Burgers

[herm0016]

not sure i would refreeze, but i would eat it if it did not smell bad. just not rare.

the nose knows.

 

[ElFenix]

he's not dead, but he hasn't updated the thread to tell us if he ate the burgers or not. maybe he's undead and doesn't know how to use the computer, just pushes around the mouse with his undead zombie hands?

 

[feralkid]

he's not dead, but he hasn't updated the thread to tell us if he ate the burgers or not. maybe he's undead and doesn't know how to use the computer, just pushes around the mouse with his undead zombie hands?

The undead post here all of the time...so.

Just saying.

 

[Craig234]

Any updates OP?

Still deciding what to do.

 

[spacejamz]

dude, its been almost a month...where has that meat been since your last post?

 

[ElFenix]

@Craig234 if that's been in your freezer for a month and you're still undecided, you're not ever going to make a decision and 3 years from now you'll wonder why you've had that taking up room in your freezer all these years. you should just toss it now.

 

[clamum]

lol, this thread is entertaining. If you're *really* adamant about cooking the burgers (IMO, why even risk it? throw that f'ing shit out mayne), then use the smell test like a couple others have mentioned. If it smells off, toss it. If not, well, report back to us 12 hours after eating.

 

[Scarpozzi]

I heard you never refreeze meat after it thaws unless you cook it first. I probably would have heated up the grill when I discovered the meat and had a feast.

On that note, I'm going to give you my recipe for sliders. I buy beef from the Fresh Market weekly when they run their ground chuck sale here. (had these yesterday).

Basically, rather than grilling the burgers, I use a nonstick ceramic skillet. I use the wrapping paper the beef comes in, but you could use foil or whatever.... Roll or use your hands to flatten the meat to a consistent thickness in the shape of a big square or rectangle. Then use a table knife to score the meat into small squares. If you have slider buns, you can size them appropriately...you can also cut hot dog buns into halves and make them that way.

Position the burgers in the pan and sprinkle with a little kosher salt....then hit each burger with a shot of Worcestershire sauce. I buy a large container of dehydrated onions and sprinkle those over all the burgers. After you get them lightly covered with onions and salt and Worcestershire sauce you let them cook a minute or so....flip them and add about a half cup of water to the pan and cover.

When the burgers are cooked, you can take slices of american cheese and cut them into quarters...that makes just about the perfect size slices for the mini burgers. Once the cheese melts, you put them on buns and you're ready to serve them.

I make those for my kids weekly and they eat them up. They never were big on burgers until I started making them...

 

[nakedfrog]

I heard you never refreeze meat after it thaws unless you cook it first. I probably would have heated up the grill when I discovered the meat and had a feast.

On that note, I'm going to give you my recipe for sliders. I buy beef from the Fresh Market weekly when they run their ground chuck sale here. (had these yesterday).

Basically, rather than grilling the burgers, I use a nonstick ceramic skillet. I use the wrapping paper the beef comes in, but you could use foil or whatever.... Roll or use your hands to flatten the meat to a consistent thickness in the shape of a big square or rectangle. Then use a table knife to score the meat into small squares. If you have slider buns, you can size them appropriately...you can also cut hot dog buns into halves and make them that way.

Position the burgers in the pan and sprinkle with a little kosher salt....then hit each burger with a shot of Worcestershire sauce. I buy a large container of dehydrated onions and sprinkle those over all the burgers. After you get them lightly covered with onions and salt and Worcestershire sauce you let them cook a minute or so....flip them and add about a half cup of water to the pan and cover.

When the burgers are cooked, you can take slices of american cheese and cut them into quarters...that makes just about the perfect size slices for the mini burgers. Once the cheese melts, you put them on buns and you're ready to serve them.

I make those for my kids weekly and they eat them up. They never were big on burgers until I started making them...

So you're basically making White Castle burgers?

 

[Scarpozzi]

So you're basically making White Castle burgers?

Yeah....but you get to control the quality of the meat and amount of bacteria in each burger.

 

[ElFenix]

I heard you never refreeze meat after it thaws unless you cook it first.

that's a food quality thing, not really a food safety thing.

 

[Scarpozzi]

that's a food quality thing, not really a food safety thing.

I never worked at McDonald's, so I don't know the difference.

 

[dainthomas]

The small amount of money you wasted letting it sit that long is a life lesson. No reason to add multiple orifice issues to that.

Buy a porch cam.

 

[nakedfrog]

I'm reminded of the lost keys for some reason.

 

[Craig234]

@Craig234 if that's been in your freezer for a month and you're still undecided, you're not ever going to make a decision and 3 years from now you'll wonder why you've had that taking up room in your freezer all these years. you should just toss it now.

Snarky and as often the case with snarky, wrong.

 

[Craig234]

The small amount of money you wasted letting it sit that long is a life lesson. No reason to add multiple orifice issues to that.

Buy a porch cam.

I did get a porch cam, a year ago, and not to support ElFenix's wrong post, that I have not installed yet.

'Letting it sit that long' isn't a very accurate, but not entirely inaccurate, phrase.

 

[zinfamous]

Lol throw it out. Not worth dying.

they were wagyu burgers though...so maybe?

 

[Craig234]

they were wagyu burgers though...so maybe?

LOL. But the fact I've had the gourmet bacon that came with them in the fridge for the month I've waited adds another variable, choice, and risk. Scientifically, I should try the burger and bacon on separate days to isolate which one caused food poisoning, if one does.

 

[ElFenix]

Snarky and as often the case with snarky, wrong.

 

[Craig234]

That photo means something to you.