First Burgers on LBGE

oldgeezeystax

grege345

your doin it right!!

oldgeezeystax

First time posting a pic too, not sure why it's sideways.

Formed half pound balls with local beef, worcestershire, and a butter slice inside. Hot lodge griddle with ghee.

theyolksonyou

It's straight for me and the cook is straight ballin'

pgprescott

Yeah, pics fine here. In fact they look awesome! Nice cook!

oldgeezeystax

Toaated brioche, american cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, SWMBO special sauce. 

The burger was excellent, the chipotle sweet potato fries from wegmans were ok...

oldgeezeystax

She also prepped the buns so I'm blaming her for my upside down construction 

Tinyfish

Looks better then any burger shop could produce. 

NDG

looks amazing.  So did you "smash" on the griddle?

oldgeezeystax

@NDG - Yes indeed.

Form ball, place on hot griddle, season, flip/smash/season, flip & add cheese. 

I found this somewhere around here and mostly followed it.

SmokeyPitt

They look great!  I actually prefer lettuce on the bottom as constructed.  It keeps the bottom bun from getting soggy from all the juice.  

Eggcelsior

Where did you get the beef from?

oldgeezeystax

Hedgeapple Farm - Pretty nice little store they have out there.  I plan to keep my eye on the sales and grab some beef ribs the next time they go on sale.  I'd also really like to try a tri-tip after all the talk I see on here.

As far as the ground beef goes, they only have 90-10 and I prefer fattier.  The lady at the store said the 5# quantities are more like 85-15 but I don't have too much extra freezer space.  She also said that last year they had ground sirloin and it was top notch, she (and I) hope they do it again.

henapple

Stellar...

Eggcelsior

oldgeezeystax said:

Hedgeapple Farm - Pretty nice little store they have out there.  I plan to keep my eye on the sales and grab some beef ribs the next time they go on sale.  I'd also really like to try a tri-tip after all the talk I see on here.

As far as the ground beef goes, they only have 90-10 and I prefer fattier.  The lady at the store said the 5# quantities are more like 85-15 but I don't have too much extra freezer space.  She also said that last year they had ground sirloin and it was top notch, she (and I) hope they do it again.

I still haven't made it down that way. I just checked the price list and they are close to Wegman's prices on most cuts. I need to swing by! I usually get grass-fed from Ruth Ann's in Woodsboro, but it's always frozen. Does Hedgeapple have fresh stuff?

oldgeezeystax

All frozen.  Nicely frozen, but frozen.

Eggcelsior

How thick do they cut stuff? Do they have full packers? I feel like I should either call them or pay you as an employee. 

oldgeezeystax

Haha, the former might be a better as I've never been exactly sure what a packer brisket means, I've never cooked brisket, only ate the mess out of it.  If you have time one day you should just ride on up, the lady there was super nice.