Smashed: 60 Epic Smash Burgers and Sandwiches for Dinner, for Lunch, and Even for Breakfast—For Your Outdoor Griddle, Grill, or Skillet

By Lisa's * Everyday Life on September 18, 2024

Learn how to make amazingly delicious smash burgers—and other smashed and pressed sandwiches, wraps, burritos, and more—from Adam and Brett Walton, the outdoor-griddle gurus.

Outdoor-griddle cooking, whether on a dedicated "flattop" griddle station or simply on a cast-iron or steel griddle pan placed over a hot grill, is the biggest news in outdoor cooking in a long time, and the smash burger is everyone's favorite thing to cook on such a device. The YouTube stars of the outdoor griddle, the Walton twins--known as the Waltwins--serve up here the definitive guide to smash burgers in 60 recipes that are both easy to master for flattop rookies and full of brand-new ideas for griddling vets.

You will find the best versions of cheeseburgers and beef burgers you've ever imagined, such as the Rocky Mountain Smash Burger and the Mushroom and Swiss Smash Burger, along with things like the Chicken Cordon Bleu Smash, Smashed Black Bean Veggie Burgers, and Fish Sandwiches a la Smash. You'll even find delicious smashed sandwiches you can wake up to for breakfast, and some sweet dessert smashes, like Smashed S'Mores, for the end of the day. Other recipes include:

Smashed Pastrami Melts
Pressed Cubano Sandwiches
Asian Sweet and Soy Smash Burgers
California Smash Burgers
Smashed Pub Sliders
Classic Italian Grilled Panini
The Ultimate Gourmet Grilled Cheese
Chicken Caesar Wraps

This is a delectably fun, casual, and crazy-good cookbook you can use all day long and all year 'round.

Cook book Review

Smashed is a cookbook with many different recipes for super thin burgers or sandwiches. The authors even included some breakfast recipes! Dessert was the only thing missing There are tons of amazing photos included. I appreciated that the weight measurements are in metric along with imperial.

I plan to make at least a few of these recipes, and they sound like they could easily become favorites. The three I'm most excited to try are the taco smashed burger, the ultimate grilled cheese pressed sandwich, and the pressed breakfast burrito. They are not the only ones that made my stomach growl, but those three made it growl loudest!