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Restaurant-Style Burgers

A hearty, flavorful gourmet hamburger made with sirloin and chuck ground beef and topped with melted cheddar cheese, caramelized onions, bacon and a spicy chipotle sauce. This is truly a restaurant-style burger!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 16 ingredients
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Restaurant-Style Burgers

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,058 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Restaurant-Style Burgers

Serves 3
Prep10 min
Cook20 min

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By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Butter + cheddar cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,436 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  4. Cheddar cheese + yogurttop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together1,032 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  5. Canola oil + garlictop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together979 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, canola oil, butter, garlic, cheddar cheese, yogurt):

  1. Potatoabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Chiveabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, canola oil, butter, garlic, cheddar cheese, yogurt. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).