Classic American Cheeseburger Recipe

Chef Tom breaks down what we believe makes the World’s Best Cheeseburger.
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hey I’m chef Tom with all things barbecue and today I’m making the world’s best cheeseburger now there’s a lot of different ways to make a cheeseburger but this is the best way and it all starts with the meat we’re using point meat from the brisket for our burger today which has got tons of fat in it alternatively you could use some chuck roast maybe mixing some ribeye give it some extra fat we’re grinding our meat for the 10 millimeter die and we’re going to do that twice so you can see we have a nice coarse grind here we’re just going to do this one more time to get it a little bit finer [Music] so I’ve got three pounds of my ground brisket point meat and the only thing I’m going to add to this for now is an egg for binder I want to mix this very quickly so that I don’t warm it and the reason we want that binders because we’re cooking on the grill it’s a little bit easier for it to fall apart especially when we go to flip it so this is hopefully just going to hold everything together so we get that perfectly cooked burger I’m not going to add any seasoning at all to the inside of this meat and that’s because I don’t want to extract anything I don’t want the salt to do any work on it until I’m ready for that so I’m ready to put these in patties right now and we’ll be seasoning on the surface of the meat each burger will be a little more than 1/3 pound all right I’m going to go throw these in the fridge while we prep our toppings now I want to be clear here we’re not trying to reinvent the wheel we are going to make the wheel delicious this is a classic American style cheeseburger so what do we need for American style cheeseburger right we need the burger we need some solid buns maybe tomato some red onion some dill pickles some iceberg lettuce for that crunch and of course American cheese I don’t want to hear any complaints about this because American cheese is delicious and it melts perfectly on a burger all right one more thing we’re going to mix up a little bit of special sauce we’ll do about two parts Chipotle ketchup one part Mayo and then just a dash pickle juice alright last thing left to do is to get these burgers seasoned up but we’re using our butts are smoking our beef rub today I really like the flavor profile of this rub especially for beef it’s got a lot of garlic to it of course it’s salty we also get some onion and some paprika I’m just going to smash these down a little bit and I’ll help form them up a little bit when we hit the other side with seasoning you get a nice circle put a little divot right there in the middle where it wants to plump up all right we’ve got our grill grates in place no diffuser direct heat going to hit this with some pan spray so we can avoid sticking as much as possible we’ll also throw our Tomatoes here on the grill get a little color on those as well all right we’re going to shoot for a finishing internal temperature of about 155 on these we want to get the cheese melted so when they get just a few degrees shy of that I’m going to put some cheese on move them off to the side beautiful giant American cheeseburger let’s see how it tastes I love this combination of flavors I love that we mix it up with some Chipotle ketchup makes it a little more interesting that’s got to be the best burger I’ve ever eaten I wouldn’t lie to you thanks so much for watching if you enjoy the video please click the subscribe button if you have any questions or comments so there’s anything you’d like to see me cook let me know in the comments section down below for more recipes tips and techniques head over to the sauce ATB BQ comm all things BBQ where barbecue legends are made