/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15979904
Yes. A burger should be cooked medium rare.

>>15979904
Its a gigantic pain in the ass to flatten them, keep them flattened so that they dont bunch up in the middle, and then scrape them off intact

>>15979904
Slammed

>>15979983
This man gets it

smash burgers are way overrated. yes, I want some crisp/sear on my burger, no, I don't want it to be the only flavor. a good burger has that but more importantly has good beef flavor, the kind you get when you properly cook beef (read: not overdone).

>>15979923
NOO FUCKTARD THE BEEF IS GROUND

>>15979904
yes in the microwave for 15 seconds

>>15980412
based

>>15979904
I guess you couldn't mix things in with the beef which is nice sometimes. that said smash burgers are based as hell, best served way overdone where the sear forms a crust with your seasonings

>>15979923
Fuck off, tb anon

>>15979904
No but calling them "smashed" is about as reddit as it gets. Its just a pressed patty, no need to come up with some gay hashtag name for it.

>>15979904
>is there any reason to cook burgers any other way than smashed?
Good browning, but not necessarily good juiciness. But, I prefer charcoal or grill, where there's a bit of smoke flavor, and char, ideally, and frankly, they won't be paper thin like a smashburger. It is a mood more than preference. A steakhouse burger from a high quality restaurant will have a great oak grilled burger.
I will take a Shula burger over a smashburger, just for instance.

>>15979904
i swear people who simp for thick burgers have no taste buds. and equate size with quality

>>15981036
They always used to be called diner-style hamburgers before "smashed" took over.

Personally, I like the convenience. If I'm just cooking for myself, it's quicker and easier to heat up a skillet than fire the grill.

>>15981036
I love Reddit btw, if that matters

>>15980405
and?

>>15980405
americans, everyone

>>15979904
I've made burgers like this a few times and the crust ends up looking the exact same but there is almost no crisp texture at all when I bite into it. I don't get it.

>>15979904
Grill them over a charcoal grill.

>>15981036
#smashed bro what's the problem?

Squeeze out all the pockets where the juices can collect is not the way to make a great burger.

Minimal handling to form a patty is the key.

My best hamburgers are between about 1 inch and 1 1/4 inches thick, cooked in medium in butter, then rested for five minutes after cooking.

Smashed Burgers are best for stacking

>>15979904
i dont like my burgers crunchy desu, in fact i like the meat to be a bit rare.

>>15979904
You can't put brie inside a smashed burger

>>15979904
No.

Smash burgers are so overrated. You get less meat in a patty and it's just a thin crispy piece of shit, why would anyone want that? I'd rather have a thicker burger so I can actually taste the meat

>>15981036
>h-hey, can i get a pressed patty?
literally the gayest shit ever, stop being a contrarian and using retarded terms

>>15979983
Baste

Its more important to grind your own chuck. Add mushroom, garlic, and woercester powders.

>>15984293
that’s why you make two patties and put cheese on both. more cheese, more carmelized texture, more better burger

>>15984304
t. craft beer connoisseur

>>15984293
big fat guy spotted

>>15984293
>implying the vegetables aren't the best part

>>15979923
Collect your Darwin Prize idiot

>>15984558
>hes afraid of pink beef

>>15979925
smasher and spatula

>>15979923
I laugh every time I realize some pretentious retards here actually eat uncooked burgers. Why would you equate ground beef, made from the least preferable cuts, to steak? Do you get your chuck and brisket and medium rare too? fucking lol. The only people who could possibly eat uncooked burgers are children who JUST discovered that well-done isn't the only way to cook steak, so they project their new-found "expertise" on every beef-containing item they can think of.

>>15984719
>C-Collect your Darwin Prize idiot!!!

>>15984304
pressed sounds way better. "smashed" sounds like those youtube channels where they waste 50 lb of bacon to make "le epic bacon thing #1048"

>>15979904
why not boiled?

>>15984930
its a meme

>>15984930
>the only people who could possibly eat uncooked burgers are children
That's pretty ironic when the only people who defend well-done burgers only ever eat fast food. At any real restaurant medium-rare is by far the most popular way that people order burgers.

>>15984930

>>15981036
Smashed reminds me of the smash Bros I will play later so it's basé

>>15984950
>At any real restaurant medium-rare is by far the most popular way that people order burgers.
what's a "real" restaurant? provide a definition that differentiates them from the "fake" (I guess) restaurants

>>15985027
>needing a definition for what a fucking restaurant is
Holy shit. It's a place that actually has cooks, that cook food. Not fast food, and not chain garbage that gets everything pre-made. Have you seriously never been to a restaurant before? I guess a lot of people here haven't; lot's of children and poor people.

>>15985047
>Holy shit. It's a place that actually has cooks, that cook food
that's every restaurant
>not fast food
explain how fast food restaurants don't "actually have cooks that cook food". seems like an arbitrary exception that you made up
>not chain garbage that gets everything pre-made
Even fine dining restaurants have pre-made ingredients ready to go, I don't think you know much about restaurants
>Have you seriously never been to a restaurant before?
more than you, it seems
> I guess a lot of people here haven't; lot's of children and poor people.
I agree, you'll learn more about this stuff once you get a job and move out

>>15985047
>lot's
who you calling a child you illiterate son of a bitch

>>15981304
This, or smoked. My god I had my first smoked burger this year and it was fucking amazing.

>>15985090
So you don't know what a restaurant is or what cooking is? Why do so many people come to this board just to shitpost these days?

>>15984950
I’ve rarely had to cook burgers under medium so that’s cap

>>15985144
all you managed to do is post a bunch of nonsense. you claim that "real" restaurants only serve undercooked burgers and, when asked what a "real" restaurant is, you said it's somewhere with cooks, which is every restaurant. so it seems you're a dumbass who can't justify his opinion. either rub your two neurons together and come up with an actual explanation for your strange views or accept that you actually have no basis for your beliefs, there is no third option.

>>15985171
I've worked at many places, from diners to fine dining, and in pretty much all of them it goes medium rare > medium >>> medium well = well > rare

>>15985172
>all this cope to defend mcdonalds

>>15985196
why do you keep bringing up fast food? your low IQ is showing

>>15985210
>I cant think, you must be retarded
ok

>>15985188
No you haven’t lol

>>15985218
>still can't explain his incel opinion
lol

>>15979925
Use a cast iron without oil and they'll stick, then use a sharp spatula, like a bench scrapper, to get it off the pan.

smashed burgers are the best way to cook burgers at home and everyone who thinks other wise is retarded.

>I-it's not juicy ! I want my burger medium rare and you can't do that with smashed burgers !

Just sear each patty on one side retard.

>>15985226
>thinks xir deserves an explanation
ok

>>15985277
He's right, though. You just come off like a twat that doesn't know anything about the food industry.

>>15985290
>muh heckin twats
it's 4chan, faggot, I ain't gotta explain shit.

>>15985277
seethe, incel

>>15985345
>it tries to sound like a roastie so hard
ywnbaw

>>15985355
>tell incel to seethe
>he seethes
good boy. seethe again

>>15985364
>force feeding me (You)'s
a-are you the architect?

>>15985373
good incel, now bark

>>15985401
>If I dont get the last word I die
The only way to get attention, eh tranny?

>>15985401
>have sex
>incel
>incel
>have sex

>>15985210
Probably because you keep acting like well done burgers are normal, which is only true if you only eat fast food.

>>15979904
Yeah, smashed is pretty bad.
Burgers are best between 3/4" and 1" thick.

>>15981111
Diner was more just thin and large, no smashing or pressing.
From people buying the thin ones from sysco and the like.

>>15981036
for me its just a variation of a beef burger. so i call it a burger like i would call a chicken burger a chicken burger

>>15979904
No.

>>15984930
I do believe I see a based reply

>>15979925
it's very easy

>>15979983
based&toadpilled

>>15979923
When I make them myself, out of finely chopped chuck and ribeye, I still cook them to medium... and I still smash them to about 3/8" on a steel plate and flip to the grill to finish and drain. Browned beef just tastes better.

>>15984879
2 somewhat heavy 6" steel spatulas with the leading edge sharpened. Works like a charm.

>>15984939
yeah...

>>15980405
the beef is beef anon

>murders every single person ITT

>>15985411
good incel. now seethe again

>>15987109
Medium burgers are my preferred, too. Medium rare just has a mushy texture that fucks up the burger IMO. It also soaks the bun

>>15987990
Wolverine's looking a little haggard.

>I too don't understand why you should cook meats

This thread I swear

>>15979904
I like grilled but I like smashed too

>>15979925
you are not straight

>>15981036
>s-stop calling it that!

>>15980405
So? I've been making them with a bit of pink for ten years.

>>15988103
there's a difference between medium-rare beef and uncooked rancid chicken you fucking retard

>>15979904
this pisses off americans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shLER9NdIWU

>>15988297
why the british so shitty at making burgers
honest to god, they have no idea what to do with beef besides make roasts and pies.

>>15988118
Serious question, what exactly is the appeal of rare to medium cooked ground beef? I've never understood it. Steaks make sense. I like a nice, tender rare cooked steak. Ground meat doesn't really benefit a lot from cooking it rare, though. You can cook it all the way through easily without drying it out and it stays tender because it's ground.

>>15987990
Based burger kike.

>>15988297
>caramelized onion
>charred onion
Can bong royal chefs tell the difference?
No.

>>15988297
>stilton cheese
>mustard powder
>mayonnaise
>lettuce
>tomato
>beef
>bun
>"caramelized" onion

This motherfucker just called that "the classic burger".

>>15988297
probably good but no reason to add mayo, it doesnt add anything to the dish

>>15988687
it adds the CUM factor

Flat top or pan? Smash burger. Grill? ~1 inch thick burger. Doesn't really fucking matter. All I'm looking for is seasoned beef between two soft buns with some cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickles, and some kind of sauce on top.

>>15988687
it helps keep the bottom bun from getting soggy, and as gross as it sounds, it does work well with stilton, roquefort and danablu... although there's no need for that if the lettuce and tomato are going between it and the burger, and no point in putting it on the top.
I dislike a lot about the way this guy does things.
Oh shit! Forgot the pickles! Better scatter them on the board.

>>15988373
Americans are the only culture that does hamburgers right.
Italians suck. Brits suck. Krauts suck.
All of them are shit at it.

America might not have the best food culture, but it does do burgers the best by far.

>>15988744
They do make a difference to the final product, and if you're doing an inch thick burger, it has to have a decent fat content, and be cooked at a lower temp, or you'll have a layer of dry, bland garbage between your seasoning and anything resembling a juicy burger.

>>15988744
I got a sauce for you right here buddy. Open wide :^)

>>15987109
>browned beef just tastes better
You can get a good sear and still have some pink in the middle if you're not afraid of a little heat. I don't judge people who stop at medium, but this smashed fad is like, "hurr, the charred part is the best, so we'll just make it all charred and overcooked and then layer on just as much cheese and that will make it okay to choke down a few old hockey pucks". It's literally catering to people who've only eaten burgers from McDonald's and Burger King, and who are used to overcooked beef but amazed that it can have a hit of char on it.

>>15989222
As I said, I cook them to medium. I just like the flavour of a solid, brown crust on one side, and licked by the fire on the other side - as compared to 2/3-ish with char on both sides.

>>15979904
«Smashed» are trendy because it costs less for the restaurants

>>15979904
I actually just got into cooking them smashed by making the oklahoma burger- absolutely love them. couldn't believe I've been eating burgers wrong for so long.
>smash a burger
>throw tons of onions on top of it asap
>one slice of american cheese
perfection. the more simpler the better

>>15981036
I would definitely feel a lot gayer calling it a pressed patty

>>15984930
I think some people might have had a traumatic experience with a well done burger in their childhoods

>>15985188
That makes sense but only for steak. I'm pretty sure there are a number of medium rare steak chads who like the burgers a bit more done

>>15985277

>>15979904
There must be but I've yet to discover it

>>15991194
That's not an opinion. It's how people actually order burgers. Steak is more like, medium-rare >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> medium >>> rare > mid-well > well-done

>>15979904
Quality ingredients can give you much more interesting flavors than a griddle crust sandwich lathered in ketchup.

>>15980330
This guy makes a good burger.

>>15979904
where did this smashed patties trend start? they used to be no big deal but then suddenly everyone jerking themselves over SMASHED BRGRS OMG. celebrity endorsement again?

>>15991524
They're tasty and easy to make at home anon, not everything has to be astroturfed. What would be the point of chilling for a specific way to cook burgers anyway ? There's no money to be made.

>>15984969
>it's not reddit because it reminds me of my bing bing wahoo
lol

>>15988753
>it helps keep the bottom bun from getting soggy,

One of the best things you can do to keep the bun from getting soggy is to let the hamburger patty rest after you cook it so that the juices don't run out of the patty onto the bun.

>>15990912
>oklahoma burger

Huh?

Throw the onions into the pan and then smash the hamburger meat into the onions.