How do you make homemade burgers?!

You could simply get some ground beef. Season it up with salt, pepper, and maybe some worcestershire sauce and then form it into patties. It shouldn't fall apart. If you are doing something weird like adding bread crumbs then you will need to put a slightly beaten egg in the mix to hold it together, but that would be like making meatballs, not hamburgers.

You can put anything you want in the beef like seasonings, blue cheese crumbles, finely chopped onion and just form patties. If the beef you are using is too lean it might fall apart. You need a nice ground chuck which is 80% lean/20% fat to make good burgers.

Then just grill it of course.

I NEVER buy ground meat. Why risk it? I always grind my own and it is quite easy to do if you have a food processor

I'll leave the bread/bun, cheese, and toppings to you, but this is how you grind, season, form, and cook hamburger patties

Ingredients
Two 1 1/4 lb rib eye steaks, trimmed and cut into cubes
Kosher salt
Black peppercorns in a peppermill

Method
Place the cubed meat in the bowl of a food processor; season liberally with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Pulse the meat 8 times (1 second intervals). Remove from bowl of food processor and divide in half.

Without working the meat too much, form into two hamburger patties.

Prepare grill or pan to medium high and grill/sear 5 minutes on one side. Flip and grill 6 minutes to medium rare. Top with a slice of cheese (if using) and cover grill or pan until cheese melts completely.

Remove to a clean plate, tent with foil and allow to rest for 5 minutes.

How to Make the Perfect Homemade Hamburger

Things You'll Need :

2 pounds of lean hamburger meat
2 eggs
1 ? cup of breadcrumbs
1 tsp. salt
Fresh ground pepper to taste
1 packet of meatloaf mix
? tsp. of garlic powder
? tsp. of onion salt
? cup of breadcrumbs - keep in separate bowl to the side

Instructions :

1.-
Mix spices, meatloaf mix and bread crumbs together.
2.-
Add meat and kneed together until everything is thoroughly mixed in.
3.-
Add more bread crumbs if meat mixture is too pasty or add teaspoons of milk if meat mixture is too dry.
4.-
Roll meat dough into a tube shape about eight inches long.
5.-
Slice into patties of about one inch thick or thinner if you prefer.
6.-
Cover each patty with breadcrumbs from the bowl that remained separate.
7.-
Place meat patties into hot frying pan and cook on medium to low heat with a tiny bit of water. Do not burn. Turn patties over often. When they are completely cooked, brown as desired.

Tips & Warnings :

To spice up patties, you can add diced onions to the meat mixture to taste or add diced onions to the frying pan after the patties are cooked just as you are going to brown them.

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You can spice up hamburgers any way you like. There are no limits as to what you can put into the meat.
I use cumin, coriander, little bit of cayenne, minced garlic, ginger and onions and salt & pepper and mix well, but gently. Don't over mix because the burgers will get tough. Let the mixture sit for at least an hour for the flavors to develop.

Then form into ball, pat them down to form patties and make sure the center of each patty is indented in so that while it's cooking, it doesn't ball up.

First, always wash hands before and after handling meat...that said, just pack the ground beef tightly together in hands (whether you're adding additional ingredients or not)...pound solidly, rounding off edges. There used to be a gadget from Tupperware that you put the meat into then with this plastic circle thing, pressed down on the mixture and popped it out. (you can do the same with your hands).

Some ppl keep meat plain..some add things (like making inside-out cheeseburgers and many other variations for different flavors). Some like flatter burgers....some like plumper (keep in mind, they will plump so allow for that when packing together tightly).....then grill and they will be fine.

EDITING : found the Tupperware Patty Maker...works great (used to have one many years ago!):
http://www.amazon.com/Tupperware-Hamburg…

(But I, too, add salt&pepper and dash of Worcestershire sauce..
here's recipe for inside out bacon cheeseburgers....very good!
http://www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/insi…

BURGERS!!
Buy 80/20 ground beef. That means 80% meat, and 20% fat. That is the best yes it is fatty but if you go with a lean beef you will have tough and dry burgers.

Many people will say to add eggs, and some kind of binder with onions, onions soup mix and so on. That is Not a burger, that is mini meat loaf.

Just using a gentle yet firm pressure form the burgers. Put a small indentation in the center to avoid that rounded otu bubble. Use a scale or even ice cream scoop to measure the patties out to even sizes.

The fat will drip out as you cook it and still give you a nice juicy burger. If you use lean meat any fat drips out and leaves you with nothing but a dry patty.

The best are the simplest
One pound good ground beef divided into four even parts.
(Just cut the into 1/4th with a knife, to eliminate to much handling )(Over handling makes them tough)
Make into loose balls and press into 3/8th" patty's
In a med to hot pan set in all 4 bergers for 2 min.
Flip and cook for two more min.
Let rest covered with till foil for two more min.
If you want cheese burgers, lay a slice of your fav cheese on before you let rest.

Make sure ground beef is thoroughly thawed. Take the ground beef and tear it apart. Add seasoning (like seasoning salt or garlic salt and pepper). Add onions and green bellpeppers if u like/have them. Then mix the ground beef altogether. Start to take a handful (size of your palm) to make ur first burger. Press it and flatten it. Ground beef has it's own oil so it will stick together as a burger and once you place the raw burger in a pan or george foreman grill it will brown. Cook on medium heat in pan or 15-20 min on foreman grill

Make them way too often. =)