Serious Sandwiches: Squeeze Burger with Cheese Skirt
Photograph from entitee on Flickr   The burger at the Squeeze
Inn in Sacramento starts off innocently enough. A 1/3-pound
ground beef patty (80/20 meat to fat ratio) gets grilled on a
flat top, and turned once. After that, if you ask for the cheese
skirt (and you do have to ask in order to get it), things start
to get crazy. The burger gets blanketed in a mess of shredded
mild cheddar cheese, and covered (partially) with the top of the
hamburger bun. Then—and this is where the engineering comes in—a
few ice cubes are tossed onto the flat top, and the whole thing
is covered for 4-5 minutes, steaming and crisping up the cheese
into what could be considered a skirt-like shape.  Surprisingly,
the real secret ingredient is the bread. A normal hamburger bun
would fall apart when creating the skirt, so they use a
sourdough bun from Muzio Baking Co—the only roll that can stand
up to the steam! The only question now is, what's your eating
strategy?  Squeeze Inn  A