hey baby I hear the Blues are calling
tossed salads and scrambled eggs
- Hamburgers. The cornerstone of any
nutritious breakfast. What kind of hamburgers?
-Cheeseburgers.
- No no no no no, where'd
you get 'em? McDonald's, Wendy's, Jack in
the box? Where?
Big Kahuna burger.
- Big Kahuna Burger. That's that Hawaiian
burger joint. I hear they got some tasty
burgers. I ain't never had one myself. How
are they?
- Good.
You mind if I try one of yours?
This is yours here, right?
-Yeah.
This is a tasty burger.
Hey, what's up, guys.
Happy 2017 and welcome back to
Binging with Babish where this week we
are going to tackle the big Kahuna
burger. Now if you take a look at the
scene in the movie it looks like a
pretty standard fast-food cheeseburger
just cheese and ketchup on a bun with
a beef patty. So we're gonna start by
making one of these kind of boring
burgers and then make a real hawaiian
burger. But it's gonna be kind of fun
because we're gonna make smash burgers
which involves getting a cast iron pan
smoking hot pressing a two-ounce ball of
beef down on the way using a stiff spatula
giving a flip hitting with cheese and
then you end up with the super crispy
crunchety old-school style burger
that's becoming really popular at places
like Shake Shack and In and Out. it's a
good burger but I want a real Hawaiian
burger, so we're gonna start by
caramelizing some pineapples in some hot
butter a couple slices of fresh
pineapple in there that we're going to
flip once they get nice and lightly
charred on one side and finish
cooking through before toasting our buns.
This is one of the most important steps
in all of burger craft. Buns toasted in
butter or bacon fat are worth their
weight in happiness. Now we're gonna make
this burger a double and as you can see
I found a better method to squash out
these patties. I'm gonna use some
Monterey Jack cheese instead of American
this time. We're going to hit one side of
our buns with ketchup the other side
with teriyaki sauce piled high with our
smash patties topped with both
caramelized onions and our caramelized
slices of pineapple. Place our bun on top
and remember we're using king's Hawaiian
rolls here, that's the only appropriate
way to make a Hawaiian burger. I was
just going to dig in, but i thought we
all deserve to look at that gorgeous
cross section. Anytime food is this
stringy you know it's gonna be good.
