{"id":5111,"date":"2016-06-07T14:17:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T06:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alfredskitchen.com.au\/?p=5111"},"modified":"2016-06-07T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T06:17:07","slug":"alfreds-kitchen-the-cheese-burger-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredskitchen.com.au\/blog\/alfreds-kitchen-the-cheese-burger-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"Love burgers? Here are some top tips for perfection&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all love a good burger. Regardless of preference, diet or condition, they don\u2019t discriminate. A vegetarian can have just as good an experience with a burger as anyone else \u2013 in some cases a better one \u2013 but traditionally, the success of the burger comes down to one key ingredient\u2026 the meat.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Choose your meat wisely<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This really can\u2019t be emphasised enough. To get the perfect burger you really have to get the meat just right \u2013 too much fat, and it becomes too greasy and unhealthy, but too little, and you\u2019ll end up with a dry husk. Many people would argue that the best burgers are made from ground beef, which is usually between 20% and 30% fat and labelled \u2018lean\u2019 meat in most stores. It\u2019s usually a good idea to find out what part of the animal the meat came from too as this can have a huge impact on flavour\u2026<\/p>\n<h3><strong>When cooking, don\u2019t press down on the meat<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This is a big one. So many people, when cooking a burger at home or at a BBQ, will press down on the meat to sear the outside or in the hope that it\u2019ll cook quicker. The best burgers are cooked nice and slowly and those juices are allowed to sit inside and flavour the meat. Compressing the meat causes all of that flavoursome juice to simply trickle away, leaving you with the same dry burger you were hoping to avoid in the first place!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Puncture the top<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Sounds odd doesn\u2019t it? But have you ever noticed that when you try to make a homemade burger from course meat, the top often rises causing your toppings to slide off? Try pushing down slightly in the center, creating a round indentation that\u2019s maybe a quarter inch lower than the surrounding meat \u2013 that way, your burger will come out nice and flat, without losing any of its juices because you\u2019ve been compressing it so much during cooking.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Add stuff<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This may sound surprising but so many people miss this opportunity. You can completely change the nature of your burger by adding things to it, and I\u2019m not just talking about herbs and spices. You could get some extra moisture in there by dicing some onions and mixing them with the meat for example, or how about adding some olive oil and mushrooms to give it a different flavour? With so many different ways of customising your burger meal, it\u2019s a dish that can truly be enjoyed time and time again without ever getting boring\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all love a good burger. Regardless of preference, diet or condition, they don\u2019t discriminate. A vegetarian can have just as good an experience with a burger as anyone else \u2013 in some cases a better one \u2013 but traditionally, the success of the burger comes down to one key ingredient\u2026 the meat. Choose your meat wisely This really can\u2019t be emphasised enough. To get the perfect burger you really have to get the meat just right \u2013 too much fat, and it becomes too greasy and unhealthy, but too little, and you\u2019ll end up with a dry husk. Many people would argue that the best burgers are made from ground beef, which is usually between 20% and 30% fat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":5121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Love burgers? Here are some top tips for perfection... | Alfred\u2019s Kitchen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alfredskitchen.com.au\/blog\/alfreds-kitchen-the-cheese-burger-diet\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Love burgers? 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