hello and welcome back to you in the kitchen with Matt I am your host Matt
Taylor today I'm going to show you how to make a hamburger juicy hamburger mmm
I love homemade hamburgers I still go to restaurants and fast food places and buy
burgers but I really love homemade burgers they're really easy to make if I
can do it you can do it john evans who sells this product called the ultimate
burger press contacted me and asked me if i wanted to try out his burger press
ultimate burger press product and he wanted to sponsor an episode so I said
sure why not and he sent me this ultimate burger
press to try it out along with some other goodies and I've used it and it's
really cool so I'm going to show you that product as well as we make these
burgers again really easy to do if I can do it you can do it let's get started
first you want to get your grill going I have my charcoal grill going as we speak
or you could use like a cast-iron skillet or a normal skillet or George
Foreman grill whatever you want to use to cook up your burgers now I recommend
making homemade patties you can buy the frozen patties if you want they're just
a little harder to season and they're a little more expensive so I have about a
pound probably a little bit less of a pound of 20/80
beef so 80% beef 20% fat and you want a good fat contact with your burger
because it's gonna help it be more juicy and add flavor and I'm just gonna take
some salt and get some salt there on the meat and I don't have these measured out
these ingredients because I do it different every time so just add some
salt and some pepper garlic powder and there we go now we're just coming here
with their clean hands or you can use silicone gloves if you want and just
work the meat a little but you don't want to over need or overwork the meat
ok and then I'm gonna take this and divide it into two little mounds
here you're gonna be nice big burgers and kind of shape it into a ball and
then you take some plastic wrap and place it over the top and in the burger
press this is the burger press it pretty much makes a doughnut-shaped patty now
why would we want a doughnut-shaped patty when you're making homemade
burgers a lot of times when you're cooking them the middle will puff up and
the sides get more cookies in the middle is less done and it doesn't cook as
evenly through and you constantly want to push it down and then when you push
it down squeeze it all squeezes out all the juice and flavor so the theory
behind the doughnut shaped burger is all the edges of the donut patty get nice
and uniformly cooked and in the middle is a nice little cavity where you can
put toppings and things so pretty neat so you take your burger press and you
just go right in the middle and push it down okay and flip it over like that and
then I will come in here with more seasonings easy as that and then just
pull out the plastic and you have a donut shaped patty and you can come back
in and shape it if you want I really I don't really worry about that too much
let's do our other one place your plastic wrap over it take your burger
press and I sprayed the burger president mentioned that earlier I sprayed it with
a little bit of kitchen spray just so the plastic releases really easy and I'm
going to push this down in there peel it up so give me a nice big patio
yeah salt pepper garlic powder push it down in there and just pull it up
look at that that is awesome
and it's got this nice indention indentation here and then so normally
before you like to use your thumbs and try to print it down in there this
burger press allows you to make all of them pretty much the same size and again
so this Ridge right here is gonna cook more even so it's not gonna puff up in
the middle and then I'm gonna come back in here
take him salt pepper powder that's pretty much what I use for my patties
salt pepper garlic powder and occasionally I'll put a little bit of
rooster cider sauce in there with it now let's go out to the grill and grill
these puppies up here we are outside at my grill it's nice and hot I moved over
the charcoal a little bit so I have a cooler area over here and a nice hot
area there you want your temp to be around 400 degrees if you can put your
hand there for about a couple seconds and it's good to go and if you need to
you can lower the charcoal away so it's further away perfect grab our patties
put them on there and we're gonna let them cook on each side for five minutes
one thing I want to mention is don't play around with your patties don't
smash them and flip them over every like 30 seconds just let them sit there for
four to five minutes and then flip them over to the other side four to five
minutes and they'll be good to go now depending on how big they are you'll
have to adjust that time a little bit and if you have a meat thermometer you
can just get it in there we want it to be about 160 degrees Fahrenheit on the
inside and if you notice the middle is not puffing way up a lot of times
homemade patties will do that it's been about five minutes let's go ahead and
put these yummy yummy yummy the grill is a little
hot so I'm gonna move these over to this other section also I want to toast my
hamburger buns a little bit just a few seconds just to get a little bit of
grill marks that's good good good I've had this grill for several years
the cast iron griddle on the top are really nice and seasoned and now look at
those are good to go YUM look how amazing these patties look
they smell amazing as well and you can tell there's a little bit of a concave
in there they didn't puff up in the middle really cool then we want to put
these bad boys together and let's assemble these burgers oh yeah
normally what I would do is I would melt my cheese on the burger but I wanted to
show you the concave so I didn't do that this time got some cheese on there
cheddar cheese don't be messing around with American Kraft singles cheese use
real cheddar cheese I have some onions I took off the grill as well nice thing
tomato oh yeah now this is how I like to make them you can make your burgers
however you want whatever toppings you want you might just want meat and cheese
you might might just want meat let's get some green leaf lettuce and gots to have
bacon gots to have bacon look how big these are these are like scooby-doo
burgers yeah what is around and of course I love my ketchup
mustard some people like to use Mayo some people
like you to use horseradish whatever you want to do now that on top don't pat it
down a little oh yeah - giant yummy homemade hamburgers and that is how I
make my hamburgers really easy to do if I can do it you can do it make sure to
check down below the video in the description for a link on where you can
find the ultimate burger press it's a really handy tool that you can use to
make uniform patties and as well is it's not gonna dome up on you
meaning the edges aren't gonna get all cooked first before the inside does also
it comes in a variety of sizes in the Box you get a normal 8 ounce size and
then a 4 ounce size for sliders a couple tips when making a burger whether you're
on the grill outside or indoors make sure to not fiddle around with the
burger and flip it every couple of seconds or every couple minutes just put
it down there and let it cook for four to five minutes first side and it will
be good to go I'm Matt Taylor this has been another episode of in the kitchen
with Matt thank you for joining me as always if you have any questions
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