Basic Burger: A Ratio Recipe

Last year, after we moved, our new neighbours gave us some hamburgers so we didn’t have to cook. They were amazing and I asked her what her trick was. Her trick was, KISS—Keep It Simple Stupid. Ok, she didn’t say that, but that’s how I felt after trying so many burger formulas and finding my favourite is basic.

Our local grocery store sell a huge log—literally, see picture—of lean ground beef and a couple times a year I buy some and make and freeze burgers. We love them!

These get the chef’s KISS

Ingredients

This is the basic formula per one pound beef:

• one pound ground beef of choice

• 1 egg

• 1 tsp of salt

• 1/2 tsp ground black pepper

• 1 clove of minced garlic (1/2 clove if you don’t love garlic)

Instructions

1. Add all ingredients to a bowl

2. Mix thoroughly

3. Shape into patties

4. Cook as desired
   We use an indoor grill in the winter and outdoor grilled in the summer, but I’ve also been known to pan-fry them in my casts iron.

For my 10 lbs of ground beef I opted for:

• 10 lbs lean beef

• 1 bulb minced garlic

• 10 tsp salt

• 5 tsp black pepper

• 9 eggs (my eggs were large and I didn’t want it to be too eggy