Building a Burger

Burgers spoiled me
Since quite young, I've worked several jobs, around 10-12 hrs a day, most times 7 days a week

Burgers were handy
Fast food was lunch, always

Got to be a bit of a burger connoisseur

In high school, my buddy excitedly intro'd me to McDs
'19¢ !'
'We can eat five for less than a buck!'

Could not believe how horrible that thing tasted
ketchup....on a burger???!

Later on, in my later teen years, and into my twenties, I got a bit more sophisticated
Burger and coffee
Just a great, quick combo
Meat, bread, veggies, java
Done

Now?
I might eat a burger once a month
And my lady slips in some sorta turkey burger
Not too bad...with enough hamburger relish

Can't do the bacon on my burger
I love bacon
I love hamburger
By themselves
One entrée at a time

Just good beef, a little lettuce, some onion, generous tomato
relish, mayo
Good (big) bun


WOOF!

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Hamburger are going to hell.
There supposed to be beef, now their wanting us to buy burgers with cow mean and pig meat.
Love a tad of bacon which Wendy's use to sell.

Now is massive dosages of pig and cow, what's next snake?
 

"Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra submitted their burger recipes to the 1967 Celebrity Cookbook compiled by their equally famous friend Dinah Shore. As you’ll see, the ingredients and cooking instructions on their entries were coordinated by the two Rat Pack members to generate a laugh".

Dean Martin’s Hamburger Recipe

Martin Burgers:
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 2 oz bourbon, chilled
Preheat a heavy frying pan and sprinkle bottom lightly with table salt. Mix meat, handling lightly, just enough to form into four patties. Grill over medium-high heat about 4 minutes on each side.

Pour chilled bourbon in chilled shot glass and serve meat and bourbon on a TV tray.


Frank Sinatra's Hamburger Recipe

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Sinatra Burgers:
  1. Call for Deano.
  2. Tell him to make you a freakn’ burger.
  3. Drink his bourbon.
While they both enjoyed classic gin Martinis, its more likely that Frank would be drinking his favorite Tennessee whiskey and water with exactly four ice cubes while at the bar. Hey Deano, did you bring home some more ‘Daniels’, you’re all out.

Move the rat pack outdoors for a tailgate party instead and this recipe for bacon, hot dog, turtle burgers would cook up a tasty test of Frank’s formula for having Dean do all the grilling.
 
With all the stuff added to the burgers, how do you know what the beef tastes like? If one needs tons of accoutrements, why not have them on the side and proceed from there?
 
fmdog44 said:
Watching different food shows we see people stacking stupid numbers of addons and claiming the burger is one of a kind when all it is a poor excuse for a gourmet burger. As others have pointed out you can't get your mouth over some of them. Does that make them delicious? Some pizza shop owners are doing the same thing with pizzas. Gimmicks all of it.
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Exactly, well said, FM.

I recall a time dating back some 20 years, where hubby and I ordered a house burger at a pizza joint, and by all accounts, the manner in which the burger was advertised, one would have thought it was the best burger on earth.

Well, the burgers arrived at our table and big they were, but that's all they had going for them. Plain, bland, tasteless things they were, so bad in fact, neither of us finished them.

My philosophy is, learn how to make a delicious, mouth-watering burger, first... and then once you master that aspect of burger-making, move onto adding one or two more patties to it.

The other thing I notice about big juicy burgers, long before you get through the burger, the buns give out and you're left with a handful of slop to contend with.
 

Andy Warhol Eating a Hamburger​

In 1981, Andy Warhol ate a hamburger for filmmaker Jørgen Leth’s movie entitled, 66 Scenes from America. Naturally, Warhol ate the hamburger in his own deadpan “screen test” style.
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No cheese of any kind on my burger!
Plain bun, please.
Hold the lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle. I'll have the salad on the side.

Medium rare
Salt and pepper
A touch of ketchup, just a touch.

Now and then, caramelized onions.
 

Burger Building: The Burger That Ate L.A.​

Unfortunately, the building no longer exists—a Starbucks is now in its place.
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Can you sink the Titanic? The 5,000 calorie burger that contains twice your daily calorie allowance in one sitting! (2011)​

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They call it the Titanic but just like its namesake it hasn't proved unsinkable.

Bosses at Telford eaterie Oscar's created what they claim to be the biggest burger in Britain as a challenge to entice diners.

The £15 meal comes with the guarantee that anyone who can clear their plates in 45 minutes - including the chips, salad and a pint of milkshake - will win a T-shirt which proudly proclaims 'I Sank The Titanic'.

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Since Oscar's started up its offer two weeks ago around 100 have been prepared to take on the challenge - and only 15 had triumphed.
 
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