A Detroit slider is a small thin griddled beef patty with chopped onion and mustard on a soft white slider bun. Cheaper than coney dogs and eaten by the half-dozen.

Telway Hamburgers on Michigan Avenue near the West Side has griddled sliders 24 hours a day since 1944. The Hunter House in Birmingham (1952) and the various Telway locations across metro Detroit run the chrome-counter slider canon. Sliders are the cheaper companion to the coney dog on the Detroit budget-food menu; the order is by the half-dozen. Green Dot Stables in Corktown updated the slider format for the 2010s with a $3 rotating menu of 40 builds.

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Make it at home

Serves 820 minEasy

Ingredients

  • 300g ground beef, 80/20
  • 8 small soft white slider buns
  • 1 medium yellow onion, sliced very thin
  • Yellow mustard
  • Dill pickle chips
  • Sea salt, black pepper
  • Neutral oil

Method

  1. Divide beef into 8 balls of about 35g each. Press flat between two pieces of parchment to make patties 4 inches wide.
  2. Heat a flat-top or cast-iron pan over medium-high until smoking.
  3. Add a film of oil. Lay a pile of sliced onion in 8 spots, then press a beef patty on top of each, pressing down hard with a spatula.
  4. Season with salt and pepper. Cook 90 seconds; the onion will steam-fry under the patty.
  5. Flip; cook 60 seconds more. The patty cooks through quickly and the onion bonds to the meat.
  6. Place a patty (onion side up) on the bottom half of each bun. Add mustard and pickle chips. Cap with the top bun.
  7. Eat in pairs.

Editor tip. Don't try to make these thick; the point is thin and fast. The smashing technique steams the onion into the patty.

Common allergens: Gluten.