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Add any of the ingredients you want to add to the burger. Place the ground beef in a bowl.
You can dust the top of the patties with seasoning or mix it into the ground beef before you form the patties.
How to make hamburgers with ground beef. The Perfect Burger 0244 Start with the Right Beef. The best burgers are made from freshly ground high-grade beef chuck in an 8020 mix meat to. Grab 5 to 6 ounces of meat and lightly toss from hand to hand forming a ball.
Seasoning Optional 1. Place the ground beef in a bowl. Youll add the other ingredients to it when youre ready.
Roughly chop the onion and garlic. Put them in a bowl and mix them together until combined. Add any of the ingredients you want to add to the burger.
You can dust the top of the patties with seasoning or mix it into the ground beef before you form the patties. If you use 80 or 85 percent lean beef you do not need to brush the patties with oil before you put them on the grill or in a skillet since the meat contains enough fat. Cut meat into 1 inch cubes.
For safety the meat must remain cold. Partial freezing also helps keep the juice in the meat and not all over the countertop. Place meat in the freezer for 15-30 minutes before grinding.
The way to make hamburger patties stick together without egg or anything else is to use ground beef with at least 8020 ratio. Beef with a higher fat content should not fall apart when preparing your patties as the fat helps with the natural binding process. Refrigerating your hamburger patties after prep and prior to cooking will also help.
The quality and fat content in the meat used in your burger will make all of the difference. Ground chuck is preferred for burgers and its different from ground beef as it comes from the beef shoulders where ground beef is leftover pieces of beef many different cuts. You could substitute ground beef.
You might like veggie burgers and turkey burgers but sometimes you also might yearn for a juicy beefy hamburger. The trouble is a burger made from four ounces of regular ground beef 70 percent lean or 30 percent fat depending which way you look at it can contain as much as 34 grams of fat which is more than half the daily value of fat and almost two-thirds the daily value of saturated fat. Go to any grocery store and youll see many forms of ground beef.
Anything from 7030 all the way up to 937. This is the ratio of lean meat to fat. A 7030 blend is going to be 70 lean meat and 30 fat.
That means 937 has almost no fat. Do not think for one minute youre going to get a juicy mouthwatering burger with a 937 blend. In this video well go over how to properly form a hamburger patty from freshly ground beef.
Its important to use proper technique when making your own ham. When figuring out how large to make your patties consider the size of the buns that you plan to use. Ground beef with a higher fat content shrinks more when cooking so youll want to keep this in mind to perfect the bun-to-burger ratio.
Additionally when dividing the meat ensure that the patties are all the same size. Add 80 lean ground beef to a large bowl. Add Worcestershire sauce seasoning salt garlic powder and pepper.
Mix with your hands until well combined. Divide the beef into fourths. Whether youre making burgers meatloaf or meatballs mixing some grated vegetables in with the ground beef can make it go further.
Grate carrots zucchini and onions and mix them in with the raw beef before shaping it. As a general rule add ¾ to 1 cup 40 to 50 g of grated vegetables for every pound 454 g of ground beef.