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Very best hamburger you can make

Mickey
Mickey Posts: 19,768
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Years ago @Beli was coming and spending the night at our house. What the hell do you cook for Beli and Loren as he is a master cook Egg or otherwise. So i decided to keep it simple but go for taste. I had part of a prime brisket ground and did burgers. Beli still talks about them, yes they were excellent. 
For some reason only cooked them once or twice in all those years. 
Sunday had relatives over and HEB had packaged Prime Brisket ground meat. Cooked Sunday and again today. If you have access to HEB get it. If not just grind up some prime brisket.  Used a Large for thick slices of red onion and Pepridgefarm Onion Burger Rolls to have room to grill. 

Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • thetrim
    thetrim Posts: 11,387
    Love this Mickey!  Thanks for posting!
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    XL 6/06, Mini 6/12, L 10/12, Mini #2 12/14 MiniMax 3/16 Large #2 11/20 Legacy from my FIL - RIP PitBoss Navigator 850G 11/25
    Tampa Bay, FL
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  • Lit
    Lit Posts: 9,053
    Any local ATL people Patton’s meat market in Duluth sells prime brisket burgers made up already. Very hard to beat except that time I ground up a SRF brisket. Those burgers look great. 
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    I'll grind up some lean brisket and bacon fat now and then.  They are the best burgers.
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  • TN_Egger
    TN_Egger Posts: 1,120
    Sprouts does a very nice ground beef patty.  Sometimes with blue cheese or jalapeno or bacon.  Git some!
    Signal Mountain, TN
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  • Moleman
    Moleman Posts: 374
    I grind up a prime costco brisket every time I run out of the last one. Just as cheap as buying regular ground meat but so much better. 
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    edited December 2019
    I have been getting a short rib and brisket grind for burgers. My butcher shop puts it together for me. He is amazed all my arteries have not clogged each time I visit.

    Great burgers @Mickey. I am starving now and need to stop work and go fix something to eat.

    Thank you for sharing.
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • Lit
    Lit Posts: 9,053
    TN_Egger said:
    Sprouts does a very nice ground beef patty.  Sometimes with blue cheese or jalapeno or bacon.  Git some!
    Their cowboy burgers are my go to when I don’t feel like driving to the butcher. I could walk to the sprouts by my house if I had to.
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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    Now those look just fabulous, @Mickey. HEB has really upped their beef game this year. 

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    Lit said:
    Any local ATL people Patton’s meat market in Duluth sells prime brisket burgers made up already. Very hard to beat except that time I ground up a SRF brisket. Those burgers look great. 
    We do those about once a month.  So good.

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    2 Large
    Peachtree Corners, GA
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  • Griffin
    Griffin Posts: 8,200
    Great looking burgers @Mickey . I remember your post about doing them for @Beli Whatever happened to that guy? I haven't seen anything from him in a long time. Recently I was watching one of Spring Chicken's Mini movies to get some inspiration and I saw a bunch of his cooks. He had a pretty cool backyard setup from what I remember.

    Rowlett, Texas

    Griffin's Grub or you can find me on Facebook

    The Supreme Potentate, Sovereign Commander and Sultan of Wings

     

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  • YEMTrey
    YEMTrey Posts: 6,835
    @Griffin , agreed.  Remember seeing posts of his backyard and property.  Gorgeous. 
    Steve 
    XL, Mini Max, and a 22" Blackstone in Cincinnati, Ohio
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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,768
    Griffin said:
    Great looking burgers @Mickey . I remember your post about doing them for @Beli Whatever happened to that guy? I haven't seen anything from him in a long time. Recently I was watching one of Spring Chicken's Mini movies to get some inspiration and I saw a bunch of his cooks. He had a pretty cool backyard setup from what I remember.
    He is doing well. @Lawn Ranger and our wives went to see him in Mexico year before last. 

    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • DoubleEgger
    DoubleEgger Posts: 19,170
    Nice work @Mickey. Hard to beat a good burger. 
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  • Griffin
    Griffin Posts: 8,200
    Mickey said:
    Griffin said:
    Great looking burgers @Mickey . I remember your post about doing them for @Beli Whatever happened to that guy? I haven't seen anything from him in a long time. Recently I was watching one of Spring Chicken's Mini movies to get some inspiration and I saw a bunch of his cooks. He had a pretty cool backyard setup from what I remember.
    He is doing well. @Lawn Ranger and our wives went to see him in Mexico year before last. 


    That's good to hear. Miss his posts. Don't hear much from Lawn Ranger either these days.

    Rowlett, Texas

    Griffin's Grub or you can find me on Facebook

    The Supreme Potentate, Sovereign Commander and Sultan of Wings

     

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  • Hoster05
    Hoster05 Posts: 312
    best I have made is an 80/20 burger with the 80% being lean venison and the 20% being raspberry chipotle bacon ends from a small meat market the next town over.  grind them together twice to mix and make them in a cast iron skillet over a 425 degree direct heat.  
    Mankato, MN - LBGE
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  • EggObsessed
    EggObsessed Posts: 786
    @Griffin, Lawn Ranger aka Mike Schweitzer posts very actively on Facebook. His cooks, his covered patio, deck built for his cat, etc., still pack the WOW factor!
    Kelley 
    Egging with No Joke Smoke (Bruce), enjoying small town life in Brenham, TX., the home of Blue Bell Ice Cream.  BGEs: XL, Medium,  1 MiniMax. 36" CookRite Commercial Griddle, and a Shirley Smoker.
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  • Photo Egg
    Photo Egg Posts: 12,137
    EggObsessed said:
    @Griffin, Lawn Ranger aka Mike Schweitzer posts very actively on Facebook. His cooks, his covered patio, deck built for his cat, etc., still pack the WOW factor!
    I guess I need to face the skeletons and join FB.
    Thank you,
    Darian

    Galveston Texas
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  • cookingdude555
    cookingdude555 Posts: 3,196
    Photo Egg said:
    EggObsessed said:
    @Griffin, Lawn Ranger aka Mike Schweitzer posts very actively on Facebook. His cooks, his covered patio, deck built for his cat, etc., still pack the WOW factor!
    I guess I need to face the skeletons and join FB.
    I really never understood why one would be against joining bbq groups on FB.  You can always join with an alias, just like we do here.  I dont think people have left because of anything in particular on the forum, FB is just so much larger on the cooking and BGE content that this forum (and everything else for that matter).  So many have created cooking forums where the rules are as they want, the content owners get to rule.  No one has to worry about the buffalo, unless that is your thing, and there are heavily censored egg forums for that too.  I have always wondered why BGE has let yet another thing slip through their fingers by not creating their own FB group.

    I guess there are groups for everyone, the old forum style, and otherwise.  I like both.

    Not speaking directly to you @Photo Egg, just my wonderings in my head is all.
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  • Photo Egg
    Photo Egg Posts: 12,137
    cookingdude555 said:
    Photo Egg said:
    EggObsessed said:
    @Griffin, Lawn Ranger aka Mike Schweitzer posts very actively on Facebook. His cooks, his covered patio, deck built for his cat, etc., still pack the WOW factor!
    I guess I need to face the skeletons and join FB.
    I really never understood why one would be against joining bbq groups on FB.  You can always join with an alias, just like we do here.  I dont think people have left because of anything in particular on the forum, FB is just so much larger on the cooking and BGE content that this forum (and everything else for that matter).  So many have created cooking forums where the rules are as they want, the content owners get to rule.  No one has to worry about the buffalo, unless that is your thing, and there are heavily censored egg forums for that too.  I have always wondered why BGE has let yet another thing slip through their fingers by not creating their own FB group.

    I guess there are groups for everyone, the old forum style, and otherwise.  I like both.

    Not speaking directly to you @Photo Egg, just my wonderings in my head is all.
    I'm not on FB at all or I would have already joined.
    I was not aware that you could join FB using an Alias but I have never checked into it. But will now. Thank you!
    Thank you,
    Darian

    Galveston Texas
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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,768
    cookingdude555 said:
    Photo Egg said:
    EggObsessed said:
    @Griffin, Lawn Ranger aka Mike Schweitzer posts very actively on Facebook. His cooks, his covered patio, deck built for his cat, etc., still pack the WOW factor!
    I guess I need to face the skeletons and join FB.
    I really never understood why one would be against joining bbq groups on FB.  You can always join with an alias, just like we do here.  I dont think people have left because of anything in particular on the forum, FB is just so much larger on the cooking and BGE content that this forum (and everything else for that matter).  So many have created cooking forums where the rules are as they want, the content owners get to rule.  No one has to worry about the buffalo, unless that is your thing, and there are heavily censored egg forums for that too.  I have always wondered why BGE has let yet another thing slip through their fingers by not creating their own FB group.

    I guess there are groups for everyone, the old forum style, and otherwise.  I like both.

    Not speaking directly to you @Photo Egg, just my wonderings in my head is all.
    I'm in the NON-facebook group. Have joined it 3 or 4 times and somehow it pulls currant and former address books from ??? And I get the same people who I would just as soon  not get including relatives. 
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • smbishop
    smbishop Posts: 3,061
    I was fortunate to start egging 10 years ago when Beli was still active on the old forum.  Loved his posts and generous sharing of his knowledge.

    Looking forward to trying some brisket burgers soon!  Thank you for sharing, Mickey!
    Southlake, TX and Cowhouse Creek - King, TX.  2 Large, 1 Small and a lot of Eggcessories.
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  • loco_engr
    loco_engr Posts: 5,818
    Griffin said:
    Mickey said:
    Griffin said:
    Great looking burgers @Mickey . I remember your post about doing them for @Beli Whatever happened to that guy? I haven't seen anything from him in a long time. Recently I was watching one of Spring Chicken's Mini movies to get some inspiration and I saw a bunch of his cooks. He had a pretty cool backyard setup from what I remember.
    He is doing well. @Lawn Ranger and our wives went to see him in Mexico year before last. 


    That's good to hear. Miss his posts. Don't hear much from Lawn Ranger either these days.
    He is on Facebook
    aka marysvilleksegghead
    Lrg 2008
    mini 2009

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    I said to my wife, 'Where do you want to go for our anniversary?' She said, 'I want to go somewhere I've never been before.' I said, 'Try the kitchen.'
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  • JohnInCarolina
    JohnInCarolina Posts: 34,734
    edited December 2019
    Nice!
    "I've made a note never to piss you two off." - Stike

    "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand." - Deep Throat
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  • AnothaStolenGenrator
    AnothaStolenGenrator Posts: 289
    Photo Egg said:
    EggObsessed said:
    @Griffin, Lawn Ranger aka Mike Schweitzer posts very actively on Facebook. His cooks, his covered patio, deck built for his cat, etc., still pack the WOW factor!
    I guess I need to face the skeletons and join FB.
    I quit Facebook as soon as I started living under a bridge.  That has a tendency to focus the mind.
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  • smokingal
    smokingal Posts: 1,025
    Those burgers look delicious.
    It's "Smokin Gal", not "Smoking Al".
    Egging in the Atlanta GA region
    Large BGE, CGS setup, Kick Ash Basket, Smokeware SS Cap,
    Arteflame grill grate

    http://barbecueaddict.com
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