Name: Good cheeseburger (and rules of engagement)
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: mayonnaise; sunflower oil, for frying; 250 g good fatty beef mince; 2 pre-cut slices of weirdly orange processed cheese; flaked sea salt; ketchup; 2 slices of beef tomato; 1 large sweet pickled cucumber, sliced, for inside the bun, or 2 left whole for outside; 2 thin slices from the middle of a red onion; a leaf or so of iceberg lettuce per burger (very optional); 2 sesame burger buns

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

What to Eat Next

By Valentine Warner

Published 2014

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A good burger, I find, is not one found in artisan bread with homemade tomato chutney and extra mature Ticklebottom Farm Cheddar that doesn’t melt properly. Onion in the meat is an ABSOLUTE NO-NO! Beaten egg to bind it is another ABSOLUTE NO-NO unless you actually want it to taste processed and rubbery. The point lies not just in the excellence of the meat but also in the plastic, techno-orange processed cheese, super-soft, crappy sesame bun and tomato ketchup. It must not be a crusty, crun