Saturday night burgers

[Dave Smith]

We have fallen into a routine of having hamburgers on Saturday nights.
I have to admit that last week's burgers were major disappointment. I
redeemed myself this week. I got regular ground meat from the butcher
about 2 miles down the road from me. I used the same ingredients...
kosher salt, freshly ground pepper, a good pinch of dried garlic and
about a tablespoon of dried bread crumbs. They were grilled on the gas
BBQ and were possibly the best hamburgers I ever had.

[Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl]

What is regular ground meat? If you are making burgers always get the
80/20

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____/~~~sine qua non~~~\____

[Sheldon Martin]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 20:08:33 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

Yeah right, TIAD, all ground meat from the butcher down the road... if
you ground your own you'd never go back to that schtinkin' mystery
meat. If you knew anything about food, obviously you know zero, you'd
know that ALL pre ground meat is trimmings, scraps, and nasty
cancerous bits. My grandmother, my mother, and I have never eaten pre
ground meat, we've all ground our own. No real butcher is going to
grind decent roasts, they only grind the poorest quality, ugliest cuts
that no one would buy otherwise.

[Bruce]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 20:08:33 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>We have fallen into a routine of having hamburgers on Saturday nights.

Well, you know what they say. The first step to solve a problem is to
admit that you have the problem. You're on the right track!

[Hank Rogers]

Tell him about yoose fine meat grinder too Popeye.

[songbird]

i know some people like bread crumbs in meat to help
keep the juice in, but to me that is meat loaf or
meat balls and not a burger.

to me burger is ground meat only and perhaps some
spices but not much else.

i only cook a burger until it is just done inside
and so it may be slightly pink. in the older days
when meat was more dependable we'd eat our burgers
cold center and flash cooked on the outside on a
hot grill sprinkled with garlic salt only. that
was how things used to be good. now i cook them
more and slower in a pan as we don't have a grill
but with garlic salt. still good, just not as
good...

various tastes and preferences and all that. :)


songbird

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

Did I miss something last week? I don't recall reading your burgers were
a disappointment. What went wrong last Saturday?

Nothing wrong with a routine weekly meal. I can remember when I lived at
home that Friday night was always a breakfast meal and dang good it was,
too!

[Hank Rogers]

Like ham with red-eye gravy, grits, eggs and biscuits? Maybe a
little bit of sorghum syrup too.

[Dave Smith]

On 2020-06-13 9:53 p.m., itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 7:07:54 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
>>
>> We have fallen into a routine of having hamburgers on Saturday nights.
>> I have to admit that last week's burgers were major disappointment. I
>> redeemed myself this week. I got regular ground meat from the butcher
>> about 2 miles down the road from me. I used the same ingredients...
>> kosher salt, freshly ground pepper, a good pinch of dried garlic and
>> about a tablespoon of dried bread crumbs. They were grilled on the gas
>> BBQ and were possibly the best hamburgers I ever had.
>>
> Did I miss something last week? I don't recall reading your burgers were
> a disappointment. What went wrong last Saturday?

They were nothing to write about.

>
> Nothing wrong with a routine weekly meal. I can remember when I lived at
> home that Friday night was always a breakfast meal and dang good it was,
> too!
>

It was the standard Saturday night supper in my wife' family home. He
sister is 9 years older than her and her brother was about 12 years
older. Her parents went out for dinner or dinner parties most Saturday
nights, so it was an easy dinner for kids eating at different times.
She liked the Sturdy night burgers. We did it for a while and then
switched to wings. I am not supposed to eat wings anymore so we went
back to burgers.


Tomorrow night we are having lamb chops. Just two each, but these
puppies are huge. Not old muttony chops, but really thick cut. They will
be a challenge to cook to get them done through. I don't mind lamb
really rare but Megatron prefers them to be no less than pink.

[Alex]

Correct.  "Ground sirloin", or 10% fat is too lean for a good burger. 
Don't forget to press a dimple in the center for an even burger!

[Christ...@deathtochristianity.pl]

I do not like those all that much. I always go for the smashed burger

[itsjoan...@webtv.net]

On Saturday, June 13, 2020 at 9:11:54 PM UTC-5, Hank Rogers wrote:

>
> itsjoan...@webtv.net wrote:
> >
> > Nothing wrong with a routine weekly meal. I can remember when I lived at
> > home that Friday night was always a breakfast meal and dang good it was,
> > too!
> >
>
> Like ham with red-eye gravy, grits, eggs and biscuits? Maybe a
> little bit of sorghum syrup too.
>

Ham was not a breakfast food at our house and neither was red-eye gravy.
To this day I've never tasted it but it was scrambled eggs, gravy, bacon,
and drop biscuits that constituted our Friday night breakfast.

[Pamela]

On 01:47 14 Jun 2020, Sheldon Martin said:
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 20:08:33 -0400, Dave Smith
> <adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>>We have fallen into a routine of having hamburgers on Saturday nights.
>>I have to admit that last week's burgers were major disappointment. I
>>redeemed myself this week. I got regular ground meat from the butcher
>>about 2 miles down the road from me. I used the same ingredients...
>>kosher salt, freshly ground pepper, a good pinch of dried garlic and
>>about a tablespoon of dried bread crumbs. They were grilled on the gas
>>BBQ and were possibly the best hamburgers I ever had.
>
> Yeah right, TIAD,

What is TIAD?

[Gary]

Sounds good, Davers. Be sure to write that exact combo down
while it's still fresh in your memory.

[Dave Smith]

It seems to depend most on the meat.
I think last week it was the garlic. i was getting low on the good dried
garlic I got from a friend. I used garlic powder instead. Someone had
dumped the powder in with the dried. I used a sieve to separate them and
threw out the powder.

Yesterday's meat was from the meat nazi down the road. He is a
miserable bastard with high prices, but his meat is always good.

[Hank Rogers]

Pamela wrote:
> On 01:47 14 Jun 2020, Sheldon Martin said:
>> On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 20:08:33 -0400, Dave Smith
>> <adavid...@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> We have fallen into a routine of having hamburgers on Saturday nights.
>>> I have to admit that last week's burgers were major disappointment. I
>>> redeemed myself this week. I got regular ground meat from the butcher
>>> about 2 miles down the road from me. I used the same ingredients...
>>> kosher salt, freshly ground pepper, a good pinch of dried garlic and
>>> about a tablespoon of dried bread crumbs. They were grilled on the gas
>>> BBQ and were possibly the best hamburgers I ever had.
>>
>> Yeah right, TIAD,
>
> What is TIAD?
>

(1)Anything Popeye don't like; (2)Anything someone other than
Popeye cooks.

[Pamela]

Yabbut what does it stand for?

[Bruce]

On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 22:24:45 +0100, Pamela <pamela...@gmail.com>
wrote:

I think Taste In Ass Disease, whatever that means. It's probably
something gay men are familiar with. Sheldon mentions it often.

[Hank Rogers]

Probably right after he's finished giving a rim job or felching
someone.

[cshenk]

Taste in Ass Disease

[jmcquown]

My maternal grandparents had a set meal for each day of the week. (I
gather it as much for simplicity as it was a budget thing.) I remember
Saturday was pot roast and Sunday was roast chicken. Leftovers used for
lunch during the week. Even though they weren't Catholic I seem to
recall Friday was fish sticks and tater tots night. :)

Jill

[Dave Smith]

Saturday burgers are the only weekly regular. My paternal grandmother
had a weekly menu. If we were invited for dinner we would know what to
expect by what day of the week it was. If it was Sunday night it was
roast beef. Saturday was ham and scalloped potatoes.

[Ed Pawlowski]

My Italian in-laws had pasta on Monday and Thursday. The meat in the
sauce (gravy) would vary. Friday was fish.

[Cheswick]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 21:30:41 -0500,

How do you cook those in your mothers basement with only an air
fryer?

[bruce2...@gmail.com]

Yery much so. Saugage gravy with biscuits and salt pork has been known to be pretty dang good.