Big Mac and some Butter...

[Abelman]

Well, I ran across a site that probably many of you already know about but it was new to me, Guga Foods. Not really a site as it's a bunch of youtube videos.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=guga+food

The short story is, I've never made any sort of compound butter before. He had a video of 4 compound butters made differently and used on steak. The one everyone liked the best was the Big Mac

So, I decided to try it as we stocked up on NY strips when they were on sale and we had them last night.



Bought the Big Mac and cut it in half per the recipe. I haven't eaten a McDonald's burger in years but I did enjoy the other half of that Big Mac.....



Made the compound butter and had 4 steaks vac packed with some garlic, KS and BP.



I used the SV at 132° for 2 hours. Then, I ran a hot grill at 650° for a quick sear:



That only took a few minutes and then it was the resting period and laying on that Big Mac butter to melt:



Did some mashed taters and a salad and it was meal time:



Overall, it was very good. I have to say everyone enjoyed it but I can't say really how much flavor was added by the compound butter vs. just using flat out butter. I still have some left so I'll play around with it and see what happens.

Thnks for looking.

[barkonbutts]

Now that is interesting to say the least... I wonder if it would be better to just add the big mac sauce to the butter as that is were you are getting the flavor from.. always fun to play with your food.

[Squirrel]

That is very interesting. I don't mind a big mac every once in a while. I agree that you might want to try just using the sauce. You could ask them to put the sauce on the side or ask for extra sauce. I've seen some copycat recipes out there you might consider. I use a lot of compound butter so I buy the large package of 1 lb. blocks of butter at Sam's and make several and freeze them.

[The Old Fat Guy]

It sure looks tasty.

[Zeeker]

Pete, never heard of this so called Mac butter? Would you say you tasted a difference or was it just pretty much the same with a accent of flavor?

[Abelman]

Pete, never heard of this so called Mac butter? Would you say you tasted a difference or was it just pretty much the same with a accent of flavor?

It definitely added some taste but I'm not sure how much came from the big mac. This is the first time I've used a compound butter on anything. Here's the list that the guy blind tested with 2 people. They both liked the big mac butter hands down .

[Breweryworker]

Ok you got me fascinated on this one. What is a Big Mac once you grind it to snot and add it to butter?

-Two all beef patties (ok in this case, one 'cause it's half): umami and salt all to heck I'm sure. Fat fat fat but less than butter by far.

-Special sauce: mayonnaise (fat+maybe pickle+prob. MSG/umami ("hydrolyzed yeast proteins". Same thing essentially)

-Lettuce (water and not a bunch else)

-cheese (given the cheese they use, probably a lot of umami added via "hydrolyzed yeast proteins" which is a way they get around calling it straight up "MSG")

-Pickles (acid), onions (highly processed=umami)

-on a sesame seed bun (sesame=yes very unique flavor, very very low percentage of flavor contribution) bun= (sugar, salt, some yeast flavor but minimal, prob. also has some "hydrolyzed yeast proteins"=MSG)+some kind of body from the flour

My guess? You could achieve the same or better by butter+msg+finely ground dried mushrooms (adding the umami plus the body that the bun would normally add)+a bit of vinegar+ tiny bit of sugar+ 15 sesame seeds+salt

Granted it might be easier to just go to McYD's but then you also have whatever else they're going to add to it (and that's not super duper convenient to me and I typically have the other ingredients on hand)

(but also I have to admit that even though I might eat a big mac if someone gave it to me for free and I was super hungry, the thought of putting ground up big mac on steak makes me gag a little, emotionally)

I'm going to try this side by side once I can get some decent cuts without taking out a second on the homestead

I had not seen this youtube site so thank you so much! Suuuuper interesting!