You take me back to growing up in an predominantly Italian village in the Rochester NY area.i was befriended by an Italian grandmother from the Old country. She was the main cook at my good friends house and I fell in love with Italian food Food prep was our communication and it was our main language I loved to food so much and even tho she had limited English and I had no Italian, we communicated perfectly Your enthusiasm reminds me of those days I prepare almost everything from your post Thanks for you Jan...from Jacksonville Fl
According to George Motz, one of America's leading food historians and definitely America's leading burger specialist, a burger is defined as 'ground or chopped beef, cooked somehow, served on bread'. The jury is not still out on the definition of a burger. The judge has ruled. These are not remotely burgers. They do, however, look delicious. Burgers do not have a monopoly on deliciousness.
As soon as I heard Frankie say it, I pretty much thought your comment word for word in my head. George Motz is one of my personal heroes. And hey, there's nothing wrong with eating other things on a burger bun. It's just that it's a sandwich, and that's okay.
We live in a world where anything can identify as a burger these days. Hamburgers never had ham in them so who says what?! That was a delicious looking BURGER, Frankie *chefs kiss
Actually, hamburger's name came from the city of Hamburg, Germany, and the cut of meat that was called a 'hamburg' cut. It looked nothing like today's hamburger of ground meat, but it was basically a piece of beef cut to fit a sandwich, yadda, yadda. Fast forward some gazillion food history years, and the ground beef burgers were morphed with the name of the hamburg steak burger, and here we are, eating burgers as if they're all free and cooked for us by a famous young chef.
It wasn't 'a cut of beef cut to fit a sandwich'. The development of the Hamburg Steak Sandwich came later, once it came to America. What WAS distinctive about it was that it was one of the more memorable times in culinary history when cheap, tough cuts of beef were rendered artificially tender through chopping, pounding, and/or grinding. The result was the Hamburg Steak (which could be small or could be the size of a porterhouse, but that wasn't what was distinctive about it. The important thing was the process it went through, first tenderizing, then cooking like any other steak). It got to be popular because it made it possible for people on the lower tier of the income ladder to get good tender flavorful protein in their diet... a struggle meal so classic I'm shocked Frankie hasn't tackled it yet. With a good brown gravy, mushrooms, and onions, it also came to be known as a Salisbury Steak. Because it was a popular cheap eat, it crossed the Atlantic with German immigrants, and eventually, it came to be distinctive at county and state fairs. Handling plates, forks, and knives with fair food started becoming an ordeal, so eventually someone had the bright idea to slap together Hamburg steak sandwiches, providing a workaround for eating utensils, and allowing them to be eaten by hand, at most wrapped in paper, eliminating the need for plates entirely. One of the claimants to the title of 'the original hamburger' is Louis Lunch of New Haven, Connecticut. Their claim isn't uncontestable (though it is recognized by the Library of Congress as legit), but it IS distinctive for using an unchanged burger recipe since the year 1900, which predates the development of the hamburger BUN. They still serve burgers on simple white bread. This demonstrates that the burger bun isn't what makes something a hamburger. You could serve it on toast, garlic bread, or Naan and it would still be a hamburger. George Motz, a food historian, expert on regional American food ways, and expert on the history and culture of the American hamburger, has charted this out pretty clearly. As he's been able to reckon based on his long history of studying the American hamburger, his best definition for what a hamburger IS can be quoted as "ground or chopped beef, cooked somehow, served on bread". Even when another protein is substituted (such as ground pork in a modern slug burger, despite the original slugburger being beef stretched with stale breadcrumbs and sold for a nickle during the great depression, or ground turkey for the health conscious), at the very least the tenderizing process is preserved and indicated by the moniker of 'slug burger' or 'turkey burger'; not pure burgers in themselves, but at least respecting what was distinctive and unique about the Hamburg steak. So no, this is not a delicious-looking burger. It's a delicious-looking sandwich.
5:34 The fact that you had to close your eyes when taking a bite, just Proves it's an amazing sandwich!
My Nonna used to make this for me when I was a kid :)
FRANKIE!!! YOU ARE AMAZING!!!
grazie
You take me back to growing up in an predominantly Italian village in the Rochester NY area.i was befriended by an Italian grandmother from the Old country. She was the main cook at my good friends house and I fell in love with Italian food
Food prep was our communication and it was our main language
I loved to food so much and even tho she had limited English and I had no Italian, we communicated perfectly
Your enthusiasm reminds me of those days
I prepare almost everything from your post
Thanks for you
Jan...from Jacksonville Fl
that's what I like to hear, and it's also true
The crunchiness and the mozzarella...yum. Thank you.
Eggplants make me itchy, but I want that sandwich anyway. It looks delicious!
You might be allergic
Never been one to go out of my way for eggplant, but you're making me wanna try that. 😁
Giving them a hit of salt so they weep out the bitter juices is kind of a game changer, yeah.
yeah you do
Beautiful sandwich 🥪🥪 thank you
Mmmmm, that looks so delicious! Thank you 💖
Good Job Frankie. Saw this on TV the other day but i missed how to make the Gremolata . Now I can complete the project. Love Eggplant
Loving the pinky at 5:32
Thank you 🙏
Lovingly looking at his work. Nice
2 forks = tongs. Love in the tummy😊
Could you do the eggplant in the airfryer?
yes, it works well
Delish❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank-you for sharing and eating in front of me Smolders 👀 ❤
Yum
Your expressions are so hilarious 🥰🤣🥰🤣
Can we air fry?
If you have an air fryer, why not? Cooking's all about learning the process, so go for it.
yes
Yum, I love eggplant😻🍆
Thanks Frankie! This looks fantastic.
@@trontosaurusrex9532 It sure does😋
According to George Motz, one of America's leading food historians and definitely America's leading burger specialist, a burger is defined as 'ground or chopped beef, cooked somehow, served on bread'.
The jury is not still out on the definition of a burger. The judge has ruled. These are not remotely burgers.
They do, however, look delicious. Burgers do not have a monopoly on deliciousness.
As soon as I heard Frankie say it, I pretty much thought your comment word for word in my head.
George Motz is one of my personal heroes.
And hey, there's nothing wrong with eating other things on a burger bun. It's just that it's a sandwich, and that's okay.
Avocado on the sandwich will be good … or chimichurra
Lol,Frankie😹
Heh... "girth"
I should’ve watched this video 30 minutes ago (salt it like the ocean to remove the bitterness 😅)
We live in a world where anything can identify as a burger these days. Hamburgers never had ham in them so who says what?! That was a delicious looking BURGER, Frankie *chefs kiss
Actually, hamburger's name came from the city of Hamburg, Germany, and the cut of meat that was called a 'hamburg' cut. It looked nothing like today's hamburger of ground meat, but it was basically a piece of beef cut to fit a sandwich, yadda, yadda. Fast forward some gazillion food history years, and the ground beef burgers were morphed with the name of the hamburg steak burger, and here we are, eating burgers as if they're all free and cooked for us by a famous young chef.
@@jb6712 I did not know that. Interesting.
It wasn't 'a cut of beef cut to fit a sandwich'. The development of the Hamburg Steak Sandwich came later, once it came to America.
What WAS distinctive about it was that it was one of the more memorable times in culinary history when cheap, tough cuts of beef were rendered artificially tender through chopping, pounding, and/or grinding. The result was the Hamburg Steak (which could be small or could be the size of a porterhouse, but that wasn't what was distinctive about it. The important thing was the process it went through, first tenderizing, then cooking like any other steak). It got to be popular because it made it possible for people on the lower tier of the income ladder to get good tender flavorful protein in their diet... a struggle meal so classic I'm shocked Frankie hasn't tackled it yet. With a good brown gravy, mushrooms, and onions, it also came to be known as a Salisbury Steak.
Because it was a popular cheap eat, it crossed the Atlantic with German immigrants, and eventually, it came to be distinctive at county and state fairs. Handling plates, forks, and knives with fair food started becoming an ordeal, so eventually someone had the bright idea to slap together Hamburg steak sandwiches, providing a workaround for eating utensils, and allowing them to be eaten by hand, at most wrapped in paper, eliminating the need for plates entirely. One of the claimants to the title of 'the original hamburger' is Louis Lunch of New Haven, Connecticut. Their claim isn't uncontestable (though it is recognized by the Library of Congress as legit), but it IS distinctive for using an unchanged burger recipe since the year 1900, which predates the development of the hamburger BUN. They still serve burgers on simple white bread. This demonstrates that the burger bun isn't what makes something a hamburger. You could serve it on toast, garlic bread, or Naan and it would still be a hamburger.
George Motz, a food historian, expert on regional American food ways, and expert on the history and culture of the American hamburger, has charted this out pretty clearly. As he's been able to reckon based on his long history of studying the American hamburger, his best definition for what a hamburger IS can be quoted as "ground or chopped beef, cooked somehow, served on bread". Even when another protein is substituted (such as ground pork in a modern slug burger, despite the original slugburger being beef stretched with stale breadcrumbs and sold for a nickle during the great depression, or ground turkey for the health conscious), at the very least the tenderizing process is preserved and indicated by the moniker of 'slug burger' or 'turkey burger'; not pure burgers in themselves, but at least respecting what was distinctive and unique about the Hamburg steak.
So no, this is not a delicious-looking burger. It's a delicious-looking sandwich.
@@caffeinedelusions👏 grazie for the history lesson
Beautiful sandwich 🥪🥪 thank you