Everything You Need To Know About The Best BBQ, Smashed, & Grilled Burgers
From the Big Mac to the A5 Wagyu Burger, humanity’s obsession with ground meat sandwiches knows no bounds. Sometimes, a burger just makes life more liveable. The juicy meat; soft, warm buns; crunchy lettuce; and a generous smear of creamy sauce hit all the right flavor and texture buttons. Even the temperature contrast makes a burger exciting! There’s a reason burgers are now mainstays on menus everywhere from the backyard BBQ to the neighborhood bar to the world’s latest Michelin-starred haute-cuisine dining “experience.” Burgers just taste damn good.
If you’ve ever wanted to create a burger at home that’s just as good as, if not better than, what’s served at the best burger joints, then this burgers Deep Dive Guide is for you!
We want every burger you make to be even better than the last one. We’ve laid it all out here. Heavenly Hamburgers Made Easy contains everything you need to cook the best burgers of your life. Whether you like steak burgers grilled over charcoal, smashburgers flash-seared on a griddle, or flame-broiled burgers deeply browned and crusted, Heavenly Hamburgers Made Easy has you covered.
We begin this Deep Dive with a summary of general burger concepts, and then get into the nitty-gritty of grinding meat, burger blends, seasoning, sauce, buns, cheese, cooking methods, food safety, and everything necessary to make the burger of your dreams—including essential recipes.
Deep Dive Guides is the ebook imprimatur of Meathead’s AmazingRibs.com. It is a growing series of ebooks in which we have attempted to share our breadth and depth of experience on a variety of culinary topics. They are designed to give you an inexpensive deep dive into a topic so you come away knowledgeable and confident. They contain numerous links to pages on the internet and videos for more info. You will enjoy this book best if you read it while you are connected to the internet.
Some of this content is scattered among the 2,000+ pages on Meathead’s AmazingRibs.com. Although websites are great references, they are not great learning environments, not nearly as good as books. We think that binding together carefully edited articles in an organized flow from start to finish in book format, is a far better way to learn than from articles scattered around on a website.
Some of this info appears in other Deep Dive guides because we think that it is important that they all contain foundational info on such things as meat science, safety, tools, etc. So we have included the most important info within these pages and written new, previously unpublished, related info. Enjoy!
IMPORTANT NOTE: Members of the AmazingRibs.com Pitmaster Club get all our Deep Dive Guides for free and if you buy one of our rubs, you can download one for free.
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