Hey
Todd-
After
attending numerous barbecues over the years, it's clear to me that many
people just don't know the
correct
way to barbecue a hamburger.
This
is a tragedy. Hopefully you can help me get the word out:
1.)
Preheat your grill. (Don't you DARE use a frying pan!) Get
your grill nice and hot.
2.)
Prepare your hamburger patties. These should be flat. A good
burger weighs between 1/4 lbs and 1/3 lbs. Weigh it out then pound
it FLAT and THIN. Like a pancake. Make it wider than your bun
- it'll shrink.
3.)
Season it. You don't need to go crazy here. Salt and Pepper
tastes great and you don't really need more than that. I usually
sprinkle some garlic powder on mine. Onion powder can be good too.
My wife likes to have teriyaki sauce on hers - I usually add that in while
I'm making the patty. Barbecue sauce can be worked in in the same
way.
4.)
Cook it. Place the burger on your grill, cover, and walk away.
DON'T TOUCH IT!! You have no business doing anything to that burger
until it's time to flip. I see guys cooking my burger and pushing it
flat with the spatula and I cringe. You are squeezing the tasty
juices right out of my burger! How DARE you! Leave it alone
until it is time to flip.
5.)
Flip it. You know it is time to flip when blood pools on top of the
patty. Only flip it once. Cover and leave it for about the
same time as it was cooking on the other side - probably about 3 - 4 minutes.
6.)
Add cheese - optional. If you like your cheese melted, about 30
seconds before you take your burger off the grill, put your cheese on top
of the patty.
7.)
Wait. Take your burger off the grill and put it on a paper towel
lined plate and let it sit for 30 - 60 seconds. That way when you
bite into it, you wont soak your bun with juices. I don't know
what's magical about this step, but I know I regret it if I take my burger
straight from the grill to my bun.
8.)
Enjoy. You should've prepared your bun while the burger was cooking.
Add the burger to your bun and enjoy with a frosty Henry Weinhard's Root
Beer.
You'll
be the hit of the barbecue if you follow these steps!
-ivan.
Bothell,
WA
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J-town's Good
Bloody Mary
What you need:
Pint glass
Ice
Olive Juice
Black pepper
1/2 a Lime
Worcestershire Sauce
Tabasco Sauce
A-1 Steak Sauce
Absolut Citron (or any other citrus flavored vodka)
Tomato Juice (or in a pinch, Major Peter's Bloody mix. It sucks by itself)
Fill pint glass w/ice. Add about 1/2oz Olive Juice, and squeeze 1/2 a lime
into the glass. Cover the ice w/pepper. Add 8 shakes of Worcestershire, 4-6
shakes of Tabasco. Add a dash of A-1 (about 1 to 2 drops/secret
ingredient!). Now the fun part: add between 2oz and 2 1/2oz of Citron to the
mix. This should leave you with about an inch worth of empty glass. This is
normal. Fill the remainder of the glass w/Tomato Juice. Shake ingredients
together and enjoy. The Drink should taste like a steak smothered with spicy
V8, without any hint of alcohol.
Repeat as necessary, two is usually good enough
-J-town, Austin, Tx
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Heres a kinda
stupid but good recipe
Take a roll of ready-to-bake
cookie dough and bake 2/3 of it, then use two baked cookies and place some
of the incooked cookie dough in the middle, it's good,
I love cook-ays
Sgt.SlaughterHouse, I aint
tellin you where I live
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Instant Rice Crispy Treat
Hey Todd, I love your site.
Anyway here's my recipe, I used to make this at my college cafeteria.
Take a cereal bowl and add
about 1 cup of rice crispys 2-3 pats of butter and about a 1/2 cup of
mini marshmallows.
microwave for 1 minute and
stir. Form into a ball or whatever. Enjoy, It was like
getting a care package from Mom.
If you want to go really
crazy try cocoa puffs instead of rice crispys.
John in Durham
NC.
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