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Watch this video ad-free and get the full article and recipe by becoming a Super Frienji of Kenji. Join the club to get the full build, trade notes with fellow kitchen obsessives, and hang with a community of cooks and food nerds swapping tips, stories, and secrets: https://frienji.kenjilopezalt.com/posts/144854789 There are smashed burgers, and then there are smashburgers—and all too often, the former get passed off as the latter. It all comes down to those crispy, lacy, paper-thin, deeply-browned edges that frizzle out from the burger. The kind you want to crack off with your fingertips and crunch down like a beef chip before you dig into the rest of a burger. Fat burgers dripping with juice and beef fat are all well and good, but if I had to pick one burger to slow dance with at the prom—one burger to love, honor, and cherish until death or cholesterol do us part—one burger to settle down, file joint taxes, and raise a brood of baby sliders with—I’m smashing the smash burger. So how do you achieve that lacy crust, and why do so many so-called smashburgers fail at it? Learn how on my new Patreon post: https://frienji.kenjilopezalt.com/posts/144854789 If you want to help me write my next cookbook and see your name printed in it, join at the annual Cookbook Club level for even more free recipes, livestreams, Q&As, and more. Joining my Patreon, purchasing my books, and subscribing to my social media channels is the best way to support my work. You can get any of my books (The Food Lab, The Wok and Every Night is Pizza Night) wherever books are sold, or you can order signed and personalized copies to be shipped anywhere in the world from here: https://booklarder.com/search?q=kenji BOOKS: Signed, personalized copies are available here: The Food Lab: https://booklarder.com/products/the-food-lab-better-home-cooking-through-science1 The Wok: https://booklarder.com/products/the-wok And my Kid’s book, Every Night is Pizza Night: https://booklarder.com/products/every-night-is-pizza-night1 You can also buy my books anywhere books are sold, or from these online retailers: https://www.kenjilopezalt.com/books SUBSCRIBE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kenjilopezalt/ Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@j.kenji.lopezalt Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kenjilopezalt Website: https://www.kenjilopezalt.com/