The Best Hamburger Recipe I have ever tasted.
Add my secret ingredient, grill it in a skillet or on a griddle.
You can also grill it outside on your favorite charcoal grill.
Top it with Homemade Chili and Sauteed Mushrooms in
Cream Sherry, for a juicy, tasty burger and a fine dining experience.
Place meat in a bowl.
Sprinkle on salt and toss lightly.
Pour in milk
and mix it lightly, being careful not to over mix.
If food has a tendency to stick to your skillet or griddle.
I use a cast iron
griddle and brush on a little oil before adding your burgers.
Preheat
your pan until a drop of water sizzles when dropped on it.
Place your beef patty on the pan or griddle until the bottom is
brown and it seems to be cooked more than halfway up the sides.
Brush with liquid smoke.
Flip burger and brush this side with the liquid
smoke.
Grill until bottom side is done. Takes about 2 more minutes.
If
you are making cheeseburgers add the cheese to the second side when the
bottom side is about halfway done.
Or, add your cheese
when you stack your burger, if you prefer.
Some folks like their cheese added after the burger is are taken from the pan because it has more of a cheesy taste than when it is melted.
Others say melting cheese enhances the cheese flavor.
Do whatever you like best.
While your hamburger is grilling, butter the soft insides of your buns and toast on the griddle or in another pan.
You can toast it under a broiler, but you won't get a uniform crunchy toast like you do if you toast it flat in a pan.
Toast the top side of buns that the sesame seeds are on, if preferred.
Now stack your burger the way you like it, adding condiments or your choice.
A few suggestions are listed below.
Be sure to add my Homemade Chili (link in above recipe) and enjoy
your Best Hamburger Recipe, ever.
Here is an extensive (not complete) list of condiments and additions to customize your special burger.
Many of these you probably already use.
However, we hope this will give you some additional ideas to enhance your dining pleasure.
avocado slices
bacon slices or bacon bits
smoked bacon slices are more tasty
cheese slices, your choice of various types
egg, fried or cheese omelet
French onion dip
homemade chili
ketchup
mayonnaise
various types of mustards
onions, raw or caramelized
French fried onion rings
pickles, sweet or dill
pineapple slices, grilled
1/2 tablespoon homemade mayonnaise
plus 1/2 tablespoon ketchup
like some fast foods use
lettuce or other salad greens
Mix together and experiment with these condiments until you have made the Best Hamberger that you have ever tasted.
Not only can you enjoy a juicy and delicious Hamberger at home just the way you like it, you can save a lot of time and money.
Buy fresh ground chuck beef in bulk at your grocery store and shape your meat patties the thickness you like best.
If you buy your ground beef in bulk to make your hamburgers, use a bowl to mix every it all together.
When shaped and ready to freeze the hamburger patties, wrap each patty, individually in freezer paper and put them all in a container.
That way you can remove one or more of the patties to thaw out and cook at a time.
It is important to mix the appropriate amount of milk and salt into your meat patties when you shape them, because the milk helps to tenderize the meat.
In addition to enjoying the Best Hamberger taste ever, you will not have a meat that is loaded with fillers as some are.
When I was growing up in the country in the late 1930s and 1940s I did not know what a hamburger was.
In the early 1950s I was taken to a White Castle in Greensboro, North Carolina, where the menu there was small, square Castle Burgers (so small that we all bought two burgers at a time.)
Those Castle Burgers had no condiments, tomatoes, lettuce, pickles or cheese on them.
Nothing there but bread and meat, of course.
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