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Late-Night Smashed Cheeseburger

On YouTube as “Late Night Smashed Cheeseburger

  • Technique
  • March 2020
  • 3:53
  • 7.7M views

People kept asking how the smash burger at Wursthall is made, so Kenji walks through the exact process step by step in real time: house-ground beef, a ripping-hot surface, a heavy smash and the scrape that keeps the crust on the patty.

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