A quick, easy, and mess-free way to cook burgers
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Casey
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Katie C.
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HMC
Great stuff. It's so much easier to do, and you can bulk cook. I'll do 8 patties with seasoning and go from there. You know what's fun as a seasoning? Those French onion soup packets. You'll want to mix one packet per about 2 lbs of beef so it's not too overpowering. But they turn out fantastic!
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Katie C.
Replying to @hmc: Great stuff. It's so much easier to do, and you can bulk cook. I'll do 8 pattiesI'm definitely going to have to try that. Thanks for the tip.
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Sufe
Another tip is to freeze the burgers for an hour or 2 prior, let the foil/parchment paper pan heat up in the oven, then put the frozen patties on. It really will minimize meet shrinkage. If you've never visited, I highly recommend seriouseats content. Their contributors don't just give you recipes, they give you the origin story as well as the science/chemistry behind some cooking methodologies. Kenji Lovez-Alt and his team are amazing resource for culinary geeks.🧑🍳🍲
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Katie C.
Replying to @sufe: Another tip is to freeze the burgers for an hour or 2 prior, let the foil/parchmIf only I planned far enough ahead to do that. I was so hungry that I took the ground beef out of the deep freezer and thawed it under hot water so I could make my burgers faster and didn't have to wait for it to thaw at room temp. Lol.
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Casey
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LordLundin
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Casey
The biggest trick with forming neat patties, etc. is that the meat has to be cold. The colder it is, the easier it is to set up. Like when I'm doing hamburgers for the grill, I'll preseason my ground meat in a bowl, and then roll it into balls, and then flatten it out into patties using the bottom of beer mug. The mug has a wide round bottom, so that definitely helps with forming the patty. And then you just make a little indent in the very center with your thumb so that they don't shrink. And then I usually put them on a foil lined tray and put them in the freezer for about 20 minutes. Gives the grill time to come up to temperature, and it helps them to set up.
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Sufe
If you're having problems forming patties, you can also use a cookie scoop to get more uniform sizes. You can also use something like a muffin top pan, and form your patties that way, lay some wax paper over the top, and mass freeze them that way. Then you can bulk freeze them as well. But yeah a cookie scoop, the bottom of a glass, and also just using a mold. They also have biscuit rings and actual burger presses that will also help you shape patties.
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LordLundin
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