BURGERS

I suppose to make a good burger it requires the right mixture of lean and fatty hamburger so when it cooks it has the right level of juiciness and taste. How you cook the hamburger is also important in this sense as you need to find that ideal balance between being too well done and too rare. The bread/bun is always important as well in that it needs to have the right texture and fluffiness/chewiness to compliment the burger. A good, perhaps maybe unexpected, cheese always makes or breaks a burger as well. One of the better burgers I can recall had provolone and some other strange cheese instead of the typical American cheese. You can seldom go wrong experimenting in this area. Aside from that to really make the burger stand out I feel you need some condiments and perhaps a few secret spices thrown in. Chili-burgers have always been a favorite of mine but I'm sure there are many other wonderful things you can throw on this versatile food.

There used to be a really good restaurant called the Texas Hamburger Factory where I live that had an excellent Hickory Cheese Burger that was to die for. I forgot the restaurant that put all the Italian cheeses and spices on the burger but that was also fabulous. A few others whose names I can't recall, mostly small mom & pop restaurants, used wonderful tasting spices in their burgers. A local restaurant called the Villiage Grill makes a good simple burger that I always enjoy as well. I can't really think of any fast food establishments that I enjoy burgers from, but I suppose the ones at IHOP and Sonic are decent.

The worst burgers I have ever tried are from this place called the Landmark Grill where they squirt this fake smoke flavor liquid all over the burgers when they cook them. I've also had a few that used WAY TOO MUCH lean meat and literally flaked apart as I ate them because they were so dry.

Jam it back in, in the dark.