grilling is pretty much the easiest way to cook stuff, i dunno wtf their problems are... wait, nm, we're talking regi's team here, I know what their problems are.
On November 11 2011 05:32 mrgerry wrote: Wtf I've never even considered baking hamburgers before, is that sanitary? haha
Yeah it's actually a healthier alternative to frying (it tastes really shitty in comparison though..a friends mom used to bake everything and I ate there once) Grilling is still healthier though because the grease drips down so the burger doesn't reabsorb any of it. Grilling is also a lot faster (since you need to bake a burger for 15+ mins to make sure the inside is cooked enough)
On November 11 2011 05:32 mrgerry wrote: Wtf I've never even considered baking hamburgers before, is that sanitary? haha
Probably not... can't imagine baking can cook the insides of ground beef very well.
if you can roast a massive bird in an oven how hard can a tiny burger be? whats so special about ground up meat
e. coli grows on the surface of exposed beef
the reason a steak is fine medium rare is because you sear the surface and kill off the bacteria
but a burger is ground up beef so the surface was actually mushed inside -- if it's undercooked even a little bit you'd be sick to your stomach
This It's also why most restaurants won't even allow you to get a medium-rare burger. You'd be better off broiling a burger if you must use an oven but I think regi actually did bake it lol
Edit: baking is fine yeah, just you lose a lot of the natural taste when you do. Some people don't like that but everyone's tastes are different.
Eh? Have you never actually had a proper burger that wasn't cooked all the way through? This is how it's done in the best burger specialty places, especially in the States, although it is always grilled.
Baking is fine when it comes to health issues. Cooking it in the oven will generally get it cooked through more easily for people that don't cook because when they use a pan or a grill on too high a heat they'll scorch the outside and take it off when it's still rare in the inside.
Those "proper burgers" probably aren't made from ground beef though. Essentially if you take a steak and put it on a bun you have a specialty place burger. The thing is, you don't need to cook the inside of a steak and it's perfectly safe to eat it barely cooked (raw and bloody). However, if you grind the beef and then reform (per traditional hamburger) the outside that needs to be cooked mixes with everything else and you need to cook the whole thing through to be safe.
On November 11 2011 10:02 Blitzkrieg0 wrote: Those "proper burgers" probably aren't made from ground beef though. Essentially if you take a steak and put it on a bun you have a specialty place burger. The thing is, you don't need to cook the inside of a steak and it's perfectly safe to eat it barely cooked (raw and bloody). However, if you grind the beef and then reform (per traditional hamburger) the outside that needs to be cooked mixes with everything else and you need to cook the whole thing through to be safe.
Oh man.
There are many real burger places that will cook your burger medium ~ medium rare as standard.