Steak Burgers
So this post will also be a bit of a gadget post as well as a food post. For a while now I have been disappointed with the meat options available for making great burgers and I’ve been wanting to vary my meat mix. So I started investigating steak-burger recipes but couldn’t get local butcher to give me the good stuff without gouging me on price. So, I started looking into grinding my own meat. I also didn’t want another gadget to clutter up the kitchen so it dawned on me to use my Kitchen Aid stand mixer. I looked around locally for the meat grinder attachment but all I could find was plastic made junk that looked like it would fall apart the minute I used it. Then I found this bad-boy on Amazon -
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It’s a meat grinder & sausage maker attachment designed to work with all Kitchen Aid stand mixer models and it worked perfectly with my 20 year old mixer. And the best part -
it is all metal!! Not one bit of plastic on this bad-boy save for two small Teflon washers on the screw auger that are easily replaceable. It all steel construction that has serious weight to it - you drop this guy on your foot and you’re going to be headed to urgent-care for a cast! And you can completely disassemble it and put in the dishwasher so cleaning is quick and easy.
So for my steak-burger recipe I got some short-ribs and chuck steak. Here’s the pile -
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I hand trimmed all the meat to remove excess fat and connective tissues. I was left with about 3-1/4 lbs of 1” meat cubes that I then preseasoned with salt, pepper, garlic & onion powder. I then chilled the meat in the coldest part of the fridge for 30mins. Here’s the shot after the grinder -
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It was a beautiful pile of coarse ground meat. I decided to setup my flat iron on the gas grille and did the “smash burger” method. After searing on the flat top, I flipped them over to the grille to put some lines on them and got them to an internal temp of 145F. Here’s the shot on the grille -
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No plate shot, but OMG! that was the best burger I have ever had. The mix of meat was perfect, super tender and juicy. I’m definitely grinding my own meat from now on, it’s so much better than the store ground stuff.