Name: The Griddle-Smashed Classic Cheeseburger
Yield: Makes 8 cheeseburgers or 14 sliders
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: Beef tallow (rendered beef fat); 2 pounds (about 1 kg) fresh-ground 80/20 chuck; American cheese, thinly sliced (preferably fresh-sliced cheese from your deli counter, not prepackaged “singles”); 8 potato buns (make sure to get the right-size buns for either cheese-burgers or sliders); Salt, for seasoning

Preparation info

Makes
8
cheeseburgers sliders

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Great American Burger Book

By George Motz

Published 2016

About

Ingredients

The Burger

8 potato buns (make sure to get the right-size buns for either cheese-burgers or sliders)
Beef tallow (rendered beef fat)

Method

Toast the buns in a preheated cast-iron skillet or on a preheated flat top (see next column) and set them aside.
Preheat the cast-iron skillet over medium heat (or a flat top to medium) and add a tablespoon or two of the beef tallow. Use the spatula to