Review: Nothing gourmet here at all
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 6, 2012
I downloadedThe Five Guise Experience - Making Simple Burgers and Boardwalk Fries At Home!months ago when it was free and just got around to looking at it. At that time it had all the 5-star rave reviews, which I now consider suspect after reading the book.I followed the author's explicit instructions that the entire book must be read. That I did, but I'm not going to follow the author's explicit instructions that POSITIVE reviews should be placed on Amazon and negative feedback should be sent to him privately. Customers deserve to know all opinions, good and bad.If you had never set foot in a kitchen or seen a hamburger before, I suppose that there might be some tiny benefit to this book. Otherwise, forget it! The author's special 'recipe' calls for cooking unseasoned ground beef patties on a griddle -- how is that gourmet? His suggested toppings include mustard, ketchup, pickles, onions. Again, how is this gourmet? One of the bonus recipes is a Cajun burger. The big secret there is:********Spoiler Alert***********putting bottled Cajun seasoning on the meat. Duh!The other bonus is a hot dog recipe. The secret is:*******Spoiler Alert***********-- cutting the dog in half. No other secrets, toppings, or gourmet serving suggestions.This "book" might have made a couple of halfway decent blog articles for guys who have never cooked but want to buy a bunch of expensive equipment to cook their own burger and fries instead of going to a fast food restaurant. (Readers are conveniently directed to the author's blog where they can click through to Amazon using the author's affiliate code to buy their griddle, patty maker, and deep fryer.) For the rest of us, not worth the time spent reading it, even for free. Sorry. There are no great revelations within, certainly nothing remotely gourmet.