How to Grill a Perfect Burger
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Be the King (or Queen) of the backyard barbecue this year by grilling the ultimate hamburger.
Step 1: Start with good meat
Get a butcher to grind chuck beef for you with a 15% fat content. (More fat and it will just drip off the meat and cause fire flare-ups; less and your burger will be dry.) If possible, buy the meat the day you’re going to cook it.
Tip
Ask the butcher to grind the meat twice, once in the coarse plate of the grinder and then through the fine plate.
Step 2: Form half-inch patties
Form half-inch-thick patties. Handle the meat as little as possible, so you don’t squeeze out the juices.
Step 3: Season the beef
Season the patties by sprinkling the tops with whatever you like-salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic, and so on.
Step 4: Fold the patties
Fold the patties over and reshape them so that the seasoning is now in the middle of the burger.
Step 5: Make an indentation
Make a small indentation in the center of the burger with your thumb. This prevents the center from swelling, leading to uneven cooking.
Step 6: Refrigerate the patties
Place the patties between stacks of waxed paper and refrigerate them for a few hours. Burger meat is best cooked cold.
Step 7: Get the grill ready
Light the grill, and when it’s hot enough, take the patties out of the fridge, spritz them with a little cooking oil or brush them with some melted butter, and put them on the grill.
Tip
Don’t press down on the patties with your spatula as they’re cooking! It will just make you lose those tasty juices, leading to dry burgers.
Step 8: Cook until done
Cook until your burgers reach the desired doneness. A medium burger should take about four minutes-three on one side, then one after you flip it.
Tip
To avoid E. coli contamination, avoid eating burgers that are still raw in the middle.
Step 9: Add cheese
If you want a cheeseburger, slice the cheese thinly and put in on the burgers when the patties are almost ready to come off the grill. Now is the time to put that sliced bun on the grill, too. Brush it lightly with butter before toasting.
Step 10: Dig in!
Add your lettuce, onion, tomato, ketchup, pickles, relish, or whatever, and enjoy!
Did You Know?
Athens, Texas, Seymour, Wisconsin, and New Haven, Connecticut, all claim to be the birthplace of the hamburger.
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"handle the meat as little as possible so you don't squeeze out the juices" Internet has ruined me
Our family tried these tips and our burgers taste great! Thanks for posting this video! =-)
looks great.. i want one now soooo bad
Looks fine
Wow that burger looks delicous lol
shortii handling the meat got a nice shape!
This is like the best movie I have seen in 10 years maybe..
@BradysVideos1 yes from hamburger, hamburg is a big city in germany
nice video, thanks! :]
They are telling how to cook a nicer burger. Don't insult them. I cooked it the way the video said and it tastes so good!
The Argau Camping Toasters would be a great accessory
"Handle the meat as little as possible, so you don't squeeze out the juices." LMAO...
This is off wikapedia The Oxford Dictionary defined a Hamburger steak in 1802: a sometimes-smoked and -salted piece of meat, that, according to some sources, came from Hamburg to America
@yihanglee no, if you use a hot plate you will just cook the burger in its own juice, the burger will be wasted. use a real BBQ instead
dam this made me hungry X3
1:44 - "The desired done-ness"??? hahaha
@BradysVideos1 it says claims not that they are
How to make a burger: Step 1: Go into car and drive to a resturant. Step 2: Order a burger with french fries and Chicken fingers. Step 3: Enjoy Do you know: That burger meat comes from a cow?
@BradysVideos1 not so, it was invented by a German man in texas though. Beef is not a huge seller in Germany, even today, and bbq'ing is even less popular.
Tip for keeping "juice" and seasoning locked into burger. For each patty, I add a tablespoon of dry oatmeal. The oatmeal absorbs and retains the juice, and adds a chewy and nutty flavor. GiVE IT A TRY. .
that makes me hungry
Mag, no worries! Go easy on yourself, it happens!
Okay now I'm hungry.
what kind of other seasonings?
@daniel849 That's still open to serious debate and uncertainty.
This video was pretty informative about cooking burgers. Two problems though: A)Most people, if they want to learn to cook a burger, watch the person whos grilling and making notes on what they did and asking questions and B) No way would a woman need to wear a nice dress and heels when grilling burgers unless she is on a date and wants to show her boyfriend that she can cook or she is surprising her husband before he comes home from work. Other than that, Great job, Howcast.
Man,,,, I want a freakin burger!!
Perfect is a non-existent word.
@matthew65 no
@kepiu thank you :)
@BradysVideos1 actually the end statement is true.. because they only CLAIM to be the birth place.. but yea Hamburg, Germany is where the burger originates from
^^> room temp for whole cuts..it's not necessary with ground meats.
@cainey66 I think it was good but you should at an egg.
@BradysVideos1 Yeah I mean it's called hamburger. like Hamburg-er, Burger (Hamburg=Big german city)
@BradysVideos1 Yes, in Hamburg, Germany. I knew that :)
It should also be noted, don't get your hamburger meat at the supermarket. Go to a small grocery, they usually grind their own meat on site anyway. Grinding the meat twice is pretty standard too.
@BradysVideos1 They did say "claim" to be the brithplace....
@bltsdsubbie nope... the burger is named after the German man living in texas.
@matthew65 this is true but its rare
@LimePowder cause i hate cheese and so do some other people too
She's puts them on a gas grill. That's Busch league.
@scottiblasto I just lost my post, I think. Anyway, I was going to apologize. I was rude and there was no excuse for that. Again, my apologies.
@BradysVideos1 Obviously it's not a fact if 3 places are claiming to be the birth place.
why was the butter white ?
what is your point`?
I'm so hungry now
@BradysVideos1 Its from Hamburg thats why its called hamburger :D
they made it seem like it would take forever o-o
@BradysVideos1 Actually the fact at the end is TRUE. It doesn't say where the actual birthplace is. It's says all those towns CLAIM to be the birthplace. Which is technically a true statement lol
1. Go to fast food restaurant 2. Buy one hamburger 3. Eat it.
Step 1: apply lipstick Step 2: Make the burger and apply MORE lipstick Step 3: eat the burger then remember your lipstick!!
I like burgers
@legomanzach910
9 жыл бұрын
Me 2 ;)
@eliheitland568
7 жыл бұрын
Catherine Rodriguez same
@anilkraft1479
5 жыл бұрын
Thx for sharing
@wolfstar3883
5 жыл бұрын
Me 2!
Wow, she looks like a young Heather Graham. I didn't know about making a small indentation, to keep them from swelling. My burgers would always swell and I would push down on them with the spatula forcing the juices out. Now I know better, wish I would have seen this earlier.
@scottiblasto Straight of wikipedia for u. The hamburger as we know it today, was first prepared in the German city of Hamburg (residents of this city are also called Hamburgers). In Hamburg, the meat was first cooked, then served on a round roll. German emigrants have taken this concept to the United States, where the modern hamburger originated. learn some history plz
She looks like a zombie in the last shot.
@sigge951 indeed
in serbia u get a burger ( or on serbian pljeskavica) the size of your table :D and the birth pleace is egipt
@swgriggs funny thing the frankfurter is called wiener in frankfurt and in wien(vienna) thay call it frankfurter^
man im starving
god damnit im hungry!
I once farted and the ham burger fell out of my ass , so I hereby claim to be the inventor of hamburger.
Mmmmm............... Good!!!!
That's exactly what I thought when she bent over!
haha she said Buns.
Alot of work goes into making a good burger. How do you guys come up with so much "how to" ideas?
@BradysVideos1 she said they "Claim" to be the birthplace of the burger, not that they are.
@flappydad yes but ti then it will taste like sh't
The birthplace of the Hamburger is Hamburg.
@magnoliasouth as reliable as anyone elses.
@spekbakker haha, I could post whatever I want on wikipedia. As if they have never before.
mmm burger
this does not tell me how at waht temp or how long to grill on a gas grill. 4 minutes is very raw
My twin brother Jace loves bacon cheeseburgers
She made a lot of burgers just for herself :o
@BradysVideos1 its actually true, Howcast isnt claiming that any of those is, they're just saying thats what they all believe.
2 &1/2 minutes a side,Ground Round,aged cheddar,Vienna rolls
What decade are we living in when the cash register still looks like that? P.S. Want the perfect burger? Buy the George Foreman grill.
@scottiblasto Wow. What was my freaking problem?! I'm not normally like that. I do apologize. I must've had a bad day or something. Or maybe even I was hacked. Anyway, again my apologies.
@matthew65 if their face is....or hair.
"handle the meat as little as possible as to not squeeze out the juices"...Thats exactly the opposite of what i had in mind.
@Tatermashr because the lady inside the video is the main character
Lmao the burger was invented in Italy Haha
you eat burgers that are medium rare?
or go to in-n-out
@BradysVideos1 She does not say that they are the birth place of the burger... just that they all CLAIM to be... hurpdurp
@yodacheeseisyummy it's lipgloss.
she knows how to handle that meat
@monkeyman522 yeah, last time i did that i ended up eating lighter fluid burgers.
Shouldn't a hamburger from Hamburg, Germany???
well accualy they come from native asians , asian soldiers long ago , they we're given a very hard meat to eat , so they mixed it with a raw egg then it came popular among poor people in hamburg germany , thats why its caled hamburger
wow thats weird y not jus add the seasoning before shaping......talk about an extra step
Step 1: Head to McDonalds Step 2: Order Hamburgers.
butter should be in optional
im on hunger strike again. damn
The burger comes from Germany. That's why it's called a 'Hamburger'. After the city Hamburg.
who did this tutorial?
@josephb.3841
6 жыл бұрын
KEK howcast did it
that's the hamburg steak -_- it wasn't put on a bun till it got to the US, same with the sausage
Too many steps, and I don't want to buy waxed paper. Making the patties and tossing them on the grill never seemed to be a problem. I like how she toasts the bun on the grill. That tastes good. I'd throw some slices of onion on there, too.
Except for the fact that its named after immigrants from hamburg, germany began to place beef between bread to eat it, hence the name.
The Hamburger comes from the German place Hamburg. It's all in history people, Americans did NOT invent the hamburger, but German people did.