George wrote:

> Day Dreamer wrote:
> >
> > I know it`s a pretty basic thing - just making a hamburger - but
> done
> > right - it can be fantastic.
> > Looking forward to any recipes, tips, etc.
> > Thank you!
> >
>
> All you need to make great burgers is to use higher fat content beef
> and
> a grind or two of pepper.

Also the cut of meat, most commercial ground meat is of a lessor
quality. I am reminded of an anecdote about Henry Ford II, CEO of the
automobile company who could never seem to get as good a burger any
where else as he got at his private executive dining room at his
company's headquarters

Eventually the person who wrote his biography got around to contacting
his personal chef and found out the chef used to grind up filet mignon
or perhaps it were sirloin steak, i forget precisely which, to prepare
the 'hamburgers' H. Ford 2 liked.

I once accidentally made a meat loaf with ground sirloin and it was
superb. An Italian restaurant i used to work at made the ground sirloin
burgers and the chef there got rather upset if any one order it well
done, to the point where he would not prepare it well done for his
employees.

On a couple of occasions i have taken Julia Childs advice and added a
lump of blue cheese to the inside of the meat patty, some people like to
take a very lean ground beef and add a lump of herb butter to the
inside.

Some lettuce, a slice of tomato and a bit of cheese with mayo and
mustard and that's all you need IMO though i know a person who makes a
delicious burger using a vinaigrette rather than mayo and mustard on a
French roll.
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JL