How To Make The Shake Shack Burger At Home
Shake Shack is a place that has burgers (example pictured here) that people in NYC seem to think are good. We have not personally tried said burgers, but we've yet to meet someone who has that isn't enthusiastic about them. With that in mind, we direct you to a recipe that claims to allow you to make the Shake Shack burger at home.
This has us wondering, what other restaurant or fast foods would you like to recreate in your own kitchen? Any good recipes to share? Tell us in the comments.
The Fake Shack [Serious Eats via Buzzfeed]
(Photo:I. M. Bitter)
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@squinko - is pretending there's a star: I'd be afraid to run any .exe file circulating around on the Internet through e-mail.
I actually procured some whopper meat (long story) the other day and with it I attempted and failed to flame broil my own whopper at home. It ended up tasting a bit rubbery and reminded me of the burgers they used to serve in the my middle school cafeteria.
Shake Shack is AMAZING! Particularly the cheese fries. Well worth the long wait (usually an hour or so, depending on the time of day).
I'd like to make Micky D's "special sauce" (cf: Big Mac).
The only restaurant meal we tried to copy was PF Chang's lettuce wraps which seem to have recipes around the net. They turned out OK but not as good as in restaurant.
After that, we realized that when we make food at home, it is so much better. If we want to eat restaurant food, we head there and spend!
I always wanted to make a batch of Chili's Chicken Enchilada soup - but the "top secret recipe" version always was sized to make a party's worth of soup, and I never had the motivation to size it down and make a smaller batch.
I love having a burger every now and then; I don't know why, but that burger just looks disgusting.
@Hooray4Zoidberg: (voice of Beavis & Butthead): "He said he 'procured some whopper meat'...heh heh...heh heh..."
The Shake Shack burger is good, but try their Shrrom Burger, and you may never eat their beef burger ever again.
A portobello mushroom stuffed with a combo of cheeses and then fried, covered in shack sauce and put on a bun.
It is amazing!!!!
This soup is GREAT! It is not made in-house. It is made at a manufacturing plant, frozen, then shipped to Chili's. The workers there just add water and heat it up. So, no use in trying to get the recipe from someone at Chili's!
They're amazing!!! I've had many, many mushroom burgers in my time, but Shake Shack's is on another level.
i had a pretty good recipe for a Frosty. I'll have to find it. i think it came from some book named top secret recipes.
I have seen the lines wrapped around Madison Park and Union Square. I don't know how good their food is but my friends and I agree nothing is worth waiting an hour for (to just order)
I would love to learn how to make a Double Double from In-N-Out.
I moved from San Diego to North Carolina in 1998, went back for 2 weeks in July and went to In-N-Out almost daily and loved it.
Todd Wilbur wrote the book of Top Secret Recipes and there are pallets of them available on Amazon for pennies each.
The directions are sometimes easy ,sometimes complicated ,but you can make a reasonable facsimile of your favorites with his books. The only drawback is that you lose the economy of scale that a commercial kitchen has and your creations end up costing about what it costs to just go out and get them.
Anyway , heres a link
Bloom'n Onion... Although they should keep that under lock and key, if I could make one every day, I just might. Not to mention the weekend... I'd be dead in a week
@Esquire99:
I had the cheese fries the other day, meh.
Nathan's Chili Cheese fries are something to go back to Coney Island for, these cheese fries were an anemic attempt at upscale bad fries.
The Top Secret Recipe version of Taco Bell taco sauce (the reason I bought the book like 15 years ag) is pretty darn real, easy, and tasty. But getting extra packets of the sauce is even easier.
I reverse engineered CPK's BBQ chicken chopped salad, and that comes out pretty good.
@amberlink:
Clearly you were drunk or otherwise heavily medicated when you had them. A delicious multi-cheese sauce on top of their fantastic Yukon gold fries? It was like I'd found utopia. That said, I'll have to go out to Nathans an try their fries before I can address that issue.
Check out the link to Top Secret Recipes a few comments above. You have to pay for most of them, but the recipe for the Big Mac and Special Sauce is free.
I've made it a few times. Good stuff.
@lonestarbl: I think Food Channel did something on those. They interviewed the creator of those and the "custom" tools used to cut the onion. They are a beast to make.
@squinko - is pretending there's a star:
It would have been a bad idea to run anything like that EVER.
@squinko - is pretending there's a star: It's much thicker. Same basic ingredients, but in a mayo base.
@KTK1990:
Seconded... In-N-Out's burgers are amazing. I've never tried a Shake Shack, but I can't imagine it being better than In-N-Out. It's so simple yet so amazing.
I have a recipe that claims to do Wendy's chili. Tastes about right, and even better with low-fat ground beef.
Shack Shack's cheese fries are perfect. They are cheese fry heaven.
Amberlink did not disclose that she has geophagy. That's the syndrome where you enjoy eating dirt and clay.
I have a buddy who works at Kuma's in Chicago. I should have him teach me how to make a Mastodon, because those are the best burgers in the world.
@BacteriaEP: Both In-N-Out and Shake Shack are extremely good in different ways. In-N-Out is fresher. Shake Shack is a little more gourmet.
I don't think I've ever seen a receipt that calls for putting the grinder blade and die in the freezer. Anyone got a clue what this is about?
The people at Shake Shack are also very friendly and nice.
I almost forgot what it was like to have someone in a food establishment act that way.
There used to be an Asian place nearby that did a wheat gluten vegetarian version of General Tso's Chicken that was so good even my friend's carnivore-tastic boyfriend swore it tasted like chicken. Sadly, they closed; I wish I'd asked what brand of gluten they used or if they made it there.
@Burning pakalolo not even noticing the weather:
Shake Shack is in Madison Sq. Park, not Union Square. The lines are long, but they don't stretch the 10 or so blocks that separate Madison Sq Park from Union Square.
@Hoss: I'd figure it's to help prevent (or at least slow down) the spread of any contamination. .
Also, cold metal parts won't cook the meat as it's grinding it. I imagine that once you've been grinding for a while, you can heat up the metal components pretty good, and it's probably better to not 'pre-cook' the meat.
@Oranges w/ Cheese wants it to be winter already: I work there and still don't know how to make that damn soup. But I can eat a cup every day if I want to.
I'd kill for the exact recipe for McD's Chicken Flatbread sandwich. It was hugely popular a few years ago as a limited time only menu item... but it disappeared and never returned.
The YWCA (yup, them) in Washington, DC, before they sold the building, used to have the world's greatest chocolate chip cookies. The recipe was handed around in several iterations but it never tasted exactly the same.
Same with Mrs. Fields chocolate chip cookies. The recipe is out there but the result is just not quite there.
Copy Kat recipes is a repository for restraunt recipes. Red Lobster's Cheddar Bay Biscuits? Olive Garden's alfredo sauce? Those are a few of the things my ex-wife made for me back in the day using that awesome website. :P
@Snarkysnake: Not all of them are as expensive as the item in a restaurant. There is also some home economy of scale if you happen to already have many of the things on hand like condiments.
@squinko - is pretending there's a star: Is that the Neiman Marcus cookie recipe? It's a fake, in that Neiman Marcus, at the time, didn't sell cookies.
Poor east coast folks don't have In 'n Out. I have one down the street from me and I would have no problem visiting it once a day (though I can afford to).
While we don't have the "pleasure" of White Castle, the frozen ones I've had taste just about as awful, tasty, but awful, as the ones at the chain. However, while you can squeeze an In 'n Out employee for some of their special thousand island sauce, I would imagine it would be the toughest burger to duplicate.
Is there some cutesy .exe that gets fowarded all over that has a recipe to re-create a lot of popular fast food dishes? My dad used to have it, but was too chicken to try anything on it.