George Motz needs WAY more publicity and recognition. How the hell do you dedicate your life and career to the hamburger? That's amazing.

@TheRealPOTUSDavidByrd

29 күн бұрын

George Motz fan here, discovered him like two years ago. Sad I didn't discover him back in the day 😭😭

@Alex-ye1br

28 күн бұрын

@@TheRealPOTUSDavidByrd He was our old neighbor in Brooklyn before we had to move. Dude got big in NYC when he did a pop-up burger spot from his apartment during the pandemic, sliding the burgers down from his window using a makeshift ramp he constructed. Dude is a legend.

@DyceFreak

27 күн бұрын

I ignored him at first but then I watched his videos and realized he's got an amazing personality, and we share the same favorite burger; cheese pickles onions and mustard.

Was this just one long ad?

@DMalek

22 күн бұрын

Yes, its becoming ridiculous at this channel. I'm unsubbing rn tbh. This vid was clearly a reaction video to promote the tools he sells.

@tehcarey

22 күн бұрын

Yup with a click bait title😊

@IamLINErida

22 күн бұрын

i do not understand your logic at all ​@@DMalek you cant stand the fact that someone is using their own platform to teach people how to cook but also promote self-made tools that help people make the process easier?? who the heck are you? do you have no self-respect?? a hypocrite and a hater .

@IamLINErida

22 күн бұрын

​seriously @@DMalek why did you even keep watching knowing George was promoting his restaurant?? that should have been the end of the line for you .. but it wasnt. crazy.

@DMalek

22 күн бұрын

@IamLINErida u high bro?

A collaboration with George would be awesome.

@chilliinsanity6898

28 күн бұрын

I highly doubt that George would waste his time and effort to talk to some click-baiting thief.

@variare

28 күн бұрын

​@@chilliinsanity6898 And you personally know that he didn't speak with someone on george's team to commentate his video because george is your buddy you hang out with on saturday nights.

@EatCarbs

28 күн бұрын

George anything would be awesome.

@virtual-adam

27 күн бұрын

It would

@b-radkisuke8773

19 күн бұрын

Would be nice to have a part of the video where they ate the food😅.. could also do an experiment with different types of onions/thickness

Ex pro cook here. I've found that the best thing to avoid crying while processing raw onions is a lot of ventilation and high air flow. Set up a small desk fan blowing across the cutting board and see if that works.

@dgooshe

29 күн бұрын

Heard a lot about fridges, ice baths and even wet towels, but never this. Thanks!

@EroNekoSan

29 күн бұрын

Ex pro cook here. Can't agree more, this is the way

@phillipperkins8754

29 күн бұрын

This is the way...

@mewdieval8132

29 күн бұрын

Just a funny comment here: My onions are flying all over the place 😂

@jarvindriftwood

29 күн бұрын

Yeah if you have a multi-setting fan, try the low setting first. Sometimes it's enough.

Pro Home Cook here. I've found that the best thing to avoid having yourself cry while processing raw onions is having somebody else do it 😅

@michaelbendavid777

28 күн бұрын

Bruh hahaha 😂

So this was just a huge ad?

@CowboyCookhouse

29 күн бұрын

First time watching a guga video huh?

@theinfamousdoodoofard

29 күн бұрын

Well I mean if you think about this is the new generation of "celebrity" chefs

@GeekpinEnt

28 күн бұрын

Pretty much

@HEIRorERROR

28 күн бұрын

Yeah basically a two for one ad. Promoting a friend and his own stuff, we were duped but with good intention

@brianpfouts2326

25 күн бұрын

Shouldn't he be busy sude videing like underwear and socks for his other channel

I sense there was an ulterior motive to this video lol

@IamLINErida

22 күн бұрын

why not?

Swim goggles. My wife laughs at me every time but wear clear swim goggles and you won't shed a single tear.

@tonymtzF

29 күн бұрын

OMG Everybody laughed at me because of that... First person I ever know to do the same

@jcabibi1

29 күн бұрын

I use goggles for cutting onions, not swimming. I call them my onion cutters

@CowboyCookhouse

29 күн бұрын

I might actually do that. Idc how silly I look

@Marcmusen

26 күн бұрын

Its the best hack ever

@AnFu2

26 күн бұрын

Exactly. Ski or motorcycle google will not work because they have vents, bus swimming goggles are water/air tight.

Can't wait to see Guga being schooled irl by those people instead of him just watching videos

Perfect video for the self promo lol love it

As an ex professional cook I never used this technique myself because of the potential for cross-contamination but my dad swears by it. Holding a piece of bread in your mouth while chopping onions apparently does the trick. My whole family learns this.

I wear contacts and can confirm that they don’t help with onions 😂

@KuunLan0001

29 күн бұрын

I disagree. My personal experience is that it's a huge difference. Maybe try and cut without contacts. When I do i am like a waterfall :)

@johnwoodard8717

29 күн бұрын

The one and only time I cut onions with contacts in, I have zero tears. It surprised me.

@WTFHAX93

29 күн бұрын

I can personally say that safety goggles method has produced mixed results for me, but more often they didn't help that much. My mom used to work at a Michelin tire factory, since that's where I got my goggles from, so I assume they have to have at least good safety goggles (unlike their safety shoes - those barely served me for a month or two at a KFC kitchen).

@AlwaysStayGeeky

29 күн бұрын

Same. Bad advice. You’ll still cry.

@DyNaStYCaRl

29 күн бұрын

@@KuunLan0001 I also used to wear contacts. They worked lol.

Guga I love you brother, I watch all your videos and have learned so much ,I cook a lot but I don't have the kind of facilities that you have your amazing! Keep up the amazing food videos😊

That Segway into your product is seamless.

Awesome ! I've been waiting for u to do a video about this guy 😄

love your vids guga!

I love your recipes, Guga. And yeah your tools look pretty useful. Wish I had enough money to get them. Working to try.

Another great burger vid! Hey Guga, are your burger smashers available in canadian Walmart? Thanks for all the great knowledge!

Guga thanks for highlighting this legend

I have a trick for not crying when cutting onions, and it's ridiculously simple for how well it works. Simply wet the onion and knife before chopping it, if you chop a lot of onions, keep the onions you've already cut in an airtight container while you're at it.

I actually bought your burger smasher from wal-mart couple days ago. Have yet to try it because I wanna buy the griddle kit as well. Love the video

5:30 I got that and your cast iron griddle kit guga, flawless plug, no BS showed what it does. Highly recommend, you rock Guga.

George mods the king of burgers 👑 wonderful collab guga ❤

Regarding tears related to slicing and chopping onions. I learned this technique from a friend, French, who was the chef of a large catering venue and restaurant in the Bay Area. As they sometimes used up to five hundred pounds of onions in a week, think French onion and other classic soups, they prepped their oinions as follows. First, all the onions had the skins removed, topped and tailed. Next, they went into 5 gallon buckets. Lastly, into the walk-in until ready for use. ALWAYS, use a sharp knife with onions. I practiced this throughout my professional career. No more tears except those of joy, from my line cooks and prep guys, when slicing quantities of onions. Blessings, chefmike

@sidesw1pe

29 күн бұрын

“First, all their onions had their skis removed” Your onions have skis? Huh, mine have snowboards. 🤭

@chefmike9945

29 күн бұрын

@@sidesw1pe lol. Thank you for pointing out the typo.

I already got Gugas tools and I gotta say I was pleasantly surprised by the quality!

Awesome promo video Guga!

He doesn't have only 2 burgers on the menu....he's explaining why 2 of them are special.

@michaelb4833

29 күн бұрын

Are you sure? i just checked Hamburger America's online menu and there are only 2 burgers (i excluded the Olive burger because it appears to be a monthly special and not a menu staple)

@numberyellow

28 күн бұрын

@@michaelb4833 If you listen, he says "two of the burgers on the menu"....not "the two burgers on the menu". This would seem to suggest that there are more than just two burgers on the menu.

@jaybling6687

28 күн бұрын

@@numberyellow You know, you could just look up the menu to see for yourself.

@seppuku-

16 күн бұрын

@@michaelb4833I believe they have 3 monthly special burgers now. The Oliver Burger, Weston’s Kewpee The No. 5, Keller’s Drive-In The Butter Burger, Solly’s Grille. All three of those are legendary especially that No. 5 from Kellers.

Yup no crying with my contacts. 😂

Respect - is earned. You have done so.

guga your burger smasher is perfect for beyond burgers i eat plant based love your videos always enjoy seeing what you have to share

@MartiniGTGP

29 күн бұрын

So dumb… thats not a burger at all. And you could do that on a skillet

This video made me hungry Guga.

I've been looking forward to this.

I’ve been using George’s tip for smashing burgers without parchment paper since I saw him do it on Joshua Weissman’s channel and I love it! I found it to be simple, straightforward, less wasteful, and effective.

the reason contacts help with onion sting is the lacrimators in the onion bind to whatever has the most moisture and because the contact is a layer of wet plastic between your eye and the lacrimator you don't get the burning sensation as much

I’ve always known my contacts stop my eyes watering from onions , but that’s the first time I’ve heard someone else say it ! 😂

The way I manage to not cry is just to make sure I am slicing it as fast as possible but with multiple onions I have never found a way.

For onions what I do is use a small fan next to the cutting board to blow the fumes away to the side so they don't go straight up into my face. Works great, no crying. Also helps to disperse the fumes so they're not nearly as potent

Never thought I'd see Wolverine own a burger shack, but I'm here for it.

biggest tip for not crying while cutting onions, get a sharp ass knife. i find that i dont cry at all when i have a sharp knife, and also remember to cut along the lines

Contacts won't save you.. neither will safety glasses 😂😂😂

This would be the greatest crossover since Godzilla vs Kong. I’ve been trying waiting for this culinary match of titans for sometime now. I love both channels . 😅

After several books, TV appearances, and fame, maybe George taught Guga how to make money by eating hamburgers.

What helps with stinginess of the onions while cutting is taking cold water and flicking some on the cut onion. Another thing I learned is you can soak it in water for 10-15 mins before cutting

tried? no no no, if he schooled you, thats set in stone, thats fact

.. in cutting onions, what works for me is just to have a small bowl of water near the chopping board. Water helps absorb the fumes or vapor of the onions when its being cut instead of it going to your eyes. A simple trick that works for me. I don't know if it will work for you, but it's so simple it's worth a try.

Whenever guga titles a video as “ i got schooled” it means its a reaction vidoe and he will actually school us and the content creator and now its also a promotional video for his product as well 😅😅😅😅

I made the Oklahoma Smash last week for burger night and it was so good, those thin sliced onions getting nice and toasty on the beef is just to die for

As Bruce Lee said, "I fear the man who has cooked the same burger 10,000 times."

A trick I found that really works with onions is to spritz the onion with water. The fumes extracted from the onion is attracted to moisture so it clings to your eyes which contain a lot of moisture. By spritzing it with water the fumes will cling to that water on top of the onions

NICE !! This recipe is very similar to one of the south Asian kebab styles. :D

George is awesome, as is his new place. Definitely make it to NYC and check it out!

Guga, The best way to cut onions without crying is to leave the root end together. Cut the top of the onion, remove the first layer or two of onion. Then if you are dicing it cut the onion in half from root end to top of onion, then dice as normal but leave the root end intact. If you are using a mandolin to thinly slice for Oklahoma onion burgers after you remove the outer layer you are ready to slice from where you cut the top off. You'll be making really thin onion "rings" which cook fast, caramelize easily, and disintegrate into flavor.

@loganharper8054

Ай бұрын

you will still run into very pungent onions that can make you tear up from time to time, but this has been the best way for me to cut onions.

2:39 The best remedy for crying when you cut onions is to inoculate yourself against those pungent compounds by cutting so many onions you become immune to them. Working as a prep cook and friterier who had to slice dozens and dozens of onions every day gave me this superpower.

“This dude” is a burger legend… put some respect on his name Guga

My top tip to stop yourself from crying when you cut onions is to have good ventilation and a sharp knife. For home cooks, I keep a small fan on the counter. Whenever I cut onions, I turn the fan on and blow air across the onions and away from me. I never cry when while cutting onions and the fan is on.

A No Tears solution I use is cutting the onions near a fan with the air being drawn or blown away from you. The counter by the stove & hood fan works well or with an open window by you.

One trick I use with onions is about 30 minutes before I get to working with them I pop an antihistamine as the tearing up is a form of allergic reaction. Usually stemming from an overreaction of the scent glands.

I feel like this turned into a Guga infomercial for his products

I've found the best way to avoid crying when slicing onions is to get someone else to slice them for you.

The contacts thing for onions is absolutely true. I was always put on onions because I was the only one that wears contacts in the kitchen.

It sounds weird but when processing onions, or using any chemical that makes your eyes sting and start to water (bleach, etc.), if you stick your head in the freezer for a few seconds it will neutralize the burn in your eyes. It works best in a deep freezer/ walk-in cooler, but it will also work just sticking your head in your kitchen freezer for a second. Not sure why this works, but it's a trick I have used and taught people to use for years in restaurants and it works every time.

For the onions a really sharp Japanese style knife (they are thinner) absolutely helps a lot

George Mots is the king of Burgers. He single handedly brought back the fried onion burger from obscurity. During the pandemic he sold them out of his home. He’s done hours of First We Feast content. Plus he just seems like a decent bloke. 12/10 would follow him to the ends of the earth.

When I worked at Pizza Hut, we had to chop quite a few onions, and we used safety goggles rather than safety glasses. They're designed to block fumes and work perfectly to prevent the tears. Also, I've used Lawry's seasoning salt for burgers before. It works really well, but like the "browning before smashing instead of parchment paper" technique, it takes practice to get it right. Too much and your burger is too salty, too little and you don't notice the difference.

Yes to the contact lenses stopping the onion tears! I forgot about how onions did that, until I had to wear glasses instead of contacts for a brief time. 😂

When Guga gets schooled by someone, he advertises his clearly better tools XD

Moisture on board while cutting onion but split it down middle where both ends have partial root still on onion. cut the tip end off while cutting onion, then discard root section after you're finished.

A good tip that I’ve used was getting a couple of thick paper towels, wet em, and put one under the cutting board, and the rest near by the cutting board

Guga, an old trick I learnt, and still dont know why it works, with chopping onions is to run cold tap water over your wrists when your eyes start burning. Not the back of your wrists but the other side (where the veins are, palm side up). After a 10 or so seconds the burning stops. Must be something related to our nervous system. But it definitely works in quickly easing the pain.

My family owes George motz many thank yous to how he has upped my burger game to have some of the best burgers I’ve ever had.

with swimming glasses you won't cry whatsoever by onion, GUARANTEED!!!

Biggest regret of getting my eyes lasered, is losing the super power of being able to cut onions without crying.

@guga there is already a way to not cry with onion, have a little wet towel, not much just a dap of water on it have it next to your board when cut onion, what happend the onions will go for that instead of your eyes, cuz when slice onion they are attracted to water source, and the one next to the board is closer so they go there instead and you will be safe no crying. its been out for decades this method, but many seems to still have forgotten about it or not passed on in generations

2:30 Cutting onions makes this chemical reaction that irritates lacrimal glands. However, cutting the onion in half, peeling off, rinsing it, and then chilling it in the fridge overnight will stop the tears. You can try putting it in the bowl of ice for 30 sec to a min, too. You just need to wash away the enzymes.

What I find works for me when cutting onions is blowing a little stream of air almost like you're blowing out a candle but not so forceful, maybe more like you're blowing on coals to get them to light. Straight out from your face, not directed at the onion.

OMG, I literally asked for this last video!! Now, we need the collab!

If I'm chopping alot of onions, I'll place the cutting board under running water (slow running) and the onion under the water stream and start cutting. It stops the sulfur compounds from getting airborne and making you cry, I've also had some luck just putting water in my mouth and holding it while cutting though I'm not really sure why this one seems to work (sort of).

I get my "dishwasher" to chop the onions... 🤔😉😂

6:51 this is called the chester, burger from his hometown

When is Hawaii going to get your burger kit? I don't see it at ANY Walmarts here

Newer chef here: I never cry when cutting onions. Some say it’s a gift, but in reality I’m just dead inside. The trick is to not form an emotional attachment to the onions ;). ( jokes aside the best tip I can give is to leave the root in-tact and use a sharp knife, lol )

A trick I learned from a finnish KZread chef for the onions; take a shot glass and fill it with vodka. Down the shot and start cutting. Does absolutely nothing to the crying but you wont be nearly as annoyed.

The "aromatics" from the onion is attracted to water. The closest available source, when cutting onions, will be the eyes. Try placing a cup of water next to the onion. Works for me.

I found the best way to not cry when cutting onions is to not hold your damn head over the onions, always worked for me

i thought Guga was gonna school himself after reading the title🍔🐐

THe best way to stop from crying while cutting onions is to get a damp towel or paper towel and lay it out near the onions as your cutting it. I heard that the compounds in the onion are drawn towards the moisture in the towel and no crying. Not sure if thats what happens but it works 100%.

@Guga, when I first started working at Subway, the owner would have us cut the onions into quarters and put them into ice water. No tears. When the new owner took over, he didn’t want us to use the water anymore. I’ve cut so many onions over my time there that cutting onions doesn’t bother me anymore. Now, even though I am a cheese snob, I have to agree that the best cheese for burgers is American cheese. Sometimes, I make a mushroom/swiss burger with bleu cheese sauce on top. It’s such a great flavor. Maybe try it, or don’t, but I’m telling you that it’s a great burger.

Aw man its too early to be this hungry

so funny guga mad up the lie about the spatula getting to hot to smash a burger while showing a video disproving himself to sell his product🤣🤣🤣🤣🤑

Patty melt might be my favorite burger. Great video

"I got schooled by the Burger GOAT!" - half of the video is about guga's merch

I've been chopping onions since I was 5, and my family uses a lot of onions. In almost everything we cook. And it's very rare that I tear up from onions. So extensive exposure.

Best no-crying hack when cutting onions: Ski goggles!

@nikolasmyrand1066

28 күн бұрын

Hold a piece of toast in your mouth, you'd be surprised!!

It looks like a patty melt, but it’s called a “Chester.”

I would love to see a George and Guga collaboration! That would be fantastic! Somebody make this happen!

i just straight up put on swim goggles when i cut onions excessive? Yes, yes it is. does it work? Hell yeah it does

Well the best way not to cry while cutting onions ist just not to cry. Easy.

I know this one, due to a surgery I had... You eye detects it's moisture levels through the cornea. In my case my corneas had to be removed and then grow back... yes it hurts... but until they grew back my eyes were absolutely incapable of making tears. So I had to wear hard contacts, use eyedrops religiously, and had a paste to keep my eyes from drying out while I slept. So... yes, contacts can preserve the moisture on your cornea and prevent you from tearing up.

I’d imagine a simple pair of chemistry goggles would prevent the onion smell from making you tear up.

George is the king of burgers. You gotta go to Hamburger America man, it's incredible. Waiting on the collab!