My whole life I’ve always hated burgers that you get from fast food/restaurants. It’s just a bland beef patty with a bunch of toppings that make it a pain to eat. These places advertise their burgers as being “100% Angus Beef!” or whatever, like that makes it appetizing… Why is this the norm? Do people just not know any better?
I learned how to make burgers from my dad and our approach is completely different. It’s all about the patty, not about the mountain of toppings. We throw onions, garlic, bell peppers, egg, worcestershire, salt and pepper (anything you want really) into a blender. Blend it all up and incorporate it directly into the beef. Then you shape your patties. This method makes the actual burger patty delicious, you could eat it as is if you wanted (which we sometimes do).
I’ve yet to meet anyone who didn’t prefer our burgers. Try it and you’ll never go back to those bland meat disks.
The 100% beef isn’t about the added flavors, it is about not including meat from other animals or other parts of the same animal as filler. For example, 100% angus beef means all of the beef came from the muscles of angus cows, not other types of cows or other parts of the angus cow.
The implication is that the meat is higher quality, not that is tastes better or is unflavored.
It is of course still marketing to increase the amount of meat sold.
That’s a good point and I never even thought about it that way.