I bought these , looking at the instructions it says: fry for 14 minutes.. why would you need to fry it that long? Any tips on what a good frying time is to not turn them into charcoal hockey pucks?
Posted Feb 15, 2023, 12:00 PM UTC
The long frying time might be needed to get the core done. They count on taking the burgers straight out of fridge into the medium heat frying pan. They are probably quite thick? The ingredient list contains mostly beef but also starch and other stuff. I guess AH likes their burgers well done
Food safety wise, well done also makes a lot of sense. Burgers are not necessarily recommended to be eaten raw. (Yes, you can do it on your own risk, it's beef you may be fine, but a supermarket isn't likely to officially recommend it. It's certainly riskier than steak for example)
The cooking times are for people who can't cook basically. They just want to make sure these people don't give themselves food poisoning. A very cold burger in a not very hot pan can take quite some time to get the core hot enough to kill germs.
Pretty sure they mean 7 minutes on each side =14 minutes in total. But these times are estimates. You can cook it less (or more) depending on how you love your burger.
I prefer burgers on a grill.
A little trick for frying burgers and sausages: brown on both sides, lower the heat, pour in a small bit of water (less than a cup) and pop the lid on. It'll steam the rest of the meat so it can cook through. I just use tin foil and loosely place it over the frying pan instead of using an actual lid. This also prevents your meat from getting too dry.
14 Min? Wauw, just do 6 or something.
Fuck it just eat it raw
2x5 minutes is enough
It's the time they calculate from the burger straight from the fridge into a cold pan.
Take out the burger at least 15 minutes before cooking and allow the butter to fully melt in a hot pan and the cooking time drastically goes down.
But for some odd reason, everyone above the age of ~50 here will toss meat straight from the fridge into a cold pan, chuck in a knob of butter and turn on the heat. My parents compliment me for my cooking skills, but it's more down to the fact that they really don't know how to cook..
just take them out of the fridge a couple of hours beforehand, then put then in a pan for two minutes a side.
Ask at AH.
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Wait, you guys are frying your burgers over here?? No wonder they all have a skin like sausage and taste like rubber! As an American expat by choice I can't say that there are very many things done right or better in my home country than here, but for goodness sake hamburgers are meant to be grilled, not fried.
You have eyes right?
Yes but. Not connected to any brain though