Welcome back to New Day, Northwest.
You know, last week we had chef Ethan
Stowell cooking up burgers for us,
and that got our staff talking,
so wouldn't you know it?
We've got some hot takes on hot burgers,
cheese or no cheese,
weighing in our producers,
Rebecca and Joseph.
Now, I thought it was weird that
someone wouldn't like cheese on their.
I mean, I get it, but, like,
what do you just say?
I want a hamburger?
I've always been a hamburger guy.
Hamburger
since I was little.
Yeah, I got one right here.
What are you like? Cheese, right?
I like, I love cheese. Just not on a burger.
What is it about the cheese
on the burger that bursts? You
don't know if I had too many.
I don't wanna say the brand,
but those single slice, you know,
Umm, she said it for you and you know,
just it must have not worked for me.
And ever since then, I've just
like how you don't like tomatoes.
You've just kept it going
your whole life. I told
Ethan stole in the middle of
putting a tomato in my burger.
Please don't do that.
Yeah. And I feel like.
I'm sorry about that, but I had to.
I had to speak my truth.
I hate tomatoes. Yeah.
So I think of raw tomatoes,
but I do love ketchup,
which is interesting for you, and
because you were saying you
would rather have a slice.
I'm not a I'm not a huge condiment person.
Yeah I would I'm I'm not gonna not
eat a burger if it's got ketchup
and mustard and stuff on it.
But I would rather have the real thing
like the tomato instead of the ketchup.
And here's the thing.
I also don't really like
ketchup or mustard on a burger.
I remember how we were talking about
Red Mill earlier and I love how they
have such fresh produce on theirs. Yes.
Like the lettuce, the tomato for me onion.
I love Pickles. Love that.
So you want you're just like a
do what about sauteed Pickles or
like you know like animals stuff.
Now what is what even like you know
like grilled. Real sorry. Like Pickles.
Like, no, I mean Pickles. I'm sorry.
I mean, you mean onions. OK.
I was like, is this something new?
Grilled Pickles is a it is a new thing now.
And whoever makes it grilled onions,
grilled Pickles, grilled onions on burger.
I I prefer more fresh, but fresh.
OK. Yeah, yeah. Really know.
It's kind of bite to it.
Smell of grilled onions.
Reminds me of the fair.
OK. You know,
we've talked about in and out Burger
before and I mean there is a lot of hype,
you know that it's so good.
I mean, it is pretty good, but they do that.
They do a grilled onion and
they called animal style.
So it's grilled onion with all the sauce.
I want all the sauce.
I want all the grilled onions.
I want the Pickles.
I want everything except the tomato.
Oh my gosh.
And you could throw French
fries on there too.
I don't care that Pickles relish sauce is
not a pink sauce is amazing, but what about.
There's no sauce.
Other polarizing is a hot dogs.
People have a lot of feelings.
I'm definitely no ketchup on a hot dog.
Really. I don't want just ketchup
on my hotdog. Yeah, you know,
but I do like a Chicago dog,
which is what again?
Chicago dog is like 2 pickle Spears.
Some like celery salts and relish and onion,
onion, onion. Is there tomato sauce?
I mean, is there ketchup on there too?
No. OK, well, it's good and
usually spicy pepper sometimes.
Well, so you're the king of Costco.
So when you, I mean they don't have
all that fancy stuff at Costco.
So what do you do that?
Ohh they they
have quite a bit.
I always get the mustard.
Relish and sauerkraut.
Ohh, that's a lot.
It's delicious.
These burgers are very dry because
they don't have any socks on.
Well, let's have a little tomato.
Or why do they keep calling it tomato?
Ketchup? Ketchup.
But, like, look at this.
There's just nothing here.
Yeah, but you know what?
They're still tasty. Wow.
So what about the type of cheese on a burger?
OK, that's a good question too.
Because Ethan, when you have a
famous chef on set, you you know,
I was asking him like I was expecting this.
Super fancy burger.
And he's like, no,
when you're making a cheeseburger,
like a drive through cheeseburger,
like in all that, he's like,
you want it crispy, you want flat, he goes,
and you wanna use American cheese.
Yeah, I slap that thing,
rip it right out of its place.
I was surprised to hear that too.
But I also kind of agree with them.
It kind of made me love him more classic,
you know?
Yeah,
because he realizes that that that
the classic all American burger does
not have to be something fancy with
a blue cheese crumble. And ohh no.
Wow. That would be good though.
No, I mean, now there is a time and place.
For that, yeah, for sure.
When you're just talking basic burger,
you're talking basic burger,
Man, who just want.
You were asking what kind
of fancy need is that?
He's like, it's ground chocolate.
You know? I go, what is that?
Is that some sort of like fancy now?
He's like, no, it's just
ground check. Yep. Alright,
you know what is delicious? Alright,
I love it. Yeah, I do love a burger.
And I'm glad we had this chat.
And now I know that you both
are weird, but that's OK.
And I love you anyway.
You know, I'm kidding.
We love all here. Alright.