can i fry a burger

Pollycat

grantcking wrote: »

hey guys
need some advice here, bought some burgers from Tesco but the label says the only way to cook them is to grill them
my friend says i can fry them and they will taste better
who is right

grantcking wrote: »

tried them in the deep fryer and they tasted awful
can understand why they say your only allowed to grill them

When your friend told you to fry them, what exactly did they mean?
In a frying pan or in a deep fryer?

Nargleblast

Ok, you have learnt that deep frying doesn't work in this case. Next time, get a frying pan, heat it on a high heat until it's really hot, add about a teaspoonful of oil and allow it to spread around the pan. Add burger(s), they will probably spit at you if the pan's hot enough, then turn down heat a bit. Fry for a few minutes, carefully turn them over, fry for same amount of time the other side. The thickness of the burger determines cooking time, a quarter pounder I would suggest 4-5 minutes each side, a burger half that thickness about 3 minutes. Carefully use a pointy thing to poke the burger, if blood comes out you need to flip it over again and give it another couple of minutes. If the juices are clear when you test it, it's ready. It's worth letting the burger rest in the pan for a couple of minutes, just like you do with steak or roast meat, before serving.

It is often the case that the packet instructions are not set in stone, a bit of trial and error is often needed.

dan958

Using a deepfryer from frozen will probably cuse the outside to be overcooked and the inside raw. Deepfrying from non-frozen may work better.

Shallowfrying from frozen would be fine, just turn down the heat

DigForVictory

Depending on the meat and the relative fattiness of the burger, grilling allows the fat in the burger to escape & I think that cooks the meat better as well as tasting nicer.

Frying in another oil or fat might confuse the flavours of the burger, but that's more when you're cooking "rare meat" burgers like ostrich or crocodile.

dannymccann

I dry fry all sorts, it's quicker and I presume cheaper than the electric grill (gas hob)
- Youngs et al battered / breaded fish portions
- Frozen chicken nuggets / onion rings / potato letters / stars
- Frozen chicken breasts (works best if you let them defrost enough to chop up [double win, partially frozen chicken breast is so much easier to cube up quickly than completely defrosted] but otherwise fine

End of the day you can cook pretty much anything using whatever method you want, the main thing is you make sure it is hot in the middle. Certain things will not cook well in certain ways, frying tends to dry food out, so in my chicken breast example above it will generally be going into a curry or something like that which will 're-juice' it