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J. Kenji López-Alt

First-Person Ultra-Smashed Burgers

On YouTube as “First Person Cooking: Ultra-Smashed Burgers

  • Technique
  • April 2016
  • 2:08
  • 827K views

Two 2-ounce patties smashed with a trowel onto a ripping-hot Baking Steel griddle, seared for about 45 seconds and scraped up with every bit of crust, filmed from Kenji’s point of view in two minutes.

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What goes in

As built in the video.
  • 2 × 2 oz smashed patties
  • American cheese
  • bun

The recipe

This one is not written down yet. The recipe from the video is on the list.

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Not affiliated with J. Kenji López-Alt. The video belongs to its creator and plays from YouTube; the description is mine. View count as of September 2026.