Smash Burgers for a Hundred People

Reimagining the church picnic

Photo by Zac Cain on Unsplash

I have been to innumerable church picnics in which the church — or if you are secular, the softball team, or the PTA, or the lodge — provides hamburgers and hot dogs while the guests pile the pot-luck tables with side dishes. I am an incurable malcontent and was dissatisfied with the burgers provided by my church, so I made a pitch to the church ladies to let me do the…