Amazing Homemade Hamburger Buns Recipe (Video) (2024)

FAQs

What makes the best burger bun? ›

The ideal burger bun is pillowy soft, squishy and tender. It needs enough structural integrity that it will hold strong with a juicy burger, but should never be tough and chewy - that would distract from all the other delicious flavours and textures in a perfectly crafted burger.

Inject flavor right into burger buns by basting them with a seasoned butter mixture. "I like to create fun, flavored butters and baste all my breads," said Formicola. "Using melted butter with just a 1/2 teaspoon each of garlic powder, chili powder, or cumin can totally transform a boring bun."

Avoid adding too much extra flour to the dough.

Your instinct might be to add extra flour; however, any extra flour will create a denser, tougher bun instead of the light, fluffy, brioche-style bun we want.

For soft bread, use a high-gluten flour, such as bread flour or all-purpose flour. Use the right amount of water. The amount of water you use will also affect the texture of your bread. If you use too much water, your bread will be too soft and sticky.

Sesame seeds add texture, visual appeal, flavor and contrasting color to a plain brown bun. They give the impression that the burger is more interesting than an average burger and therefore more appealing to diners.

Hard crusts/bread/buns etc means that you are either baking on too low heat and for too long, OR the dough you started off with was not kneaded well enough.

Instructions for How to Make Ground Beef Patties for burgers: In a mixing bowl, combine the ground beef, 1 egg, and a generous amount of salt and pepper to season (half tsp each). Egg is a burger binding agent for the ground beef patty. Divide the well mixed beef into four equal round balls and form into patties.

Bun. Ingredients: EITHER:Allergen Ingredient: WHEAT Flour (contains Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamine), Water, Sugar, Rapeseed Oil, Salt, Yeast, Allergen Ingredient: WHEAT Fibre, Emulsifier (Mono- and Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters of Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids), Antioxidant (Ascorbic Acid).

Do you toast the inside or outside of a burger bun? ›

Perfectly toasted buns are crisp on the outside and soft on the inside. You can toast nearly any type of bun using a variety of methods. You can broil or bake buns in an oven or toaster oven, grill them on a hot grill, or simply stick a bun in a regular toaster just like you would with normal bread.

If the area is too warm, bread will rise too fast and begin cooking before the yeast has finished acting. This will impart a "yeasty" taste to the dough that will be transferred to the finished baked loaf. Using old ingredients (rancid nuts, "old" shortening) will cause yeast breads to taste old or have an "off" taste.

Add Sugar

Adding sugar weakens the gluten structure, absorbs water, and eventually makes the bread lighter and softer. As a result, sugar improves the bread's taste, structure and texture. Yeast also eats up sugar to produce carbon dioxide, which raises the dough and makes bread fluffy.

There can be either too much flour and not enough liquid or vice versa. In either circ*mstance, you will get an inconsistent dough, resulting in poor quality proofing and leading to drying out. And, if the ratios are off, your bread may not rise correctly, which can also lead to a drier result.

A classic burger bun is a soft, yeast-risen bun typically made from white flour. But that's not the *only* bun you can use to house a burger. Potato buns are another popular choice, as well as brioche and sesame seed buns. They all share a few characteristics, like a soft, even, interior crumb and yielding outer crust.

For a thick burger patty, you need a firmer brioche bun to hold it. But for a think smash burger, a potato bun is just right.

Brioche rolls and regular rolls are different in that brioche rolls require more eggs and butter in their recipe than regular rolls. Although both brioche rolls and regular rolls contain eggs and butter, the fact that brioche rolls contain more of these ingredients means that these rolls are higher in fat content.

Every day, BURGER KING^® restaurants receive their signature sesame seed buns from their local bakery. Restaurant team members inspect each shipment to ensure the buns are delivered in the best condition. Our sesame seed buns are always fresh, never frozen.