Finding Burger (Intro)

What makes a good burger is, ultimately, a personal thing. Plenty of people, chefs, bloggers, self-proclaimed experts have written about the subject. Some have even dedicated entire blogs to the search for the ultimate burger.

I’ve used this journey as a valuable tool in my kitchen: both to guide myself and to show my team that everything we do is part of a process. A constant pursuit of learning and improvement. Burgers are everywhere. We’re so familiar with the damn things that we barely notice them anymore. We’ll even settle for a cheap fix when we’re half-cut at midnight, unable to tell right from wrong, even if we regret it later. But we still do it.

That’s why it was important that everyone in my kitchen could connect with one thing we all know, good or bad, inside and out: the burger.

Every lesson we’ve learned, every mistake we’ve made chasing the perfect burger, we’ve carried into the rest of our cooking. None of our recipes are perfect. None of them are finished. But every day we walk into the kitchen knowing we have to be a little better than we were yesterday, no matter how small the change.

When I search and compare burgers, I know perfection is a fantasy. But the journey towards it is what matters.

As one of my favourite burger spots says: “Not all burgers are created equal.”

And that journey starts with one thing: sourcing the right ingredients.