Ultimate Patty Melts
Jul 05, 2022
4 minutes
by Matthew Fairman
TRICTLY DEFINED, a patty melt is a beef patty with softened onions and melted Swiss cheese sandwiched between slices of griddled rye bread. Think about it; it is both a gooey, buttery, crispy grilled cheese and a juicy, beefy cheeseburger. But this one—with two kinds of cheese; extra-crispy, extra-flavorful seeded rye bread; and a topping of jammy, tangy quick caramelized onions—is something special. And while it’s not technically a smashed burger (the recipe never calls to smush a ball of ground beef into a hot skillet, in part because the patties need to perfectly fit the oval rye bread), our method delivers the same thin, deeply
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