Advice for making a Burger?

Hello. I'm a tad bit new to cooking. Anyhow, I want to make meat patties from ground meat patties.



1st) What should I know about doing this before I do it?



2nd) What different methods can I do this? (Frying pan, Charcoal Grill, Propane Grill, please list what you can.)



3rd) Can someone give me some simple recipes?



4th) What ways can I check how the meat patty is cooked? (Rare, Medium Rare, Medium, Medium Well, Well) Preferably, I'd want my Burger to at least be Medium.



Thank you very much, please inform me with anything else.Advice for making a Burger?
145 degrees is a medium rare burger, and i like to mix my burgers with barbecue sauce, jack daniels, and worcestershire, garlic salt, pepper. and shiffled basil, i like to let it marinade in the meat for three hours at bare minimum, and i either broil them, or i take cake pans, and i put the patties in the cake pan, wrap foil around it, and let it steam cook, than over a frying pan, i take onions sautee until tender, and put pepper jack cheese on top of the burger, add the onions, and i take a barbecue sauce that i made of ketchup, brown sugar, worcestershire, onions, dry mustard, jack daniels, and grilled jalapenos, and top it with thatAdvice for making a Burger?
Here's a tip:

If you cook your burger on a grill, you will want a fattier cut (the fats drip off while cooking). If you are frying it, you will want a leaner cut so that it isn't so greasy.



Best way to check is to use a thermometer. In order to kill all the bad stuff, you need to be at least 155 F.
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Piece o cake! TRY to use only the freshest ground beef from the store (that means RED chop-meat NOT Brown!)- and cook THAT, as soon as you can. Doctor it up- alittle. I add some finely chopped Onions %26amp; parsley to my chop meat mixture before I form %26amp; cook the Burgers- but you can be Creative... -Add whatever you like !! :) DON'T make your Burgers too ';fat';- because the THICKER they are- the more likely they won't cook through (leaving them BLACK on the Outside, %26amp; RAW in the centers !! :( The Frying Pan %26amp; the Grill (of ANY Kind) work fine. The heat should be Medium/High AND the burgers should be turned a couple of times on BOTH Sides- to get a Medium cooked Burger. Flip %26amp; Cook less or more- depending on how Well Done (or NOT) you like your Burgers. Like ANYTHING Else- ';Practice'; makes the BEST Burgers... And the MORE You Make- the better You'll get at it ! Just remember to ';experiment'; on your SELF- a couple of times- before you try feeding your Burgers to your friends %26amp; loved Ones... -There's no sense in killing off half the Neighborhood because you're not sure of what You're doing !!! Otherwise, have at It- %26amp; enjoy YOUR Burgers !!! :)