Dog3 wrote:
> M. FERRANTE > wrote in
> :
>
>> I was watching the Epicurious cooking show on The Travel Channel and
>> the chef said that he never commits the ultimate sin of pressing down
>> on a hamburger (to rid it of grease) while it is cooking. Do you
>> press or no?
>>
>> Mark Ferrante
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>
> I don't press the burgers. I tried an experiment once on the gas
> grill. I hand formed 2 burgers and threw them on. I pressed one a
> couple of times during the cooking time. The pressed burger was
> drier to taste than the non press. It turned me into a non presser,
> as bad as I want to press I just don't.
>
> Michael

It's a temptation, for sure. But eventually you learn when the burger is
done and you have a much juicier burger without flattening it with the
spatula, whether it be on the grill, under a broiler or in a frying pan.

Jill