Why do my veggie burgers fall apart.

bobcat48 said:
I did add cracker crumbs, but apparently not the kind I should have. I took some wheat thins because I thought they would add flavor, crumbled them up in my hands and dumped them in. I don't think that was very smart now that I hear the comments, because the wheat thins are already baked and probably don't even blend with the mix all that much. Rookie mistake.
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Original ingredients in cast iron (or other oven suitable) skillet with a dab of butteror olive oil. Cook stovetop until good crust formed. Add smear of butter or oil to top and cook hot oven until done to preference. No flipping.
 
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Kaila said:
@bobcat48
Has anyone warned you? :sneaky:;):LOL:
When you start threads, like you do, the ones that you might least suspect to get a reply, or to have any interest shown at all;

might surprise you the most, and may take hold, get a life of its own, and last for a hundred pages of posts, and span several years.:geek::giggle::LOL::ROFLMAO::LOL:
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Haha! Never thought you'd see four pages on veggie burgers, did ya?
 

helenbacque said:
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Original ingredients in cast iron (or other oven suitable) skillet with a dab of butteror olive oil. Cook stovetop until good crust formed. Add smear of butter or oil to top and cook hot oven until done to preference. No flipping.
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So use an oven safe skillet, cook on stovetop (Just one side), then put skillet in the oven (On broil or bake hot?) till done. I made about 6 of them, so if I did this method, I would need to repeat procedure, but I guess that's do-able.
 
bobcat48 said:
If I buy the ones in the store they hold together like hockey pucks, but I don't like to buy them because of all the preservatives, etc..., so in my mind I think: How hard can it be to just make my own. So I decide to be a maverick about it and make my own recipe, and that way I can just put in the stuff I like.
I put the following ingredients in a bowl.
2 eggs
diced carrots
diced onion
diced celery
diced bell pepper
1 can of Black beans drained well and smashed
diced green olives
sunflower seeds
I mixed it all together with spices and it seemed to bond together pretty good
I plopped them in a frying pan with olive oil and they held together ok until flipping time when they just rebelled.
I thought of that Captain & Tenille song: "Love will keep us together", and I love them, but apparently my love means nothing. They just fall apart like Chinese furniture.
Anyway, I know I'm screwing up somewhere, but I'm still a rookie in the kitchen and any advice would be appreciated.

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Without adding bread crumbs it's hard to keep them together. But I don't want that in mine, unhealthy. Try cooking them slowly and flip only when the first side is cooked well. I bake mine and they hold together pretty well. I love your ingredients
 
s76l42 said:
Without adding bread crumbs it's hard to keep them together. But I don't want that in mine, unhealthy. Try cooking them slowly and flip only when the first side is cooked well. I bake mine and they hold together pretty well. I love your ingredients
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It's interesting that you came up with that. The first four I cooked on medium heat, and they browned rather quickly, but also fell apart. The last two I reduced the heat and they held together rather well, and I didn't know if it was the heat, or that I just got better at flipping. But maybe it gives the ingredients more time to merge together (I don't know).
 
bobcat48 said:
It's interesting that you came up with that. The first four I cooked on medium heat, and they browned rather quickly, but also fell apart. The last two I reduced the heat and they held together rather well, and I didn't know if it was the heat, or that I just got better at flipping. But maybe it gives the ingredients more time to merge together (I don't know).
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I have learned from experience slow is better with veggie burgers. Cooking the first side slowly helps them hold together.
 
s76l42 said:
I have learned from experience slow is better with veggie burgers. Cooking the first side slowly helps them hold together.
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Yeah, I suppose that holds true with many things.
I guess I was thinking that I needed the higher heat to brown them, but obviously that was a flawed plan.
 
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