I have had bad experiences with frozen sandwiches generally. Even the Jimmy Dean “Delightful” egg white and sausage English muffins, which have you defrost them first, do not cook evenly. It’s such a lousy food experience.
I’d stick to white castle. I saw one of those shows about wc on the history channel, it was pretty interesting (and a surprise to me) how they had decided to go after supermarket sales by developing a freezer version, rather than expand sales thru new stores , as they had started as a small stand or chain.
LOL w/c are so small it would be hard to tell if it was uneven. The tv show had mentioned that a big p/o how to nuke them was the sealed bag and it’s true, you kind of end up with a steamed burger and bun which is how wc tastes . If the burger isn’t hot enough ( I add ketchup after opening it) then a few more seconds with the bag open and bun top off works.
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There are no White Castles to be found in the SF Bay Area, but the frozen burgers are in the grocery stores.
How are the grocery store frozen wc burgers?
they’re pretty close to the ones in w/c but they only cook properly if they aren’t completely frozen. I usually buy the hamburger, let it defrost and cook while in the cellophane, when just about done add some American cheese heat a few more seconds and then add the ketchup. It’s definitely a good thing to keep in the freezer.
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Is this the bucatini folks are talking about?
Because I tried them and they are GREAT. Esp good for the carbonara/caccio e Pepe style emulsification sauces.
Tasty, fun springy shape, holds on to cheese fabulously.
Big ol’ YAY. $2/lb for bronze die pasta that actually cooks to Al dents and doesn’t go to mush?
Yes please.
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That pasta is a big YAY around here. Kids love the long shape, I love how much sauce clings to it so my selective eater who doesn’t care for much sauce gets more marinara with her meatballs than she realizes
And it tastes great
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totally agree on the Jimmy Dean sandos. So frustrating when part of the sandwich remains frozen.
They absolutely need to be thawed in the refrigerator first. Otherwise you get a rock hard bun and a still cold patty, no matter how you rig it, and that includes trying moist paper towels as a humidity source. They’ll keep in the fridge for more than a week unfrozen but still wrapped.
Search me. I’m not brave enough to try them–the regular White Castle burgers are bad enough. 
I’ve bought the frozen WC burgers a couple of times……. just because. Maybe nostalgic for some, but I think they belong in the midnight munchies topic, wherever that is. Just something to stuff your mouth with IMHO.
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Yep.
As someone who has taken more than a token effort to replicate sliders at home, I can say that the frozen WC’s are more or less identical to the ones at an actual WC establishment, providing you don’t overnuke them, (leading to dried-out edges. yuck)
Getting the timing right depends on your particular microwave. As others have stated, nuking them IN THE PLASTIC gets you, basically, steamed sliders, which is accurate to how they’re prepared in-store.
Now, are my homemade sliders better than the frozen WC? Depends on what you mean by ‘better’. Mine usually suffer from having too “good” of a bun. WC buns are the most generic, utterly bland bits of white bread. Most ‘slider buns’ you can buy in the grocery store are brioche or hawaiian rolls which have entirely too much flavor and substance. WC buns basically dissolve in your mouth.
But I have a case in the freezer right now (since there are no WC’s anywhere on the west coast).
I do stop and get a couple whenever I visit mom in Chicago.
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Annual nay for the cinnamon brooms.
They’re baaaack 
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The first time I had a White Castle burger from the grocery store’s frozen case, it took me back to the early-mid 1960’s; the taste was similar to my elementary school’s cafeteria hamburger. Burgers made the menu calendar once a month and yellow mustard was available. Catsup was only available for those wonderful Miller’s footlong doggies. ‘Pizza’, which was actually a focaccia smeared with a tomato and strange orange topping, was again only a once a month go. The rest of the stuff for the month was some sort of SOS/midwestern hot dish/casserole with horrible, horrible canned peas that was the popular decorating color of that time. I loved spinach as a kid but if it was on the menu, the canned s$%t went directly into the trash. Dogs and burgers came with a small bag of Eggo brand potato chips. Cafeteria lunch was an occasional treat for most of us, usually we ate our bag lunch in the classrooms.
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No – this:
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I get the same sort of lunchroom flashback every time I have Jack in the Box tacos. They remind me of the cafeteria tacos from grade school.
Probably because of Sysco.
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I might have to try these too!
Their cascatelli pasta isn’t bronze-die, but is also WAY WAY cheaper than the Sfoglini version.
NAY for the Chocolatey PB Goodness! bites. Weird chemical aftertaste.
