/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19245621
the bottom layer of this would be disgusting. the tomato slice will be warm and greasy and the bottom bun saturated with liquid and falling apart. just add two middle buns and make two burgers

Yes, I use an old book press.

>Gordon does a food item that's blowing up in popularity outside of his wheelhouse/background and fucks it up
Getting tired of this rerun

>>19245651
Why don't the producers tell him? Why doesn't anyone say anything? It has to be intentional at this point.

Every new "artisanal" burger I see only further reinforces my belief that the standard burger morphology is already perfected and should never be tampered with under any circumstances. Every single time a restaurant tries to make the humble burger needlessly fancier they end up ruining it. It's almost like these burgers are being designed and assembled to have pictures taken of them and never actually be eaten.
>the burger overloaded with toppings to the point that you can't even bite into it
>the burger is so wide that it practically needs to be cut in half to even safely pick it up
>the toppings are needlessly messy, creating the taco effect where everything slides out the back whenever you take a bite
>the toppings aren't well thought out which results in a soggy, sticky, or slippery burger
I should be able to pick up a burger, easily take a bite, and set it back down with relatively clean hands. I should never be in a race against time to eat my burger before the bun turns to mush. Why turn the simple act of eating into a chore?

>>19245699
Ramsay's Law: Anything that can be tampered with, will be. Anything that can be snorted, will be.

>>19245688
Gordon Ramsey himself is the product, it doesn't really what he's making as long as he's making something.

>>19245688
>>19245651
I get the impression it's probably a little bit of elitism. Ramsey has enough culinary skill and understanding to see and know what he's done wrong with that abysmal burger arrangement. Yet he made it anyway exactly like that. He's probably looking at it going "this is incorrect, but this is how those gross poor yanks do it, the fact it's shit is an inherent quality of the dish and if I do it right it won't be the same dish anymore".

>>19245621
Those are smashed, they used to be tall cylinders of beef

>>19245621
That coleslaw burger on the left looks disgusting

>egg
Eggs are already flat, and you want a runny yolked egg if you're putting it on a burger. If you're putting an egg on a smash burger you should put the egg on at the very end after you've pressed the burger so that the yolk doesn't break and shoot everywhere. Given the level of doneness and dryness it looks like Ramsey put an over hard egg on his burger which is safe to smash but is just a waste of egg honestly, totally inferior to a runny yolk.

>>19245728
Smashed burgers aren't smashed after cooking

>>19245735
You've never had a fully pressed burger the same way they do a patty melt?

>>19245621
I smashed my thirteen year old sister last night.

>>19245699
>Every single time a restaurant tries to make the humble burger needlessly fancier they end up ruining it.

I haven't thought it about it like this but you're right. Praise be the McDouble in it's simplicty, for it does not try to be anything that it is not.

>>19245621
This burger is not smashed.

>>19245748
The worst part is; it is.

>>19245718
Until he ruins his reputation as an elite chef by continually pumping out bizarre versions of things we all know and love

Is the burger or the grilled cheese worse

>>19245775
They are both atrocious. At least you can eat the burger by taking one patty out so you can fit the burger in your mouth

>>19245798
What else has he fucked up, any pizzas?

>>19245799
I can't recall any bad pizzas
I went to a place that was on Kitchen Nightmares and their pizza was way, way better
The place with the creepy clown hologram

>>19245807
The writer's strike means more reality tv so maybe we'll get a kitchen nightmares revival. It's easy the most popular thing Gord ever did.

>>19245799
He thought this was one of the shittiest pizzas he's ever seen.

>>19246408
Anon it was literally uncooked.

>>19245699
The numerals don't lie, that's just sound burgerology.

>>19246444
this isn't a numerology forum fag

>>19245699
I think exceptionally thin patties as a means to facilitate more patties (and this more melted cheese/layers) is acceptable.

>>19246408
that pizza IS dogshit though, completely undercooked

>>19245699
I completely agree. I can make a burger at home that can rival any grill. That's not because I make it any differently. It's just burgers are inherently perfect, as long as you're not using frozen old meat, cold unmelted cheese, or stale buns.

>>19245744
Pics or it didn't happen.

>>19246458
FUCK yourself dude that pizza looks amazing for a pie that isn't trying to be gourmet fancy.

>>19245699
>It's almost like these burgers are being designed and assembled to have pictures taken of them and never actually be eaten
Yes

>>19245718
>>19245719
this and this. he's clearly a very talented chef. but in 2023 he's a fish out of water in a world that he never made.

it looks both professional and amateur not in a good way

>>19245699
fantastic post

>>19245699
The Oklahoma onion burger is the burger perfected. Prove me wrong.

>>19245621
no, i still have my penis.

>>19246444
>>19246450
What now?

thin burgers cook faster and taste better. I use a 5" burger press (actually 5" not 4.5" like the rest) and about ~1/3lb and it ends up ~ 1cm thick. use papers keeps things nice and clean. char on both sides and done.

>>19247654
that 'pizza' looks like dogshit trash fucking retard

>>19248603
looks delicious. big thick crust, plenty of cheese

>>19245621
Yep. I typically do two really thin 1/8 or 1/6 pound patties to make a quarter pounder or third pounder respectively and put the cheese right in the middle. This maximizes the surface area and gives you more delicious brown bits, with the added benefit of being super fast to cook. The patties in your pic are way too thick, they need to be pressed more to increase the surface area

>>19245621
did Ramsey not even google what a smash burger was vs a regular one? >>19245699 is right on the money, these hyper-thick stacked burgers make no sense to me. The people who like these are the kind of people who won't send back food when the kitchen royally fucks up.

I have no understanding of what a smash burger is, or how it compares to a normal burger.

>>19245621
The only thing I smash is underage pussy.

>>19249715
going full peter gabriel? Or do you mean like thrusting parts?

>>19249381
Smash burger means that, instead of forming a patty and putting that on the grill, you put a ball of ground beef on a griddle/flat top/pan and use a press or bacon weight to press the ball into a patty as it cooks. That's the "smash". Smash burger patties are crisp, ultra thin, extremely seared, and you often put multiple on a burger.

Gordon's smash burger is bigger than a regular burger.

Smash burgers are great to make sloshed. Just heat up the cast iron, grab a handful of ground beef and just make a quick burg.

>>19247770
>t. chad nic's grill enjoyer

>>19245621

>more crust
>more bites
>more room for pickles ground mustard and onions
Yeah.

>>19245699
Has a chef ever produced a fancy burger that doesn't require me to unhinge my jaw or eat it over a sink? I'd like to see that.