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[Bill Z]

Best burgers are homemade with meat ground at home.

At home you only get the condiments you want.

And if you grind your own meat, then you can have ground up ribeye or whatever is your favorite slab o' beef. Like bacon with your burger, grind up some bacon when you grind your beef and have it mixed in. Yummy yummy yummy for my tummy tummy tummy

[Dave Burrell]

so let's not be generic in "fast food." i think people can draw their own conclusions on BK, McD, Wendy and other generic burgers. I would like to keep In N Out on the list. They use all fresh ingredients, not frozen and for the price IMHO they represent a great value. Plus there's so many ways to configure an In N Out burger I would assume people don't know all the choices.

As for ratings, it's not an up or down vote but rather the description of how they're prepared, made, presentation, quality and of course taste. from there I would assume we could find the BEST burger locally and good ones to recommend as well.

very good way to put that about in-n-out... I agree, lets add them to the list because they do make about the best fast food burger on the planet

I agree about the ratings....
- how they're prepared (grilled, fried, etc..)
- presentation (does the burger look good or does it look bad)
- quality of the ingredients (we'll need to ask about this and find out just how fresh everything is because that is the #1 most important factor to good food - freshness)
- taste (we can use a scale of 1-5 with 5 being best

this could be fun, now all we need to do is pick a place to start....and then a date

[Darth Lefty]

Like bacon with your burger, grind up some bacon when you grind your beef and have it mixed in.

Now that you mention this I wonder why they don't do it commercially.

[Dave Burrell]

Best burgers are homemade with meat ground at home.

At home you only get the condiments you want.

And if you grind your own meat, then you can have ground up ribeye or whatever is your favorite slab o' beef. Like bacon with your burger, grind up some bacon when you grind your beef and have it mixed in. Yummy yummy yummy for my tummy tummy tummy

I concur, especially when its ground filet!

we'll add your house to the list of contenders

[mylo]

How about we go with nominees. If Darth Left is going to attend and wants to nominate the Carls 6 dollar burger, I say give it a fair chance!

Rating should be 50/50 objective and subjective.

[fried chicken]

esoteric point; oil is not fat (it is fat but not in the sense of confit), animal fat is fat and that is confit so I agree with you on what is confit. is Folsom Bistro using animal fat (pork, duck, beef, chicken) or oil? if it's oil i vote caramelized.

ok, oil is a fat.

the onion confit is cooked in a mix of canola and olive oil.

it is not carmelized. carmelizetion happens when you get the product hot enough for long enough to carmelize the natural sugars. this is not done when the onions are confit-ed.

also, wikipedia is a very unreliable place to get facts

[Dave Burrell]

How about we go with nominees. If Darth Left is going to attend and wants to nominate the Carls 6 dollar burger, I say give it a fair chance!

Rating should be 50/50 objective and subjective.

sounds good to me

[Agent_007]

How about we go with nominees. If Darth Left is going to attend and wants to nominate the Carls 6 dollar burger, I say give it a fair chance!

Rating should be 50/50 objective and subjective.

agreed on 50/50 plus daves items.

let's start it and over a few weeks we'll wrap it up. must brings: camera for each place, need a humans and food shots, eatery inside and outside shot; at least three of us should be at each place to review/eat.

who's the crew and as dave asked, where to first?

[Dave Burrell]

agreed on 50/50 plus daves items.

let's start it and over a few weeks we'll wrap it up. must brings: camera for each place, need a humans and food shots, eatery inside and outside shot; at least three of us should be at each place to review/eat.

who's the crew and as dave asked, where to first?

I'll take care of the camera work.... how about we try the two places that started this whole idea - Folsom Bistro and Bidwell Street Bistro

are you guys available for lunches or dinner time only?

[mylo]

I'm so hungry!

I vote Lunches

[Agent_007]

lunches are preferred. i also recco we do lunches at 1130 or 1145 so we can see how their kitchen really holds up under pressure.

i have soccer 6 days a week so dinners are not happening right now for me.

[Dave Burrell]

lunches are preferred. i also recco we do lunches at 1130 or 1145 so we can see how their kitchen really holds up under pressure.

i have soccer 6 days a week so dinners are not happening right now for me.

Lunches are my preference too and I like that time frame too - it'll help beat the lunch crowd by a bit so we can get in more easily

Ok, how about we plan to try Folsom Bistro next week sometime?

[Chad Vander Veen]

Does anyone remember when the Carl's $6 burger came out? It was named that because it was like a burger that cost $6 at sit-down restaurants but at Carl's was half the price. Now, the $6 burger is almost $6.

Anyway - a great burger in Folsom is the pastrami bacon cheeseburger at Big Dip.

[Dave Burrell]

Does anyone remember when the Carl's $6 burger came out? It was named that because it was like a burger that cost $6 at sit-down restaurants but at Carl's was half the price. Now, the $6 burger is almost $6.

Anyway - a great burger in Folsom is the pastrami bacon cheeseburger at Big Dip.

oh man a pastrami cheeseburger...mmmmmm

where is Big Dip located? I think we need to add them to the list of contenders, originality also counts as a bonus and this place sounds like it has some unique burgers

[dlutz]

oh man a pastrami cheeseburger...mmmmmm

where is Big Dip located? I think we need to add them to the list of contenders, originality also counts as a bonus and this place sounds like it has some unique burgers

Are you kidding or is that Sarcasm. I've been in Folsom almost 20 years and have yet to set into the dip for fear of catching something.