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Made me think of a fried clam sandwich. Yummy!
Chee' buggy!? Onion salt if no onions. Ketchup for the heathen! (I realize I've been using Heinz catsup since childhood.) At a restaurant with a $20 (!!) burger in front of me, I will take a bite before adding anything.
At home, bacon, cheddar cheese, toasted bun is usual. Sautéed or grilled onions. Oh, yeah, and Catchup! (There are probably more spellings.)
Chee' buggy!? Onion salt if no onions. Ketchup for the heathen! (I realize I've been using Heinz catsup since childhood.) At a restaurant with a $20 (!!) burger in front of me, I will take a bite before adding anything.
At home, bacon, cheddar cheese, toasted bun is usual. Sautéed or grilled onions. Oh, yeah, and Catchup! (There are probably more spellings.)
H aha, I was going to say something similar, ha ha. But, they work better on a poboy. On a burger, if you tried to pile them up as high as the OP pics, they'd just squish out the sides.
Fried oysters are a whole nuther ballgame. But yeah, raw oysters - even five or six - on a burger, would be untenable, and actually it kind of grosses me out thinking about eating such a thing, especially if they were piled on a burger patty.
Craig Claiborne, the famous NY Times food writer of years ago had a great technique for doing burgers.
You get a nice 80/20 ground chuck. Don't work the meat too much. Heat a cast iron pan and cover the bottom with kosher salt. Heat the pan until it's really smoking hard. Then put in the burgers. Incredible char can be obtained on both sides. Afew minutes an each side will give you a medium rare burger- cook it longer if you wish. Cheeese will melt beautifully. Creates a lot of smoke so you need a real vent over the stove. If you have a grill with a burner you can do it outside without causing the smoke detector in the kitchen to go crazy. Deelish.
You get a nice 80/20 ground chuck. Don't work the meat too much. Heat a cast iron pan and cover the bottom with kosher salt. Heat the pan until it's really smoking hard. Then put in the burgers. Incredible char can be obtained on both sides. Afew minutes an each side will give you a medium rare burger- cook it longer if you wish. Cheeese will melt beautifully. Creates a lot of smoke so you need a real vent over the stove. If you have a grill with a burner you can do it outside without causing the smoke detector in the kitchen to go crazy. Deelish.
Cheese is more important than bacon but both is great. I like the works. Ketsup, mustard, jalapeño peppers and mayo. I will have onion if its not nighttime. Raw onions sometimes give me indigestion. Carmelized onions are good but I usually wont mess with making them.
You obviously don’t live in Wisconsin. There are many higher quality cheeses to use over that substance they call “American cheese”.
As a Wisconsinite I’ll take quality cheese over bacon any day. But that “cheese” in the picture is garbage lol. Havarti, Gouda, Muenster…yeah that’s my jam. Bacon I can take or leave.
Now how about this: grilled cheese sandwich. Sourdough for the bread. Butter on the outside, Mayo on the inside, Muenster cheese and bacon.
Now I’m hungry
Now how about this: grilled cheese sandwich. Sourdough for the bread. Butter on the outside, Mayo on the inside, Muenster cheese and bacon.
Now I’m hungry
I'm not a baby cow, goat, etc., so I can leave cheese, milk and other dairy products. I rarely eat cheese on a burger as I feel it just covers up flavor, rather than adding any.
I can see that. But if I’m looking for pure beef flavor then I’m going with a straight up steak!
Aaaand after having a burger for dinner I’m now hungry for a steak…
Have you ever bought Wagyu beef and made your own burger? Pure wonderful beef flavor, and on a fresh brioche bun I often put nothing else - just beef and bun.
The worse the meat, the more I add to the burger. At restaurants that cook medium or more, I might order everything they offer, like the Chili's Trip. It tastes fine, but it's not a great burger.
I took my softball team to Waffle House back around 1990, for the all you can eat deal they used to offer. One guy ate nothing but bacon - just kept ordering more sides. He got sick and blamed it on something else. Bacon is great though.
Thank you for informing me about Tony's. This sounds like my dream come true.
