In article >,
"Julie Bove" > wrote:

> I was shocked at what I saw last night. I was watching Gordon Ramsay's
> Kitchen Nightmares and he concocted a new burger for a restaurant that
> contained egg yolks, mustard, onion, Worcestershire (sp?) sauce and maybe a
> few other things.

The standard recipe for meatloaf I learned from my mother was those
ingredients plus tomato sauce and some dry oatmeal.

> I certainly hope they declared on the menu that it was a
> secret recipe or some such thing. A plain hamburger patty has been my
> restaurant staple since being diagnosed with the food allergies.
>
> Has anyone heard of putting egg in there before? I've heard of onions and
> even cheese, but not the other stuff. The only thing I personally have put
> in a burger is an ice cube in the center. I read to do this when I was a
> child and I used to make them that way. I'm sure these days there is some
> sort of food safety thing that prevents one from doing it. And I'm not sure
> it really made them any juicier. These days if I do cook a patty at home
> (maybe twice a year), I buy the pre-made frozen ones.

I've made "burgers" like that, but they were more like mini-meatloaves
than hamburgers.

PP