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Nick, your description of the tasting experience left me almost grossed out with your porn-like rhapsody! That said, I keep scrolling up to read it again. Definitely going to have to experience the porn-y goodness of these burgers soon. Thanks, I think, for the review!

@Nick, @jobeth Hey Nick I don't want to turn you great review and what looks like a tasty burger discovery for us local to NYC into a food safety discussion, but you probably have more experience than I on this so I would like to hear your opinion in that I kinda agree with jobeth. It it my understaning, specifically in regards to beef, that bacteria such as e.coli are found only on the surface of the cut. So, with a steak cooked (even rarest of the rare) with an exterior char safely removes any danger of bacteria. However, with ground beef, any bacteria on the surface of the meat is effectively distributed throughout the mix when ground. Hence, you are only really safe if you cook the ground beef to a temerature all the way through that kills the bacteria. Otherwise, your rare in the middle patty can be contaminated. It stands to reason that low volume, high quality butchers exercising care in their handling procedures reduce the risk of exposure to bacteria, but it is not like you can see it. Your thoughts?

Rare burger = really repulsive to anyone outside the US. Oh gag, I can't even look at the picture. What kind of meat do you guys get your burgers made from to want to put it into your mouth basically raw? Unless the beef comes from cows fed in heaven's pastures, processed by angels you wouldn't get me putting a rare burger close to my face. Rare beef is divine in all other forms, but BURGERS? Isn't it sloppy and cold?

for $8? that thing looks PERFECT. i'm there man. Great review and pictures.

Wow, those guys are d-bags. But at least one part of that sweet club seems accurate, they do seem like bottoms.

While I agree that medium rare is the only way to order a burger, let's remember that taste, by definition, is subjective.

these guys don't know anything about hamburgers. their inattention to everything is a disgrace to the very hamburgers that they're eating. and the cows. any idiot with a publicist can get featured on the today show. but these seven fools have struck the hamburger chord that lies near to my heart. so check out my hamburger blog at

http://insurgencyhamburgercooperative.blogspot.com/

long live the hamburger.

Charcoal flame, gas flame, any flame cooked burgers just end up tasting like smoke. Yuck. Griddle all the way.

Sounds pretty good, but
first, I wouldn't want butter 'drizzled' on it, second, it would surely taste better if cooked over charcoal flame instead of frying on a griddle.

@samjung23: One cannot take anyone seriously who uses terms like "blue collar chic", "limousine liberal", and "normal people". They don't have much to do with food, really. By the way, that's quite a feat, you having eaten at every burger joint in the world. My advice to you, Flounder, is to stop wasting your time becoming insulted. Be the burger, Danny.

@Summerfield, I have the book, won it here on SE actually. I like it, and we reference it on occasion for trips. Still, I wasn't talking about the book ... I was talking about SE itself. It ends up being more than refreshing if anything outside the major cities is covered. But really, they only cover major cities because mainstream media does the same.

For example, in the reporting on the Hot Dog Hootenany they mention Koegel hot dogs and that they're on the Detroit coney. They never mention the Flint coney, which is the only one Koegel's is used on (the Detroits use other brands), and the similar-but-different Jackson coney is unheard of unless you've been there. No one knows these things, these smaller places, because they're assumed to not be interesting.

There is so much more out there that deserves regular attention. Frankly, I'd like to see it.

@LunaPierCook: I guess it must be the economy draggging everyone down. I understand. I have good days and bad days. My post was clearly humorous. Sorry you missed it. Motz hit Miller's in Dearborn and some place on Lake Michigan in SW Michigan, so that's not Ann Arbor and it's not Detoit. He didn't hit Dan's Tavern in Saline or Stiver's near Chelsea, but I'm not complaining. You should write him and give him some suggestions. He has a website.

@samjung23: There's no such thing as a "limousine liberal", and I have serious doubts about "normal people". You need a bigger sample than "a couple of normal people", maybe a fat-pig drug-addled radio talk show host, for example. They have burgers at Dinersty?