Ok...another food question. Hamburger rolls?

[Nole Lou]

When you guys make hamburgers at home, what rolls do you use? While generally the rolls in restaurant burgers are pretty good, it always seems to be the weak link when I make them at home. Seems like they are either too tough, or too soft.

I think I've pretty much tried most of what's available at the local Kroger and Publix, but maybe not. What is your go to?

If you want to be be specific about different rolls for a bigger tavern-style burger vs. a smaller quick service burger, feel free.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

I find the cheaper buns actually hit the spot. Soft and not too big. The bun should be secondary to the burger, IMO.

 

[SeaPA]

I typically just use the cheapest packaged buns, then butter them & toast them on the grill

 

[FSUTribe76]

When you guys make hamburgers at home, what rolls do you use? While generally the rolls in restaurant burgers are pretty good, it always seems to be the weak link when I make them at home. Seems like they are either too tough, or too soft.

I think I've pretty much tried most of what's available at the local Kroger and Publix, but maybe not. What is your go to?

If you want to be be specific about different rolls for a bigger tavern-style burger vs. a smaller quick service burger, feel free.

The best imo are whatever they call the ciabatta rolls at Fresh Market (some other Italian name I can’t recall or look up but in essence they’re small ciabatta rolls ie firm outside, soft inside). But if I’m in a pinch I get the Martin’s Potato rolls from Publix. They’re nowhere as overly sweet like Kings Hawaiian Bread but have a little more sweetness than plain white rolls and have a slightly denser/Cakier texture that holds up better to wet ingredients than plain white flour rolls. Publix bakeries sometimes carry ciabatta and pretzel rolls which also work well.

 

[ggmike1992]

I typically just use the cheapest packaged buns, then butter them & toast them on the grill

I'm right there with you.

 

[LesClaypool]

Just go to Publix and buy fresh hamburger buns. They're excellent.

 

[Fijimn]

Lately, Hawaiian bread rolls for burgers and dogs.

 

[cjnoles9399]

Rolls from Fresh Market. If we're doing a bunch of burgers we just use sunbeam.

 

[Formerly Rockymtnole]

This being the LR, kind of surprised nobody has suggested baking their own rolls in a smoker.

 

[goldmom]

Just go to Publix and buy fresh hamburger buns. They're excellent.

I'm a fan of the onion flavor, even though I "pay a price" later on

 

[Nole Lou]

Thanks. Martins are always pretty good for us.

I think the key is to toast them first, which I don't always make sure to do.

 

[62Nole]

We like Pepperidge Farm "onion" burger buns.................. moist and flavorful. From Publix.

 

[WeatheredWarrior]

I like to bake my own rolls in the smoker.

 

[TennNole17]

I like to use rolls, and toast them with butter and garlic

 

[EconSean]

Brioche hotdog and hamburger buns FTW. Very good.

 

[SoddyNole]

Interesting, everyone around here says buns. I don't recall in Florida but seem to remember people saying buns too. Is this a north / south thing?

 

[FSUTribe76]

Interesting, everyone around here says buns. I don't recall in Florida but seem to remember people saying buns too. Is this a north / south thing?

Although people use it interchangeably, a bun is a sweetened (and usually more yeasty to combat that) roll. So Hawaiian Bread rolls are really buns because they have added sugar and pineapple juice.

So if you want to be accurate, a roll is unsweetened just flour and maybe some seasonings, milk and/or egg while buns have sugar, fruit juice or other sweeteners added.

 

[BarryB1081]

Brioche hotdog and hamburger buns FTW. Very good.

Not sure about the hot dog, but Brioche is hands down my favorite for burgers and there’s no better bread for a fish sandwich.

 

[cmanole]

First I prepare the soil, then I plant the wheat...

 

[FSUTribe76]

Interesting, everyone around here says buns. I don't recall in Florida but seem to remember people saying buns too. Is this a north / south thing?

Oh and things that are called rolls are really buns all the time. The ubiquitous Parker House Rolls have table sugar in the dough so they’re really buns as well. So people misuse the terms all the time.

 

[Nole Lou]

Yeah, I know everyone calls them buns down here, but they were rolls where I grew up in the north and they're still rolls to me. Kaiser rolls, hard rolls, hot dog rolls. To me calling them a bun is making me picture eating a hamburger on a cinnamon bun or a muffin or something like that. I just don't like it...it seems to infantalize/feminize it. Even the old McDonalds "on a sesame seed bun" jingle used to skeeve me out when I was a kid.

I never knew of the dictionary difference around sweetness, but it tracks with what's in my head completely. A roll is to hold a chunk of meat. A bun is something to nibble on with tea over gossip.

 

[cfbfan23]

 

[DanC78]

Kroger has better selection of buns from my experience. They have a certain brand with sesame seeds, and the bun is much larger to fit the hamburger.

I get frustrated with the crap selection of buns at publix as well.

 

[NoleNewsIsGoodNews]

I have all my Bread Products and Pizza Dough flown in twice a week from NYC as the water is different up there and makes a far superior product..Prayerz Scent to you poors that have to buy at a Grocery Store

 

[FSU_UCLA]

We typically get pretzel rolls or sourdough buns from a neighborhood bakery.

 

[SoddyNole]

Looks like we got all the food groups covered here.

Well done!

 

[Fijimn]

I have all my Bread Products and Pizza Dough flown in twice a week from NYC as the water is different up there and makes a far superior product..Prayerz Scent to you poors that have to buy at a Grocery Store

It's funny you say that, several years ago we were having a Mardi Gras party and I was making differ po' boys. So I get the bright idea that I had to have authentic Leidenheimer bread and Manny Randazzo's King Cake. So, on one of my trips back from NOLA, I fly back with a baker's dozen po' boy loafs and 2 giant king cakes.

 

[HulaNole]

Martin’s Potato rolls

These. Lightly toast them a little. Awesome.

 

[TripTych]

Nobody goes to a local bakery?

If you are in Atlanta, H&F Bread Co, TGM Bread or La Calavera Bakery.

 

[NoleNewsIsGoodNews]

It's funny you say that, several years ago we were having a Mardi Gras party and I was making differ po' boys. So I get the bright idea that I had to have authentic Leidenheimer bread and Manny Randazzo's King Cake. So, on one of my trips back from NOLA, I fly back with a baker's dozen po' boy loafs and 2 giant king cakes.

No doubt..obviously I was joking ,but bread and pizza is far superior in the NE because of the water...Delcos Cheesesteaks in Dunedin actually has Amoroso's Rolls flown in every day from Philly for their Cheesesteaks and Hoagies

 

[Fijimn]

No doubt..obviously I was joking ,but bread and pizza is far superior in the NE because of the water...Delcos Cheesesteaks in Dunedin actually has Amoroso's Rolls flown in every day from Philly for their Cheesesteaks and Hoagies

yeah, and Leidenheimer is the best bread. Several Houston restaurants have it shipped over for their po' boys.

 

[cmanole]

Nobody goes to a local bakery?

If you are in Atlanta, H&F Bread Co, TGM Bread or La Calavera Bakery.

Not for a hamburger bun...

 

[Nolomite]

No doubt..obviously I was joking ,but bread and pizza is far superior in the NE because of the water...Delcos Cheesesteaks in Dunedin actually has Amoroso's Rolls flown in every day from Philly for their Cheesesteaks and Hoagies

 

[FSUTribe76]

Not for a hamburger bun...

Yeah that’s a step too far even for me. I get shipped in roasted Hatch green child’s, make my own mayo, use some quality imported mustards, get some fresh sliced Gouda and butterkase cheeses and of course season and make my own burger patties. But the buns I’ll either use Fresh Market or Publix baked goods or “at worst” use the Martin’s potato rolls which I like despite being commercial grade stuff.

 

[BarryB1081]

Yeah that’s a step too far even for me. I get shipped in roasted Hatch green child’s, make my own mayo, use some quality imported mustards, get some fresh sliced Gouda and butterkase cheeses and of course season and make my own burger patties. But the buns I’ll either use Fresh Market or Publix baked goods or “at worst” use the Martin’s potato rolls which I like despite being commercial grade stuff.

You eat children?

 

[FSUTribe76]

You eat children?

Well Siri thinks so

 

[BarryB1081]

Well Siri thinks so

 

[RTM58]

 

[FSUTribe76]

Children are the veal of people.

 

[Fijimn]

I believe that the fact that I cannot eat shrimp/lobster is God's punishment for being such an ass.....that looks so good.