One of the things I like about Sous Vide, I’ve probably mentioned it before – is the ability to dial in meat to a specific temp. I also like that while it’s doing its thing, you can bust out a couple other activities, knowing that your shit is going to be on point when the time comes. So recently, I did some burgers – super easy.

Get some 80-20 ground beef, drop an egg in there (1 for every pound and a half or so) and mix it up.

Then it’s all about making the patties. For these I went with 9oz patties. I know that’s excessive, but so am I so what the heck are you going to do about it.

BEASTS! I used scissors to cut pieces of parchment paper to make handling and putting in my bag easier.

For ground burger meat of any kind, you really shouldn’t vacuum pack it, because it will make texture weird. For my burgers, I went with water displacement in ziplock bags, and made sure the burgers didn’t overlap. I went with 133 degrees (which I would change to 130 for future endeavors).

And what did I do while they were in the bath? I decided to make a scotch wash for a home made scotch! I went with 20% peated malt, which is what should add a little smokey flavor to my final product.

Here’s my grind setup!

It’s basically like making beer without the hops – Went with some 2row base malt and some munich malt (just had some laying around) .

It went well!

Back to the BURGERS! Here they are after the bath! Gross, right?  I dried them off and added a little more pepper,

Then it was out to the grill!

Here’s my grill setup – don’t laugh, it’s literally the bottom of my Weber Smokey Mountain with the grate placed over it..

But I had the cheese, the beer the baking sheet of huge burger – I was killing it.

Look at me, char-grilling hot peppers too!

Searing was easy:

As I seared the burgers, I would move them off the high heat to stay warm as I did the others. You can see my peppers starting to really come together!

And you’re damn right that’s a piece an a half of cheese per burger. So goooood!

And now, time for gratuitous shots of burgers:

Weck roll too!

Grilled peppers, and juicy action:

Pretty much the best.   Now I’m going to go have my heart attack. Cheers!