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Burger-Off

By Changmoh • Tuesday, 29 April 2014 • Food & Drink

I do so love a sneaky burger. I don’t eat them very often but when I do, I want it to be amazing and worth every single cheese-laden calorie.

What constitutes the perfect burger? Does it include mustard and mayo? Do you need salad in there? Is ketchup compulsory? This became a heated discussion at a wine-fulled dinner party a few weeks ago where two people, it materialised, felt passionately that their homemade versions were The Best.

Without a moment’s hesitation, I did what any other sensible person would have done. I suggested a burger-off.

So this Sunday, an elite team of eating-machines got together for a blind tasting. The key criteria was that no one had eaten either burger before.

We expanded to a total of 11 adults and nine kids. Too big a group for me to contemplate comfortably hosting at ours, so we decamped to a beautiful black and white at the last minute. Thank you JW.

Juliet

Without further a-do, on to the food. Each of the two contestants had to show their workings.

Here’s Jane HAND-grinding her beef on Saturday at midnight:

Jane

Here’s evidence of contestant number 2 – none other than Mr Changmoh – grinding his beef just a few moments before we left the house to go to the cook-off:

Mince machine

As I was chief photographer, I went rather over-the-top in proving which part of the cow our meat had come from (apologies for bad pic above which rather muddles the mince up with my kilner jar of granola behind it – not a good look)

Beef short ribs Burger Cook off Changmoh Singapore lifestyle blogger

Can you guess?

Yup, for both cooks in fact, it was beef short ribs…for the most part (Jane also includes sirloin and brisket in her recipe, Team B usually just add sirloin).

Both teams had quite different looking patties:

And there was much debate over the cheese. American plastic? Team B says yes. Or pre-sliced proper cheddar (Team A)?

And toppings:

The bases

Here they all are sweating over the BBQ (Team A somewhat hindered by a lovely but, none-the-less, not wildly helpful baby girl).

The heat is on

Cook off

The result were two very different creations:

After eating and ruminating, out came the pen and paper for proper, written voting. This was serious.

The judging panel

Jelfs

Votes were counted by the thoroughly correct and proper Mr Jelf:

Ajudicator

And the winner, by ONE vote, was…Team A.

Next: Both Jane and Mr Changmoh have agreed to a sausage-off. Considerably less work, I am looking forwards already.

Can’t be bothered? If it all sounds like rather hard work, just head down to Omakase Burger at Turf City or Wisma – read my review of them here. Or try much acclaimed Roadhouse in Dempsey which I haven’t done yet…probably just as well.

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  • Jaime Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 8:22 AM

    Great Post! So proud of Mr Changmoh!!! Didn’t notice the Granola! I didn’t realise you guys had this seriously pro looking mincer at home LOL! Xoxo BBG Ps And I reckon Mr Changmoh’s burgers are pretty awesome!!! 🙂

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