A simple but effective tip for a better burger, from Boing Boing buddy Gareth Brawnyn's excellent "Tips, Tools, and Shop Tales" e-newsletter:
Here's a life-thing that you need to know about, especially before this weekend's cookouts. How often do you get a restaurant burger, or grill one yourself, and before you're finished horking it down, the soggy bun has lost the will to live and has disintegrated in your hands? Here's the fix for your fixins. Don't place the meat directly on the bun or the condiments on top of the lettuce. Place lettuce between the meat and the bun and between the condiments and the bun. No more soggy burger.
