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SOS: My burgers have gone from family favorite to something no one wants.
Two boys, 13 and 25, used to devour my burgers like they hadn't seen a meal in ages. Now? They're leaving sad, barely-touched meat discs on their plates. My boys have opinions, and they're brutal: 'weird,' 'too dry,' 'too oily,' 'too greasy,' and the soul-crushing 'it doesn't have any taste.'
Tfw your kids call your food slop
Current recipe (use at your own risk): 7 oz of beef, manhandled into submission, flattened, and sacrificed to a medium-high skillet for 4 minutes per side. Cheese gets a 60-second cameo at the end. Brioche buns because I really do try to make my fam happy.
I've never had to season ground beef before, but maybe that's where I've gone wrong? Is there a secret burger society I'm not privy to? A bovine illuminati?
Alright. Brutal honesty incoming:
Your family discovered what actual burgers should taste like and won't eat your slop anymore. I would NEVER eat meat without seasoning. That's unhinged.
Just use salt and pepper. Look up a recipe for how much per patty so you can learn how to properly season
even REDDITORS called his food slop
You've never had to season ground beef before? What?
We don't season our burgers either. We do split 1/2 a cow with a friend so our meat is farm to table. Sometimes we might be fancy and add seasoning and chopped onion but usually the toppings are the only thing we add.
You don't put salt on your burgers? A cow died for this.
And I respect them enough to not season when not necessary.
Ketchup is fill of sodium and I like ketchup on my burgers. I also like mustard and mayo. That's plenty of seasoning for me
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Some people really do have a pathological behavior to avoid salt and it's really frustrating.
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You should avoid using too much salt, and a ton of people do that. They dump so much salt on their food like they are trying to kill themselves for some bizarre reason.
Whatever happened to moderation and not extremes?
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There's also people who avoid adding salt to meat like it would poison them. The meat can have a little salt, as a treat
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They are eating ground beef what good is not adding salt doing?
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I am thin and put salt on everything to no detriment
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i piss like a horse so im always out of salt
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The only reason to avoid salt is if you're already dying of heart disease
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This happens with older cooks like my mother in law and pregnant women. They will oversalt everything like everything was soaking in the ocean.
It's all about the right amount...
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I put a frickton of salt on everything because I can. Blood
pressure 
is still below average because I'm not some defective freak 
who can't handle a lil sodium 
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This isn't true. This is what the r-slurs that do this shit believe. There's only certain medical conditions where you have to avoid salt. How, exactly, did you conclude that "excess salt consumption" is a problem for healthy people?
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BBQing meat...with no seasonings?!??!?!!
Alas...'tis a rather ridiculous culinary mistake
!grillers !masterchef
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Older Americans develop high blood pressure and get told by their doctors to reduce sodium intake. Then they mistakenly think this means if they sprinkle less salt in their food, even though they're not using enough in the first place, it'll help their numbers, while they continue to eat boxed frozen garbage that has so much sodium content that they could have upended the entire salt shaker into their mouths and it wouldn't add up to even half as much as what's in that crap.
I finally convinced my mom that it wasn't going to make her have a heart attack if she salted her food and I've really liked her cooking since then.
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Like a crawfish boil with no seasoning.
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Just White People Things
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Tastes like nothing. Gotta be clean
Ew tastes kinda strong. Must be immediately fatal
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There is something funny in that line
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25 year old wants his tendies
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It's a remarriage scenario. You have your own kids young, then you remarry someone way later who never had kids and you get to do it all over again.
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Appealing, but is it worth the risk of getting caught?
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haha wtf unseasoned hamburgers
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I stopped eating hamburgers since i discovered authentic asian food. That shit is delish
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Have you tried the very authentic hamburg steak (hambagu in grorious japanese)?
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I ate at a Japanese restaurant in Utah one time and ordered something labeled "wifu suteki" on the menu because i was apparently too dumb to understand the funny gimmick the owner was doing. It was a regular old steak lol.
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Century Egg Congi soup FTW!
!slots100
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I sometimes season my burgers and sometimes not, it doesn't seem like it makes much of a difference.
Meat is delicious all on its own.
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Honestly, good beef doesn't need more than a pinch of salt.If 'm not happy with the beef or accidentally bought lean, I'll add Lee and Perkins. Is he buying cheap beef?
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only in mayo world salt is seasoning
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Ew, who likes unseasoned, super rare 80/20 grocery story ground beef?
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What kind of man can't even make a fricking hamburger right?
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Why would you need to season a burger when you're putting condiments and shit on top?
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Why would I add cheese to my pasta when there's already sauce on it?
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Cheese is just a second condiment for the pasta. You can add more than one condiment/topping to your burger.
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Salt is a condiment
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There's no need to salt the burger, it's not a slug you're trying to kill.
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This neighbor doesn't smash or use salt and pepper???
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I can't fathom unflavored meat in this house
Like yeah you can make it like the grilling of fat adds savoriness but it only goes so far.
You're basically firing up just protein and nothing else and it's generally tasteless.
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WYPEPO DONT SEASON THEY FOOD, I CANT BREEF
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So the interesting question is who actually fed his children normal burgers o_O It's not that the 25yo have never been to McDonald's I guess, so it must have been a new neighbor, right?
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everytime i make burgers its the same and I season it with just pepper and crushed red. Always good!
!slots123
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!vegana The meatcels ITT are seething over unsalted burgers
What is your favorite kind of veggie burger?
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Morningstar Tomato Basil Pizza burger
is the shit. One of the tastiest foods 
I've ever eaten desu
The other Morningstar burgers
are pretty 
good too. Not a fan of Boca tho
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I haven't tried those! My favorite store bought burgers are Dr. Praeger's (there are a few different tasty kinds). Oh I also really like Hilary's brand.
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