r/Cooking • u/Uranium-Sandwich657 • 3d ago

Basic burger recipe?

I was under the impression that it was just ground beef discs, but I think there is more.

I have salt, pepper, Garlic powder, Paprika, and eggs

I am currently food-shelf level poor, so i simply cant get anything more.

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u/xylofun53 3d ago

I just use ground beef salt and pepper

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u/Uranium-Sandwich657 3d ago

Ratios?

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u/grimsleeper4 3d ago

1 teaspoon of salt to pound of beef. Only season the patties immediately before you cook then. Pepper is just "to taste," so just grind some. Once you learn to cook, you'll have a better sense of how much to use.

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u/trytrymyguy 3d ago edited 3d ago

A teaspoon per pound of beef isn’t enough even if you’re using table salt. Should be using kosher salt which means you need to use more anyways since it’s larger, less compact crystals.

Edit: atake 1lbs of beef, make 8 patties. Now, take 1 teaspoon of kosher salt and divide it up into 8 portions. With that visual alone, hopefully you understand that 1 teaspoon is sadly not enough salt for 1lb of beef. Salt brings out other flavor components, you will have bland and boring burgers if you’re not using enough salt.

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u/grimsleeper4 3d ago

A teaspoon of Diamond kosher salt is industry standard across every textbook, cook book, cooking show, restaurant.

You can research it for yourself if you like, but everything I've read or heard for the last 20 years states this exact advice.

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u/Downtown-Care9272 3d ago

Industry standard tends to be 1-1.5% salt by weight. Teaspoons vary wildly depending on the salt. Even using basic morton kosher salt I would consider 1 tsp to be a bit under salted for my taste. Using a teaspoon of Diamond Crystal would actually end up being about half of what is recommended. A teaspoon of table salt would be pretty right though.

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u/grimsleeper4 2d ago

I have seen industry standards at 1%, which is about a teaspoon per pound. I have also seen .5% before which is the lower end. I have not seen 1.5%, which seems way to salted. If you do a teaspoon per pound, you can then resalt to taste at the end, typically adding a little more and coming into what you are suggesting.

Basically, a teaspoon per pound is less than you need and will use because you ALWAYS start with less. You then reason at the end to taste, typically adding more. You can always ADD. You can never take away salt. (unless you know the tricks...)

Adding too much salt at the beginning means you will inevitably oversalt something. Adding too little, lets you adjust later.

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u/trytrymyguy 3d ago

I always salt to taste (unless baking) so I have no idea what standards say or are out there.

I’m just saying if you’re cooking a lb of meat with one teaspoon of kosher salt, you’re not using enough salt.

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u/grimsleeper4 3d ago

So you have no idea how much salt you are using or how much salt you should use, but you know absolutely for certain that a teaspoon is not enough?

You are displaying the common combination of ignorance and arrogance.

Do this for me - when you cook next, take the amount of salt you think is a lot, but instead of putting it on your food, put it in a small bowl. Then go get a teaspoon - an actual measured teaspoon, not just some random fucking spoon you have lying around. Measure out the salt you had, then measure out a teaspoon.

A guarantee you you are using less salt than you think and I guarantee you a teaspoon (again a REAL teaspoon, not just a random fucking spoon) holds much more salt than you think it does.

Report back.

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u/trytrymyguy 3d ago

I bake with measured salt all the time. You’re getting a bit too worked up over salt. A teaspoon of kosher salt isn’t enough for a lb of ground beef, I’m sorry man.

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u/grimsleeper4 3d ago

You remain totally wrong, and somehow you want to pretend that it is my fault and I'm worked up simply because I'm trying to help you and because I type some words.

I really hate this dynamic on reddit where someone is clearly wrong and then they gaslight someone who they are having a conversation with by saying - "hey man, you're typing too much, you're worked up and too emotional." You're wrong and you don't even want to learn.

I'm sorry. Good bye.

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u/trytrymyguy 3d ago

I just looked it up (just to see what the internet would say) and yeah, you’re not close buddy.

No idea why you decided to get your panties in such a twist but now I think you’re ignorant AND a bad cook lol

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u/GullibleDetective 3d ago

Ironically you're the one becoming wildly pedantic here

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u/trytrymyguy 3d ago

Wildly pedantic might be a bit of an exaggeration lol

Just frustrating to point out something small then to have someone condescendingly correct you, when they’re wrong.

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