How do you like your Burger?

I'm happy with a classic cheeseburger. Although, you can get good ones and bad ones so I usually just eat them at home. I'll put cheddar, ketchup, mayo, raw onion, sliced pickles, tomato and lettuce. And, I'll add something spicy on there like a hot sauce or diced chilis...
 
WHAT is a juicy lucy??
The cheese comes out molten when you bite into a freshly cooked burger and will stick to the roof of your mouth and give you a heck of a burn. But, they are great!

I don't know if there are any left, but there used to be a chain of drive-thru stores where you could pick up your burger(s) and eat out front on provided tables, in your car, or take them home.
 
WHAT is a juicy lucy??

Cheese inside the patty. I learned it here. I've never eaten one though.

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/213797/juicy-lucy-burgers/
My mom made them decades before they had a fancy name. She liked Gouda or blue cheese in the middle.
I made one with brie.

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If I could choose, I'd do a gluten free bun, vegan yellow cheese, burger, pickled cucs, fresh red onion, mayo. And fries on the side, plain, just salted.
 
ANY-WAY....
Back on topic. I make my burgers with minced beef, salt and pepper. If I'm feeling really extravagant, I might add a dash of Worcesteresterestershire sauce, but that's it. No pummeling the beef into submission, just mix it a bit and form a patty.
 
She didn't really make a juicy lucy. Just two thin burgers with cheese in between. Her version is wonderful.
But a juicy lucy has the cheese completely sealed in the middle of the raw meat. Then it is cooked till nicely browned. When cut into the cheese oozes out.
Oozing cheese is a wonderful thing. It doesn't matter to me if the meat is sealed completely! In fact, it might be better because cheese tastes really good when it gets a little char on it.
 
ANY-WAY....
Back on topic. I make my burgers with minced beef, salt and pepper. If I'm feeling really extravagant, I might add a dash of Worcesteresterestershire sauce, but that's it. No pummeling the beef into submission, just mix it a bit and form a patty.
That's the best way to form a patty. Many the outdoor grillmaster will say that it makes the burgers tough if they are overworked and not loosely formed. IDK, I cook mine inside on a cast iron skillet, but they definitely are not overworked. But I do love a smash burger.

I am not fond of Worst-ever sauce (nod to rascal who keeps gallon jugs of that stuff on hand and loves it but still calls it worst-ever sauce...scratching my head at that but okay). I will add some soy, pepper, and garlic to a patty quite happily though.
 
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