Could a hamburger be cooked in bacon grease?

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Feldenak

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Originally posted by: SampSon
I've actually tasted pure MSG salt. took a field trip to an amino acids factory in my high school Japanese class (Ajinomoto was the company--our teacher felt that it was appropriate). They passed around pure MSG in a little bottle. I put some on my tongue...oddly enough, it tastes like Chinese take-out.
I have a bottle of msg at my cabin. They used to sell it as a spice back in the day.

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zinfamous

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Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: K1052
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: K1052
my heart just asploaded from reading that

Think I should cook the bacon in butter?


No, just mold the burger meat around an entire stick of butter.


Well, these are preshaped frozen patties, not what I would handmake from ground beef. Maybe I'll just set a stick of butter atop the patty while it cooks. Then when I flip the patty, it'll cook in the butter/bacon grease mix while I set the cheese atop the patty.

Use two patties and sandwich the stick in between them, to maintain structural integrity secure the apparatus with liberally applied thick bacon


we're getting to the point where God smites us all and forces us to speak different languages...

I believe in God, and buttering my bacon, and baconing my sausage, and a magical animal that produces all three of bacon, pork, and ham.


yeah right...some magical creature like unicorns or eskimos?
 

Toastedlightly

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Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: K1052
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: K1052
my heart just asploaded from reading that

Think I should cook the bacon in butter?


No, just mold the burger meat around an entire stick of butter.


Well, these are preshaped frozen patties, not what I would handmake from ground beef. Maybe I'll just set a stick of butter atop the patty while it cooks. Then when I flip the patty, it'll cook in the butter/bacon grease mix while I set the cheese atop the patty.

Use two patties and sandwich the stick in between them, to maintain structural integrity secure the apparatus with liberally applied thick bacon

I wonder if I could somehow work MSG into this? Or Canadian Bacon?


I've actually tasted pure MSG salt. took a field trip to an amino acids factory in my high school Japanese class (Ajinomoto was the company--our teacher felt that it was appropriate). They passed around pure MSG in a little bottle. I put some on my tongue...oddly enough, it tastes like Chinese take-out.

Were you hungry again an hour later?

I worked in a Chinese restaurant... oh man the MSG you could put in things.
 

zinfamous

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Originally posted by: Feldenak
Originally posted by: SampSon
I've actually tasted pure MSG salt. took a field trip to an amino acids factory in my high school Japanese class (Ajinomoto was the company--our teacher felt that it was appropriate). They passed around pure MSG in a little bottle. I put some on my tongue...oddly enough, it tastes like Chinese take-out.
I have a bottle of msg at my cabin. They used to sell it as a spice back in the day.

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lol. "Accent flavor enhancer" contains MSG. let me guess...100% ?
 

zinfamous

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Jul 12, 2006
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Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: K1052
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: K1052
my heart just asploaded from reading that

Think I should cook the bacon in butter?


No, just mold the burger meat around an entire stick of butter.


Well, these are preshaped frozen patties, not what I would handmake from ground beef. Maybe I'll just set a stick of butter atop the patty while it cooks. Then when I flip the patty, it'll cook in the butter/bacon grease mix while I set the cheese atop the patty.

Use two patties and sandwich the stick in between them, to maintain structural integrity secure the apparatus with liberally applied thick bacon

I wonder if I could somehow work MSG into this? Or Canadian Bacon?


I've actually tasted pure MSG salt. took a field trip to an amino acids factory in my high school Japanese class (Ajinomoto was the company--our teacher felt that it was appropriate). They passed around pure MSG in a little bottle. I put some on my tongue...oddly enough, it tastes like Chinese take-out.

Were you hungry again an hour later?


Don't remember. We also ate at a Japanese steak house in the area...but I don't remmber if that was before or after the amino acid plant.

As a slightly strange side note, several years later (~5 eyars ago?), the amino acid plant was cited as being the worst polluter in our city :)
 

GuitarDaddy

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Cook the bacon, then the hamburger in the pan. Cook both until there is no grease left in them. Then throw the bacon and hamburger away, pour the grease evenly into a muffin tin and refrigerate for several hours. Grease muffins FTW!!!!
 

Steve

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Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: K1052
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: K1052
my heart just asploaded from reading that

Think I should cook the bacon in butter?


No, just mold the burger meat around an entire stick of butter.


Well, these are preshaped frozen patties, not what I would handmake from ground beef. Maybe I'll just set a stick of butter atop the patty while it cooks. Then when I flip the patty, it'll cook in the butter/bacon grease mix while I set the cheese atop the patty.

Use two patties and sandwich the stick in between them, to maintain structural integrity secure the apparatus with liberally applied thick bacon


we're getting to the point where God smites us all and forces us to speak different languages...

I believe in God, and buttering my bacon, and baconing my sausage, and a magical animal that produces all three of bacon, pork, and ham.


yeah right...some magical creature like unicorns or eskimos?


I call it the Dainbeast.
 

Steve

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Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Cook the bacon, then the hamburger in the pan. Cook both until there is no grease left in them. Then throw the bacon and hamburger away, pour the grease evenly into a muffin tin and refrigerate for several hours. Grease muffins FTW!!!!

That is the most bizarre idea yet in this thread :Q
 

SampSon

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Originally posted by: Feldenak
Originally posted by: SampSon
I've actually tasted pure MSG salt. took a field trip to an amino acids factory in my high school Japanese class (Ajinomoto was the company--our teacher felt that it was appropriate). They passed around pure MSG in a little bottle. I put some on my tongue...oddly enough, it tastes like Chinese take-out.
I have a bottle of msg at my cabin. They used to sell it as a spice back in the day.

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I know it's still available. But the bottle I have is the style you would get in a run of the mill grocery market in America. From the "spice islands" or some brand like that.

I
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Cook the bacon, then the hamburger in the pan. Cook both until there is no grease left in them. Then throw the bacon and hamburger away, pour the grease evenly into a muffin tin and refrigerate for several hours. Grease muffins FTW!!!!

That is the most bizarre idea yet in this thread :Q
That's fscking disgusting. :laugh:
 

b0mbrman

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Originally posted by: sm8000
Seriously, just thought of this a moment ago. I cooked my eggs this morning in the grease of freshly cooked bacon, as I always do. I wonder if I could do the same with a beef patty? What do you think?

Of course.

But uh...a hamburger patty can pretty much cook in its own juices
 

spidey07

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on a lighter note I had some bacon to get rid of.

Cooked me up some more goodness. Bacon for sammiches and grease for the grease jar.
 

DainBramaged

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Originally posted by: Steve
Seriously, just thought of this a moment ago. I cooked my eggs this morning in the grease of freshly cooked bacon, as I always do. I wonder if I could do the same with a beef patty? What do you think?

Sounds tasty. When are you making me one?
 

BlancoNino

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Originally posted by: Steve
Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Cook the bacon, then the hamburger in the pan. Cook both until there is no grease left in them. Then throw the bacon and hamburger away, pour the grease evenly into a muffin tin and refrigerate for several hours. Grease muffins FTW!!!!

That is the most bizarre idea yet in this thread :Q

STEVE....YOU'RE ALMOST A LIFER. DO IT MAN!!!! DO IT!!!!

Reply to my post too. Make your 10k post a reply to mine.
 

elektrolokomotive

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Originally posted by: Steve
Originally posted by: loup garou
Originally posted by: sm8000
Originally posted by: K1052
my heart just asploaded from reading that

Think I should cook the bacon in butter?
Naw, deepfried all the way.

Don't have a fryer, but I do have a rice cooker, think I could somehow rig it?

Just go to Hackney's. That's how they cook their burgers.