Young kids ages 3-10 or 12. The older can always eat more than one so no big deal there. I just don't want to make a bunch of burgers and they eat less than half and that's it.
My daughters 24, I make adult sized burgers.....
I can't finish this!!!!
You 4 or 24!!!! Eat your damn dinner, dumb butt!!!!
So feed it to the dawg, Me.
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I have 1, 3, 5, and 8. The 8 year old can down a 1/3 lb burger so he is fine. For the 3 and 5 I usually just split a 1/3 pounder between them. They are still in the "take apart the burger and eat all the components separately" phase so it doesn't really matter. And the 1 year old will can down about 1/4 pound.
I would probably shoot for 1/4 pound for the kids. Any smaller than that and the meat to bun ratio is all out of whack. If you have slider buns 2 or 3 ozs would be great and then you and the older kids can just eat multiple burgers.
Food & kiddies can be a real trip. They could dissect what they’re eatin & go "ew what’s this" or they could just chow down. Then ya may have the focus thing, so many other cool things happenin & it could take 30 minutes to down a half burger. Especially interesting if there is a passel of em, then they seem to feed off the chaos. Have fun!
When I make smashburgers :
adults get 2oz patties, doubled in the buns (4oz each sandwich)
kids get a smashed 1oz patty, the perfect size for a split Kings Hawaiian roll. (Can double the 1oz patties if the kids are older or if you want to make sliders for adults).
I do 2.5-3oz patties for smash burgers. Adults get two patties and kids get 1-2 depending on age. I also find they are more likely to finish 6 oz when it’s two smash tiger patties than one thick 6 oz patty
I'm cooking everything on my property and then I will deliver somewhere else. Oh crap you made me think of something else. I wonder what night Halloween falls on.... I'm at a new residence and this looks like a pretty trick or treat rich neighborhood.
I came here to suggest sliders, saw this. Sliders are what I do for the cheer'dren. They can eat 1 or 5, but usually a slider doesn't get half eaten and tossed.
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I’ve cooked for all ages...minor league baseball 5-7 year olds, Girl Scouts 8-10 year olds, and high School Football and Vollyball teams. I’ve found it always best to fix 2-3 oz patties and let them decide if they want a single, double or triple. Plus it depends on what sides you’ll be serving too.
When I have small bites in the crowd I always do sliders. My kids loved them when they were that age and preferred the King’s Hawaiian rolls or potato rolls. I rolled the meat out like I was doing Krystal burgers.
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