Smash Burgers

Who doesn’t like Smash Burgers. What follows is a simple and straight forward approach to making these burgers. If you like Smash Burgers, you may also be interested in our recipe for Fat Burgers.

Ingredients:

  • 2 lbs of 85/15 ground beef (1 lb of meat = 2 double stack burgers or 4 single stack burgers)

  • 1 onion (white or yellow) – ½ chopped and ½ sliced

  • American cheese (any cheese can be used, but American cheese holds the legend as being the best cheese for burgers even though people disagree if it even qualifies as “cheese”)

  • Salt, pepper, and garlic seasoning. I prefer Lane’s SPG seasoning.

Directions:

  1. Add salt, pepper, and garlic seasoning to meat and chopped onions. Mix thoroughly.

  2. I have found starting with thin, 4 oz. patties is much easier than smashing on the grill, particularly since these burgers move fast.

  3. Put oil on a very hot cooking surface – pan, griddle, or grill – at least 425 degrees.

  4. Lay sliced onions on the cooking surface and the patties over the onions.

  5. Once the patties start to bleed through, flip them and add cheese. The goal is to cook these hot, fast, and create a crust on each side. If you want more crust, you can coat each patty with yellow mustard on both sides.

  6. When you are there, pull the patties and place on buns (Extra points for pre-grilling the buns).

  7. We go with simple and don’t use sauce. However, the Internet has many recipes to try.

  8. Garnish with tomato, lettuce, pickles, mustard, and mayo. If you must, ketchup. I have found the key to a great burger is matching very cold vegetables with the hot burger causing a nice temperature contrast. So if you pre-slice the veggies and refrigerate until serving, you can create a nice temperature contrast.

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