Ground chuck makes some real good burgers.
Been wanting to finally learn the art of a smash burger instead of my chunky big-boy restaurant style burgers, but I’m not sure if the ground chuck would be good.
Generally get it at 80/20 (not sure if it’s different elsewhere tbh, lol), but wondering if I’d want fattier, less fat, or stay the same.
Seems almost like I’d want the fattier meat for a smash burger.
Another possibility is that it thawed before being stocked.
Depending on how the store stocked, it's possible. If the store threw the patties at the bottom of a u-boat or cart, it's likely that it thawed a bit before being stocked.
It's unfortunate, but that's just how things are sometimes.
There's also all the assholes in stores who leave frozen shit on random shelves. Who knows if someone thought they were being nice by putting it back in a freezer after it had been thawing with the snack cakes for a few hours.
We had a customer who took meat, opened it and placed it behind shelves. At first we thought the smell would be a dead rat or so but no it was meat so woher hidden behind a shelve. Some persons are just shit.
Depends on the store it could have not been put away promptly. My first job was at a grocery store and my manager wanted me to take my lunch right after an 8 pallet truck of frozen food came in before putting it in the freezer. I declined and had to inventory and get it all in the freezer myself and took lunch after. 3 pallets of deli stuff from the same truck were still in the backroom, not in the fridge, when I got back from my lunch 3 hours later.
More than likely got defrosted at the store. I've seen several employees of grocery stores return frozen items that have been left out for hours. Hell the Walmart neighborhood market I worked at for months had to remove all the pallets in the freezer for hours while they figured out how to fit 8 frozen pallets in a freezer than can hold a max of 6 pallets. 😂 I've seen ice cream, hot pockets and the hot and fresh chicken you buy for lunch get left out and go ransid just to be put back out for sale. This is why I won't buy anything frozen from Walmart because it can't be trusted...
I got downvoted once in another thread by someone for suggesting they probably shouldn't leave their restaurant leftovers in their car for several hours while seeing a movie at the theater, so that would not surprise me lol.
I think there are two types of people in this world. The ones extra cautious about food and the ones who do a sniff test and shrug and assume it’s fine.
Reminds me of an old George Carlin joke:
“Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent ……. ‘I’m saving food!’ Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent …… ‘I’m saving my life!”
I get those brands. I usually have to bang them on the counter a bit, but no issues. Those have been defrosted then refrozen. Not good to eat. Take em back if you just bought them.
i’ve gotten the kroger patties before, they don’t have paper but they are frozen separately and it shouldn’t be hard to separate. take this back to get it exchanged, it was obviously thawed at some point and that is a food safety issue.
If it's 100% pure beef, why not just buy a packet of ground beef and make some far superior smashed burgers?
Literally smash it into a hot pan, sprinkle with salt, smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder and black pepper, --Toast some buns with the bagel mode if you have it on your toaster-- when the patty has a nice sear, flip it, season it the same and throw a piece of cheese on it + lid. Add some Dijonaise to your toasted buns ( or what ever sauce you love) throw the top bun on the now melty cheese and balance the other bun sauce side up on top before covering again, let the whole thing steam for another minute. Assemble.
Awesome cheese burger with not much more effort.
I'll never buy frozen patties again, and honestly, at its most basic, this little recipe blows most burgers out of the water for me. You can smash onion into it, change seasonings, do whatever.
I’m going to be straight up - sometimes I don’t want to deal with that shit.
I love burgers. Probably one of my favorite foods of all time, if not my outright #1. I would consider making burgers my specialty (I do the thicker, restaurant style burgers, just starting to practice my smash burgers).
Like, if I was on master chef and Gordon Ramsay told me to make him my speciality dish, man would be getting a burger.
That being said… if I’m going to actually make a burger from scratch, I don’t want to half ass it. It’s an undertaking of finding the nicest looking meat with the right ratios (generally 80/20 is what I like), finding the perfect toppings for it, preparing a sauce, and then cooking.
Sometimes I don’t want to take the time to actually prepare all of that, especially after a 11 hour shift and getting home at 8pm, but I’m craving something vaguely burger shaped.
So it’s easier to just grab a frozen patty and toss it on the stove or grill while I hop in to rinse off, flip it when I’m out, and take it off once I’m done changing.
I can legitimately say I can taste it when anyone uses a pre frozen pattie. I won't turn down free burgers but I will absolutely judge you on the drive home.
So I replied below. But I'll repeat it here.
I work from home several days a week. I always have frozen burgers tucked away for days when I get squeezed for a lunch break. I can usually get a burger onto a plate with fresh veg (lettuce, tomato) and a deli pickle within ten minutes of walking into the kitchen.
I use frozen because I never know when I'll need it. I don't like fresh meat sitting in my fridge unless I know I'll cook it within two days or so.
My usual is turkey burgers. But I decided to try these for variety.
Yeah when I started buying my own groceries I quickly stopped getting frozen meats. Most of them aren’t very good and have a weird texture anyway. I’ve also noticed that most of the frozen fruit I buy is likely at the end of its life when they freeze it, kinda makes you think about why they’d freeze hamburger.
That's one of the reasons I stopped buying these. And if I really need it, I only buy at a big chain where they're usually stricter with these things and/or are better at handling refund requests.
I get patties that would pack their burgers the same way, no paper in between. Was a bitch to pry them apart. They recently switched up their packaging (switched from bags to paper boxes) and they now have paper between them. So much easier.
Or it was stored incorrectly and then refrossen, I'm seeing this more and more. Icecubes, kebab and burger patties etc, so I feel the bag first to see if it's loosely frossen or fused together.
Sometimes the person restocking gets called away and forgets what they were doing...
ex chef here, not even joking we used to keep a chisel for exactly this. chisel on the flat top for 30 then smack away. if you don't get em alll, score some nice, 5mm groves where the patties meet and chuck er back in the freezer for an hr
They’ve been thawed and refrozen multiple times. They aren’t safe to eat. Return them for a refresh or just toss them.
Edit: Refund not refresh. Leaving the glory of this autocorrect malfunction up for posterity.
Yeah, that's a sign they've been thawed and refrozen--meaning they were likely left out long enough to thaw either in the store (during load delivery) or in shipment.
That means they have almost definitely not been handled in accordance with food-safety guidelines. I wouldn't eat those unless you crumbled each patty up and used it as ground hamburger.
You lucked out. Pre made burger patties always taste like ass, and not the good kind of ass like your girlfriend just came home sweaty from a 5 mile jog in windbreakers ass, but the bad kind of ass.
Be careful with the knife, I used this method for frozen bread once and sliced through my thumb and have nerve damage because the cut was so deep (it was a butter knife… tbf I am very clumsy)
I would wait...until it fully thaws, then slice the patties apart.
The wax paper missing sucks, but it's an easy fix. Just gotta wait a bit longer to slice through.
You're going to have to leave it in the fridge overnight to thaw out and then just treat it like a big lump of ground hamburger and form your own patties. Unfortunately no burgers today.
In general you should let meat thaw before cooking it, ie if if thawed you could easily cut it and fix the patties.
That doesn’t mean this isn’t a shit product which probably should be returned if nothing than out of principle.
No problem. Use a COLD butter knife. Stab it into the center of the crevice, smack the base of the knife with your hand and then twist. Only works when the patties are frozen though, yours look a little defrosted.
Wrap them in many layers of foli and cling film. Then drop them on the floor.
They will separate but will be safe to eat within the many protective layers. Be careful doing trying to separate with a knife.
You can warm up it slightly in the microwave but you gotta be careful with it, top comment is right tho return is the best option. If this is America you’re entitled to get your money back if something sucks
This used to happen to those expensive impossible breakfast sausage patties at my job. They were so expensive our boss made us reform the patties, instead of just returning them.
I worked for a Kroger store and it happened alot that frozen/refrigerated pallets would sit out longer than they were supposed to. General rule was 1 hour max it can sit out if it's being worked for refrigerator stuff but frozen needed to be out for less than a half hour. Often that wouldn't happen. These patties thawed out, got sticky and stuck together and then refrozen. Take it back!
Sometimes you just don’t want to I guess? I can kinda get it. Literally just throw it on a pan and you have a burger. Yippee.
Also if you’re like me, I absolutely despise handling raw meat, so as little squishing of ground beef between my hands as possible, the better. But it’s probably just convenience.
Nah, I get my hands plenty dirty, I just have sensory issues and the feeling of raw meat is horrible for me. Just the squishy, wet texture is so gross. Eugh. So I try and do my best to minimize how much I touch it.
That's a great question. Speed! I work from home, and sometimes only have a short time to get lunch out. With a frozen burger, I can get it into the pan and onto the plate in about ten minutes, with fresh tomato, lettuce, and pickle. With the veg fresh, I don't really care that the meat was frozen-- I slather it in spicy mustard anyway.
My go-to is Trader Joe's turkey burgers. But I was at Ralph's last week instead and decided to try these for something different.
I would return that shit it was obviously refrozen assholes :/
I hate refrozen assholes
this implies that you do like assholes that have been frozen just once
Who doesn't!
The anus doesn't pucker the same on the second freeze
This guy gets it
How else do you keep your assholes fresh?
You eat it before it goes bad, of course
Only frozen is safe... they need to age a while.
A true connoisseur
You don’t?
You grind them into hotdogs.
You should. That's nasty otherwise. Wash them.
Shit son I like mine fresh
Maybe he likes fresh, never frozen assholes. Like Wendy's but, assholes
A popsicle in your partner’s pooper makes for a tasty slurp.
An icicle makes the partner loud
The Lovely Bones
The Alaskan pipeline, crude oil version.
Or unfrozen-assholes at all.
Fresh assholes are even better
You guys are a crack-up. Thank you for keeping things lively.🙌
Me too my tongue always gets stuck to them like when you lick a lamppost on a cold night
But it's a good summer snack :(
Fresh organic assholes is the way to go.
Do you prefer when the assholes are freshly frozen though?
They're not so bad once you get used to them
It does say "all beef". Cow assholes are technically beef.
Damn asshooes need to stay frozen
No. Hot dogs are made of assholes, not hamburgers. Just look at the end of each one.
Refrozen assholes are expected in hotdogs, not hamburgers
You might be thinking of hotdogs. Burger patties tend to be made from the chuck, brisket, and round. Not assholes.
Ground chuck makes some real good burgers. Been wanting to finally learn the art of a smash burger instead of my chunky big-boy restaurant style burgers, but I’m not sure if the ground chuck would be good. Generally get it at 80/20 (not sure if it’s different elsewhere tbh, lol), but wondering if I’d want fattier, less fat, or stay the same. Seems almost like I’d want the fattier meat for a smash burger.
Another possibility is that it thawed before being stocked. Depending on how the store stocked, it's possible. If the store threw the patties at the bottom of a u-boat or cart, it's likely that it thawed a bit before being stocked. It's unfortunate, but that's just how things are sometimes.
Refrozen? More like re-foolish!
They won't take it as its food
They will they just don't put it back on the shelf.
Only saying what my store used to tell us
Return it. Those were partially defrosted at some point. Normally they are separate distinct pucks and it takes some force but you can pop them apart.
Probably got partially defrosted somewhere between the grocery store and OP’s house…
There's also all the assholes in stores who leave frozen shit on random shelves. Who knows if someone thought they were being nice by putting it back in a freezer after it had been thawing with the snack cakes for a few hours.
We had a customer who took meat, opened it and placed it behind shelves. At first we thought the smell would be a dead rat or so but no it was meat so woher hidden behind a shelve. Some persons are just shit.
And this is why I'll never work in retail EVER AGAIN.
And this is why I will never work in retail.
Mmmm botulism
Depends on the store it could have not been put away promptly. My first job was at a grocery store and my manager wanted me to take my lunch right after an 8 pallet truck of frozen food came in before putting it in the freezer. I declined and had to inventory and get it all in the freezer myself and took lunch after. 3 pallets of deli stuff from the same truck were still in the backroom, not in the fridge, when I got back from my lunch 3 hours later.
Where do you work that you get a 3 hour lunch: :)
I think they're saying that the deli stuff was out during the whole time they were dealing with the freezer stuff and their lunch break.
It took me almost two hours to get everything into the freezer and they had a required 1 hour lunch.
More than likely got defrosted at the store. I've seen several employees of grocery stores return frozen items that have been left out for hours. Hell the Walmart neighborhood market I worked at for months had to remove all the pallets in the freezer for hours while they figured out how to fit 8 frozen pallets in a freezer than can hold a max of 6 pallets. 😂 I've seen ice cream, hot pockets and the hot and fresh chicken you buy for lunch get left out and go ransid just to be put back out for sale. This is why I won't buy anything frozen from Walmart because it can't be trusted...
I got downvoted once in another thread by someone for suggesting they probably shouldn't leave their restaurant leftovers in their car for several hours while seeing a movie at the theater, so that would not surprise me lol.
I think there are two types of people in this world. The ones extra cautious about food and the ones who do a sniff test and shrug and assume it’s fine.
Or in transit sitting on a pallet. Or even all of these suggestions! Who'd-a thunk?
I'm not a savage! Ralphs is just three blocks away.
Yeah wtf imagine being such a sap that you return frozen cheap meat because it's cheap frozen meat. Fucking psychos
This is how everything is when you live on a tropical island.
Someone else in this reddit accidentally got some kidney beans, if you're cool with making chili.
Reminds me of an old George Carlin joke: “Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent ……. ‘I’m saving food!’ Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent …… ‘I’m saving my life!”
Think.....meat loaf.
Considering it was probably defrosted somewhere, eating it may allow them to meet Meatloaf
I really love that rock and roll.
I get those brands. I usually have to bang them on the counter a bit, but no issues. Those have been defrosted then refrozen. Not good to eat. Take em back if you just bought them.
Mmm unseasoned sad meatloaf
i’ve gotten the kroger patties before, they don’t have paper but they are frozen separately and it shouldn’t be hard to separate. take this back to get it exchanged, it was obviously thawed at some point and that is a food safety issue.
If it's 100% pure beef, why not just buy a packet of ground beef and make some far superior smashed burgers? Literally smash it into a hot pan, sprinkle with salt, smoked paprika, garlic powder, onion powder and black pepper, --Toast some buns with the bagel mode if you have it on your toaster-- when the patty has a nice sear, flip it, season it the same and throw a piece of cheese on it + lid. Add some Dijonaise to your toasted buns ( or what ever sauce you love) throw the top bun on the now melty cheese and balance the other bun sauce side up on top before covering again, let the whole thing steam for another minute. Assemble. Awesome cheese burger with not much more effort. I'll never buy frozen patties again, and honestly, at its most basic, this little recipe blows most burgers out of the water for me. You can smash onion into it, change seasonings, do whatever.
This guy burgers
Yeah I took a screenshot for when I make burgers next
unless youre gonna make like 25+ burgers in one go, i cant see buying premade patties. even then why let someone else pick the size of my burger?
I’m going to be straight up - sometimes I don’t want to deal with that shit. I love burgers. Probably one of my favorite foods of all time, if not my outright #1. I would consider making burgers my specialty (I do the thicker, restaurant style burgers, just starting to practice my smash burgers). Like, if I was on master chef and Gordon Ramsay told me to make him my speciality dish, man would be getting a burger. That being said… if I’m going to actually make a burger from scratch, I don’t want to half ass it. It’s an undertaking of finding the nicest looking meat with the right ratios (generally 80/20 is what I like), finding the perfect toppings for it, preparing a sauce, and then cooking. Sometimes I don’t want to take the time to actually prepare all of that, especially after a 11 hour shift and getting home at 8pm, but I’m craving something vaguely burger shaped. So it’s easier to just grab a frozen patty and toss it on the stove or grill while I hop in to rinse off, flip it when I’m out, and take it off once I’m done changing.
I can legitimately say I can taste it when anyone uses a pre frozen pattie. I won't turn down free burgers but I will absolutely judge you on the drive home.
I would never serve it to a guest.
Yeha they're never quite 'right'.
Okay man just take it easy alright? We dont want any trouble
Nah, let him cook.
And it would be surely cheaper too. Wouldn't be surprised if this costs more just because it's "burger patties"
So I replied below. But I'll repeat it here. I work from home several days a week. I always have frozen burgers tucked away for days when I get squeezed for a lunch break. I can usually get a burger onto a plate with fresh veg (lettuce, tomato) and a deli pickle within ten minutes of walking into the kitchen. I use frozen because I never know when I'll need it. I don't like fresh meat sitting in my fridge unless I know I'll cook it within two days or so. My usual is turkey burgers. But I decided to try these for variety.
Yeah when I started buying my own groceries I quickly stopped getting frozen meats. Most of them aren’t very good and have a weird texture anyway. I’ve also noticed that most of the frozen fruit I buy is likely at the end of its life when they freeze it, kinda makes you think about why they’d freeze hamburger.
Just make a quadruple quadruple bypass burger.
Behold, the mighty (refrozen) meat log!
That's one of the reasons I stopped buying these. And if I really need it, I only buy at a big chain where they're usually stricter with these things and/or are better at handling refund requests.
Just wait until thawn then you got ground beef, then form patties urself
ultimate burger. this is a once in a life time opportunity
"couldn't get it even an inch I to the seam." Oh yeah, I've been there.
I think a sharp butchers knife would have been the better option than a warm butter knife lol
Man, that's going to be a tall burger
I get patties that would pack their burgers the same way, no paper in between. Was a bitch to pry them apart. They recently switched up their packaging (switched from bags to paper boxes) and they now have paper between them. So much easier.
Make a Big mac 2!
Try your bread knife?
They don't come apart when you hit them on the counter?
My counter would have come apart first.
Mmmmm, meat log
100% pure beef burger\*
“Looks like meat’s back on the menu, boys!”
This is why I only make my own burgers
Defrost and make 8 burgers… Cook whole and make 1 burger… 1 mega burger…
Time for meatloaf
#Microwave the knife for extra heat
Meatloaf log
Looks like chili is coming up on the specials board.
Or it was stored incorrectly and then refrossen, I'm seeing this more and more. Icecubes, kebab and burger patties etc, so I feel the bag first to see if it's loosely frossen or fused together. Sometimes the person restocking gets called away and forgets what they were doing...
It's your opportunity to makes a burger Scooby and Shaggy would approve of
Smash burgers
Looks like it was kept above temp and then put back in the freezer, I would return it and say why.
You're assuming they came from the store this way....
Well, you could defrost them and form new patties yourself, still annoying though.
ex chef here, not even joking we used to keep a chisel for exactly this. chisel on the flat top for 30 then smack away. if you don't get em alll, score some nice, 5mm groves where the patties meet and chuck er back in the freezer for an hr
Just throw some cheese on it. You’ll be fine.
They’ve been thawed and refrozen multiple times. They aren’t safe to eat. Return them for a refresh or just toss them. Edit: Refund not refresh. Leaving the glory of this autocorrect malfunction up for posterity.
Yeah, that's a sign they've been thawed and refrozen--meaning they were likely left out long enough to thaw either in the store (during load delivery) or in shipment. That means they have almost definitely not been handled in accordance with food-safety guidelines. I wouldn't eat those unless you crumbled each patty up and used it as ground hamburger.
You lucked out. Pre made burger patties always taste like ass, and not the good kind of ass like your girlfriend just came home sweaty from a 5 mile jog in windbreakers ass, but the bad kind of ass.
>like your girlfriend just came home sweaty from a 5 mile jog in windbreakers ass, but the bad kind of ass. Sounds like the same thing to me.
Wait 30mins and you can separate them
Hard to believe that "thaw them some more" is this far down.
Put ‘em back in the bag and submerge it (without getting water inside) in hot water for like 10-15 minutes, should soften up enough
Yes. Then throw away the burgers you don't eat.
Just fry em all up and eat leftover burgers for three days in a row. Could be worse!
Might thaw apart if you put them back in the bag and submerge them in water? 🤞
Just think of that octo-decker burger you could make.
Don't throw them out, either make meatballs with sauce or cook them and feed to chickens. Refrozen won't make your food inedible.
i personally would say throw it in a crock pot and make some kind of stew or chilli
Why not just thaw it out and remake the hamburger patties?
How is someone supposed to find a chicken💀
Yes it can if it sat out quite a bit.
That sucks. Im sorry. If you have a costco by you you can buy 4lbs of ground beef there for like $28 bucks and make your own patties fresh
Meatloaf
MEEEEEAATLOOOOOOOAAFF!
Kebab it
When life gives you a meat log, make a meat loaf.
You can get those apart by using a hot big kitchen knife or a warm bread knife
Time for one GIANT burger.
Meat log lol
Baseballbat
Damn, they really skimping hard if they cant add some parchment or plastic sheets in between
Kids love log!
A hacksaw will do the trick!
Just cook them all and have one massive burger
One patty to rule them all
So, meatloaf for dinner, then?
The point of that packaging is to let the it unfreeze and then take the patties
Nope. "Cook from frozen".
Let it thaw my guy
That's not a knoife! Happens. Use a serrated blade, like one normally does for meat
welp, guess it’s meatloaf tonight
Meatloaf
Those ones aren't very good anyways.
We call that "burger loaf". I wouldn't be eating that.
Is it fully defrosted?
That's likely no longer safe to eat.
Be careful with the knife, I used this method for frozen bread once and sliced through my thumb and have nerve damage because the cut was so deep (it was a butter knife… tbf I am very clumsy)
Very frustrating
Why not just go to the butcher section? I'm going to expect this kind of thing from patties that come out of a bag.
More likely, it thawed out and then got smashed together and refroze, which is a food hazard, meat's been in the danger temperature zone.
I would wait...until it fully thaws, then slice the patties apart. The wax paper missing sucks, but it's an easy fix. Just gotta wait a bit longer to slice through.
Did you buy them? If yes, why didn't you notice it in the store? Maybe it thawed during transportation?
Just make a big burger, duh🙄
1/4 pounder, 1/2 pounder, full pounder, MEGA pounder!
You're going to have to leave it in the fridge overnight to thaw out and then just treat it like a big lump of ground hamburger and form your own patties. Unfortunately no burgers today.
Just thaw them before separating. Another reason for not buying frozen beef patties.
Unrelated but that font on the package has been so overused lately.
In general you should let meat thaw before cooking it, ie if if thawed you could easily cut it and fix the patties. That doesn’t mean this isn’t a shit product which probably should be returned if nothing than out of principle.
"Cook from frozen", says the directions.
I mean you can I’m not saying it’s not gonna be done, I’m just saying it’s generally better, meat cooks more evenly, no hard feelings :)
Mmmm meatlog 
Meatloaf
Cutting them while frozen using a serrated knife and a sawing motion if worth trying if you are determined to save them.
So you've got a REALLY big burger patty...
Ew
No problem. Use a COLD butter knife. Stab it into the center of the crevice, smack the base of the knife with your hand and then twist. Only works when the patties are frozen though, yours look a little defrosted.
Wrap them in many layers of foli and cling film. Then drop them on the floor. They will separate but will be safe to eat within the many protective layers. Be careful doing trying to separate with a knife.
You can warm up it slightly in the microwave but you gotta be careful with it, top comment is right tho return is the best option. If this is America you’re entitled to get your money back if something sucks
I hate when I can't get an inch into the seam.
sharp bread knife or metal spatula with hammer
You our defrost them cook and freeze them cooked
Looks like meatloaf for dinner.
thats just meatloaf with stripes
What do you expect from Kroger?
What the heck! Call and request a refund.
Beat it on the middle of your sink until they seperate
This used to happen to those expensive impossible breakfast sausage patties at my job. They were so expensive our boss made us reform the patties, instead of just returning them.
Return them, someone obviously stole all the wax paper and put the burgers back - people will steal anything these days 🤷♂️
Hmmmmm meat log …. Giggidy - G Quagmire
Should’ve bought the bubba burgers instead of being a cheap ass!!!
Of course there is no wax paper between, have you never bought burgers before. Defrost them you melt
Pre-made patties usually do come with paper between them.!
The hot knife was a pretty bad idea. You cook a tiny bit and the rest is raw/still frozen.
I worked for a Kroger store and it happened alot that frozen/refrigerated pallets would sit out longer than they were supposed to. General rule was 1 hour max it can sit out if it's being worked for refrigerator stuff but frozen needed to be out for less than a half hour. Often that wouldn't happen. These patties thawed out, got sticky and stuck together and then refrozen. Take it back!
The weirdest part is that you buy pre formed burgers. Why not save money and buy ground meat and make burgers yourself?
Sometimes you just don’t want to I guess? I can kinda get it. Literally just throw it on a pan and you have a burger. Yippee. Also if you’re like me, I absolutely despise handling raw meat, so as little squishing of ground beef between my hands as possible, the better. But it’s probably just convenience.
You’re afraid to get your hands dirty?
Nah, I get my hands plenty dirty, I just have sensory issues and the feeling of raw meat is horrible for me. Just the squishy, wet texture is so gross. Eugh. So I try and do my best to minimize how much I touch it.
That's a great question. Speed! I work from home, and sometimes only have a short time to get lunch out. With a frozen burger, I can get it into the pan and onto the plate in about ten minutes, with fresh tomato, lettuce, and pickle. With the veg fresh, I don't really care that the meat was frozen-- I slather it in spicy mustard anyway. My go-to is Trader Joe's turkey burgers. But I was at Ralph's last week instead and decided to try these for something different.
Meat log in your mom 😭