The video opens on his wife at a table, holding a burger up to her mouth over a plate of double stacked burgers and fries, with bold text across the screen reading “Garlic Parm Dipping Cheeseburger.” Then it cuts to the kitchen counter. In the caption, @deandretjones explains the reason for the cooking: “My pregnant wife was craving burgers for dinner so I made her” double Gouda burgers with garlic Parmesan dipping sauce.
He cooks the whole thing in a cast iron skillet. Two loose patties of ground beef go into the pan, and the caption calls for 700 grams, about 1.54 pounds, seasoned with salt and pepper on both sides. A slice of Gouda goes on each patty, a lid goes on to melt it, and two cheese topped patties get stacked together to make one double burger.
The sauce is the part the video lingers on. In the same skillet he melts a tablespoon of butter and cooks five or six chopped garlic cloves for a minute or two, until fragrant, and the caption warns to watch them so they do not burn. He pours in 200 milliliters of heavy cream and 100 milliliters of milk, adds a tablespoon of seasoning made from paprika, garlic powder and onion powder, and lets it simmer until it thickens. Then comes 60 grams of grated Parmesan, stirred in until smooth, plus a little chopped parsley. The caption describes the finished sauce as thick and creamy but still pourable, “flowing from the spoon almost like a small fountain.”
A second, separate sauce handles the burger itself: three tablespoons of mayonnaise, a tablespoon of mustard, chopped pickles, salt and pepper. The buns are toasted cut side down in a pan until golden, and each one gets the burger sauce, lettuce, the double Gouda patties and caramelized onions. In the video he pours the garlic Parmesan sauce across a plate first, then sets the burgers into it, cut in half so the layers show, and serves them with fries.
The last stretch of the video is at the table, where his wife eats the burger with her hand over her mouth while he stands behind her in an apron and a cap, and two small children at the table beside her watch and reach for the food. The video ends on that family scene rather than on a verdict, so the post does not say how she rated it.
Anyone cooking for a pregnant partner can borrow the recipe and still adjust it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says pregnant people are 10 times more likely to get a Listeria infection, and its guidance for pregnancy covers exactly what is on this plate: dairy, cheese and ground beef. On the beef, the CDC lists 160 degrees Fahrenheit as the safe temperature for ground beef and pork, and says to use a food thermometer. A double patty cooked until browned should be checked in the thickest part, not judged by color.
On the cheese, the CDC advises choosing pasteurized milk and dairy products made from it, and avoiding anything made from raw milk. It also says pasteurized soft cheeses are safer when heated to 165 degrees or until steaming hot. The video does not say whether the Gouda or the Parmesan he used was pasteurized, so that is a label to check at the store. The cream and milk for the sauce should read pasteurized on the carton too, and the sauce is simmered in the pan before the Parmesan goes in.
The CDC names hard cheeses such as Parmesan among the safer choices when they are made with pasteurized milk, which suits the dipping sauce. It lists unheated deli sliced cheese as riskier, which is why a slice that melts under a lid on a hot patty is a different thing from the same slice laid cold on a sandwich.
To plan the same dinner, the caption gives enough to shop from: ground beef, sliced Gouda, burger buns, lettuce, caramelized onions, butter, garlic, heavy cream, milk, Parmesan, mayonnaise, mustard and pickles. Make the caramelized onions ahead, since the video does not show them cooking. Cook the garlic first and the sauce second in the same skillet so the beef flavor carries into the cream, and toast the buns last so they are still crisp when the plate hits the table. Pour the sauce onto the plate before the burgers go down, as he does, and serve extra in a bowl for dipping the fries.
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