nb

Robatoy wrote in news:8081bf4f-a7c5-4977-9847- snipped-for-privacy@f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com:

For fast food, I usually go for Wendy's.

For myself, I usually make burgers with 80/20 ground beef. Add a little butter or olive oil to the pan to prevent initial sticking (the coating only needs to be as thick as wax on a table saw) and cook until the juice runs clear. Ketchup and bread and butter pickles are usually added, and lettuce and tomato if we've got 'em.

Once in a great while I'll cook an egg and place it on the meat itself.

Deer burgers are great too.

Puckdropper

I am a blue cheese fan also along with a few onion rings.

Jill and I stopped by Lenny's Burger Shop last Sunday and I had a burger with blue cheese and pastrami =yummy.

cm

Yellow Onions and Garlic have sulfur.

Eat Red onions.

Mart> "RicodJour" wrote:

Yes, I read that survey. When comparing to the other fast food outfits, I happen to like Wendy's burgers the best. That might partially be caused by the fact that in my daily travels, Wendy's is usually way down the list when I'm hungry and passing by a fast food outlet.

With a slice of hot pepper cheese and Vidalia onion.

As I understand it, they have less than 5,000 outlets.

Compared to Mickey D's, Burger King And Wendy's, they don't even qualify as small, there are in the midget class.

Lew

==================================== When I first came to Cleveland, we had Royal Castle and White Castle.

Royal Castle had a better taste, but alas they are gone.

Still remember, for $0.50 you could get 3 hamburgers @ $0.15 each and a glass of Birch (Root) beer for $0.05.

Sometimes a group of hungry students would walk the 6 blocks down Euclid Ave from the dorm to Royal Castle and pig out. When you are 18, you can get away with that stuff.

Had a fraternity brother who worked as a grill man at Royal Castle for a while, had to quit.

The smell of that smoky greasy beef tallow coming up off the grill made him sick.

Lew

Not Vidalia's, no. Don't know that I've ever had a Maui onion. Google here I come!

Yes, quite. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with the term - it is slang for flatulence.

==================================== Not Vidalia's, no. Don't know that I've ever had a Maui onion. Google here I come! =================================

Sweeter than Vidalia, but also limited availability.

Check with the produce mgr of your local market for price and availability.

Lew

I remember that name, although I can't quite remember if I've ever eaten in one.

That price is a little before my time, at least when I'd be paying for myself.