/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19340299
My ideal burger is a smash burger with american cheese and bacon

Tomato adds a juicyness and refreshing quality to the burger. Especially if the tomato and lettuce are served cold maybe with some thin onions piled on with cold mustard and some mild hot sauce. Honestly the benefit is minimal enough to safely allow the tomato to be omitted but for the perfect burger? Gimme a quarter inch tomato slice, cool crunchy and fresh.

Do you guys ever think about the perpetually accelerating progress rate of technology and how the world you'll live to see and your children will live in will either be an unrecognizable post singularity mindfuck and the alternative is civilization collapse due to resource exhaustion? My life is only going to be two thirds over by 2050 and by then the elites will be uploading their brains into computers to live forever.

Anyway I think a burger doesn't need anything other than cheese, ketchup, mustard, two pickle slices, and some rings of red onion.

Mushrooms, Swiss, and Lawrey’s. And a pinch of black pepper.

>>19340308
Fuck smashburgers, a big juicy half-pounder is much better. I buy 1/2lb frozen bison patties and cook em on the skillet.

>>19340299
>What's essential on a burger and what isn't
Essential: cheese, soy sauce, sriracha, lard (or tallow, I suppose)
Nonessential: everything else

>>19340299
Tomato that hasn’t been turned into something else is fucking disgusting

>>19340299
Tomatoes ruin the texture. Arguably lettuce does as well. Don't need much more than cheese & pickles.

>>19340308
smash burger, in n out, and five guys are ghetto tier garbage.

>>19340357
This Tony's is better than Lawry's.

>>19340299
These grilled, Brioche bun, salt pepper mayo.

cheese and pickles are mandatory and the base of every good burger. ketchup and mustard are never okay

>>19341115
Red onions also, no good burger is a proper burger without red onions.

>>19341123
The red onions should also be pickled of course. And the rings should be fully maintained.

>>19341100
Brioche buns are overkill and don't go well with burgers

>>19340357
Why isnt she prancing around in a bikini?

>>19340341
Yeah. But I think pickles do the same job but better. Get rid of the tomato and lettuce, use pickles and a little mustard. One thing I will say that doesn't belong on a burger is mayo. I don't understand people who want to put mayo on everything.

>>19341129
wrong

>>19341133
They're too big for burgers, one needs some kind of slackjaw to eat stuff with huge buns like brioche buns.

>>19341133
>>19341138
For me it's not that they're big it's that they taste like cake

had a thought recently about putting coleslaw on a burger.
would eliminate the need for lettuce and tomato as it’s cold, crisp and wet. probably wouldn’t need any condiments, could even put in some diced red onion and pickles on top as well. possibly mustard if you’re feeling retarded.
thoughts?

>>19340384
I'll meet you in the middle here, 2 regular 1/4 patties stacked is my favorite

>>19340384
smashburgers are harder to fuck up though

>>19340357
Just live in the inevitable agrarian communities that'll spring up in response and shoot any outsider. Go back to the PVRE times when you'd only have sugar when Meemaw uses her stash of preserved peaches for her town-famous cobbler.

>>19340299

>>19340341
This. If you fucked up your patty, tomato has a lot of moisture and can rescue it somewhat. I wouldn’t add it personally If everything else is perfect, but a lot of places fuck up the patty and it’s too dry or heavy/greasy for my liking

>>19340299
Eat better tomatoes

>>19340299
Worcestershire sauce and onion powder. But before cooking.

>>19340357
Yes and I won't live to see many man-made horrors beyond my imagination so it's okay to die.

Also burgers need lettuce for a light and crispy interlude between hot and greasy ingredients.

>>19343111
God I'm going to be 50 and seeing manmade horrors everywhere and have to cross my fingers that I die before things get too bad, we get a societal collapse instead, or that we're wrong about how early the singularity will be. I envy you old or unhealthy anon.

>>19340308
Smash burgers are a (((New York))) invention to trick people into paying more for tiny burgers

>>19341838
Based

>>19340299
It needs something acidic to balance out all of the fat. Tomato works. Pickled whatever works, I'm sure people are putting fruit on there and liking it. Just fill the role.

>>19341838
You post this shit burger every thread.

>>19343428
>t.

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be

>>19340299

There are many opinions on burgers. All of them are bad.

>>19341824
Goddamn it, I want some town famous cobbler.

Hurry up acclerationists.

Also I rock patty, bun, sauce. Anything else is surplus.

On the rare occasion I do go out for a fast food burger I go to Five Guys for 2 specific things: Grilled Mushrooms and Fresh Jalapeños. Every other place fucks it up, and pickled jalas aren't hot enough (nor crunchy enough to replace lettuce). I can do without pickles, maybe as a side like with a club sandwich as a palatte cleanser.

>>19340299
>what isn't
brioche buns should never be anywhere near a burger, anyone that orders a burger with a brioche bun is a tasteless idiot and deserves their shitty greasy sandwich

>>19344849
I'd take brioche over pretzel buns any day.
The best is potato

>>19344854
never had a pretzel bun before but it sounds like it would be tough and too chewy for a burger.

>>19344860
It 100% is. Even if they toast it correctly the burnt pretzel taste overpowers the burger. It's also too fucking big