About Our ALL-AMERICAN WORKS BURGER
- 1 Serving Backpacking Meal
- Dietary Considerations: meat dish (ground beef); gluten-conscious; dairy-optional (cheese packaged separately)
- all-natural dehydrated & freeze-dried ingredients
- 470 calories
- 36 g protein
- Meal Net Weight: 4.3 oz | 125 g
- Meal Includes: seasoned burger mix; burger "works" mix (cheese, tomatoes, onions); burger condiments (ketchup, mayonnaise, mustard, sweet pickle relish)
- Required: hot or cool water to mix
- Recommended: long-handled spoon; 2-3 tortillas; Cook-in-Cozy™
- Insider Tip: This dish can be rehydrated with cool water! Allow your burger to rehydrate for 30 minutes before adding condiments — when burger is tender, add your desired condiments and chow down!
Remove
interior packets and natural desiccants (2 total) from Works packet and main meal pouch.
Add
1/4 cup (2 oz / 59 ml) of hot water to the main meal pouch and stir.
Press
air from pouch; seal and pat flat.
Steep-Cook
for 15 minutes - flipping over occasionally.
Cook-in-Cozy™ recommended but not required.
STIR
Works packet into the burger mix.
Portion
ENJOY!
your All-American Works Burger!
Ingredients & Nutrition
Ingredients:
Ground Beef (beef, salt, rosemary), Burger Fixins' (colby cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, annatto], diced red tomatoes [tomatoes, citric acid, calcium chloride], sliced white onion), Sauteed White Onions (onion, safflower oil, natural onion flavor [gum arabic, natural flavors, rice concentrate, maltodextrin], caramel coloring), Potato Starch, Burger Spice (spices, salt, onion, garlic), Organic Beef Stock, Beef Au Jus (salt, sugar, hydrolyzed soy protein, beef fat, hydrogenated soybean, cottonseed oil, dextrose, corn maltodextrin, natural flavor, yeast extract, onion, monosodium glutamate, caramel color, disodium inosinate, disodium guanylate), Spices
Special Notes:
CONDIMENTS NOT REFLECTED IN NUTRITION:
Mayonnaise Packet, Ketchup Packet, Mustard Packet, Pickle Relish Packet
CONTAINS: Milk, Soy
PROCESSED IN A FACILITY THAT HANDLES WHEAT, EGG, MILK, SOYBEAN, PEANUT AND TREE NUT PRODUCTS.
This meal includes an optional packet of Burger Fixins' ("The Works"): Colby Cheese, Diced Red Tomatoes & Sliced White Onion. The Burger Fixins' are packaged in a separate pouch so that customers are able to opt out of consuming the following ingredients:
Colby Cheese [pasteurized milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes, annatto]; Diced Red Tomatoes [tomatoes, citric acid, calcium chloride]; Sliced White Onion
Press Articles
Why wait until after the trip to get that burger you're craving? "This actually tastes like it came off the grill," says one tester. The meat is a little crumbly but not dry; wrap it in a tortilla (BYO) with ketchup, mayo, mustard and relish (included in separate packets, so yes, you can have it your way). Testers also really liked this company's deli-style Roast Beef Wrap.
— Backpacker Magazine Editor's Choice/Gear Guide, Spring 2011
frequently asked questions
We recommend that all of our hot meals spend time "steep-cooking™" while snuggled in a Cook-in-Cozy™. We find this method promotes a more consistent temperature and steady cook time for Cook-in-Bag™ preparation; and results in a better serving temperature for your meal. When not in use, our Cook-in-Cozy™ folds away nicely in your pack for storage and weighs in at only 1.4oz.
Reviews (44)
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This is my second review of this product as I ate a lot of it as part of my food rotation on the PCT in 2019. About half way through the trip, I relegated this dinner to lunch as it was no longer enough calories for dinner, even with a burrito sized tortilla. As a lunch, I chose to add cold water to it in the morning when I was leaving camp. At lunch, I'd just add a little cold water to moisten it and let the cheese mix soften for a few minutes. It is just as delicious with cold water and this is definitely my favorite meal from PIG.
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This one was definitely a WINNER! Great taste and just the right amount of condiments. Will order again!
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This one is hard for me cause I didn’t love it but it tasted right. I won’t order again but not because of the foods taste just personal preference. If you love a burger jump on this it’s don’t worry. If burgers are just ok to you then look somewhere else
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Exceptional! My favorite! After having backpacked for almost 40 years, I have finally found great tasting trail meals. This All American Works Burger is packed with great burger flavor! I absolutely love this meal. FYI, I mixed all the condiments and the cheese into the meat pouch after steeping it. Stirred it up and dished it out of the pouch into the tortilla. Truly an exceptional backpacking meal!
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Keto friendly and oh so tasty. Loved "the works" and the condiment packets!
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This is fantastic food. Very surprised at all of the flavor. I am stoked to take this in my pack.
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Easy prep and the condiments make it better. I like my food spicy hot but these burgers would have been better with less pepper. It was a bit overpowering on the pepper flavor.
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Ok, so this was my first time trying any dehydrated meals other then my own. I have to say, the burger works was really really good. It hit the spot and was simple to make and used very minimal water, which i liked. It was a bit salty yes. If i was banging out the miles and sweating a lot, then i wouldn't mind. But for short distance hiking, this is a concern as i dont need all the sodium. Why not create a few low sodium meals? Im sure they would sell just as quick, if not quicker. Besides that, it tastes great and yes i would eat it again, just cautiously.
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The All-American Works Burger really hit the spot after a long day of hiking. I was skeptical about a burger with your BYO tortilla, but it really was good. Of all the meals I purchased, this one was the best.
Cooking Method
just add water
Water Required
2 ounces
Temperature
hot water recommended
Cook time
15 minutes
Serving
8 Ounces
Bring Your Own
tortillas or hearty crackers
