today we're going to make a simple cast
iron burger now i recently seasoned this
cast iron so i want to start cooking in
it and i've got me some hamburger meat
this is 73 27.
but before we do that what i'd like to
do is go ahead and toast my buns
real quick in the cast iron skillet
we'll just take a little bit of butter
add that to that
and we'll set that in there
let that begin to toast a little bit
so it'll be ready when we're done
cooking the burger well these buns ought
to be toasted let's take a look oh yeah
look at that man there's nothing like a
good toasted bun
when you're making a simple cast iron
burger so now that we got those done
what we're going to do some people
actually call these smash burgers i just
barely put this hamburger meat together
so what we're going to do we're just
going to lay this now the skillet is on
medium
and uh so we're just going to kind of
lay this in here
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and smash this down here
for just a couple seconds
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and we'll pull our wax paper or not wax
paper but uh
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paper off of it let that set and
develop a good sear on it
and i want to take and just add just a
little bit of salt to this not much but
just a little
a little pepper to that we'll let that
set and cook for just a few minutes what
we're looking for
is a little bit of that juice coming
through on the top
and then we know pretty much that the
bottom is seared real well okay that's
looking like it's starting to bubble up
through there pretty good so what you
want to use is a nice little metal
spatula now contrary to a lot of belief
is you can use metal on cast iron so
we'll get that
and i want you to look at that that's a
good looking sear on cast iron burger
we could have actually seared it just a
little bit longer but anyway we'll flip
this over
and
let it cook for another minute or two on
this side we'll add just a little slight
bit of salt
and a little bit of pepper to that
while we're doing that i'm going to go
ahead and add just a little bit of
mustard to my toasted buns
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and we're actually going to make
cheeseburger today so i'm going to go
ahead and put one piece
on the bottom side of the
hamburger bun
and then the other one we're going to
put on the
hamburger shortly were you talking about
seasoning a cast iron skillet now this
beef fat
also known as tallow beef tallow is a
good way
to continue to add more seasoning to
your skillet the best way for seasoning
a cast iron skillet is to cook in it and
cook some type of fatty meat kind of
like this here so
anyway
uh
we'll flip that over and just kind of
show you what that looks like
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let that drip just a little bit
we'll add that to our cheese
now we're going to go ahead and put
another one in here
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mash that baby down there real good like
that
what's good old bacon press comes in
real handy for stuff like this
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we'll add our salt and pepper to it
and let that get a good sear on the
bottom of it
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now generally when you're doing
something like this you're going to want
about probably about a 4 ounce maybe
four to six ounce
uh piece of
hamburger meat and that way it it pretty
much ends up being about the size of a
good hamburger bun as you can see
we're almost the same size as that
hamburger bun so
you know that makes it perfect when you
have just about four or five maybe six
ounces of hamburger meat
and that makes the perfect cast iron
hamburger i mean it stands to reason we
cook steak in cast iron so why not put a
good sear
on a hamburger in cast iron i know it's
beginning to be grilling season outside
but in case it's raining or whatever you
just
want to cook inside
this is the best way to do that and
that's cooking in a cast iron skillet go
ahead and add just a little bit of salt
to this and a little bit of pepper for
our seasoning
we'll let that go ahead and cook for
just a minute now the thing about this
is once you mash those in and like i
said some people call these smash
burgers or whatever this is just the way
i've always known to cook them
but in order to have a good juicy
hamburger once you mash that down with
your bacon press the first time you get
the hamburger down to the thickness that
you want
and then from then on you don't set over
here and just mash on your hamburger a
lot of people that's the way they'll
cook they'll start cooking their
hamburger and go to mashing down on it
and squeezing all the juice out of it
well then you have a dry
hamburger that's real chewy and
everything but if you want a good juicy
hamburger don't do that just mash it
down the first time to the thickness
that you want and then cook it on both
sides sear it on the bottom and then
flip it over for just another minute or
two
and you got the perfect cast iron burger
don't be afraid to flip it over once or
twice if you want to i mean you
certainly can do that there's no rules
against flipping
i'm going to cut my heat off
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we're going to take and add a piece of
cheese to this
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with our heat off that will allow that
to melt
and uh if we if you wanted to you can
actually put some kind of cover over it
i don't have a lid for this but we'll
just kind of let it melt a little bit
and then once it melts
good old american cheese is the best way
to go it melts the best on a hamburger
and so we'll go ahead and put that on
here
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and there you have it folks there is a
good old cast iron burger just a simple
cast iron burger cooked in what else but
a cast iron skillet this in half and
show you what this looks like
there you have it folks don't you look
how juicy that is
oh yeah
what else can we do with it
well there's only one other thing to do
and that's to give it a taste test
um
well
you can't beat that folks you need to
give this a try be sure and check this
video out right here because it was
created specifically for you
and we'll see you guys over there after
a while we're gonna finish this
big old cheeseburger here y'all have a
great day it's mike over here at mr cast
iron