Need cooking advice (shame)! Butter or olive oil?!

[Ecthy]

So I was going to cook hamburgers. Normally I'd do the burger in standard oil (sun flower or whatever is available), but now I only have these 2 particular types of fat left in my kitchen - butter and olive oil. Which one is more suitable to fry the burger?

[Ecthy]

Went for olive oil... normally I only heat olive oil to fry/heat up onion and veggies... since I'm going to fry onion along with the burger, olive oil it is. thank you, case closed.

[Provost Harrison]

Fascinating...

[Terra Nullius]

The butter would have burned before you got the pan hot enough to cook beef. So you made the right choice.

Next ...

[Ecthy]

Andy

[Zoid]

I use both (at the same time that is) but I´m only frying veggies or quorn/soy products...

[Ted Striker]

Kein wurst

[Ecthy]

I will have Wurst und Bier on some other occasion.

[Main_Brain]

Oil, but beware the Eigengeschmack!

[alva]

Originally posted by Zoid
I use both (at the same time that is) but I´m only frying veggies or quorn/soy products...

That is the way. Mixing them allows for a hotter temperature.

Start off with oil, then add the butter, preferably after the meat (or whatever) is in the pan for a couple of seconds.

[Dinner]

It depends. Baking=butter is better and frying pan - olive oil.

[Dinner]

Re: Need cooking advice (shame)! Butter or olive oil?!

Originally posted by Ecthy
So I was going to cook hamburgers. Normally I'd do the burger in standard oil (sun flower or whatever is available)

Any barbarian who does not cook a burger on an open flame should be drug out into the street and shot.

[Ecthy]

Main Brain got it right, those hamburgers had a bit of an olive oil taste, but only in the outer regions. As soon as you got beef and mayonnaise (shut up) with it, it was fine.

[Provost Harrison]

Oh don't be such a pansy

[:) Smiley]

Lard.