Copycat Mc Donald's Hamburgers/Cheeseburgers

These were really good!! I'm thinking they are about as close as you can get to the real thing. When discussing what it was "missing" to make it taste like the real thing, and my husband suggested "it must be crack...yeah, thats what its missing...the crack they must put in the burgers to make them so addicting." Haha. Seriously...these are good!!

a very good recipe done these last night everyone liked them, keeping the onions in water for an hour is brilliant. any one got any tips how to keep the burger nice and thin like the mcdonalds ones cause mine seem to go in the pan thin n come out like a pub burger lol....any tips?

These got top marks from all 4 of my kids.....3 of them eat them plain. One with mustard only. DH and I ate them as written...and they are pretty darn close to McD's! Quick and easy...and we used organically raised lower fat beef and they still turned out great! Served with Ore-Ida Extra Crispy Fast Food Fries...almost like a trip through the drive thru..only better!

McDonald's burger is simple, however, things have changed and they are different than before the processes in their kitchens changed. They used to fry the burgers and flip them, then they turned to a system that the patty cooked from top and bottom, a clamped system that keeps the patty against the heated surfaces which retained the taste, and cooked twice as fast, however the top did not char up like they did when frying and flipping them on the grille. This recipe uses reconstituted onion flakes, McDonald's uses 1/2 tsp of pickled onions per burger, which was premade and bagged for delivery when I worked there. The cheese is unique to McDonalds that can't easily be duplicated, but it will be close to the original. The other thing that was original with McDonald's is they changed where the onion is placed. It was originally placed under the patty and had a specific flavor when it hit the palate that way, also changed when they married the onion with the cheese, ketchup, mustard and pickles. It has a toasted inner bun and the top and bottom remain as they were, except they come out warm. The cheese is put on after it is off the grille, and to top it off, two dill pickle chips are placed on top of the cheese with 1 teaspoon of ketchup and one teaspoon of yellow mustard, close to French's, which are separated into 3 1/3 tsp dots in triangular shape, mustard/ketchup oscillated arrangement to be consistently flavored with every bite, then it is wrapped and served. There isn't any additional salt and pepper added to the burger, unlike their 1/4 pounders which were salted and peppered on one side after they juiced up from open frying.

Very good burger. We also thought it was alot like McDonald's. My kids decieded to take it another step further adn made Big Mac's. They too a slice of white bread and cut it with a biscuit cutter for the "middle" slice. They added thousand island dressing and all the fixins. Thank you for sharing.