Burger Competition

Negatives - 

 The burger was too sloppy (too much sauce) 

Messy and hard to eat

Too much meat (really thick Patty) 

lacked in texture ( missing ingredient ALL MRS FAULT )

Positives - 

Had a range of complementing flavours

Lots of colours 

The presentation was amazing looked like an advertisement 

Tasted good 

How I would rate the burger - 

Flavour - 8.5 (Had a lot of flavours but wasn't too overpowering and the flavours complement each other.)

Colour - 7 (We had a few fillings of colour like cheese, gherkins, pineapple and tomatoes.) 

Texture - 3 (Had too much sauce and a lot of meat, was sloppy but the bacon did ad a tiny bit of texture.) 

How I would've improved -

The element that our burger really slacked off on was the texture. Unfortunately, we didn't have a lot of crispy or crunchy fillings but we did try to add texture where we could like grilling the buns, lettuce and making the bacon crispy. Next time I would add less meat and sauce so that the texture from the buns and the bacon really stood out. The next thing I would want to improve on is the colour, I feel as though we had a good amount of colour in the burger but was overwhelmed by the browns of the juicy patty, bacon, and bbq sauce. The flavour I feel was our strongest point so the only thing I would want to improve on is the pattys I feel like we could've added more bbq sauce into them and make them slimmer. 

Burger Evaluation Sheet - 

How does colour enhance the overall effect of your meals?

People naturally gravitate toward foods with appealing bright  colors and avoid foods with unappealing or worrisome colors. Making colour in food very important as people will want to eat something with vibrant colours over bland colours. 

How does texture affect the feel of the product as you eat it?

The thickness of some foods can affect their taste by slowing down the rate of which the flavour exits the food. If that same food were to be melted into a liquid, it would taste much stronger. Therefore people are more likely to eat harder, crunchier foods over soft foods 

Name two different ingredients you used to enhance the flavour of your meat pattie. 

BBQ Sauce, Gherkins 

Why did you use these flavours? What did they do to your burger? 

They added strong flavour but they were not overpowering and they set the flavour theme for the burger 

How does the way takeaway places advertise their products influence our decision in what we eat? 

Advertisements usually use fake burgers to make it look juicier, colourful and overall more attractive and appealing to others. 

What are 2 safety measures that are important when storing and cooking red meat? 

Always have clean hands when handling meat, Store the meat in the coldest part of the refrigerator or in a meat bin, Throw away ground meats, sausage and organ meats after 2 days, Defrost meats in the refrigerator or in the microwave by using the defrost setting — never on the counter

What is something that you have enjoyed taking part in re the design processes we have done eg cupcakes, 4 way wraps, burgers

My favourite part of designing the meals was finding unique and odd ways to add flavour and texture.