Does a bunless burger fit your fancy? Now, before you go crazy and say "a burger with no bun is blasphemy!" hear me out. My family has always had a bunless meal as an option when we just don't have hamburger buns in the house. We also used to have what were little meatloafs that were essentially just burgers with this gravy sauce and mushrooms. I count those as burgers, since they are in burger form and made of the same kind of meat.

So anyway, the question is: do you prefer burgers with a bun, or are you a rebel and prefer them "naked"? Since I see with bun being the overwhelming choice, the next question is: would you ever try a bunless burger in the first place?

Yes, I'd try it, but no, I wouldn't prefer it.

I like them with buns.

kinda like eating a pizza with a fork & knife, anyone who does so should be shot in the face

I don't eat burgers.

With buns.

Don't got a bun, it ain't a hamburger.

I would have to agree that I vastly prefer the bun, but in a pinch, and perhaps with a side of mac and cheese, hamburgers without buns can be pulled off.

Buns!

I like my burger on a bun. Two, if you got 'em!

I do enjoy my buger actually on toasted potato bread.  I am a cookat a restaurant, and we put our burgers on these rather large kaiser rolls.  the rolls are dlelicious, however i feel they detract from the burger on account of their size.  a burger is different from a deli sandwich, in a deli sandwich, the bread is an important part, but, when u want a burger, ur goin for the meat, not the mixture of bread and meat and cheese and lettuce.  Ill take my buger with cheddar/jack cheese, bacon, ketchup. spicy brown mustard, bacon, on toasted potato bread if you please

Whenever my dad cooks them I'll take them bunless, I've never understood why really.  If it's at a restaurant I'll keep the bun.

Is it possibly to eat it without a bun?

Buns for sure. Not for taste, but for function. If you want to eat it with your hands you need the buns.

Also, bun-less burgers were popular a few years ago when fatkins and south beach diets first rolled around.

Sure, I'll eat a bunless hamburger. BUT, do I prefer it? No.

With the buns....and some onion rings or fries in the burger... thank you.

mmm..veggie burger! with a bun please! or at least coverd in sauce & cheeze =)

man you NEED a bun, prefferably without sesimi seeds

A bun is a staple of the hamburger you have to have one.

A hamburger without a bun?
That isn't even a Hamburger.  It's just a slab of meat.

no bun, huh im the only one. i cant stand the bun it detracts from the taste of the meat.

Bun, otherwise you might as-well order a steak and throw toppings on it.

I prefer it with a bun but I wouldn't mind it without the bun.

I need my bun

"kinda like eating a pizza with a fork & knife, anyone who does so should be shot in the face
"

I would try it, but would probably want a bun.

It depends, if I am trying to eat healthy I don't eat my burger with a bun but I useually just eat it with the bun.

hamburgers have buns end of story

Bun controversy aside, a burger without a bun is still a burger. Maybe more so if you're having it with the same condiments you'd have with your everyday bunned burger (ketchup, mustard, relish, and what have you). Any batch of ground beef formed into a patty is a burger, by my definition. Formed into a ball, a meatball. Formed into a pyramid, an abomination.

Burgers without buns....

No, this is an abomination

Burgers without buns?  That's just crazy talk.

"kinda like eating a pizza with a fork & knife, anyone who does so should be shot in the face
"

NAKED 'DEF

I have to go with you need buns to even consider it a burger, what your having is like a rissole. (not shure if americans have rissoles).

Got to have buns. I think it tastes way better than just plain meat.

W/buns.

But that mushroom/gravy combo sounds delicious :D

I eat burgers with no bun all the time, it doesn't matter for me a burger is a burger.  Sometimes I eat battered burger as well.

With Buns.

 I like BIG buns and can not lie !

I wouldn't be a burger without a bun.  I need to have a bun.

If you dont have buns.... fine. You can have a burger without a bun. But if you have buns and do not use them when you have hamburgers. Then you should get out of this part of the forums, and stay out b/c you dont know what a hamburger is.

I'm gonna have to say, like some others already did, that there is no such thing as a "bunless burger."  If it has no bun then it is a beef patty.  In order to be a burger you gotta have a bun, hun.

I do not prefer it, but one time I had this burger that was so meaty that it would have been unjust to not eat it with a knife and fork. 

Bun. 

If there is no bun than it is not a hamburger. And yours really creepy if you take a hamburger off a bun and call it "naked".
I hate hamburger touchers...

not a burger without a bun, its just a disc of meat.

For me, the bun is the essence of a burger. Without it, its just a slab of meat on a plate.

I like big buns and I cannot lie.

I've had them like that before - never really thought of them as a burger, though, since I'm eating them as meatloaf or chopped up, where they might as well just be little misshapen meatballs.

If you use extra lean beef and make them quite thick, it's almost like having a small steak and you can eat it with rice or potatoes and bean salad as a more refined hamburger option.

I usually treat it in the bachelor sort of fasion, though, and dump it on a plate with kraft dinner or some other instant side dish. But I'd rather have buns. It's easier to prepare and eat.