Weston Burger Press, Makes 4 1/2" Diameter Patties for Hamburger, Crab Cakes, Sausage, 1/4lb to 3/4lb, with Spring Ejector for Easy Removal, Single, Non-stick Heavy-Duty Cast Aluminum (07-0310-W)

Love this hamburger press! I had a ton of ground beef and made hamburgers to put in the freezer. It was easy to use and clean up was easy. It is very sturdy and doesn’t take up too much room in the cabinet. You won’t regret buying this!

Just finished using the press, and used one 10lb. hamburger chub. And had no issues with the press , just remember to use sheets of parchment paper. It helps from sticking and separation! Plus when you freeze your hamburger patties you should use parchment paper in between for easy separation. Great buy, great product! The spring helps a lot as well.

Need to put papers top and bottom to keep from making a mess. I end up using wax paper off a roll about 5" long for the bottom and put 2 patties on each one. I used patty papers on the top. I also weigh each ball of burger so they are consistent. Easy to be way off.

I like this pattie press a lot. Gently form a loose ball of hamburger and press it into a perfect pattie. I pressed out 3 patties from package to press to refrigerator in 3 minutes. Some complain about the extra time it takes to clean it. I use wax paper, a baggie, or plastic wrap as a medium between the press and the meat. No cleaning necessary as the raw meat never touches the press. Some complain that they want a larger diameter pattie. Simply adjust the press to form a thicker pattie, and then gently hand press it out to the diameter you desire. The stock diameter size is fine at 4.5 inch, but if you got bigger buns, just gently hand press it out to suit your bun needs. Easy peasy. The nice thing is that it does not overwork your meat which is often the case when making patties by hand. This ensures a juicy burger!

I like hamburgers. Easy to fix and store frozen, ready to throw into a pan or on the grill in no time. So many ways to prepare them with and without buns, including with gravy and sauteed onions and no bun at all.I've found from experience 90% - 93% hamburger makes lousy hamburgers on the grill, generally speaking. (Fine for baby meatloafs with gravy and onions though.) The lack of any usable fat in the lean burger makes a boring and pretty dry piece of meat, unless one mixes in a bunch of spices and what-not into the mix, then makes the patties. LOTS of extra work that way and dirty bowls needing washing, etc. Even then, still not a great hamburger though better than just sprinkling a bunch of spices on the outside of the 90% - 93% beef. I've even done some experimenting with marinating burgers in various concoctions.The best grade for juicy hamburgers on the grill is 84% - 86% burger, but the drawback is that it will shrink about 20% in size and get fatter (taller) as it cooks. Neither is a big deal.I used to look for the big fat round tubes of 84% burger, get them really cold in the freezer for an hour, then cut the burgers into slices with a good sharp knife, put into individual cheap sandwich bags, then seal in the seal a meal vacuum thing. Those wide tubes of burger are hard to find and rarely go on sale, making me search for another option.Soooooooo ---- the next best option is to make your own pre-formed burgers for use later, when you run across a good hamburger sale. With burger getting north of $3 a pound, one wants to stock up when it's on sale.I thought it would be iffy, but I got a hamburger press to make my own preformed burger patties. It showed up and was built nicer than I thought it would be, and was easily adjustable for thickness. I chose the 1/2 pound setting on the threaded bolt. It was perfect. After grilling with just the tinniest bit of pink down the middle, the width of the now finished burger fit a normal size bun perfectly! Right to the edge all around. Little bit tall but no taller than some of the premium burgers I have had at store bought places like Ruby Tuesday or Burgers In Paradise, or wherever they sell those $7 hamburgers.So now, I can catch loose 84% burger commonly on sale in the big loose packages and make my own perfectly formed, ready to freeze and thus use hamburgers. By my third burger using the press, I had it down, and the making of a burger took me 15 seconds or so each from then on. By all means USE the special hamburger paper to both make cleanup easier, and two burgers will not stick together if you vacuum seal two or more of them to a pkg for the family.Quick hint..... you will quickly learn to eyeball the loose burger as to about what will fit into the press for the size you have selected. Then cut the burger into squares with a butter knife, erring on making them TOO BIG rather than too small. This way when going to the next burger, just scoop up the chunk you sectioned and place it onto the paper in the press. Place another piece of the treated paper on to the top of the burger and close the press tight. I leaned on it pretty good, but it was easy. The press showed no signs of wanting to break. No coatings flaked off during my use and subsequent cleanup. If there is too much burger in the press, it simply squishes out around the press where you can easily run your finger around it and place the excess back in the bulk pack of burger to use with the next patty. IDEALLY you want just a bit of burger to squish out letting you know you got the press full, so it can do it's job correctly. I put the press on a paper plate to eliminate table clean-up, and that worked perfectly.The whole thing is easy and fast, and it truly does make a excellent formed and cohesive burger in NO time. Be sure the burger is at cold refrigerator temp before making them, as the directions tell you to do. Do not let the burger warm up on the counter first, which you shouldn't do anyway. Cold hamburger makes a better patty. My finished patties stuck together VERY well into a cogent burger with no signs of wanting to crack in two when picked up. If yours do want to come apart, then I think you are not pressing on the press with enough pressure and did not load enough burger in the first place. I did not really intentionally use the little "handle" on the press, but rather pushed on the left and right sides of the top half of the press itself to exert more pressure and not break the little handle off, if they were prone to that happening. You will get the knack of this very quickly, so no worries!!One reviewer thought the press should be a bit heavier and thus less prone to break, and this is probably true. But I am a large strong guy, and pressed HARD, and so far, nothing broke.

This press is well-built and sturdy and does exactly what it says it does and, sadly, makes a very simple process overly complicated. Used this once, then realized that by the time I'd taken it apart to clean it, I'd spent about three times as long preparing patties than if I'd just made them by hand. Hear me out. . .I thought somehow that this patty maker would simplify or improve the patty-making process or, I don't know, make it more fun or something. It doesn't. It just makes it take longer. It's kinda like having a 1,000 lb gadget to pour tap water from the kitchen faucet into a glass. So, the way it works is you get your hamburger meat ready to press, then you have to get the wax paper down so the meat doesn't stick to the press, then you place the meat in the press and push down on it with your greasy hand, then you open the press and press the plunger to get the patty to release. Then, when you're done, you have to take the thing apart to clean all the grease off it and the bits of raw meat that get caught inside the press, then you have to put it back together. . . . So many steps when all you'd have to do after getting the meat ready to press is simply flatten it out by hand in about three seconds like you've done all your life. The burgers from the press don't cook up any better, and most of the time the patties aren't perfectly shaped anyway because one patty had a little more meat than the other when pressed.So anyway, I bought two of these to give one away as a gift, but after using mine once, I'm not gifting the other to my family member as it's simply an impractical gadget. Very nice, very well-made, and completely unnecessary and impractical. And it's not returnable. : ( Just press your patties by hand like usual and save yourself time and money. Or, if you absolutely have to have some kind of gadget to press the meat, just get one of those hand-held thingamajiggers. Really, though, take it it from me: pressing patties by hand is the simplest and fastest, way simpler and way faster that using this.