Independent home burger field guide
Build a Better Burger at Home
Test-kitchen burger recipes, practical technique guides, and a portion planner for home cooks who want repeatable results. Start with a tested recipe, then use the technique guides and portion notes to plan the cook.
Choose a burger
Classic and crisp: A juicy griddled cheeseburger with a tangy house sauce and a soft toasted bun. Lacy-edged beef smashed over shaved onion with mustard, pickles, and two thin layers of cheese.
Layered beef variations: A beef burger layered with roasted green chile, pepper jack, lime slaw, and a cool cumin crema. Deeply browned mushrooms, nutty Swiss cheese, and thyme mustard over a seared beef patty.
- Classic Diner Burger: A juicy griddled cheeseburger with a tangy house sauce and a soft toasted bun.
- Crispy Onion Smash Burger: Lacy-edged beef smashed over shaved onion with mustard, pickles, and two thin layers of cheese.
- Green Chile Melt: A beef burger layered with roasted green chile, pepper jack, lime slaw, and a cool cumin crema.
- Mushroom Swiss Stack: Deeply browned mushrooms, nutty Swiss cheese, and thyme mustard over a seared beef patty.
- Black Bean Crunch Burger: A crisp-edged black bean patty with toasted corn, lime, avocado, and a crunchy tortilla topping.
- Turkey Herb Burger: A tender turkey burger with grated onion, parsley, lemon, yogurt sauce, and peppery greens.
Use the technique guides
Patty and griddle technique: A practical sizing and handling method for patties that fit the bun and cook evenly. The heat, timing, pressure, and scraping details that create crisp edges instead of a steamed patty.
Temperature and sauce: How to check ground beef and poultry burgers with a thermometer and avoid unreliable visual cues. A ratio-based way to balance richness, acidity, sweetness, heat, and salt for any burger style.
- How to Shape Burger Patties: A practical sizing and handling method for patties that fit the bun and cook evenly.
- Smash Burger Technique Without the Guesswork: The heat, timing, pressure, and scraping details that create crisp edges instead of a steamed patty.
- Burger Temperature and Doneness: How to check ground beef and poultry burgers with a thermometer and avoid unreliable visual cues.
- Build a Balanced Burger Sauce: A ratio-based way to balance richness, acidity, sweetness, heat, and salt for any burger style.
Plan the cook
Preparation: Calculate patties, buns, cheese, and ground meat for a group before you shop. Enter the number of people you expect to feed. Choose a thin, classic, or thick patty style. Use the result as a shopping baseline and add a small margin for unexpected guests.
Editorial and domain context: This Is My Burger is an independent cooking publication for people who want a better burger without restaurant equipment or mystery steps. A concise record of the customer-created burger promotion that originally used this domain.