Mother Flipper

Mother Flipper - Flippin' tasty home-made burgers and sides

Mother Flipper - Flippin' Tasty Home-made Burgers & Sides

http://motherflipperburgers.com

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Tally ho!Mother Flipper Cheeseburger - £6Dirty Barbie burger - £10Upon opening the anonymous, white label burger boxes, you're presented with a lightly sweating bun encasing a rough-edged burger, oozing with juice and sauce.

Topped with american cheese (which is cloched on the grill to weld it to the patty and the bun), the burger sits on an onion/lettuce 'slaw melded with ketchup and mustard.

Candied bacon mixes with the BBQ onions and the double hit of sweet and salt combines  - if anything, it's the cheese that's the casualty, being dominated by the other two toppings.Below the patties, ketchup and mustard combine to add a sharp riff to the mellow BBQ notes, and this balances what could otherwise be a very rich burger.The beef used in the Mother flipper burgers is 28-day aged chuck from Scottish Black Angus, mixed to a proprietary recipe by a West London butcher (they chuck in some rib cap to add juiciness).

Smashing is not a new technique, but it is technical - you have to apply even pressure across the burger patty in order to ensure the maximum surface area touches the grill whilst ensuring even cooking throughout - so the Mother Flipper grill boss uses a double handed smash technique to achieve this.

And they do this brilliantly.The Dirty Barbie, for me, packs a similar punch toalbeit with BBQ overtones, but still delivering a massive savoury, beefy hit, and for £6, the Mother Flipper cheeseburger has to be one of the best value burgers in London - alongside my long-time favourite Lucky Chip I am thankful that the planets have aligned and it has become a part of my life, and now part of this blog.Mother Flipper are popping up all over the place at the moment, but your best bets to catch them are:

Mother Flipper - KERB - The Best of London Street Food

Mother Flipper - DELETED | Restaurants in King's Cross, London

Humble market stall it may be, but mother-f...lipper.... the burgers are brilliant.

Fat, juicy patties, crafted from a blend of 28-day aged cuts, are grilled on a little hotplate and anointed with one of three toppings: molten cheese (Mother Flipper Cheese Burger, £5), hot-and-sweet pickled red jalapeños (Chilli Flipper, £5.50) or thick strips of 'candied' bacon (Double Candy Bacon Flipper, £6), then popped onto a rich brioche bun with lettuce, pickles and onions.

We liked the Chilli Flipper best - the piquant heat of the chilli slices a terrific foil to the intense flavour of the beef.

You'll usually find them on Tuesdays at 'Kerb' (the street food gathering previously known as eat.st) near King's Cross, or on Saturdays at Brockley Market, but it's worth checking their twitter page on the day.