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I'm thinking about making a sauce for burgers. Requirements are the following:

  • Tastes of concentrated egg yolk - for me perfection is the taste of yolk in a fried egg
  • For seasoning salt and pepper only should do the job, but I'm keen on trying some MSG
  • Thick, almost mayo-like consistency

I've tried many hollandaise recipes, with double boiler or blender methods, but nothing quite satisfies me. Butter in those recipes just weakens the taste. I also tried thickening with flour, however the texture change was unforgivable (maybe I messed this up somehow?)

Honestly, I'm cool with just putting fried egg into burger, taste is great, however it's a bit too runny and messy to eat.

I'm willing to try and report any ideas, I got like 50 spare eggs :)

Luciano
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Not a recipe, but I will share a technique. Using sous vide you can cook egg yolks to a consistency where they will behave like a sauce. You separate the yolks, and drop them into a container of oil, which is being heated in a water bath. Time and temperature determines consistency, which can range from runny to fudge-like (or hard boiled, but that is not what you are going for). Fish them out, and place them on your burger. Season as you like. Here are more precise instructions.

moscafj
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Okay guys, thanks for contribution and sorry for not knowing that question could be mistaken for recipe request.

After reading your feedback, I finally succeeded. I went to the shop and bought tall, narrow steel cup. I decided to hold it directly above smallest fire my stove can produce and sticking hand mixer into my yolks. They lost deep orange color due to incorporating air, however they quickly became more and more solid up to the point i was satisfied with consistency. I'm sure double boiler with hand whisking would also work, but this is just less messy and faster. Salt, pepper and MSG with lemon juice to balance helped to achieve perfect runny yolky taste. It doesn't behave quite like mayo, however its solid enough to not fall off the burger on every occasion, I was little scared of going further than 2-3 mins, but I'm happy with the results. Thanks!

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