Burgers are your go-to food whenever you have sudden sleepovers or emergency dinners and parties. You don’t need extreme preparations. Other than the ground meat, which you should get fresh, most of the ingredients can be found in your cupboard. Making burgers does not involve super high culinary skills. All you need is the desire to eat good food and enjoy it.
Grab yourself a cast iron skillet, toss in some butter and onions and get to cookin’ up some burgers!
Ingredients
ground meat with 20% fat
Morton salt
ground pepper
Instructions
Dump your ground meat into a bowl. (We go for ground meat with around 20% fat.) Season it with salt, pepper, and whatever else you want; you can add spices, perhaps, or Worcestershire sauce, or shallots, or chillies.
Shape your burgers into patties, using your thumb to make an indentation in the center; this will keep the burgers from puffing up. Keep in mind that the burgers will shrink up a bit once you cook them, so make your patties a bit bigger than you want them later.
Oil your grill or a cast-iron pan, and grill or sear those patties.
Add your cheese and toast your buns. Let the cheese melt while the burgers are still on the grill; to speed things up, you can close the cover.
Once your burgers are finished cooking, and your cheese is melty and your buns are nicely charred, throw some condiments and toppings on those burgers. Anything goes.
*I added some peppers and onions to the pan as I like to top my burgers with them. They aren’t part of the original recipe. Hope this clears up the mass amount of confusion some of you are having.*
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Quick Tip: For medium-rare: cook for around 1 minute per side for each inch of thickness.
Thank you Food Adventures Of A Comfort Cook for this great photo.
mmmm makes me hungry! 😀
Thanks, Carol. They were mighty tasty!
Yes they do.
Looks good!
It did present well in the picture and glad you added the comment to resolve that issue. Also the addition of some possible add-ins for people. A good example for me that I learned very quickly, the the flavor of Worcester Sauce is quite powerful, and for my taste, should be used and added sparingly. But it gives a great addition to the burger; and another great addition, even i do not like blue cheese dressings nor crumbled in salads, It does wonders for hamburger flavor.
i laughed after reading the recipe and said….. i already do this but my burgers dont look so good while cooking ! LMAO …
IT DOESN’T SAY HOW MUCH HAMBURG TO USE FOR THIS RECIPE…
It all depends on how many your feeding.. 1 pound should be good for 3 good size patties 4 if ya like them meduim size.. so go off That ratio . If you want green peppers and onion .. half of a onion chopped per pound unless i love onion then use a whole onion lol .1 whole green pepper chopped.. chives or shallets are a good substitutes for onions too not as stronge.
After years of experimenting–I use 6 oz. per patty and hand-shape to about 1/2″ thickness. The “thumbprint” is essential.
They look delicious, for sure! I like the idea of cooking them over the top of onions etc. I would definitely cook them a lot longer though. Ground meat needs to be well cooked IMO, because bacteria is often present in ground meat. I cook them until there’s no more juice or liquid coming out of them when I press them down each time, after turning them over. Just my way thoughts on cooking ground meat.
Don’t press down on the burgers, you are losing those delicious juices.
I agree with Mary Lou, ground meat must be cooked thoroughly. I would recommend you amend your Quick Tip as this is a health issue.
I like my burgers just a little pinkish in the middle. I have a friend that has always eaten Raw..yes Raw hamburger right out of the pack. I’m not doing that but we are in out late 50s and we’re still kickin it 🙂
Interesting article. It’s a shame that your site doesn’t allow viewers to print or copy for later use. With that this is probably my last time for me to visit this site.
You can bookmark any recipes you’d like to keep for later you know. I have folders set up in “favorites” marked “Meat” “Desserts” “Side Dishes” etc. and just save to the appropriate folder. Eazy peazy!! It’s also pretty easy to copy and paste to a word file.
Are you serious? They are many ways to go about printing and saving these recipes…
I want to post this onto my face book page .OK? If I do ?