How are you supposed to bite that burger in the picture without unhinging your jaw?
Big burgers should be wider, not taller.
Big burgers should be wider, not taller.
Here's the beauty of reading an article on cooking, and subsequently of cooking for yourself: you can take what you learned and then make your burger however you like. And how you like your burger might not be how someone else likes theirs.
But at that point maybe just get a Whopper from Burger King, or almost anything else.
All cheeses are polymers though, so I guess it is somewhat accurate to call all cheese plastic
> Modern American cheese is a type of processed cheese [...] It is typically yellow or white in color; yellow American cheese is seasoned and colored with annatto. [Image: an individually wrapped slice of American cheese, also known as a single]
Maybe 'processed' (not a good term I know, but we sort of know what we mean), coloured, sliced and individually wrapped cheese is 'normal' to you, it certainly isn't to me.
> Manufacturing process
> Traditional cheese is ground, combined with emulsifying agents and other ingredients, mixed and heated until it forms a "melted homogeneous" mixture. To pasteurize it, [...]
> Processed American cheese is packaged in individually wrapped slices, as unwrapped slices sold in stacks, or in unsliced blocks. Individually wrapped slices are formed from processed cheese which solidifies only between the wrapping medium; these slices, sold as 'singles', are typically the least like traditional cheese. Blocks of American cheese are more similar to traditional cheese, and are sliced to order at deli counters.
I didn't know how it was made until I read this, but I think that settles it? It 'contains' 'normal cheese', but the manufacturing process specifically starts with that as input.
If I ground some assorted meats, pasteurised them, seasoned them, and then shaped it - is that 'normal steak'? No, it's basically a burger (albeit multi-meat & steak-shaped), a distinct thing.
Or a better example because it actually exists: 'fish fingers' can be called 'fish' because they're a blend of multiple normal fish, but the resultant processed blend isn't 'normal fish' or 'a fish'.
Here’s the problem: you’ve confused Kraft Singles (a “prepared cheese product” that can’t legally be called “cheese”) with American cheese, which is a blend of cheeses.
It's not, like, a Kraft™ Single™ or whatever.
https://www.seriouseats.com/the-burger-lab-what-is-the-best-...
So… it well may be a Kraft Single.