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Best Burger in town: Part 3
Matthew
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Ok, it’s been around five years since I put up a thread like this. So tell me, where is the best Burger in your town? If you can, feel free to provide pictures! Make everyone else here jealous of the glory of your burger!
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maybe bacon if youre feeling cute idk
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
Any burger fancier than a Hardee's Angus Burger isn't for me unless I made it myself. I especially hate the generic 'good burger' from whatever higher-end chain or local place that everyone talks up but that really just tastes like grease, shredded lettuce, and mayonnaise. Those places tend to have great chicken tenders, though.
edit: Culver's is actually my current town's example of the 'the best burger in town' that tastes like a grease trap. Like every other best burger in town in any town I've ever lived in.
I love lower-mid tier trash, like Whopper Jrs or Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers or the like. I mostly just buy value menu garbage like McDoubles and BK Stackers and whatnot.
Can't have it now since neither slider place is in town, but I'll fight someone for a sackful of Krystal sliders (not terribly different from White Castle sliders). Always lived with soft-gutted cowards who would whine they didn't want Krystal because they'll shit their guts out or throw up or whatever, pfft.
I love a good smash burger but I think they've been overexposed in the burger world over the last few years
No one is innovating the classic steamed ham anymore sadly. I think white castle is the only place not in the midwest that still makes a steamed burger.
Pretty much the case here too. And some of their new "limited time" etc burgers in this neck of the woods (UK) have been remarkably good.
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Dry-aged beef, cheddar, sauce, caramelized onions, pretzel bun. For 30 bucks, it's definitely a "fancy burger", not a casual everyday thing, but it's easily the best burger I've ever had.
For fast food, your best option in NYC is probably Shake Shack, though I swear their burgers are getting smaller.
1/3lb patty, caramelized onion, goat cheese, fig jam, bacon and arugula
think I may treat myself next weekend
Okie-style smashburgs on toasty brioche is a fairly impeccable method
The best I’ve ever had is still father’s office in LA, though it’s been at least ten years.
We don’t all have a jaw that unhinges, Vish!
I never want a burger pink, pink hamburger is like undercooked chicken or pork (yes I know I can probably eat pork rare now but no, mentally, I cannot), but I'll take a nice fat homemade burger from time to time. Never a huge burger at a restaurant or the like, though.
Wife is out of town this week. So I will probably get dinner there at least one night. Also very good fries and top notch shakes.
Nothing is improved by making a burger taller vs. wider
At a certain level of wideness the risk of ingredient variance reaches a critical point
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
Yeah I'm not a huge fan of the smashburger style, gimme a big fat meatball on a bun
True, but I think you have to go quite a bit further on that X-axis before you’re disappointed than you will on the y
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
I know cooking can be tricky sometimes, son
I’ve got ninety-nine problems but Maillard ain’t one
Fuck this is a good burger and I miss it
It tastes like Thanksgiving
Emily's pizza is really good, but there's also like a hundred places that do really good Neapolitan-style pizza in NY. Their burger is something else.
Their fries are trash, but I love their burger:
Smoke stack, shack stack is also good.
I'm partial to In-N-Out but don't live anywhere near one and it's been 20 years since I've eaten there. I'll still definitely go there next time I'm within 100 miles of one.
Otherwise I'm pretty happy just making them at home. They never disappoint, you can have exactly your toppings, and you don't ever get something greasy and disappointing hard to eat.
Best fancy burger in manhattan is gramercy tavern’s off menu thing, world famous, michelin starred, just god tier. They use all the fat trimmings from their steaks in the grind.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
It was four blocks from my apartment
gud shit
Crunchy tasty fries with a good seasoning? I am all in.
I gotta give the trophy to Checkers
but there's no Smashburger near where I live so I don't know
Best burger shop here exclusively makes the big juicey (and medium grilled as standard) kind and it's been here since 2011 so a bit before the burger craze went off and "fancy" burger shops started popping up at every corner.
They also make the best fries I've found so far.
They also do extra special burgers of the week, but so far the regular bacon and hot peppers burger has always been better.
Expensive though
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I love hitting the pinnacle of some food like that! Like yep this is easily 3x as good as anything else I've ever eaten of the type. A whole other tier of good that I didn't even know existed.
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