Your Controversial Food Opinions • Page 230

a well seasoned burger does't need a condiment, but ketchup is completely fine. its weirder to take issue with it than it is to put ketchup on your burger lol

that said, i will agree that fast food burgers should not come standard with ketchup, its always too much and its practically all you taste. fortunaely 99.4% of my fast food ordering these days is done on an app ahead of time and i can make appropriate modifications to said food.

 

If I do eat a burger with ketchup I'm dipping the burger in it not smothering it with ketchup.

 

I almost always only put ketchup on my burgers

 

I generally dislike ketchup but I had to use it yesterday with some mustard when the office lunch cook out consisted of big, dry ass burgers.

Speaking of which, most cook outs I've gone to when it's been a casual thing and not with a friend whose really into the cooking, the burgers are always made way too big, and end up being dry and not very good, even if they're pink in the middle.

There needs to be a PSA to stop making your burgers so damn big. A thin patty, and fresh toppings is so much better then just balling up meat into a monstorous size and thinking it's gonna be good because it's meaty.

This thing yesterday was literally just massive thick burgers with cheese, and then condiments. No lettuce, no tomato, no pickles, no onion, nada. And half the people were raving about how good it was. No, they were trash.

But I graciously ate it because it was free.

 

I love a good pub/tavern style burger. They have to be cooked and seasoned just right though, and definitely not be made with beef that's been frozen. In general, I do think I prefer two thin patties to a thick one.

A lot of people who love to grill are terrible at it. You're right about that. I'd say at least 90% of burgers I've had at cookouts have been very dry. My father-in-law cooks burgers from frozen on the grill until they are far past well-done. They're 100% inedible without a lot of condiments. I want to teach him how to cook the right way, but that's not a conversation I want to have. He knows I moonlight as a professional chef, but he's content to cook them the way he has for 40+ years or however long he's been doing it. I'm not going to speak up haha.

That reminds me of one of my first experiences over at my wife's mother's house. Her aunt was roasting brussels sprouts in the oven and moved them to the microwave because they were starting to get a "little brown." I really had to bite my tongue.

 

I agree and this definitely brings up the vary valid point that even younger generations who are generally more adept in the kitchen are guilty of. When you don't know any better, and cook something the 'wrong' way, it often becomes comfort and the way you know it. My dad is not a great griller, and my mom is not a great cook (though neither is objectively terrible), but there's something comforting about the dishes they feed me when home so I rarely jump in with correcting them. I will teach my mom new recipes and techniques, but try to be conscious to never rain on her parade and tell her she's been doing things wrong ha.

 

My dad is terrible at grilling and doesn't listen to anything I tell him. He throws chicken on the grill and keeps flipping it like every minute. It drives me crazy.

 

Sounds like you need to challenge him to combat for position as grillmaster

 

Absolutely. I'm in the same boat as you and handle things the same way.

How does it taste though?

 

It’s always dry as fuck. His steaks are better than his chicken but could be much much better

 

Sheriff at the cookout

 

most people either don't salt their burgers or if they do it's way too early and the meat gets a weird chewy texture almost like sausage. They will also handle and compress them to hell

 

I always put ketchup on my burger unless I'm getting a bbq burger with onion rings on it

 

I only add ketchup on my burger if it doesnt come with a tomato.

 

KFC is about to start selling a deep-fried burger, much like the one at Arby’s. hate myself for saying this but I’m gonna need at least one

 

wait, they already did that and it failed my b

 

I thought the Arby's burger was really good.

 

Arby’s had a deep fried burger??

 

yup

no grill so they improvised

 

I need one

 

Apparently they brought it back in May.

 

oatmeal cream pies are only good if they’re the big ones

 

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