You know the type of person that always has to tinker, to try new things, to change it up?
Generally, that isn't me but....
Reading some of the suggestions here, I read that someone mentioned mixing in some sausage with the beef. I thought about it as a possibility, something to try so I mentioned it to the wife.
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She kiboshed the idea with a hard NO.
I finally stumbled upon a recipe that is the absolute best that I have ever tried. 25 years with this woman, she has done most of the cooking (Including hamburgers) and I was never fully satisfied with her burgers or my own until I tried what I'm doing now. I've made the mistake of varying a recipe on a few things that I have cooked and stupidly forgot what the winning combination was and never got back to it.
In short, for me, what worked was 1 lb of the standard 80% beef/20% fat ground beef with 3/4 of a packet of Liptons Onion soup mix. I cook in real butter and add salt and pepper as I cook, as per the Gordon Ramsay video posted elsewhere in this thread. The butter keeps the burgers juicy, the soup mix, salt and pepper add flavor. I did start with a full packet of the soup mix but it seemed over-seasoned so I pulled back a bit.
Both Mary and I eat these with groans of satisfaction almost like you'd expect from a fat guy that hasn't eaten in a week.
