Crispy Eggplant Sandwich Recipe - Elevate Your Sandwich Game! 

that's what I like to hear, and it's also true

You might be allergic

grazie

Giving them a hit of salt so they weep out the bitter juices is kind of a game changer, yeah.

yeah you do

yes, it works well

As soon as I heard Frankie say it, I pretty much thought your comment word for word in my head. George Motz is one of my personal heroes. And hey, there's nothing wrong with eating other things on a burger bun. It's just that it's a sandwich, and that's okay.

Thanks Frankie! This looks fantastic.

@@trontosaurusrex9532 It sure does😋

If you have an air fryer, why not? Cooking's all about learning the process, so go for it.

yes

Actually, hamburger's name came from the city of Hamburg, Germany, and the cut of meat that was called a 'hamburg' cut. It looked nothing like today's hamburger of ground meat, but it was basically a piece of beef cut to fit a sandwich, yadda, yadda. Fast forward some gazillion food history years, and the ground beef burgers were morphed with the name of the hamburg steak burger, and here we are, eating burgers as if they're all free and cooked for us by a famous young chef.

@@jb6712 I did not know that. Interesting.

It wasn't 'a cut of beef cut to fit a sandwich'. The development of the Hamburg Steak Sandwich came later, once it came to America. What WAS distinctive about it was that it was one of the more memorable times in culinary history when cheap, tough cuts of beef were rendered artificially tender through chopping, pounding, and/or grinding. The result was the Hamburg Steak (which could be small or could be the size of a porterhouse, but that wasn't what was distinctive about it. The important thing was the process it went through, first tenderizing, then cooking like any other steak). It got to be popular because it made it possible for people on the lower tier of the income ladder to get good tender flavorful protein in their diet... a struggle meal so classic I'm shocked Frankie hasn't tackled it yet. With a good brown gravy, mushrooms, and onions, it also came to be known as a Salisbury Steak. Because it was a popular cheap eat, it crossed the Atlantic with German immigrants, and eventually, it came to be distinctive at county and state fairs. Handling plates, forks, and knives with fair food started becoming an ordeal, so eventually someone had the bright idea to slap together Hamburg steak sandwiches, providing a workaround for eating utensils, and allowing them to be eaten by hand, at most wrapped in paper, eliminating the need for plates entirely. One of the claimants to the title of 'the original hamburger' is Louis Lunch of New Haven, Connecticut. Their claim isn't uncontestable (though it is recognized by the Library of Congress as legit), but it IS distinctive for using an unchanged burger recipe since the year 1900, which predates the development of the hamburger BUN. They still serve burgers on simple white bread. This demonstrates that the burger bun isn't what makes something a hamburger. You could serve it on toast, garlic bread, or Naan and it would still be a hamburger. George Motz, a food historian, expert on regional American food ways, and expert on the history and culture of the American hamburger, has charted this out pretty clearly. As he's been able to reckon based on his long history of studying the American hamburger, his best definition for what a hamburger IS can be quoted as "ground or chopped beef, cooked somehow, served on bread". Even when another protein is substituted (such as ground pork in a modern slug burger, despite the original slugburger being beef stretched with stale breadcrumbs and sold for a nickle during the great depression, or ground turkey for the health conscious), at the very least the tenderizing process is preserved and indicated by the moniker of 'slug burger' or 'turkey burger'; not pure burgers in themselves, but at least respecting what was distinctive and unique about the Hamburg steak. So no, this is not a delicious-looking burger. It's a delicious-looking sandwich.

​@@caffeinedelusions👏 grazie for the history lesson