Burger Survey 2025!

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....but electricity is fairly cheap here.

Here too, but lessons taught early in life aren't easy to shake.

Australia's heading towards ending it's dependency on gas, even for smelting. Now that we're building more and more battery farms solar power is coming to the fore. One thing Australia isn't short of is sunshine. We had originally planned to axe all gas exports by 2050 but that got Japan upset because their economy relies on gas. A 2050 deadline might be back on the table now that Canada is supplying Japan and we're off the hook.

 

[Ghostinthemachine]

Best way to describe my preference would be a double whopper with cheese but last time I had one was 1997 lol

 

[Judge]

Another one of my hamburger rules. No ketchup either! Never. A point I always seem to have issues with when making a fast food order. Mayonnaise is a must...but never ketchup or mustard on my burgers.

(I'm fine with ketchup on fries and brown mustard on a hot dog.)

 

[NDR2]

Speaking from before my stomach problems started:

I like lots of vegan burgers. Most are good with ketchup, like tofu burgers and vegetable burgers. Tempeh burgers were my favorite for a while, too. They’re all good on toasted buns, or even toasted bread. Some of the more modern vegan burgers that taste close to meat are my favorites, like Beyond Burgers. Those I like with vegan mayonnaise, too.

Vegan burgers at restaurants can be good, too. They’ll serve them with the works - with lettuce, tomatoes (I actually don’t like plain tomatoes, but if they’re on something where I can’t really taste them, I’m fine with them), and onions - and I’ll enjoy them. They’re also good with different kinds of sauces or vegan cheddar cheese. I like pickles, too, but I prefer to eat them separately.

Or how about pizza burgers? That’s a treat, too.

 

[NDR2]

I still recall (late 90s?) when Carl's Jr. had pastrami available for their burgers. Man, that taste plus a charcoal broiled burger...that was the bomb! Too bad it didn't last...

There was a Kosher restaurant near my old job where they had the “Monster Burger,”
which was a hamburger topped with pastrami. That does sound weird to me.

 

[Dagan]

I'm going to give you all my recipe. I have to explain a little, though (because I'm autistic, just kidding, it matters).

I don't use ground beef anymore. I hated the burgers shrinking up and not getting my money's worth is why. Beef is mixed with much fat and ice, and that all just melts away, basically. Ground turkey to the rescue. I buy 3 lbs. of ground turkey, and I can season it to easily taste like ground beef by adding one packet of powdered Au Jus mix. I also add in 2 TBS of ground parsley and 1 TBS of Sazon (the orange blend with Anatto in it). I mix it all together by hand (be warned that it will get messy, and the Anatto will turn your skin orange just briefly, so wear gloves if you prefer), then patty them out - I usually do 6 big jumbo patties, but you can get 8 regular size ones, if you prefer.

Then it's just cooking them up how you would any other burger.

My preferred toppings: American or sometimes Swiss cheese slices - avocado slices - stone ground mustard - maybe a few pickle slices - tomato slice - and the real bit of awesome (sometimes, not always) a fried egg. *chef's kiss*

 

[JayCee]

Sauteed Onions ,thick 93% lean burger meat. Done medium well. Bacon can be a plus and lettuce raw onions+ ,tomato, toasted bun,mayo , NO pickles whatsoever.

 

[Harmonie]

I can't eat burgers. The texture of the meat is a nightmare for me. When I was a kid, my parents had to order "burgers" that were just cheese and bun for me from McDonalds. lol

 

[IXxTchxXI]

No bacon? Common now!

 

[Judge]

No bacon? Common now!

Bacon is quite tasty on a burger. Or at least it used to be. With reflux issues, bacon remains a borderline food for me. Though on occasion I might cook a strip or two of turkey bacon for a burger.

 

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Bacon is quite tasty on a burger. Or at least it used to be. With reflux issues, bacon remains a borderline food for me. Though on occasion I might cook a strip or two of turkey bacon for a burger.

Aussie Bacon is different to what you get in the US, what you get is just the fatty bit on the skinny end, what we get is the meaty bit from the other end.

 

[Jeff T]

For me hamburgers, it's either beef or salmon. For hot dogs, beef only. Costco has seasoned salmon burgers that are quite tasty.
I fix my own food. Rarely eat out, even though there are quite a few In-and Out joints in the area.
So my burgers are usually fixed by hand with minced beef, or store packaged jumbo sized packages.
To keep the carbs low, I add cheese and mustard onto the olive oil fried keto hamburger buns.
Relative decadence for me .

 

[Mary Terry]

Aussie Bacon is different to what you get in the US, what you get is just the fatty bit on the skinny end, what we get is the meaty bit from the other end.

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Americans can get this, too. It's very common and available in all grocery stores. We call it Canadian bacon. I've always been amused that the British call American bacon "streaky bacon" to differentiate it from British bacon.

 

[IXxTchxXI]

Bacon is quite tasty on a burger. Or at least it used to be. With reflux issues, bacon remains a borderline food for me. Though on occasion I might cook a strip or two of turkey bacon for a burger.

I feel for you! I also have acid reflux but I still can eat bacon and drink coffee, although I don't eat bacon thar often

 

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Americans can get this, too. It's very common and available in all grocery stores. We call it Canadian bacon. I've always been amused that the British call American bacon "streaky bacon" to differentiate it from British bacon.

The picture above is what I grew up with as bacon but in general Aussies started becoming a lot more health conscious from around the 80s. These days Short Cut bacon is popular and that's also the most common cut you'll find on our burgers, less fat.

 

[Judge]

I feel for you! I also have acid reflux but I still can eat bacon and drink coffee, although I don't eat bacon thar often

My reflux issues occur largely not in terms of acidity, but rather animal fat and grease content.

Coffee has never bothered me in the least. But bacon, steak, or chicken can damn near kill me. As for ground beef, so can a "grease burger". When I make ground beef, I always strain as much grease out of it as I can.

Oddly enough I tend to be able to eat most fast food restaurant foods without incident. But eating meat or poultry from a conventional restaurant isn't worth gambling over. But then most commercial chefs know the relationship of animal fat to flavor and capitalize on it. At the expense of people like me.

 

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Oddly enough I tend to be able to eat most fast food restaurant foods without incident.

Here we made it law that the fast food places have to declare how many kilojoules of energy in each serving (average) on the menu. This helped make people more health conscious and it also started becoming a bit of a competition between different franchises. "Our food's healthier than theirs."

In having a look for an example for you I noticed that the big two US chains have just stopped doing that on their website, they'll get rapped over the knuckles for that soon enough. Their in store menus still tell you how much energy in each item.

This is Red Rooster's website, kilojoules displayed on each item in the menu. Rough conversion to calories - just divide by 4.

New - Red Rooster - Roast Chicken Takeaway and Delivery

 

[Judge]

Here we made it law that the fast food places have to declare how many kilojoules of energy in each serving (average) on the menu. This helped make people more health conscious and it also started becoming a bit of a competition between different franchises. "Our food's healthier than theirs."

In having a look for an example for you I noticed that the big two US chains have just stopped doing that on their website, they'll get rapped over the knuckles for that soon enough. Their in store menus still tell you how much energy in each item.

This is Red Rooster's website, kilojoules displayed on each item in the menu. Rough conversion to calories - just divide by 4.

New - Red Rooster - Roast Chicken Takeaway and Delivery

"Healthy" isn't my problem. It's restaurants versus fast food joints and how certain foods are prepared relative to fat content. I can eat most fast foods except for foods like fried chicken or roast beef.

When it comes to restaurants, virtually everything with animal fat is off limits, otherwise Sir Issac Newton comes into play in reverse. That what goes down, will come back up.

For me it's a matter of what I can and cannot eat, and who and how it's prepared. Healthy or not.

Making me a rather unpopular dinner guest, even to the swankiest restaurants in town. Unless of course I have enough advanced warning and take a whole lot of Nexium like products. Which certainly help, but in some cases they don't entirely eliminate my reflux pain. Not to mention that being apprehensive just going to a restaurant doesn't help in terms of increased stomach acid before I eat a thing.

Making eating really good food more of a peril than a pleasure.

 

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When it comes to restaurants, virtually everything with animal fat is off limits,

I tend to ramble a bit but that was my point about the fast food places here, they all went low fat, except KFC. I can't eat that fried chicken, I doesn't give me too many stomach problems, I just don't like it. Even as a kid I never liked fatty meat and always refused to eat the fat on the side. Just looking at that Wagu beef makes me feel ill, as far as I'm concerned the only good thing about it is that now everyone wants it proper grass fed beef is cheaper.

 

[IXxTchxXI]

My reflux issues occur largely not in terms of acidity, but rather animal fat and grease content.

Coffee has never bothered me in the least. But bacon, steak, or chicken can damn near kill me. As for ground beef, so can a "grease burger". When I make ground beef, I always strain as much grease out of it as I can.

Oddly enough I tend to be able to eat most fast food restaurant foods without incident. But eating meat or poultry from a conventional restaurant isn't worth gambling over. But then most commercial chefs know the relationship of animal fat to flavor and capitalize on it. At the expense of people like me.

Maybe it's the spices? I know some spices like pepper make my acid reflux flare up but I'll be damned if I give up lemon pepper wings LOL