Burger recipes?

T

TheFied

2,500+ Posts
I have made the ctrl+alt+delete blue cheese burger many times as well as the Juicy Lucy (which GakFoo turned me on).

Any other burger recipes you recommend? I saw some burger on the Travel Channel the other day that had cream cheese on it.

I had my butcher grind up some brisket that I am going to use to make some burgers, just trying to get some thoughts.
 
let me know if you can find the recipe for the burger at "Fathers Office" in Los Angeles. although not a traditional burger, which i prefer, it is definitely in my top 3.
 
Father's Office burger - secret ingredient?
With great amusement I read the L.A. Times so-called reproduction of the Office Burger from Father's Office in Santa Monica. The burger seems simple enough - premium quality ground beef, a French roll, fresh arugula, Maytag bleu cheese, good gruyere cheese - but the most mystifying element that baffled the Times staff was the "bacon compote" and carmelized onions.

Having gorged on FO's delicious conconction myself more than a dozen times, I could not fathom the presence of ketchup, Worchestershire sauce and liquid smoke in the "bacon compote," as the Times suggested. I even tried making the L.A. Times recipe at home myself for comparison purposes and found that the results were not even close.

While scanning the shelves at Surfas this weekend, I stumbled across a product that showed great promise of being the "secret" ingredient - Stonewall Kitchen's roasted garlic and onion jam. The banter between Inthebiz and WLA about certain items at FO coming from a jar (some tapas items, I assumed) made me think I was on to something. While I don't recall the presence of garlic on the burger, this stuff looks and tastes extremely close to onion concoction that tops the Father's Office burger. By adding big, fat-free chunks of bacon to this it tasted exactly the same to me. It had the right combination of sweetness and smokiness that eluded the Times "experts."

Maybe Sang Yoon makes his own onion jam/compote/whatever you want to call it. I think he probably calls it "bacon compote" on the menu to throw people off the path. But maybe the cooks just spoon some onion jam out of a jar, toss in some bacon chunks and heat it up before slathering it over the burger.
 
While scanning the shelves at Surfas this weekend, I stumbled across a product that showed great promise of being the "secret" ingredient - Stonewall Kitchen's roasted garlic and onion jam. The banter between Inthebiz and WLA about certain items at FO coming from a jar (some tapas items, I assumed) made me think I was on to something. While I don't recall the presence of garlic on the burger, this stuff looks and tastes extremely close to onion concoction that tops the Father's Office burger. By adding big, fat-free chunks of bacon to this it tasted exactly the same to me. It had the right combination of sweetness and smokiness that eluded the Times "experts."
__________________________________________________

This I will try this weekend. I always hit FO in Santa Monica if I am in town. I have even been to the new location near LAX. I enjoy a lot of their food and I always thought It would make a great restaurant in Austin. They also have some great local beers that you can only get in California.
 
i do think the sauce is homemade or i know the carmelized onions are fresh, maybe he adds the onions to the sauce.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Recent Threads

Prediction Results Threads

2024 Schedules

Back
Top