Burger King

IceCreamMan · 2013-05-09T23:58:27+00:00

ok , let me admit to it , I love burger king fries ....and am insanely annoyed BK decided to open in CTN instead of here...... so any of you capies been yet...

Burger King

Squonk

@Tokai decent Hot Dog at the Hillfox flea market, even has fried onions

flatfourfan

ActionArnie wrote:
evolucian wrote: What does triple frying the chips do?

As far as I understand it... fry them once, let them cool completely, then fry again to get french fries (or rather americanised version). So if we let them cool down completely again and then fry them... are we preparing for dust?

What I'm trying to work out is how to get my patties shiny after grilling. Some say oil, some say basting... pretty much all comes out charred to me.
I worked at KFC for a year. Multi-frying stuff was a common occurrence, not to improve the taste though. Staff would cook extra chicken & chips the night before and then officially write it off as waste as it wasn't sold by closing time. They'd then be on shift the next morning and peel the fried flour off the chicken and re-flour and fry it. Idea was that then they could sell the written-off stuff first thing and pocket the takings.

Entrepreneurship is alive and well!

That's not triple frying........that's just re-cooking left overs and plain dodgy.

Triple frying with chips is cooking them once till they pretty much go all sloppy on a low heat, you take them out, drain them, turn the heat up to about 1/2 way and about 5 min later put them back in, cook till firm, then take them out again, repeat the procedure and up the heat to full, then pop them back in for a quick cook until light brown.

Triple frying gives you that soft centre and nice crispy exterior, rosemary, salt, pepper and some chicken spice makes the best damn homemade fries that you've ever tasted, once you've had those, you will never buy store bought again.

Many shops multi-fry because that way that can cook a crap load from raw early in the morning and basically just heat them up as the day goes on, sometimes with stuff laying for hours before heating it up.

Good tip for a juicy burger is to give it a quick baste with A1 steak sauce just before you're about to pull it out......

Bob-Dubery

flatfourfan wrote:
That's not triple frying........that's just re-cooking left overs and plain dodgy.

I was born in England. In 60s England re-cooking left overs was considered thrifty, part of a well balanced diet and usually resulted in the tastiest meal of the week.

flatfourfan

Tokai SA wrote: Can anybody tell me where to get a decent hot dog or toasted cheese in Johannesburg?
Let me answer, there is no half decent toasted cheese or hot dog anywhere in Johannesburg. ?

Do you have a Brewers in jhb? They made one hell of a hotdog called a grill-o dog.........

X-rated Bob wrote:
flatfourfan wrote:
That's not triple frying........that's just re-cooking left overs and plain dodgy.
I was born in England. In 60s England re-cooking left overs was considered thrifty, part of a well balanced diet and usually resulted in the tastiest meal of the week.

Born in the UK as well, re cooking leftovers was a way of life for our family, where do you think sheperds pie and toad in the hole comes from?

Bob-Dubery

flatfourfan wrote: Born in the UK as well, re cooking leftovers was a way of life for our family, where do you think sheperds pie and toad in the hole comes from?

Toad in the hole never struck me as being about left overs, or necessarily so. I was thinking more of bubble and squeak, a dish I always enjoyed.

My grandmothers used to hoard dripping like crazy and never, ever threw bones out until they'd boiled every scrap of meat and marrow out of them. Then they'd sell them to the bone merchant. One granny used to position things in the oven so that anything that dripped or fell off the roast would end up in the yorkshire pud.

I never got to like bread and dripping (or tea, a bit odd for an English person) but bubble and squeak was right up my street.

A lot of this, of course, comes from shortages during and after WWII.

Bob-Dubery

I were born in a cardboard box in the middle of the road. Our dad used to wake us up two hours before we went to sleep and we got a cup of cold poison for breakfast.

Etc etc.

flatfourfan

X-rated Bob wrote:
flatfourfan wrote: Born in the UK as well, re cooking leftovers was a way of life for our family, where do you think sheperds pie and toad in the hole comes from?
Toad in the hole never struck me as being about left overs, or necessarily so. I was thinking more of bubble and squeak, a dish I always enjoyed.

My grandmothers used to hoard dripping like crazy and never, ever threw bones out until you'd boiled every scrap of meat and marrow out of them. Then they'd sell them to the bone merchant. One granny used to position things in the oven so that anything that dripped or fell off the roast would end up in the yorkshire pud.

I never got to like bread and dripping (or tea, a bit odd for an English person) but bubble and squeak was right up my street.

A lot of this, of course, comes from shortages during and after WWII.

My mum used to mince up all left over peices of meat (yup we had a mincer in the house) and put them in casings with a mix of new and left over batter mix from yorkies.

My dad was a dripping hoarder......there would always be a cup of something in the fridge. When my mum would cook a fry up in the grill pan, then pan would be put in the middle of the table with breakfast and you'd have the drippings from bacon, tomato mushrooms and whatever was in there and you'd dunk it up with a door wedge slice of fresh bread.

Gotta love simple pleasures........everything back then was always so damn tasty..........

Squonk

The Truth in the matter is that we have hectically brilliant BURGERS, well at least in JHB and you wont find then at Burger King, Steers or MCd's!

V8

All this burger talk made me hungry...A cheeseburger for yesterday's grand prix lunch. 25mins from mince to munch 8)

singemonkey

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

flatfourfan

amen....................buns need to be toasted a bit though, stops them getting too soggy too soon..........

I'd SO lay into that sucker...........

Psean

V8 wrote: All this burger talk made me hungry...A cheeseburger for yesterday's grand prix lunch. 25mins from mince to munch 8)

Yeah, that's the way to do it ?

Bob-Dubery

V8 wrote: All this burger talk made me hungry...A cheeseburger for yesterday's grand prix lunch. 25mins from mince to munch 8)

Well there's part of the problem. We go to a steers or a burger king or whatever and they ask us to wait 25 minutes then we throw our toys.

Some years ago I read a rule of manufacture, expounded by Clifford Stoll, that I've remembered a long time and which seems to be true in all cases.

1) Draw a triangle
2) Label the corners respectively "cheap", "good" and "fast".
3) This law says that you can only have one side of the triangle. IE if you want it good and fast then you can't have it cheaply. If you insist on "fast" and "cheap" then you have to give up on "good". Etc

So McDonald's and the like operate along the fast/cheap line.

evolucian

Hmmm... the triangle is interesting. Will make a note of that... thanks Bob

Stubbs

X-rated Bob wrote:
V8 wrote: All this burger talk made me hungry...A cheeseburger for yesterday's grand prix lunch. 25mins from mince to munch 8)
Well there's part of the problem. We go to a steers or a burger king or whatever and they ask us to wait 25 minutes then we throw our toys.

Some years ago I read a rule of manufacture, expounded by Clifford Stoll, that I've remembered a long time and which seems to be true in all cases.

1) Draw a triangle
2) Label the corners respectively "cheap", "good" and "fast".
3) This law says that you can only have one side of the triangle. IE if you want it good and fast then you can't have it cheaply. If you insist on "fast" and "cheap" then you have to give up on "good". Etc

So McDonald's and the like operate along the fast/cheap line.

A very useful thing to keep in mind (it's called product mapping), can bring a lot of things into perspective.

flatfourfan

You gotta ask yourself, how can you take this.......

Yeah it's a real whopper, over this........?

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X-rated Bob wrote: I were born in a cardboard box in the middle of the road. Our dad used to wake us up two hours before we went to sleep and we got a cup of cold poison for breakfast.
Etc etc.

Lmao. I just had to acknowledge this, because no one else did... Bob, did you also get hit on the back of the head with a spade and buried in the backyard just before bedtime before you dad woke you up two hours before you went to sleep and fed you maggots for dinner? hehehe ?

Bob-Dubery

And you tell that to the kids of today, and they won't believe you....