Best Smash Burger Recipe

If you love the diner burgers, then you will love this Smash Burger Recipe. The burger cooks juicy, with a crispy crust edges and even better topped with Smash Burger Sauce, ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard and a slice of cheese.

Make this family favorite Blackstone Recipe for an easy weeknight or feeding a crowd. If you love this smash burger recipe, make sure to make Blackstone Cheese Stuffed Burgers, Blackstone Hobo Dinner Recipe, Blackstone Hangover Burger, Juicy Lucy Burger or these Stuffed Burger Recipes.

What is a Smash Burger?

A Juicy Smash Burger recipe is essentially a burger being smashed with a bacon press or a spatula on a griddle. It thins out the meat to get it closer to the heat source.

We believe that it intensifies the flavor of the homemade smash burger. It also allows for the meat to cook evenly and fast.

Why You Will Love These Smash Burgers

• Easy and fast to make with amazing tastes.
• Perfect for feeding a crowd or just your family.
• You can toast the hamburger buns on the griddle.
• The Blackstone Griddle is easy to clean.

Ingredients

• Ground Beef – We like using lean ground beef
• Butter – We like using unsalted butter
• Garlic Salt – Substitute with garlic powder or minced garlic
• Cheddar Cheese – Use slice cheese of choice. We love American Cheese
• Hamburger Buns – Substitute with different types of bread for even more flavor.

For the full list of ingredients and recipe, scroll to the bottom for the recipe card.

Substitutions and Additions

• Meat – Feel free to make this burger with ground chuck or mix in ground turkey.
• Burger Bun – We normally make with regular hamburger buns, but you can change it to brioche buns or potato buns.
• Burger Sauce – Add a special sauce to the smash burger for added flavor.

How to Make the Best Smash Burger

Step 1 – Make Hamburger Meat Balls – Divide the beef into 8 balls that are approximately 3 oz each. Place them in the refrigerator until you are ready to cook them.

Step 3 – Prepare the Hamburger Buns – Butter the buns and place them on the griddle for 2 minutes to toast them and set them aside while you prepare the burger patties.

Step 3 – Melt Butter – Place the remaining butter on the hot griddle. Move it around to melt it on the flat top grill with a stiff metal spatula.

Step 4 – Place the hamburger balls on the griddle Place 4 of the burger balls on the griddle in the melted butter. Top each one with a piece on parchment paper.

Step 5 – Press into Patties – Firmly press down to smash the beef into a thin patty on the flat top griddle. Use either a burger press or a large second spatula. Discard the piece of parchment paper.

Step 6 – Season with the patties with garlic salt and the pepper. Cook the patties for 2 minutes until the juices in the burgers cooking start to raise to the top and the color starts to change.

Step 7 – Flip and continue cooking – Once flipped, do not smash down the patties again. Cook for 1 more minute and place a piece of cheese on 2 of the patties (half of them) to melt.

Step 8 – Melty Cheese – Once the cheese is melted, top each of those patties with the other patties without cheese.

• Step 9 – After Cooking Hamburger Patties – move those patties to a separate platter and continue this process until all the patties have been prepared.
• Step 10 – Serve and Enjoy – Then it’s time to assemble your burgers. Place the lettuce, sliced tomatoes and slice red onions on the bottom bun. Add the double patty on top and top with the the top of the hamburger toasted buns.

Recipe Tips

• Loosely Pack Hamburger Balls – When preparing the balls with the beef, do not pack them together. Loosely roll them into balls so that they are easier to smash.
• Ground Beef Tips – You can use 90/10 or 93/7 for this recipe to lower the fat content in this recipe, but we think that the 80/20 gives the best flavor to this recipe.
• Cast Iron Skillet – If you don’t have a Blackstone Griddle, you can prepare these hamburgers in a cast iron pan.
• Smash Burger Toppings – Top your burger pickles, lettuce, tomato, BBQ Sauce, slice mushrooms, onion, avocado. The options are endless. You can also add fry onions. See How to Fry Onions for Burgers.

Why are Smash Burgers so Juicy?

Smash burgers are juicy because they are cook so fast and evenly. The fats are still solid in cold ground beef. It is important to cook burgers fast so it keeps the juices within the burgers.

When smashing the burgers you lose less juices because you are cooking the meat fast with a griddle press.

What to Serve with Smash Burgers?

• Grilled French Fries Recipe
• Deep Fried Onion Rings Recipe
• Fried Pickles Recipe
• Frozen French Fries on Blackstone
• Grilled Bacon Wrapped Green Beans
• See What to Serve with Burgers