Hey Veeky Forums, normally I make a burger seasoned with cumin, salt, pepper, and some oregano and topped with mushrooms fried in butter with garlic powder, bacon, and provolone, and I add mayonnaise and if I feel like it some barbecue sauce.
What should I add or substitute to make this even better?
Joseph Morales
just salt and pepper
taste the meat
Brandon Cook
unironically this, dont need anything else
>mfw mom made burgers and found out she put all that shit in it and french onion mix
what the fuck
Bentley Young
No no I didn't ask for a blander burger I want to make it BETTER.
Hudson Jones
get out of here
Ayden Martin
I think you still don't understand, I like the combined tastes of the spices and toppings and the beef, which is why I put them together, so I came to Veeky Forums which is a cooking board to see what else I should put on or what I should replace.
Because it's a cooking board, not a ground beef worshipping board. See? So like, in cooking, you prepare things and add in multiple flavors together to create interesting flavor experiences. You get it? There's this movie you can watch if you don't called "Ratatouille", it's fun for the whole family! And the chef rat helps his cousin rat try to understand about combining flavors, it uses a visual metaphor on screen as he does so, different colors on a black screen. And the different colors represent different flavors...you can mix or contrast more than one at once! It's a pretty cool documentary :^)
Jason Butler
>Ratatouille at the end of the movie they convince the critic with literally a basic dish with no fancy nonsense. salt and pepper, nothing else. now gtfo
Wyatt Brooks
>Hey guys, I really like making hamburgers. How can I turn it Into something completely different so I can forget that I'm eating a burger.
David Peterson
What a pack of autistic feral niggers. Don't you have some blank canvases to praise?
Caleb James
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Caleb Cook
>meat, salt and pepper analogous to a blank canvas you are mentally ill, friendo
Ethan Reed
>my meats so bad i have to cover the taste of it with a ton of other shit.
Ryan Hernandez
Allow me to refer you autistic feral niggers to Wherein I briefly highlight the radical cooking concept of more than one fucking flavor, you fucking mental defectives.
Hunter King
op, your mistake is to think that meat is the part of the dish where you should experiment.sauces, toppings etc is much more sensible. my perfect burger is a lemon-heavy mayo, a heavily seared patty with salt,pepper,mustard (in pan),tomato,cucumber,red onion. id say fresh garlic and mustard are the only viable options, for a beef that still tastes like beef
Isaiah Morales
Buy super lean beef and mix it with pork fat. I like to add powdered beef bouillon.
Burger should be super thin. If you want more meat add more patty's not thicker ones. The tastiest part is the thick outer sear.
Connor Cox
What the fuck the memes were right? White people really don't use seasoning?
Jose Rogers
This is not how ratatouille works
Jaxon Anderson
I like a good spice mix on a burger but there's nothing wrong with just salt and pepper.
Adam Mitchell
dude what
Jack Hill
I usually enjoy a fried egg on my burger.
that in combination with mayonnaise and jalapenos.
the fatty richness of the mayo really blends well with the bitterness and heat from the peppers.
I've also had a bacon peanut butter burger, and sometimes I put jalepenos on that, and it's the same process of fatty pb blending well with the peppers, but the crispy savory meaty bacon, as well as the patty has a nice contrast to the PB. people truly underestimate the combination of sweet and savory
Sebastian Phillips
The only reason you should put additives in ground beef is when you're making meatloaf.
Jace Williams
The only thing you can't add to a patty is anything too hwet. Worchester sauce really does add a nice flavour to a patty, but as you say, it makes it more akin to meatloaf. Dry spices are fine, however.
Charles Russell
Why the fuck do people put mayo and barbecue sauce on the same burger? Shit's gnarly, yo. Replace both with a white barbecue sauce, or eliminate one or the other.
Christopher Fisher
>salt and pepper isn't seasoning The absolute state of melanin
Nathaniel Cox
Get rid of all that garbage, get good quality meat, grill the patty, leave it medium and only season with salt and pepper
Matthew Russell
Don't need seasoning if you properly sear your meat. Sauces and condiments are seasonings, too. You think people just eat boiled meats as is?
Jace Reyes
dijon mustard is nice, either in the patty or mixed with the mayo, or both.
Benjamin Rodriguez
>cumin, salt, pepper, oregano We're off to a workable start >mushrooms fried in butter with garlic powder Falling apart here >bacon and provolone Back on track. >mayo and barbecue sauce Nope
First off, ditch the garlic powder. That's for spice blends. Real garlic, freshly minced, into the butter while it melts. Second, I'm picturing a pretty greasy, drippy burger sogging through the bun when put the mushrooms on. The mushrooms could be fried in either the garlic butter or the bacon grease, but the real place for garlic butter is to dip the inside of the bun in, then toast on your grill so it maintains texture.
David Garcia
Shortly before you take your patty off the grill, gently brush the party with Devonshire butter on and wait for it to caramelize. Talk about a rich tasting burger
Angel Price
For 1lb of beef I usually do:
1/4c bread crumbs (yeah, sue me nigger) soaked in 2tbs Worcestershire 1 egg, beaten (yeah, again, sue me nigger) 4 clv garlic minced Couple basil leaves cut into twiddles 1/4tsp of salt and pepper
Kevin Davis
Red Robin has a burger with a sunny side up egg and it's fucking disgusting.
Jacob Scott
that's mainly because red robin
Camden Kelly
Since I'm not a fag who only puts salt and pepper on all my meat, I like to mix things up too OP. I recently made burgers using some gochujang, soy sauce, onions, garlic, and white pepper in the patty mix. Then I used thinly sliced cucumbers instead of lettuce for some crunch, and added a little sesame oil to the mayo. Bretty gud if you're in the mood for some asian flavors.
Gabriel Bennett
I thought this thread was about burgers. You made a shitty meatloaf
Jordan Phillips
What other anons are saying is mostly right desu. I’ve tried cumin in burgers before, always ended up tasting too much like taco beef. So yeah if you want your hamburger to taste less like a hamburger feel free to add all the weird stuff.
These days I usually add minced onion, pepper and salt, and some Worchester sauce. Sometimes I’ll add the salt later, if I want a softer burger.
The place where spices comes into play is usually in sauces and toppings, which gives you a lot of play room while still tasting like a hamburger. Also making sure everything goes together taste wise is important.
My fav is usually Swiss with bell pepper, onion and mushrooms, sautéed and with a glaze to finish. Usually I also make some kinda mayo to go with it too.
Nobody here is saying not to use seasoning, but pumping it all into the ground beef really will make shittier hamburgers. Especially since shen making sauces and toppings, the seasoning will be able to cook well and evenly. Whereas seasonings in a patty either hardly cook inside of it or burn on the outside.
Jace Richardson
Salt, pepper, a bit of soy or worchester are usually what I use. And as OP has done, an adobo spice mix burger is fine now and again, but it tastes like a taco.
Oliver Martin
>Sauces and condiments are seasonings, too. this is like saying a long sleeved shirt is the same thing as a jacket.
Juan Hall
>Thinking Veeky Forums is a legitimate cooking board
Luis Morales
Here’s some of my recipes, OP, assuming you haven’t been chased out by the purists here, and don’t get turned off by my first recipe.
>The All American Salt and Pepper Grilled Onion Lettuce Sharp Cheddar Then make an aioli with roasted shallots and/or garlic Egg optional
>The Big Apple Mix in apple sauce into the ground beef (about 1 applesauce to 4 ground beef) Spice with cinnamon and nutmeg, maybe allspice Fry some apples with cinnamon, sugar, and any other nutty spices you like Candy some bacon with sugar and maple Make an apple butter aioli
>The Dog Burger Buy the chuck ungrounded Grind together with 1-2 hotdogs (you want one hotdog to 2 chuck volume) Season with Salt, Pepper and Mustard seeds Tomato with Salt and Pepper Make a creamy spread with mayo and pickle relish
I have a few more recipes but my fingers are tired
Joshua Gray
and MSG
Jose Hall
You're flavoring your meat. They're seasonings. Just not dry, powdered seasoning.
Brandon Hernandez
I'm certain a female posted this.
Caleb Evans
this isn't a cooking board.
this is a mcchicken, energy drink worshiping board which often ignores and discourages actually cooking bread