How do you like your burger?

[ZeletDude]

I like it medium.

 

[ace99]

The only place I ever eat a well done burger is Five Guys.

 

[GhostWriter16]

Medium rare, with onions, lettuce, onion, mayonaise, mustard, ketchup, and bacon.

mmm...

Oh, and I hate how some states including my own won't ALLOW you to order a burger medium rare. I should be allowed to take my own risks.

 

[Borachio]

I'm not entirely convinced that you can't ever find a burger vendor that won't serve you one without sauce or cheese. I think you need to be more burgassertive.

As for me? As long as it has beetroot I'm generally happy.

Beetroot is one of my very favourite ROOT vegetables.

I thought you rather turned your nose up at root vegetables, and those who consume them, Mr Rugby, sir.

 

[emzie]

It's pretty hard to find someone who will sell you a medium rare burger here.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

Beetroot is one of my very favourite ROOT vegetables.

I thought you rather turned your nose up at root vegetables, and those who consume them, Mr Rugby, sir.

On the whole this is a sound generalisation (the exception being I bare no ill will to those who consume them). However, tinned beetroot in that vinegarry purple stuff is great on a burger.

 

[cardgame]

Re: not well done burgers

My mom has made me medium/medium well burgers for years and I've never suffered ill effects, so either that's a slice of bologna or my immune system is badass.

 

[illram]

You can minimize E. Coli risk by buying local fresh ground meat. In Northern California pretty much every store offers local grass fed fresh ground beef.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

Well-done. Anything less tastes rubbery.

Err, you're well entitled to have your own tastes, but that's pretty much the opposite of how meat works. It gets more dry and rubbery the LONGER you cook it, not by undercooking it.

 

[Borachio]

On the whole this is a sound generalisation (the exception being I bare no ill will to those who consume them). However, tinned beetroot in that vinegarry purple stuff is great on a burger.

You get your beetroot in tins in Australia?

I have never seen it in tins. Though I don't see why you couldn't get it in tins. They will sell it to you here, comparatively expensively, in jars ready sliced with vinegar.

I get mine either out the ground from my garden. (But this year was not good for beetroot.) Or I buy it whole ready cooked in sealed plastic packs; very cheap. And then I just slice it and add vinegar. And whatever else I fancy.

Beetroot does tend to bleed when you peel it. So I reckon your vinegary purple stuff is just vinegar and the juice from the beetroot.

But with burgers, I think I'd prefer sliced pickled dill cucumbers, tomato ketchup, and finely chopped shallots, with maybe some parsley butter, and chilli in there too.

On no account any cheese, please, thank you.

 

[azzaman333]

Beetroot is dangerous. Always finds a way to stain something.

 

[Goodfella]

I get medium or medium rare if I feel like it.

 

[Borachio]

Beetroot is dangerous. Always finds a way to stain something.

Just realize that it can colour certain things, and don't go running off to the doctor in a panic, and everything will be alright. I've been successfully eating it for years.

 

[BvBPL]

On the whole this is a sound generalisation (the exception being I bare no ill will to those who consume them). However, tinned beetroot in that vinegarry purple stuff is great on a burger.

Is that at all like red cabbage? Red cabbage is pretty good on a burger.

 

[Synobun]

Err, you're well entitled to have your own tastes, but that's pretty much the opposite of how meat works. It gets more dry and rubbery the LONGER you cook it, not by undercooking it.

Yes, I'm well entitled to my own tastes, which is why you saying I'm wrong is just laughable and you're a hypocrite.

 

[Shaihulud]

If it is a good quality one, or one that I ground myself, rare. Otherwise medium rare

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I've eaten many a burger in many a restaurant, and I've never found a place that won't serve it to you plain if you ask. Order it that way if that's what you want.

Not if you have an accent that makes it easy to confuse 'chips' with 'cheese'.

 

[Old Hippy]

a thick well done burger, topped with melted cheese, crispy bacon,fried onion rings, sitting on a bed of lettuce and tomatoe, slice of dill pickle and the compulsory sliced tinned beetroot, served with mayonnaise on the salad and tomatoe sauce on the rest, with a gooey fried egg sitting on top, all wrapped up in a lightly toasted buttered bun, preferably served at a place called "Greasy Joe's"(my current favorite)and it should be served with hot salty fat 'Chips' with lashings of vinegar

 

[sophie]

I love a lamb burger cooked medium rare with a bleu cheese, bacon, and tzatziki sauce, with the usual vegetable fixuns. Mmmmm.

 

[Borachio]

Is that at all like red cabbage? Red cabbage is pretty good on a burger.

I tell you what: I reckon I could tell the difference between pickled red cabbage and pickled beetroot with my eyes shut. Provided I could taste it of course. I couldn't tell the difference if they were still in the jars (or tins).

Both are good though.

And sauerkraut, too. But different.