Wingin’ It: Shatter Burgers for Buffalo Bills at Indianapolis Colts

Sure it’s a novelty item, but it’s a delicious one

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This week, I created a novelty take on an iconic American food called...

Shatter Burgers

I know what you’re all thinking: “What the **** is a shatter burger?” My wife and I are big fans of crisped cheese and if you recall, a couple years ago I showed you how to make little circles of this to hold Buffalo chicken. Shatter Burgers are the ultimate crisped cheese food. Imagine if a cheeseburger was wrapped inside the cheese. Now imagine it “shatters” as you eat it. Shatter Burgers! I don’t believe this has anything to do with the Colts or the city of Indianapolis by the way. It’s also less of a recipe as it is a technique

Shatter Burgers

Serves: Variable
Active Time: About 5 min
Total Time: About 5 min

Ingredients

Sharp cheddar cheese, cut into rectangles (see below)
Cooked and seasoned ground beef
Whatever burger toppings and condiments you enjoy

You will need: Large fry pan, flipping device

1. Preheat pan to MED; place a rectangle of cheese in the pan and using your spatula/flipping device move the cheese in a circle as shown below. Continue until cheese is about halved.
2. Leaving the remaining cheese rectangle on one side of the crisped cheese circle, quickly add a small amount of burgers, toppings, and condiments as desired.
3. Carefully but quickly, use your spatula to lift the side of the crisped cheese with no filling and fold over the filled half.
4. Remove from pan and enjoy (over a bowl is recommended).

Wingin’ It Tips and Prep Gallery

This is a bit of a long gallery but it should help keep the typing (for me) and the reading (for you) down quite a bit. The first picture is showing the rectangle of cheese I used next to sliced grape tomatoes and a full pickles. The cheese is variable so play around.

Next up is a GIF of the circle technique to create the cheese crisp. You don’t necessarily have to move this fast but again feel to play around as the cheese is very forgiving. Unless you use high heat you’ll get a similar result no matter what speed you go.

The next four pictures are just a series to show that you add extras to only half of the circle. Leaving half the cheese like this after you create your circle is crucial if you’d like to eat this with some semblance of coherence. The cheese really will shatter cooking it this way so the cheese side helps ingredients stay together. You can see that the slide where I’ve added the condiments this...