Your Favorite Fast Food, At Home!

Even if you try to eat healthy most of the time, when you want fast food, you want fast food. An inch-thick burger with grilled onions is great, but … it's just not the same as drive-thru. Luckily, there are some simple tricks you can use to replicate your favorite fast-food recipes right in the comfort of your Flagstaff apartment home.

Drive-Thru Style Burgers

There's only a few things you need to know about making fast-food style burgers:

• To get those flat patties, you want to press the beef so that it's thinner in the middle than on the edges. This way when it bunches up, it won't rise too high.
• After putting your burger on the bun, wrap it up in a paper towel and microwave it for just ten or fifteen seconds. This is how you get those warm buns and perfectly melted cheese.
• Most secret sauces are just thousand island dressing. Sometimes restaurants add a little Worcestershire sauce or extra pickles, but that's really all there is to it.

Fast Food Fries

Drive-thru style fries are a little trickier, but they can be done at home.

• Slice your potatoes thin, about a quarter inch.
• Mix 1/8 cup of sugar and 1 cup of hot water per medium-sized potato, and soak your fries in the mixture for a half hour. Some restaurants use beef bullion in their mix.
• Drain and dry your potatoes on a paper towel. Heat your oil up (shortening is the most common fast food fryer oil).
• Once your oil is up to around 375 degrees, carefully add the fries to the pan, and cook them for just a minute or so.
• Remove fries, and once they've cooled, freeze them.

Now you'll have your fries ready to go whenever you like. They should take about 5 minutes to fry to a golden brown. Salt to taste.

If you're looking for a place to do some experimenting in the kitchen, get in touch with Country Club Terrace and ask about the available floor plans at our apartments in Flagstaff, AZ.