Burger me
i was really excited to watch the Heston Blumentholl cookery show last night about how to cook the ultimate hamburger, anyway to cut a log story short i was distracted when it was on.
so does anyone have any good burger recipes? or ideas that make a burger what it is.
so does anyone have any good burger recipes? or ideas that make a burger what it is.
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Thinly sliced red onion (rings intact)
Blue stilton
Thin swirl of mayo
Thin swirl of mustard
yeah but unfortunatly i dont have a meat grinder. so it will be a 70p pack of mince. im sure its filled with meaty goodness.
That's what the arab midget thought about his foot too, until Sainsburys got hold of it, now it's on sale for 70p.
Seriously though those how to cook the ultimate whatever shows are pretty cool, me and the wife watched them last year (Before she was the wife and I was an ex-pat). I miss UK TV boohoo!
i think you can watch the recipe videos off the bbc website.
i'd have done that but i dont have speakers.
Using your 70p mince would mean you had loads too much fat which would make the burger difficult to cook (it would fall apart) and its always minced really fine which will help to bugger up the chewiness, he was recommending no less than a 3mm mince, supermarkets use really thin mince to hide all the added goodness.
Go to your local butcher and get some fresh stewing steak (still quite cheap) and get him to mince it for you. I'm sure you could get his exact recipe and get the butcher to make up a mix for you.
theres a butcher shop near my girlfriends house. i could get him to do it. i now have the recipe. he used brisket, beek chuck, and rib meat.
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That may be a very tasty Boiger, but dat' Boiger is gonnas costs yous a few of the shiny quidses!
If I try and do recipes like this my butcher will make up what I need from unsellable (because of size / shape) offcuts which means it keeps the cost right down. Not something your local supermarket will do for you.
The local Veg shop and butchers are much cheaper than the supermarket.
My butchers will get me "odd" things you can never get in supermarkets. (example - rabbits, hare ect, for some reason people object if you go out shooting them in Birmingham).
The quality is as good or normally better than the supermarket
Hardly any packaging used.
I can buy the amounts I want rather than a pack that will feed half of Harborne. I can go into my butchers and ask for (say) two of those sausages, two of those and two of those rather than having to buy a pack of 6 or 8 tubes of gristle from the local supermarket.
All I use supermarkets for is tinned stuff, bread and milk.
Edit - I should say this also applies to the local fishmongers - Fantastic fish market in Birmingham, you can get nearly anything. Even the local shop will get what I want for me.
and how it's done...
http://www.dennysbeerbarrelpub.com/burger.htm
Tasty....
I need fries with that.....supersized.
And a diet coke....:D
...and perhaps some onion rings too :D
men wait until the drizzle season (summer) buy burgers, frozen, get drunk, and then incinerate them in the back garden on an altar to beer, known as a ba-ba-cue.
being serious for a moment, we don't shop in them at all. As much as possible, all of our stuff is local. We just stopped shopping in supermarkets a while ago, and don't regret it.
One of my mates got chicken mcnuggets out of our local branch a while back and found a screw in one of the mcnuggets - he's never been back.
If you want the ultimate hamburger, Mcdonalds is the last place you want to go! ;-)
The best burger franchise burger is the Burger King XL range. Never been disappointed with those.
Of course, if you steer away from fast food outlets, there are *way* better ones out there at two or three times the price.
Edit: And the fast food chains have finally learned how to make decent onion rings! Only took them a few decades...