Best cheese/toppings for a burger?
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Traditionally, I find Swiss the best to pair with bacon. Cheddar if no bacon.
Favorite weird burger is at Wells Brothers. The lip smacker:
“topped with smoked bacon and cheddar cheese and slathered with creamy peanut butter; served on a kaiser roll; add homemade strawberry jam”
That may sound disgusting but it is awesomeness. And I do add the jam.
Favorite weird burger is at Wells Brothers. The lip smacker:
“topped with smoked bacon and cheddar cheese and slathered with creamy peanut butter; served on a kaiser roll; add homemade strawberry jam”
That may sound disgusting but it is awesomeness. And I do add the jam.
I've been actually busy this week finalizing some contracts for my Indiana medical campus and doing training and final setup of my Panama City facility, so I couldn't jump on it like normal. As opposed to my typical 10-20 hour workweek, it's been more like a 10-20 hour workdays this past week. No real crying from me though, it's been well worth it.
As far as hotdogs go, I am all about the crazy toppings. I have made all kinds of "weird" combos and purchased just as many unusual or local hot dog combos.
But for me, adding too many different flavors to hamburgers is "gilding the lily". A good mix of meat properly grilled (At home I do half flap steak, half short rib or quarter sirloin, quarter short rib, half chuck) doesn't need much. In fact, whenever I'm in Memphis (at least two or three times a year to visit the in-laws who live in the Arkansas/Oklahoma border city of Ft Smith) I always get a Dyer's Burger with the traditional mustard, pickles and onions and that's it.
At home I only make two kinds of burgers usually, a straightforward bacon cheeseburger where I use sliced Havarti or butterkase as the cheese and then dress it up with Heinz Ketchup, Publix brown mustard and Duke's mayo plus leaf lettuce and tomatoes (if I have any growing fresh in my garden, if not I skip it as I hate the fake "ripe" grocery store tomatoes almost as much as I love the real things from my garden). The only other burger I make regularly is a Hatch green chili cheeseburger I learned to love from my trips to New Mexico. I just saute some chopped Hatch chilis that I buy in bulk and keep in my freezer in some butter with a little onion. Then for the burger I'll add Monterey jack cheese, the sautéed onion and Hatch chilis and some ketchup that's it.
Other than my bacon cheeseburger and Hatch chilicheeseburger, there's nothing else I do at home. When I'm out and about I'll definitely get a swiss and mushroom burger as I think that's a quality combo I don't make at home as some people are not a fan (It's definitely hit or miss unlike the other two I make) and I WILL try some unusual combos if the restaurant is famous for it, but I really haven't found any other combo I like better than a simple burger, a bacon cheeseburger, a hatch chilicheeseburger or swiss and mushroom burger. That could be because I don't eat burgers as often as the average Mericuhn. I have one at most every other week and when I want a burger, I want a good one. Supposedly, the average American eats 3 burgers a week in which case I would DEFINITELY want something different and unusual.
I haven't had that exact burger at Wells (I've been several times and never came away impressed, I'll stick to my own or grab one at BurgerFi or Steak N Shake instead), but I have had a very similar burger at McGuire's in Pensacola. And you are right, a little savory peanut butter and something sweet like a jam does work better than you would think on a burger. It's definitely not something I would want all the time, but it's decent.
Oh another good burger combo I've had is the Hubert Keller burger at Burger Bar in Vegas. It's ground buffalo not beef, with carmelized onions, baby spinach, blue cheese and a red wine and shallot sauce. That is a great combo and worthy of redoing myself, so I just gave myself an assignment for sometime this week.
Sounds nice. I like the #12 theta special at Hut's in Austin: shredded cheddar, pickles, BBQ sauce and mayo. Homespun.
I used to hit up Dirty's a lot when I was in grad school. I loved those burgers.
I really wish I had something to bring to the table concerning this, but 98% of cheeses gross me out. I know. I’m weird.
Bacon and caramelised onions are my perfect burger toppings.
Small rant: since when did ‘hamburger’ mean a burger with cheese? If it has cheese, it’s freaking cheeseburger!
Bacon and caramelised onions are my perfect burger toppings.
Small rant: since when did ‘hamburger’ mean a burger with cheese? If it has cheese, it’s freaking cheeseburger!
Wait a minute. Your lack of affection for cheese is what makes you different?
Wait a minute. Your lack of affection for cheese is what makes you different?
Well that is the weirdest thing I’ve heard about her. Who the aitch doesn’t LOVE cheese? Space aliens and the Japanese that’s about it.
I can understand not liking a particular type of cheese (well not really as I love almost all of them), but to not like cheese as a group when they vary SO widely in sweetness, texture, tanginess, umami etc...? That’s just weird.
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Wait a minute. Your lack of affection for cheese is what makes you different?
Among other things. But I eat a few cheeses: feta, buffalo mozzarella, provolone and mozzarella.
if we are talking cheeses on/in burgers...I suggest blue cheese crumbles mixed into the burger before it goes on the grill.
Usually pretty standard.
Cheddar
Mustard, mayo
Lettuce, onions, tomato, pickle
Like grilled/sautéed onions and mushrooms with Swiss
Or
Fresh diced jalepeno with cream cheese
Or
Pico and guac
Cheddar
Mustard, mayo
Lettuce, onions, tomato, pickle
Like grilled/sautéed onions and mushrooms with Swiss
Or
Fresh diced jalepeno with cream cheese
Or
Pico and guac
Favorite at home combo. Gruyere cheese, bacon, sauteed mushrooms, over easy egg.
Out I limit the disaster and usually go with cheddar and bacon.
Out I limit the disaster and usually go with cheddar and bacon.
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