Brad Leone Learns How to Cook Regional Burger Styles | The Burger Show

hello i want to sit around a fire with this guy serious whiskey and just listen to the story of hamburg time i'm done you'd be lost whether it's solving problems in the bone appetite test kitchen or crabbing in the alaskan wilderness the full fish from Brad Leone's blooper Out-of-water culinary explorations are extremely adorable, so in the spirit of broadening our horizons, I invited the host of it's living to spend an afternoon at the home of

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scholar George Moses to learn on the history of three classic

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the second welcome to the joke thanks for having me i'm so excited to introduce you to my man george motz george how you gonna be a steak yeah every time i come here i find out about the

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ity of the burgers and i didn't even know that existed oh well let's learn i like a little education with my food and they say yes sir a little h istoria you can deep you could seriously ask him about whatever burger he's in he'll have an answer to Good that's funny no sir she asked no I don't have a question right now my job is to protect the burger American, I really feel like I like you know I'm a bit of a planner and advocate, important job, poor man.

Really, I think very seriously, we're about to go on a regional adventure. Today's three burgers will be the Jersey Burger, the Barack Burger, which is from Kansas, Nebraska, and the San Antonio Bean Burger. let's get started You are from Jersey, yes sir. New. Jersey has a lot of diners, yes there are a lot of them, and a lot of these diners, especially the diner burger, the little counters, they do sliders, they still do traditional American sliders, the sliders are based on the method. three stupid little meatballs on a bad brioche bun thats a mini maybe otherwise totally crazy burger no slider see why here protect like heritage is very thick mini burgers never taste like Gas, my catcher cheese, why do they call it cider?

I would take as a porcelain plate. They put the burger on top and literally slid it across the counter and that's how it became. a fire with this guy seriously and just listen to hamburg sir the time it would end i would be wasting this is a little bigger a slider it would be like it split in half this is a three ounce slider why did i put some onions in there , so normally we would it takes them a thin slice today onion oh yeah uh huh steam them right it's great in there because they'll swim it based on an onion juice because the most important part is just pressing. it's there so we're going to make this mash for you yeah yeah yeah that'll sell more nope sold out sold out i'll get you 110 grand email me

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me taylor's good pork roll weaving knitted taylor hammer teleport yeah taylor ham yeah where i come from no one would call it pork roll okay that's like you get lower down and the people in philadelphia and stuff say that's good that's perfect but that's why you would do what we didn't it would hollow out like a pepperoni american cheese look that's why i would have maybe i think that's very what everyone would do yes in new jersey i'm just not a big american cheese , no, well, like he was the undisputed king of cheeses, but to whistle at me forever, you know, American cheese, I had no say in this, guess what it was. invented by a canadian of course it was any time you actually have the bun on top of the almost finished goods you know they are steaming oh right on the counter. he says he made this up i just want you to look at me no no we're not going to put this up for you every day well i already had it for you today oh that's all mmm very good it's not great the mix wouldn't and i like that it's not big deal meat i have a lot no three quarter pound burger i prefer a big this is like throwing a piece of spam yeah in your burger very similar it's really good yeah you don't even need any no fat it's a condom uh yeah i can't find a big diner in new york it's everybody's in jersey for some reason yeah i don't know if it was back i guess i guess we need somebody we need a restaurant the kind of story, George's cousin, the people of New Jersey hold on to tradition more than any other. elsewhere in the truck generation they loved her china so because of that diners can't leave people need those things to basically survive and all the jargon is pretty radical jargon yeah well the Jersey folks have their own slang period, this is a game.

I want to call you what you're from Jersey. Oh god oh he has cars yes oh my god are they burger

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cards ask one. I'm ready, okay? What's the boss? I didn't say Bon Jovi won say you know well we even mentioned that at the same time my mom is probably in the stands you know jumping and but Bon Jovi isn't really my thing okay next question what is a Benny Benny, yeah, that's someone you'd be if you went to the Jersey shore, what is it? djibouti means jumuchi I don't know how to use my work I'm not sure Djibouti I like someone who is like lazy and cut I see I'm a bit on the road like you're Jewish puch get out of the way I love that there are a lot of guys in my kitchen.

What is a gabagool? Let's go to Kansas now Kansas Nebraska, alright, original specialty that you can't actually buy in restaurants. This is something that you can really only buy or you can actually discover as a church function a church function yeah okay it's old school this is an old school thing about beef that looks good, garlic, what the hell is going on here? Canadian cheese and we've got a little bit of dough the pizza's gone yeah fermenter we're actually making it we're making something that actually predates the American burger by a few decades the Barack Barack Barack where is this from ?

It all started in 18th century Russia with German farmers settled along the banks of the Volga River these Volga Germans adapted a Russian pierogi to create the Barack a little baggie filled with dough with beef onions and cabbage that the farmers could stuff into their Pockets Variations of this handheld snack can be found all over the world, from the Cornish pie to the pie to even the hot pocket as the political climate changed in Volga Russia the Germans eventually immigrated to the United States it spread in Barack to the Great Plains where it became a regional icon this is very stretchy down that's all it's cool let's look at a piece of the dough just square some things up here okay yeah a little default crease yeah fully folded it's baked and that's easy magic here this there is calzone also in the family calzone kyani it's a burger this is her i think it's not a burger it's X but it's in the burger family for sure oh yeah that's what it is huh yeah oh thank you sir see that perfect bite right there I'm not hating on this one no that's pretty good 25 of those hmm the definition of a burger to me right now it's starting to get a little lopsided you know you're the way it is like to me that's a burger but it's also a dumpling by definition in The burger has to be ground beef

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ed in some house served with bun and that's it .

I agree yes I like that so everything we have learned so far yes and you have had guests at your house yes would you make them Akbar beer? I would buy it just that I don't think I would call it a hamburger. I definitely make a list, you know I wouldn't call it a burger either. Really in the family, but it's fun, no, he gets it, stories come out, it's right on Thanksgiving. exas is very well represented in my book hamburger america because there's a lot of burger activity in texas and then you go to san antonio and there's the hyper regional bean burger you can't beat that flat doha when it comes to making a burger. it's really well

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ed in it's own fat yeah that's really the beauty of it you know we have to put Fritos right in the butter is on the bottom so Texas huh now the most important part refried beans I love the idea of ​​a good rehash I mean I beat you you have to do your own reframing oh yeah I use lard it sure is so good this is plain cheese you can put it on top of this here if I was home. in the chips that's actually yeah keep it together you know and the summer audience on top sorry i like the crunch to go with your french well yeah that's not messy and that's that messy no it's not he left san antonio good luck try eat this go do it ummm thats like a junkie burger right there those fries yes onions take it home yes its true yes they drive home from bring any texture to the right yes its a good combination but the beef fat drips on the peas yes Fritos are Jimmy songs I am oh yes but in like the best way pretty well which would you say is your favorite of the three? oh I think I'll go with that Taylor's burger I'm going with the Jersey first time yeah I was starving but Chasey is fragrant yeah like I got the onion that was steamed and put crispy, the salty flavor of the pork but not really my favourite, strays from the simple answer but I'd probably eat more of the weird Nebraska yes Iraq beer yes surprisingly us. d probably a couple of those issues yeah really getting into this regional or whatever you call it when it's just a hyperregional or holy regional that's why ice why I love coming here George thanks for having yeah amazing thanks

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now i'm looking forward to it. burgers yeah fun yeah but there should be a good Jersey to do even more I mean there's a lot more out there hey that's why I work to make sure you what's up y'all kyle is off the burger show button smash that subscribe button and thanks for watching