/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Simple as.

>>19553238
You couldn't afford one of my burgers.

>>19526926
I have an OC thread up right now. Burgers and Taco Bell make up like 2% of everything I post about.

I’ve noticed a slightly disconcerting phenomenon as of late regarding burgers on /ck/. A number of anons seem to be a little confused about how burgers should be cooked, and seem to think that they need to be cooked “all the way”. In other words, there’s this bizarre misconception floating around that you need to order your burgers well-done. This is false, and concerning, and generally just bad advice.
The narrative typically begins with, “burgers aren’t steak”. This is a red herring and should immediately raise some red flags. Obviously, burgers aren’t steak, but the fact that a well-done steak is recognized as unappealing by everyone with any sense of taste and discernment has no logical connection to the conclusion that a well-done burger is somehow any better. If anything, the opposite is the case.
Next comes the tired diatribe about how, “any pathogens are on the outside of the meat, so as long as the outside of a steak is cooked it’s safe to keep the middle rare, but with burgers the outside is mixed up with the inside so it’s never safe unless you cook it all the way through”. While the first two clauses are true, the third one is false, or at least misleading.
The chances of actually getting sick from eating a burger is approximately 1 in a million. You could eat a rare burger for every meal for the rest of your life and are unlikely to ever get sick. The reason places like McDonalds cook all their burgers well-done is because they literally sell a few million burgers every day, so statistically speaking people would be getting sick regularly. But people also get struck by lightning every day and that doesn't keep you from going outside, right?

Here's the latest iteration of the burger. I'm really on the fence about this one. I think it's good, and it works, but the jerk seasoning just seems a little off on a burger. I think it's the clove; it just doesn't jive with grilled beef the way it does with chicken.
>>16307894
huh?