The Food Ring

One really cool trick I picked up while observing high-end chefs making lowbrow burgers in their award-winning restaurants was the use of a food ring, sometimes referred to as a “cutter.” It’s basically a round cookie and biscuit cutter that also works well for forming hamburger patties. The ring allows you to create patties that are uniform in circumference and to shape them with minimal contact. When forming the patties this way, you use only the tips of your fingers (instead of the palms of your hands), which keeps the patties less compressed than the hand-forming method.