Can I cook a lamb burger today to eat tomorrow?

[AllBranEater]

I've got a lamb burger that I want to eat tomorrow. Could I cook it today and put it in the fridge for tomorrow? I know this must seem a basic question, I am definitely not a cook!

Yes

Yes you can. You should only reheat it once after it's initially cooked but other than that, storing cooked food to eat later is totally fine.

What's the reason you can't cook it tomorrow or eat it today? It would be much nicer eaten when freshly cooked. Could you put it in the freezer instead?

You can, but why would you given it won't taste as nice?

It probably will take hardly any more time to cook it from fresh tomorrow than it would to reheat it after cooking it today.

I want to eat it cold and not cook tomorrow, because they are suggesting it will be 36C tomorrow.

Lamb isn’t great cold, in particular I suspect a burger. It’s because it’s quite a fatty meat, and the fat isn’t nice cold.

It’s not a food safety thing, but I’d still cook it tomorrow and have it with cold salad etc.

Eh? You want to go to the faff of cooking a burger today, letting it go cold and reheating it tomorrow, for the sole reason that it's going to be slightly hotter weather tomorrow?

I suppose it's not the oddest hot weather behaviour on MN but it's pretty close.

I'd just have something else tomorrow. We're going with pate, ham, cheese and salad with a baguette.

It will be perfectly safe to eat assuming you refrigerate after cooking

But it will be quite grim cold IMO and not very nice reheated (plus that’s still cooking)

Lamb doesn’t need to be cooked through so will require at most 2 min either side in a hot pan, can you not manage that?

Mmm layer of cold fat..🤮