The flat top experience, now at home

A chef's guide to restaurant-quality smash burgers

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The flat top experience at home. A Chef’s Guide to the Griddle. For tips on making restaurant-quality smash burgers, we turned to Chef Peter Klein of Holiday in Austin, Made In customer since 2023. To recreate the restaurant burger experience at home, all you need is the Made In Carbon Steel Griddle and Chef Peter’s recipe, below. For best results? Pair with Griddle Lid, Grill Press, and the Grill Tools.

For tips on making restaurant-quality smash burgers, we turned to Chef Peter Klein of Holiday in Austin, Made In customer since 2023. To recreate the restaurant burger experience at home, all you need is the Made In Carbon Steel Griddle and Chef Peter’s recipe, below.

For best results? Pair with Griddle Lid, Grill Press, and the Grill Tools.

SHOP THE GRIDDLE

Griddle lid - for perfectly melted cheese. GRILL PRESS - for perfectly even smash. Griddle tools - for every flip, poke and scrape.

1 Flat Surface Area

Without the curves of pans, or gaps of grill grates, you can cook big batches and move components around without interruption.

2 More Maillard Reaction

The flat, broad cooking surface (especially when paired with a grill press or grilling weights) allows for more contact between heat and the food and thereby better browning and more flavor, thanks to the maillard reaction.

3 Dual Zones

Spanning multiple burner spaces, the flat top allows more than one temperature zone so you can sear proteins on one end and toast buns on another.

4 Rippin’ Heat

Flat tops get burning hot, and stay that way; perfect conditions for getting a brown crust on a smash burger over, and over, and over.