As a Brazilian, I can admit: we customize these a lot. I just ate a hotdog with an egg, a lot of ham, corn, peas and potato sticks (yeah, this was google translated). At some places, people make it double and even triple sausage, and even put mashed potatoes on it. About the burger, we put sausage slices, bacon, a whole fried egg and we just removed the onion. Don’t mind us about the burgers, we do have McDonald’s around Brazil, but some poor cities just don’t, and because of that we make our own. You, an american, have any thoughts on them or you just don’t mind?
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That’s cool, regional tweaks on food are great. Little laboratories of culinary science, the best stuff informs everybody else.
i’m married to a brazilian. the unholy things he puts on a hot dog are just wrong. lol
Make away. The thing about us Americans is we can appreciate culinary differences. We have Americanized versions of many National cuisines to include Italian, Chinese, and French. We also have fusion cuisines that are a mix of many cultures like Creole food. I’d would be excited if I visited Brazil and you guys had a Brazilian burger or hotdog!
This may seem minor, but I’ve taken to pan-frying my hot dogs by almost splitting them lengthwise and pressing them. It isn’t the usual way of doing it, but it puts grillmarks on it the way you normally don’t get that way. Then I tend to put relish and mustard on it.
Burgers generally don’t need much done to them- sometimes I’ll mix in onion soup mix if I’m feeling fancy, but generally I avoid stuffed patties or “meatloaf burgers”.
This is all personal preference mind you, if you like what you’re doing in Brazil, have fun doing it. It’s not like you’re putting corn on pizza.
We have fried egg on burgers too. Do you think McDonalds is the sum total of our burger game?
The great thing about burgers and hot dogs/sausages is that you can put whatever you want on them.
I’d try it. The dog sounds a bit much, but that burger sounds great. I love a burger with a fried egg, and bacon is already a mainstay. I’d recommend trying that with sautéed onions.
Go crazy. If you put sweet corn and mayo on pizza you’ll be dead to us.
The hamburgers sound delicious!
Who cares? what you eat don’t make me shit
Put whatever you want on there. I like my hotdogs Chicago style or with just mustard and onion and however Culvers does a deluxe burger minus the mayo and with extra pickles. I’m also always interested in trying other kinds of toppings or styles for burgers and dogs. There’s so many delicious things out there to try – why limit oneself to only certain things?
That’s fine. Most are customized here as well far beyond the standard ketchup, cheese etc. My personal favorite is Sonoran Dogs
I’m all about weird burger ingredients
Frankly (ha!), I don’t really care. You do you Brazil.
Those hot dogs sound way too complicated though. How do you hold it all in the bun?
Gatekeeping food is unAmerican. It’s your food, eat it however you want and tell anyone who doesn’t like it to mind their business— that’s the American way.
Hote dogue brasileiro é o melhor!
The burgers sound fairy normal, but the hotdogs seem pretty interesting from how you describe them. But we also are not above just throwing a whole bunch of stuff on hotdogs either so.
I put ketchup on my hot dog to spite Chicagoans.
Hate gatekeeping food, you guys do you. If that’s your hot dogs then that’s cool and I’ll call it a hot dog. I like to see variety and regional takes of food, I’m the type of guy who will try whatever at least once.
You make your burgers and hot dogs however you want man, it’s food, it’s meant to be enjoyed! I am not a purist or traditionalist, at least in a prescriptive sense. For myself though, I mostly like hot dogs with mustard and a lot of saurerkraut, and usually for a hamburger I just have a mushroom swiss burger. Pretty basic for both lol.
The only food Americans really tend to be snobby about is pizza (other than a few regional things like Chicagoans thinking ketchup shouldn’t go on a hot dog).
Food snobbery is all dumb, food should always be shared and customized, but you’re not violating any of the big ones here.
My favorite way to eat a hotdog is with cream cheese! There’s a version called a Seattle Dog (or Seattle style hot dog) that has cream cheese and sautéed onions, but I’m not really a fan of onions, so I just do cream cheese.
Everyone has their own thing, and I respect that.
For me: hot dogs – ideally wrapped in bacon; no mustard; ketchup; onions; maybe relish. Nothing else—no sauerkraut, chili, whatever.
Hamburger – onions (either grilled or fresh), ketchup, lettuce, tomatoes, maybe some mayo or “secret sauce” (Thousand Island dressing, or a mayo-ketchup-paprika mix). I don’t mind varieties with barbecue sauce/onion rings/cheese, or with mushrooms and onions. No pickles.
My usual go-to at McDonald’s is a quarter-pounder with cheese (no pickles), or even two cheap cheeseburgers with no pickles.
America is the land of the free my dude. We believe you can make your hot dog or burger however the hell you want!
Just make sure to use a split top hot dog bun. Also for the life of me I can’t say hot dog, I say hut dog instead.
I just get lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles, mustard, ketchup, and cheese on my burger. For hotdogs, mustard, relish, ketchup are good. Though the best hotdogs in my opinion are in Chicago.
Make it however you want. If you haven’t tried it, I highly recommend wrapping the sausage used for hotdogs in bacon with jalapenos and grilling it.
Do what you want, it’s your food!
One of my favourite ways to eat a burger is tasty but very definitely weird and I don’t care. Cream cheese, sliced jalapenos, and onion rings (the battered deep fried kind) on a medium-rare burger. Maybe throw some bacon on there too if I really hate my arteries that day, lol.
We customize everything too, that’s the beauty of food, customization and adaption.
These foods are designed to be easy to modify, and those modifications also sound cool to me. I’m happy to see you’re having fun with them! It’s not alla style an American would appreciate, but I’m not going to try and tell you it isn’t a burger/hotdog.
We grilled burgers for dinner. Mine had (front bottom to top) American cheese slice, sautéed mushrooms, diced onions, grilled hamburger patty, mayonnaise, on a sesame seeded bun. Served along side kosher dill pickles, jalapeno flavored chips, and carrot sticks. And then some taiyaki for desert.
Customizing and regional differences are common here! My favorite hot dog is bacon-wrapped, with mayo, grilled onions/peppers, and a whole grilled jalapeño on top.
Burgers can be craaazy customized – fried eggs, avocado, bacon, different meat blends, etc. Toppings are a free for all.
hot dogs and burgers are like pizzas, in that they are palettes for experimentation when it comes to toppings.
Love it. Condiments are very American. Everything needs a topping!!
The Chicago hot dog is a thing. We are pretty specific on how it should be served.
Burgers are more variable here. I even once went to a trendy bar and had what they called a “Chicago Crossfit.” It was a ground bison patty on top of a salad.
If I grill in the back yard, I prefer ground lamb for burgers. The dogs are either fat Vienna beef dogs or an interesting sausage. Still served with the iconical Chicago dog toppings.
I will admit to sometimes using tortillas rather than buns. “The Chicago style hotdog taco.”
I make burgers with onion, parsley, and a bit of all-spice mixed in with the ground beef, then I eat that with a garlic spread on it.
At home, I usually make “Chicago hot dogs” (fresh tomato and onion, dill pickle slice, pickle relish, mustard, yellow peppers, and celery salt), but I’ll cook them according to whatever ingredients I have in the house 🙂
For burgers, I mix 1 lb of meat (450 g) with about 1/4 white onion (diced small), a little salt and pepper, and a spoonful of dried sage. That makes 4 or 5 burger patties, which I usually top with a leaf vegatable, mustard, and Cheddar cheese.
I personally prefer a thin hamburger with a nice crusty sear on it. Smash burgers. Any toppings are fine with me. My only hotdog preference is all beef.
I’m under the opinion with every food that if you like what you change about them, good on you, even if I personally wouldn’t like them in that way.
Also batata palha sounds like it would be dope on a burger or hotdog.
As long as it includes meat or even a meat substitute between two buns, there’s literally no wrong way to make a hamburger or a hotdog. I would try everything you listed if it was offered to me.
>we do have McDonald’s
Yeah… fast food isn’t real food. The homemade, customized burgers are the real deal.