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[–] [email protected] 143 points 3 months ago (4 children)

You dislike brioche buns because they're greasy.

I dislike brioche buns because they're overused by chefs that don't know how to pair sweet bread with savoury meats.

We are not the same.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. Brioche buns are an abomination used by the fast food industry to trigger sugar reward signals and make their burgers just a bit more addictive. They’re not used with any good intentions whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Fast food doesn’t use brioche that I’m aware of

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King. I googled them all with the word brioche and there was news for all of them.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

BRIOCHE IS CAKE

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don't let the Germans read that!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Too late.

I am offended beyond belief

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Po-tay-to! Boil em, mashed em, bake em into burger buns.

[–] [email protected] 121 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 110 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Because they're fucking delicious that's why

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This luddite can go kick rocks. Brioche or bust

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I've heard potato buns are also good, though I've never had them myself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Can be.. Never order to go, they are quite hydrophilic and get soggy easier.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

potato bread/buns are great! Try it if you ever get a chance

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait, can we also accept pretzel? They're pretty good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

A good pretzel bun is fantastic. But 9 times outta 10 is some stale, too-dense, chewy monstrosity of disappointment

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 86 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Burgers are greasy, that doesn't bother me. Brioche buns are sweet and too thick, that's what bothers me.

Stop putting sugar in everything. I don't want a sweet Burger

[–] [email protected] 57 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Fuckin commie right here. Probably not even doing your part supporting big pharma by buying insulin. This guy probably puts less than two pumps of syrup is his morning coffee. I hope a bald eagle craps on your Chinese electric car guy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

~~God~~Corn save the ~~Queen~~God-Emperor!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

True communism is drinking Diet Coke instead of regular Coke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

our Chinese electric car

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Potato buns are where it’s at. Light, soft, it lets the burger ingredients do the talking.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I feel personally attacked!

Besides, I actually opt not to coat them in butter, which means they are very much not greasy.

Most recipes tell you to smear melted butter on them right out the oven, but you don't have to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Seriously, cinnamon rolls (at least the ones I make) are brioche and while the dough is pretty heavily butter reinforced, I wouldn't ever use greasy to describe them after baking even after frosting.

Brioche isn't supposed to be cloyingly sweet either, supposed to be subtle, I've done rolls like these from king Arthur, added sugar is 7.5% of flour.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

I hated it at first, and when it really took off as the trendy thing at least here in my country I particularly hated it because they were outrageously sweet. It was like having a burger between 2 slices of cake, it sucked. I also felt there were textural things that just weren't right and I complained about the hipster takeover of good burger bread.

I've mellowed on it now, I think in part because they've actually changed. I think the commercially made ones used in burger places now seem to actually taste of bread and are only just a little sweet and the whole combo especially with lots of mustard works really nicely. They look beautiful and when they aren't super sweet they add a little something without being too cloying or distracting. I appreciate nice flavourful bread in a burger but ultimately it's a vehicle and brioche strikes a good balance between the awful grocery store bag of fluff burger buns and super hard chewy hipster sourdough or some weird, not round form factor bread that should really be a pita or a pizza. So long as they're toasted, they're all good and it grows on you. Which is fortunate as everybody seems to have decided that that's burger bread now so I'm glad I picked up the taste for it.

I also had the same thought on the greasiness but then I kind of discovered how much nicer the super greasy, drippy, messy kind of burgers are and once they're made like that with tons of juice and fat, they're so greasy and messy that no bread is going to save you from having completely greasy hands anyway so some negligible amount extra from the bun isn't all that worth worrying about. If it's one of those burgers with the tighter texture that's not quite so indulgent, maybe a bit drier, not as big a pattie then the bread is a lot more important and the Brioche is a less good option, especially as it's also greasy but otherwise, I've changed my tune on the brioche.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The fatter the buns, the more they block water, and thus the longer you have before the bottom bun gets soggy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but the move there is to sear the bun insides while making the patty.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How long is it taking you to eat your burger!?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm fine with a brioche bun, they're upper tier buns

But don't stack a load of stuff in there to the point the brioche disintegrates under the heft of it

That's why we have the pretzel bun

(Likewise, don't use a pretzel bun if you're not gonna load it up, that bun needs grease for balance)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Yes! Pretzel buns are the superior bun for holding a burger in your hands. Definitely needs moisture from the other ingredients though. Also they have great flavor. I’m personally not particularly fond of the overly sweet brioche buns.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Give me pretzel buns (with large grains of salt) or give me death!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Let them eat brioche!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Completely agree

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When did Ciabatta buns go out of vogue?

[–] FryHyde 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I adore ciabatta, but it's way too chewy to make a good burger bun

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hard bread with hard ingredients (like meat chunks or salami), soft bread with soft ingredients (like egg salad). I'd call a burger medium soft, and ciabatta is too hard for that

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Fuck you, brioche buns are the best and its the burger meats fault for being greasey

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's an entirely different level of mess you'd get on your hands eating a burger without a bun vs with a brioche bun. And anyhow, how are you getting all the fixins to stay in place without a bun? THAT is the primary purpose of the bun, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's not against buns, he's against brioche buns

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I realize that, but his objection is predicated on the "entire point" of a bun being to avoid greasy hands. I contend that is not the entire point, and that the brioche bun is not inferior with regard to the "entire point" of a bun.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's not the point of burgers in buns.

I hope this helps.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

(OP imagining the invention of the hamburger)

"HOW EVER CAN WE EAT THIS GLISTENING PUCK OF MEAT WITHOUT GETTING OUR HANDS ALL GREASY?!"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The sandwich was created* by Lord Sandwich in the 18th century when he wanted to gamble and eat at the same time without having his hands dirty

The story sounds a lot like the gary chess meme but it is more true

*well technically by his butler and it is not verifiable if he was the first but at least the name comes from there

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