Comments on: Holy Mother Flipper: Look at That Burger!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 27 Apr 2013 09:46:21 +0000

On the subject of using Maldon salt in burgers, why bother? A bit on tomatoes goes a long way. However purely using it for seasoning is a bad idea as it creates salt pockets as the flakes dissolve. As was my experience at lucky chip although the waiter seemed convinced by it. Grind salt down to the same size and no one will taste the difference. If anything it’s an expensive fashionable waste.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 06:22:55 +0000

so how do you describe the taste of the burger? is it sweet & salty? is the candied bacon crunchy?

By: @Gastro1

@Gastro1 — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:37:04 +0000

Dan

I read a lot of “analysis” of the various components that make up a good burger in the ever increasing number of burger focused blogs.

The one component that seems to receive the least attention is the patty in terms of meat quality and how it has been ground.

Like you I take a holistic view of what constitutes a perfect burger but cannot get my head around this lack of rigour,

Over salting in my view is often, not necessarily in this case an attempt to disguise the really poor meat being used in a respective burger.

For me there has been some progress in London/UK more so at the top end but sadly a really top notch “joint” burger is as rare over here as finding a half decent Greek restaurant.

By: Daniel Young

Daniel Young — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 07:30:34 +0000

In reply to Pau Hastings. Thanks, Paul, for the first-hand report as well as the kind words.

By: Pau Hastings

Pau Hastings — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:17:01 +0000

I went on Saturday to try the burger out. I think that the Salt Issue may have been resolved, it really wasn’t noticeable to me. The Candied Bacon is a new one for my taste buds, rather unique I think, I will definitely be heading back to this great little market to try it out again. The Scotch Eggs people were tugging into were really something special too!!

Great site by the way!!

By: Nicola Powell

Nicola Powell — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:47:02 +0000

That burger looks mighty fine. I’ll definitely be heading down to Brockley Market very soon. Hopefully by then they’ll have the “salt issue” under control.

Happy days!

By: Tom Nixon

Tom Nixon — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:24:06 +0000

The burger sounds great, I’ll be heading over soon…! I agree with the too much salt issue!