Askville answer: Burgers

I don't often answer questions on Askville any more, but this was one I absolutely couldn't resist.

"what is your favorite way to grill hamburgers?"

What do you use in your ground beef to make your hamburgers the best? I like to use a little Worcestershire sauce and salt & pepper. But I am always looking for that perfect hamburger. Please let me know your favorites.
 

I’ve been questing for the perfect hamburger for more than thirty years now. I have a remarkably narrow palate - I don't eat fish, or any sort of birds if I can help it, and I'm not comfortable with the texture of steak - so I’ve probably eaten more hamburgers than almost anyone else in the world. Here’s how I cook mine.
 

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P.S. - Leftover burgers can be refrigerated for a few days or frozen for much longer. They re-heat best either on the grill (be careful not to overcook!) or by being wrapped in aluminum foil with bit of marinade and put in the oven at around 450 degrees for ten to fifteen minutes (this is handy to do if you're making french fries in the oven as well). They'll be on the well-done side, but still very flavorful! I've also had excellent results using leftover hamburgers to make dirty rice. The smokiness of the burgers adds a nice extra kick.

Askville answer: Burgers

I don't often answer questions on Askville any more, but this was one I absolutely couldn't resist.

"what is your favorite way to grill hamburgers?"

What do you use in your ground beef to make your hamburgers the best? I like to use a little Worcestershire sauce and salt & pepper. But I am always looking for that perfect hamburger. Please let me know your favorites.
 

I’ve been questing for the perfect hamburger for more than thirty years now. I have a remarkably narrow palate - I don't eat fish, or any sort of birds if I can help it, and I'm not comfortable with the texture of steak - so I’ve probably eaten more hamburgers than almost anyone else in the world. Here’s how I cook mine.
 

( Read more... )

P.S. - Leftover burgers can be refrigerated for a few days or frozen for much longer. They re-heat best either on the grill (be careful not to overcook!) or by being wrapped in aluminum foil with bit of marinade and put in the oven at around 450 degrees for ten to fifteen minutes (this is handy to do if you're making french fries in the oven as well). They'll be on the well-done side, but still very flavorful! I've also had excellent results using leftover hamburgers to make dirty rice. The smokiness of the burgers adds a nice extra kick.

Food!

Today seems to be food day over on Askville. From a discussion about hamburgers, we ended up talking about Friendly's and how they used to serve their hamburgers on toasted white bread:

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They changed their Fribbles, too. I remember when I was a kid, my mother would take me there. I'd order a chocolate Fribble, and a long spoon. There'd usually be a few lumps of vanilla ice cream in the bottom of the glass, and I'd fish them out and eat them. Yum!

That's because the Fribbles were made with hard vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup, of course. Now, unfortunately, they're just made with some soft-serve-like stuff. It's nowhere near as good, and it's boringly consistent all the way through.

I like Friendly's hot dogs, too. But I loved Brigham's ice cream and food even more. Their burgers, fries, and hot dogs were outstanding, and they had a delicious pea soup sometimes; I could literally stick a fork in it and it would stay standing up! As for their hot fudge sundaes, well, they were perfect. And I used to buy their hand-packed ice cream as a special treat; it cost twice what it did in the supermarkets, but it was three times as good.

The chain went bankrupt a few years ago. Hood makes the Brigham's ice cream that you see in supermarkets now. I don't know if any of the stores are still open; if they are, there aren't many of them.

Lots of wonderful old things are gone, or have been replaced with ersatz and homogenized out of existence.

autumn00™:0), did you ever try Newport Creamery? They're another New England ice cream/food chain, much like Friendly's and Brighams. They're based out of Newport, Rhode Island. For a while they were expanding into Massachusetts and possibly elsewhere in New England, but they almost went out of business a few years ago. They managed to hang on, fortunately.

They make excellent burgers/fries/hot dogs/etc., but what they're best known for is Awful Awfuls. Those are big, thick ice cream shakes which are a lot like the classic old Fribbles. They were almost made the state drink of Rhode Island, but lost out to coffee milk.

Newport Creamery's chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches are really memorable too. It's $10 for a pack of four, but they're totally worth it - particularly when filled with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

God, I'm so hungry!!!

Food!

Today seems to be food day over on Askville. From a discussion about hamburgers, we ended up talking about Friendly's and how they used to serve their hamburgers on toasted white bread:

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They changed their Fribbles, too. I remember when I was a kid, my mother would take me there. I'd order a chocolate Fribble, and a long spoon. There'd usually be a few lumps of vanilla ice cream in the bottom of the glass, and I'd fish them out and eat them. Yum!

That's because the Fribbles were made with hard vanilla ice cream and chocolate syrup, of course. Now, unfortunately, they're just made with some soft-serve-like stuff. It's nowhere near as good, and it's boringly consistent all the way through.

I like Friendly's hot dogs, too. But I loved Brigham's ice cream and food even more. Their burgers, fries, and hot dogs were outstanding, and they had a delicious pea soup sometimes; I could literally stick a fork in it and it would stay standing up! As for their hot fudge sundaes, well, they were perfect. And I used to buy their hand-packed ice cream as a special treat; it cost twice what it did in the supermarkets, but it was three times as good.

The chain went bankrupt a few years ago. Hood makes the Brigham's ice cream that you see in supermarkets now. I don't know if any of the stores are still open; if they are, there aren't many of them.

Lots of wonderful old things are gone, or have been replaced with ersatz and homogenized out of existence.

autumn00™:0), did you ever try Newport Creamery? They're another New England ice cream/food chain, much like Friendly's and Brighams. They're based out of Newport, Rhode Island. For a while they were expanding into Massachusetts and possibly elsewhere in New England, but they almost went out of business a few years ago. They managed to hang on, fortunately.

They make excellent burgers/fries/hot dogs/etc., but what they're best known for is Awful Awfuls. Those are big, thick ice cream shakes which are a lot like the classic old Fribbles. They were almost made the state drink of Rhode Island, but lost out to coffee milk.

Newport Creamery's chocolate chip ice cream sandwiches are really memorable too. It's $10 for a pack of four, but they're totally worth it - particularly when filled with chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream.

God, I'm so hungry!!!

WoW update: Grinding

I've been on my own for the last few days on WoW, so I've been grinding. It's a tedious, boring process; I've only managed to get my mage and primary fighter half-way to their next level.

I got killed by a Horde PC again, for about the fifth time. I was at Lakeshire, just standing there, when BOOM! someone came rushing by me too fast to see, and I was dead. Obnoxious, but what can I do? At least he didn't get any honor out of it, I'm sure. Lakeshire seems to be by far the most common place for this stuff to happen.

Sebastian had me create another new character for him: a Blood Elf. It's an interesting setting, a race that has essentially turned evil due to addiction to magic; a sort of lawful evil culture, I suspect. Visually the starting area is extremely pretty.

Eventually I'll try an undead. But I have to delete a character first. And I have to get Sebastian to stop having me make characters and then abandon them - particularly because I'm sure he won't let me delete them. As it is, I'm probably going to delete my first character (a human fighter, level 6) in order to free up a little space. I'll log on as him and have him mail everything he owns to one of my other characters, or course. Or maybe he'll just sell it all and send the money.

Oh, I started an Orc warlock and got him up to level 5. But I'm starting to see that WoW isn't much fun without other people to play with.

WoW update: Grinding

I've been on my own for the last few days on WoW, so I've been grinding. It's a tedious, boring process; I've only managed to get my mage and primary fighter half-way to their next level.

I got killed by a Horde PC again, for about the fifth time. I was at Lakeshire, just standing there, when BOOM! someone came rushing by me too fast to see, and I was dead. Obnoxious, but what can I do? At least he didn't get any honor out of it, I'm sure. Lakeshire seems to be by far the most common place for this stuff to happen.

Sebastian had me create another new character for him: a Blood Elf. It's an interesting setting, a race that has essentially turned evil due to addiction to magic; a sort of lawful evil culture, I suspect. Visually the starting area is extremely pretty.

Eventually I'll try an undead. But I have to delete a character first. And I have to get Sebastian to stop having me make characters and then abandon them - particularly because I'm sure he won't let me delete them. As it is, I'm probably going to delete my first character (a human fighter, level 6) in order to free up a little space. I'll log on as him and have him mail everything he owns to one of my other characters, or course. Or maybe he'll just sell it all and send the money.

Oh, I started an Orc warlock and got him up to level 5. But I'm starting to see that WoW isn't much fun without other people to play with.