Aug 17, 2009 11:11
You start with a roast and a crock pot and your favorite BBQ sauce. No need for fancy expensive beef. I imagine you could use pork too, but there's no need to spend a lot on whatever you pick.
Start about eight or nine o'clock the evening before the day you want to have these burgers, which will probably be tomorrow. Throw the roast in the crock pot, throw in some salt and pepper and a cup of water or so. Turn your crock pot on high for two episodes of Deadwood, then turn it down to low before you go to bed.
Now sleep a long time.
When you wake up in the morning, grab a fork and give a taste. Bland? Probably. I suppose in hindsight you'll realize that you should have maybe seasoned it better, but then you'll realize the important thing is that the roast pulls apart very easily, which it does, so good job. Now flip the meat over, cover it back up and go have some breakfast. Spend your morning doing whatever you want, and have whatever lunch you want, because you're going to want to have this for dinner.
Sometime in the afternoon, drain off all the water and fat, and shred the roast with a fork thoroughly, and then add whatever BBQ sauce you want and mix it in. You can make the sauce yourself or do what I did and throw in a bottle from Arthur Bryant's and a handful of brown sugar. Mix all that up and give another taste.
Pretty good, huh? It gets way better. But what the hell, grab some bread and have a little sandwich. You'll need your strength for what's coming.
You'll need about 2/3lb ground beef.
Make 2 patties. as thin as you can make them without having them thaw out. They should be frisbee-like. You'll be grilling these so season them however you like, and it probably wouldn't hurt to add an egg yolk for cohesion if you're into that kind of thing.
Now that you've made two burger patties and you're on your way to the grill, turn around and go back to the kitchen. You aren't done yet.
Take some of the bbq beef or pork you made earlier, and lay it in the middle of one of the patties. spread it out in an even layer, but leave about 1/4" at the edge. Now, take the other patty and lay it on top, squeezing the edges together.
Neat, huh?
Now go grill it. Make sure you handle it carefully, and grill it slowly, too, you want it to be cooked through. If you don't buy your ground beef in a real butcher shop, like McGonigal's (sp?) or something, then you may not be getting fresh ground beef, so be careful, kay?
Frisburger done? Eat it.
This particular recipe was a collaboration between my buddy Tanner and I. He was going to bring burgers over, and I was gonna make bbq beef. I don't know who said we should combine them, but we did, and now we're ready for our award.
I really, really hope you try this one. It was SO GODDAMN DELICIOUS!!!