How To Make Cheeseburgers
In perfect opposition to last week’s veggie burgers, I present cheeseburgers! Yay! The All-American pastime. Just kidding, if we all spent all our free time eating cheeseburgers, we’d be like the fattest nation on earth! Oh …Wait …
Well, whatever. One delectable homemade cheeseburger won’t kill you and if it does…what a way to go, right?!
How To Make Cheeseburgers
Simple is best when it comes to burgers
- Yield: 4 1x
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground chuck (for a luscious burger you want a 80/20 ratio; that is, 80% lean and 20% fat. But you can go leaner for a less fat-tastic burg)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 4 thin slices of cheez
Instructions
- With your hands, mix the meat up with the salt and pepper. Mix it good, but gently. Mix it well, but watch yourself, buddy, and don’t mash it all violently. Use discretion.
- Divide into four even portions. Form into thin patties, about 5″ across.
- Heat a heavy skillet or an outdoor grill to real hot. If you’re using a leaner meat than 80/20, brush a little oil on the skillet or grill, or just right on the meat patties.
- Put your burgers on the skillet or grill and cook for about 4 minutes, until the sides start to look cooked (that is, gray and not red).
- Flip em and cook another 2 minutes.
- Put the cheese on there and cook another 30 seconds to a minute.
- Serve like you are supposed to. Like, on a bun with lettuce and tomato and onions and pickles and mustard and whatever else. Then eat it up with a pile of chips and 5 beers. Then take a nap in the sun and bask in its warmth knowing that all is right with the world.
P.S. I forgot I promised a funny story about cheeseburgers. Umm, I guess I don’t really have one, though. Sorry about that. I hope that in its stead, you will accept a kind of lewd, only slightly funny story about puppy love and sausage wraps. You don’t have to read it.
Okay, so when I was 16, I went to Corpus (that’s Corpus Christi for non-Texans) to visit one of my best friends from middle school. It was Summer break I guess. She introduced me to this totally hot boy from her class. It was obviously meant to be since we both loved Nirvana, and also Sun Chips. We were on a tight love schedule since I was only going to be in town for a week and things progressed pretty quickly. Maybe I shouldn’t be telling you this. At any rate, I’ve started.
So, we were hanging out all day, everyday, at the beach and making out and stuff all over the place. (Sorry, Rachel. I know. Grody.) I ended up at his house one afternoon. And I mean that in the totally high school way — like, it was his bedroom in his mom’s house. We “messed around” a bunch, as they say. (Do kids still say that? I dunno. Doesn’t matter.) Then his mom invited me to stay over for dinner. It was kind of awkward, since there had just been some very adult behavior going on upstairs without her knowledge. She thought I was a very nice girl. Then she served sausage wraps. So maybe she did know what was going on upstairs. The End.
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I’m excited for when you show us how to make Tennis Balls of Meat.
That would be a fun way to play tennis. With bacon rackets.
At the very least, that would be a fun way of doing another episode on meatballs.
It’s funny that she thought you were “a nice girl”! Haha, I’m just kidding. You are a very nice human being. And so is your husband…especially if he lends us his truck.
YOU are a nice human being!
I am making me a cheeseburger this weekend.
That’s exactly what I wanted to happen!
I love cheese and I love burgers, but until recently I was never a fan of cheeseburgers. The looks you get when you say no to cheese on a burger are surreal. But I always stuck to my guns because I felt that the cheese dampened that beefy flavor I love. Then, about a year ago, I mentioned my reasoning to my 9 year old niece. She said that I wouldn’t feel that way if I made sure that the cheese was sharp or extra sharp cheddar. That didn’t seem to make sense, but the next time I was at the Alamo Drafthouse, I noticed that their cheeseburgers included sharp cheddar so I tried one. I’m now a convert.
Your niece is smart.
Oh man – those look good and I’m making them this week (the veggie burgers were awesome, now I need to make some fatass burgers to balance that out).
I paid close attention to your meat handling skills (DIRTY) because the last time I tried making meat burgers I over did it with the hand-work and they had the texture of hot dogs. GAG.
You better make your man a meat sandwich before he mutinies.
I hope you can learn a lesson from my meat-handling skills. I’m pretty expert.
OMG that was the best supposed-to-be-hamburger-actually-turned-semi-lewd-story EVER! I lol’d. AND making the hamburgers this weekend! yay!
Oh Hooray! I’m glad you appreciated it, Shawn! 🙂
Are you wearing my bejeweled rope belt as a sash?
No! That is MY bejeweled head sash as a belt.
I’m convinced that cheeseburgers can be a reasonable dinner option! I use the lean meat, whole wheat buns, plenty of fixin’s including japs, (no bacon no mayo, though). Serve with a salad or veg on the side. How is that worse than a small lean steak, whole wheat roll, salad, and veg? Makes perfect sense to me. 🙂
I actually made cheeseburgers last night. Served them with leftover homemade bean soup (which was 100% fat free and full of fiber…).
Hi Rachael! Yes! It makes perfect sense to me, too! 🙂 Sounds like you’ve got a healthy attitude towards food. I love that!
Thank you for commenting!
-hilah
I was just saying to my sister “Sister, I can’t wait til I get back from Southeast Asia and eat me a real cheeseburger.” And then I saw this and all you’ve done is strengthen my resolve Hilah.
I was thinking of going to Fuddruckers because I’m lazy and impatient, but now I might just get me some meat to goosh and do it all by myself. I could save literally pennies that way and it would be more deliciouser (yeah, that just happened – I made up a rad word).
I’m really glad to help support you on your cheeseburger quest. They are really too easy NOT to make yourself (and I do realize who I’m talking to here, Jack. Even you can do it. Swearzies!)
Hilah, first time I’ve ever posted anything although I’ve watched and rewatched all your episodes and have cooked quite a few of your recipes, but this cheeseburger one is a true gem, I just polished off 2 of the damn things.
Here in Sydney Australia there’s this massive trend towards “designer” burger joints and we pay anything from $10 to $18 for one of them.
Being tired from working all night (mardi gras here) I followed your recipe to the letter and it turned out absolutely heavenly.
Seriously it was so good I was shocked.
Respect woman, perfection in simplicity.
Hey dude! Thanks for writing! Ugh, yeah, I know what you mean about the $15 burger. Totally bogus. So I’m happy to hear you’re a burgermaster now! 🙂
Hi! I just made cheesburger by your recipe and it was GREAT! Greetings from Slovenia 🙂
Hello, Barbara! Yay! Thanks for sharing your success story!
Hilah, deeeer you make the best cheeseburgers and are the best cook ever.
BEST COOK IN THE WORLD!!! (I kid…or do I?)
World Champion Cook of Texas! Oh, speaking of Texas… how about a recipe for Texas BBQ Brisket?? And what’s the best place around Austin for BBQ? I’ll be flying in a couple of weeks!
My first post but have seen all of Hilah (well, of her cookin’ anywayz).
Now Hilah, you mentioned, when talking about the size of the burger, that you “don’t need to kill myself any harder than I’m already trying.”
Well – did you know if you have 100% grass fed beef it is actually as healthy or healthier than chicken? When they feed the cattle corn/grain in the latter part of their lives to plumpen them (catle usually start on grass) it really mucks up the animals. Skews the good/bad cholestrol in favor of bad. Decreases those good for you omega 3 acids. Sickens them so they need to get shot with antibiotics. And reduces the taste, to boot!
Go for the grass fed and you’ll be eatin’ healthy and delicious – and yeah – a tad more expensive. But aren’t you worth it???
Wow! Thanks for the info, Mykey! I love gettin’ educated.
Yum, now I wanna cheeseburger…because I’m a white all-american!
I just came across your little show and enjoy it. I make aprons and would love to send you one to wear on an episode of your show. If you’d be interested in that, let me know.
jenneethompson(at)yahoo(dot)com
Thank you so much, Jennee! I’ll email you.
I loooooooovvvveee burger’s and this is the peeeeerrrrrfect recipe! !!! Thank u so much. I’m ten and I’m definitely going to make these
Hi Colin! Thank you so much! I’m really happy to hear that you’re already cooking at age 10. Good for you!
Do you have any recipes for healthy cheeseburgers that are not vegan or vegetarian?
You mean like turkey burgers?
This is acool story ican imaigen
That he so lucky to have a girlfriend like u
Your web site so cool im 14 years old im im from saudi Arabia and iwish to be in usa some dat or be amirican
the cheeseburger was veryyyyyyyyyyyyy yummy i tried it. but don’t u think u were being a little over? like u were doing a little overacting. :/ well that doesn’t even matter, keep up with ur cooking (Y) 🙂