Square Burgers!

This was a little experiment in hamburger making that turned out to be pretty good and will be put to good use in the future. I like to find boneless chuck roast on sale like those we picked up a few days ago to do this with at 1.99 per lb and grind them myself – the meat is so much better and it’s really no trouble and the meat grinders are usually 99 bucks at Northern Tools. You can season the meat as you go or you can season the meat before grinding for an even more flavorful burger. I doubt this square burger making will work near as well with store bought already ground meat as it’s compacted when you get it and what seemed to really help making good even sized burgers for me the other day was the fact the meat was loose and I could evenly spread it on the wax paper before patting down into the big square. The really neat thing here is when you have your burgers ready you can slide them in the freezer on a sheet pan or as I did on a disposable cutting board and freeze them with the wax paper still in place and then place them in freezer bags or better still vac sealed freezer bags. We now have 12 even sized burgers in the freezer ready for the grill.