🇺🇸 How to Make Cheeseburger

Craving Cheeseburger? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Cheeseburger at home, in about 15 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 250g ground beef, 20% fat (fat = flavour, don't go lean)
• 2 soft potato or brioche buns
• 2 slices American cheese (it melts best — today is not the day for fancy cheese)
• salt + coarse black pepper
• 2 tbsp butter for the buns
• pickles + thin-sliced onion
• Sauce: 2 tbsp mayo + 1 tbsp ketchup + 1 tsp mustard + chopped pickle

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Butter the bun halves and toast them cut-side down in the pan until golden. Set aside.
2. Divide the beef into 2 loose balls. Don't knead, don't season yet — overworked beef turns bouncy.
3. Get a dry cast-iron or heavy pan SMOKING hot — 2 full minutes on max heat.
4. Drop the balls in and smash them flat and thin with a spatula for 10 seconds. Salt and pepper the tops generously.
5. Leave them alone for 2 minutes until the edges go lacy and dark — that crust is the entire point of a smash burger.
6. Flip once, cheese on immediately, 45 more seconds. Want it extra melty? Add a tsp of water to the pan and cover for 20 sec.
7. Build: sauce on the bottom bun, pickles, onion, patty, top bun. Eat within 5 minutes. It will drip. That's correct.