Generally left out of hamburger discussions are the buns. Sunbeam-like, tasteless buns serve to hold the burger and nothing more. They bring nothing to the party.
Take a look a King Arthur Flour's recipe for cheeseburger buns. They are fabulous and compliment great burgers.
http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/no-knead-cheese-burger-buns-recipe
Thanks for the info. I’ve had pretzel buns with brats. I’ve thought of trying that on a burger.
Oh, I have a great bread machine burger bun recipe for you:
1 1/4 cups milk,
1 egg
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup white sugar
3/4 teaspoon salt
3 cups bread flour
1 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
Place the milk and butter in a plastic container and heat to 120 degrees (OK to microwave)
Put egg and the sugar into the liquid and slowly stir with a fork to dissolve the sugar and break up the egg
Pour the liquid ingredients into your mixing bowl
Put the salt and bread flour into a dry bowl, mix with a fork, and pour it into the machine’s mixing bowl so it’s on top of the wet ingredients
Make a little pocket on top of the flour/salt mix and put the yeast into that pocket
Put the bread machine on, “Dough/Pasta,” setting and let it do it’s thing
After it’s done kneading and sitting for it’s 1st rise, place on lightly floured cutting board and evenly divide into eight (Large burger buns) or ten (Smaller buns) rolls
Place rolls about 2” apart on a baking tray brushed with shortening, then brush melted butter on top of them
Cover for 1 hour for 2nd rise (I put them in my oven with a plastic container with hot water in it to maintain humidity)
Bake at 365 degrees for 18-25 minutes.
Enjoy!!