Nerevar
Putenfleischesser
Hi guys,
Please don't kill me, but I have some question for you, electric grillers, about beef burgers.
I've tried 2-3 times to grill burgers on my Weber Q1400, but I always overcooked them.
I don't know why, maybe I'm wrong with something: I will try to explain you what I would like to obtain when I cook burgers, even if is not easy to explain it in English, so I will add some pictures.
When I cook burgers in my kitchen, over gas cooker with a hot-plate, I always try to cook them rare. I use to let the plate become very very hot, because I want the burgers to have an immediate violent cooking so I can have a little crust outside, and then I cook them until I reach this spot:
I love burgers when they are like this: crusty outside, and barely cooked inside, like a steak. Only rare cooking.
When I cook burgers on the Weber Q, I always obtain burgers overcooked like when you eat them at McDonald's.
When I tried to cook them I made these steps:
1) I always put my barbecue's thermostat at maximum power and let the bbq warm for at least 20 minutes;
2) I always oil the burgers surface with extra-virgin olive oil and rub them as I like;
3) When the temperature of the grate is very very hot, I throw burgers on the grill and cook them with the lid closed, turning them every 2-3 minutes;
4) I turn my burgers maximum 2 times per side, like I do on the hot plate on the gas cooker.
When I remove my burgers from the grill they always look like this:
And, if you look at this picture, it seems that the burger is juicy, even if it's very well cooked. My burgers are always dried.
I would like to try to cook them with the lid opened, because I thought that the lid closed can dry them and even add the convection temperature of cooking that is not good for burgers, but @Andrew91 just told me in his thread about burgers that he cooks burgers with the lid closed.
Now I don't know what to do to obtain rare cooked burgers with my electric bbq.
I'm afraid that cooking them with the lid opened will not be enough hot to cook beef, but I'm also afraid to overcook them with the lid closed. Maybe I should use a thermometer? Or there is something wrong in my procedure?
Please friends give me all the tips you want, I want to cook burgers!!! I have a lot of recipes to try!!!
Thanks!
Please don't kill me, but I have some question for you, electric grillers, about beef burgers.
I've tried 2-3 times to grill burgers on my Weber Q1400, but I always overcooked them.
I don't know why, maybe I'm wrong with something: I will try to explain you what I would like to obtain when I cook burgers, even if is not easy to explain it in English, so I will add some pictures.
When I cook burgers in my kitchen, over gas cooker with a hot-plate, I always try to cook them rare. I use to let the plate become very very hot, because I want the burgers to have an immediate violent cooking so I can have a little crust outside, and then I cook them until I reach this spot:
I love burgers when they are like this: crusty outside, and barely cooked inside, like a steak. Only rare cooking.
When I cook burgers on the Weber Q, I always obtain burgers overcooked like when you eat them at McDonald's.
When I tried to cook them I made these steps:
1) I always put my barbecue's thermostat at maximum power and let the bbq warm for at least 20 minutes;
2) I always oil the burgers surface with extra-virgin olive oil and rub them as I like;
3) When the temperature of the grate is very very hot, I throw burgers on the grill and cook them with the lid closed, turning them every 2-3 minutes;
4) I turn my burgers maximum 2 times per side, like I do on the hot plate on the gas cooker.
When I remove my burgers from the grill they always look like this:
And, if you look at this picture, it seems that the burger is juicy, even if it's very well cooked. My burgers are always dried.
I would like to try to cook them with the lid opened, because I thought that the lid closed can dry them and even add the convection temperature of cooking that is not good for burgers, but @Andrew91 just told me in his thread about burgers that he cooks burgers with the lid closed.
Now I don't know what to do to obtain rare cooked burgers with my electric bbq.
I'm afraid that cooking them with the lid opened will not be enough hot to cook beef, but I'm also afraid to overcook them with the lid closed. Maybe I should use a thermometer? Or there is something wrong in my procedure?
Please friends give me all the tips you want, I want to cook burgers!!! I have a lot of recipes to try!!!
Thanks!
what do you mean? You mean that you put your burgers in the refrigerator for a while before cooking them?
let us know if it works for you