Burger Friday

"Svend" (svend) 05/31/2019 at 12:10 • Filed to: None

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Breakfast.

Cheese burger with shallots on a toasted brioche and hash browns with chilli sauce.

Late lunch -early dinner

One plain seasoned burger and one with a BBQ seasoned Monterey Jack cheese melt, bo th on toasted brioches with hash browns and pickled gherkins.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > Svend 05/31/2019 at 12:34

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But we need to say it upfront: The Mexican sour gherkin is NOT a cucumber. Yes, they both belong to the same gourd family “Cucurbitaceae” and the gherkin is often called a “miniature cucumber” but they are from different cultivar groups. ... So, gherkins are pickles but pickles are not gherkins (just pickled cucumbers).

Svend > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 05/31/2019 at 13:00

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I don’t call anything a pickle without defining what it is, be it pickled gherkin, cucumber, egg, onion, etc... Lol.

There are some European countries that class a gherkin, cucumber and courgette as the same thing, the U.K. isn’t one of them. :)

These are gherkins that have been pickled, just as I’ve sliced up cucu mbers and pickled them in the past, they were pickled cucumber slices .

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > Svend 05/31/2019 at 14:18

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yum

i had bitterballen n beer

ive decided thats a meal

Svend > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 05/31/2019 at 14:49

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I quite fancy some bitterballen or kroke tten right now.

But if I want to get them it’s £19 for 50 bitterballen, £20 for 18 kroketten or £16 for 40 Beckers frikandellen and the website is out of frites saus. :( 

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Svend 05/31/2019 at 19:06

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I thought gherkins were regular pickles and I was massively disappointed the first time I tried one. I tend to really enjoy pickles as well, like regular pickles (cucumbers, I guess), onions, peppers, and especially pickled spicy eggplant.

I was going to say that this looked a bit plain for you, Svend, but after seeing the bun toasting, the nice colour on the burger, and the hash browns that look like they were made with a ring mould... this looks fucking excellent.

Svend > gin-san - shitpost specialist 05/31/2019 at 19:16

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I think in the U.S. a ‘pickle’ is a specific item.

But here a pickle just means something that has been pickled, not what it is.

Like you may have some pickled onions with a salad, a pickled egg with fish and chips or sliced pickled gherkins in a burger.

I wanted a plain burger to really taste the flavour of the burger on it’s own merit.

I’m tempted to go and make a burger right now. 

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Svend 05/31/2019 at 19:25

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I definitely don’t mind a plain cheeseburger that’s cooked well. Brioche buns are awesome, and I like the “smashed” burger where you cook a couple of thin patties on really high heat to get a nice sear on each side, and thin enough to cook in a couple of minutes.

I haven’t made it in a while since i t’s probably not a healthy to have brioche-bun cheeseburgers for three nights in a row just to use up all the ingredients I bought.

Svend > gin-san - shitpost specialist 05/31/2019 at 19:35

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Once you’ve tried brioche. it’s hard to go back to a regular bun again if there is choice. 

I saw ‘smashed’ and immediately thought of smashed potatoes topped with grated cheese.

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Svend 05/31/2019 at 19:42

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Damn! Good looking potatoes. Those hash browns beside the burger l ooked great, too.

Svend > gin-san - shitpost specialist 05/31/2019 at 20:13

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Smashed potatoes are easy. Bake some medium to large potatoes, brush them with butter. Once they’ve cooked through and a sharp knife can be put threw them with no resistance. Gently hit them with the bottom of a cup to break them open. Brush with more butter and cook for ten more minutes, take out, brush again then add the grated cheese and return to the oven for a further five or so minutes or until melted.

((you can bypass the initial baking stage by piercing them all over with a fork, loosely covering them with k itchen paper towel then microwaving them at 850-900 for ten or 11 minutes, then smash them)).

Just got back up stairs from making a half pounder plain burger.

Yep, tastes pretty good. 

gin-san - shitpost specialist > Svend 05/31/2019 at 20:33

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damn that’s easy

ass fattening but easy

Svend > gin-san - shitpost specialist 05/31/2019 at 21:13

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It’s so good and warming.