Top your next homemade hamburger patty with tasty griddled hamburger buns… Today, you’ll learn how to toast buns on the griddle in just a few minutes…
Special thanks to Traeger Grills for providing Sip Bite Go with the Flatrock grill for review and recipes like this one for making griddle cooked buns. All opinions are my own.
Why toasting buns on the griddle is a good idea
Everyone likes toasted buns on their burgers, right?
I’m more of a fan of just toasting the INSIDE of the buns, which you can do perfectly right on your outdoor griddle flattop, while making your burgers.
See this recipe for Philly cheesesteak smash burgers…
Once you learn how to perfectly cook hamburger buns on the griddle…
Then you can assemble something delicious like this breakfast burger…
Topped with a perfectly made on the griddle sunny side up egg.
Ingredients
All you need are hamburger buns!
You could also use a little butter, which would be tasty…
But usually I cook hamburger buns on the flattop in a place where I cooked something else, so they can pick up flavor…
For example, they’ll pick up a little avocado oil or butter if I griddle buns in the spot that was just used to griddle onions.
So I don’t find it necessary to add butter or oil to griddled burger buns most of the time.
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How to toast hamburger buns on the griddle
Now I’ll walk you through how simple it is…
- Preheat the Traeger Flatrock, Blackstone, or whatever griddle grill burner you have, to low heat (~300 degrees F).
- Grease the griddle, if you want. I don’t always add butter, sometimes I just put the burger buns right on the griddle, because I usually cook the buns in an area of the griddle that was cooking something else and already had some avocado oil or butter (and a ton of flavor, like griddled onions and peppers). But you can add butter, and to do this, add a small pat and spread it around on the griddle.
- Use a dome, if you want. To do this, add dome over burger buns while they cook on the griddle. It will help steam the buns.
- Toast buns on the griddle until done to your liking. I prefer to only griddle the inside of hamburger buns, not the outside, but you can flip ‘em and griddle the outside a bit, too. They should be done within just a few minutes.
Do you need a griddle dome to toast buns?
While it’s totally optional, you’ll get more of a steam effect if you cover the hamburger buns with a smash burger dome while they cook.
See the dome in this smash burger Flatrock smash burger kit…
See the griddle burger with griddled buns video…
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Pro tip: One of my go-to tricks for perfectly cooked food every time is using the right BBQ meat thermometers.
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Griddle Hamburger Buns Recipe
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Ingredients
- 4 hamburger buns
Instructions
- Preheat the Traeger Flatrock, Blackstone, or whatever griddle grill burner you have, to low heat (~300 degrees F).
- Grease the griddle, if you want. I don’t always add butter, sometimes I just put the burger buns right on the griddle, because I usually cook the buns in an area of the griddle that was cooking something else and already had some avocado oil or butter (and a ton of flavor, like griddled onions and peppers). But you can add butter, and to do this, add a small pat and spread it around on the griddle.
- Use a dome, if you want. To do this, add dome over burger buns while they cook on the griddle. It will help steam the buns.
- Toast buns on the griddle until done to your liking. I prefer to only griddle the inside of hamburger buns, not the outside, but you can flip ‘em and griddle the outside a bit, too. They should be done within just a few minutes.
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