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Diner Cheeseburgers with Special Sauce

Thick griddled patties with American cheese and a ketchup-mayo sauce on toasted buns.

Diner Cheeseburgers with Special Sauce, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
26 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$14.24

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 lb ground beef (80/20)
  • 4 hamburger buns
  • 8 american cheese slices
  • 4 tbsp mayonnaise
  • 2 tbsp ketchup
  • 4 oz dill pickle spears
  • 1 iceberg lettuce
  • 2 tbsp salted butter
  • 2 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp ground black pepper
  • 1/2 yellow onions(optional)

Method

  1. Stir the mayonnaise, ketchup, and 2 tablespoons of finely chopped pickle together for the special sauce.

  2. Divide the beef into four loose patties, pressing a shallow dimple into the center. Season both sides with salt and pepper.

  3. Butter the cut sides of the buns and toast them face down in a skillet until golden. Set aside.

  4. Heat the skillet over medium-high and cook the patties 4 minutes, flip, top each with two slices of cheese, and cook 3 minutes more.

  5. Build the burgers with sauce on both buns, shredded iceberg, the patty, pickle slices, and thin raw onion.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 10 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£36.68£9.1710 of 10 ingredients
Australia$81.14$20.2910 of 10 ingredients
New Zealand$112.32$28.0810 of 10 ingredients
Greece62,28 €15,57 €10 of 10 ingredients
Egypt‏١٬٨٢٠٫٥٥ ج.م.‏‏٤٥٥٫١٤ ج.م.‏10 of 10 ingredients
Spain35,28 €8,82 €10 of 10 ingredients
United States$56.95$14.249 of 10 ingredients
Canada$88.86$22.229 of 10 ingredients
Germany58,16 €14,54 €9 of 10 ingredients
Mexico$828.96$207.249 of 10 ingredients
Austria€ 63,40€ 15,859 of 10 ingredients

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