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Welcome to Off the Eaten Path, a series where our Test Kitchen creator Noah Tanen dives deep into regional recipes. Next up? Oklahoma Onion Burgers.
Oklahoma onion burgers are having a bit of a national moment right now. Born out of the Depression era, when restaurant owners in Oklahoma realized they could stretch their beef supply by padding it out with mountains of cheaply grown onions, the dish has remained basically unchanged for a century. It is the smash burger from way before smash burgers were cool, a regional classic that has not only persevered—but even thrived—in the modern era.
