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Burgers just got better – with our new burger dome

Let me present the latest in our occasional series of things you don’t really need but will make you wonder how you ever managed without them.
The beef burger has had quite the transformation from the schoolboy tea-time treat of the 1970s or served up by Wimpy, at the princely sum of 21p for a cheeseburger.
 
 
Take a look at this early 1970's vintage advert for Bird’s Eye beef burgers here.
 
.....and another from 1979 here.
 
or read up about the menu recently unearthed in Surrey. 
 
Nowadays there is more often than not a “gourmet” burger option at every outdoor event from football matches to food festivals, with fancy burger restaurants opening the length and breadth of the country.
 
Local heroes and international competition winners, The Beefy Boys are one of Herefordshire’s culinary icons.
 
 
So how are you going to up your burger game?  Well you could start with selecting a recipe from DJ BBQ’s The Burger Book, devoted entirely to burgers. 
 
 
Our favourite baker, award winner Peter Cook, makes the very best brioche burger buns.  As he says, they are “soft but sturdy and will stand up to even the juiciest of burgers. Simply toast and go.”
 
But it would also help immensely to have the right kit – our bacon press and brand new burger dome will help you make the tastiest smashed cheeseburger you have ever created, whether in your kitchen or on your barbeque.
 
The bacon press with squish your meat to the perfect patty and then once you’ve flipped it – our iron spatula comes in handy here – drape it seductively with cheese, cover provocatively with the burger dome and wait for the magic. Our spun iron burger dome cooks burgers more evenly by trapping heat and steam, melts cheese quickly, and reduces cooking time. Your burger will emerge, the cheese melting seductively, like the silk negligée sliding off the shoulder of a 1930s Hollywood starlet.  Slide it on to a toasted bun, adorn it, not with diamonds, but with relishes, ketchups, mustard and pickles and then top it off with the other half of your bun and bite!  Grease, sauce or crumbs down your chin must be regarded simply as the inevitable outcome of a beautifully cooked burger.
 
Find the Netherton Foundry Spun iron Burger Dome here                           
 
 
And the very handy black iron spatula here.
 
 
The 7" Traditional Cooking iron is just the tool you need to create the perfect smashed burger.
 
 

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