As a kid, licking the beaters & bowl clean... that was the best part! My kids try to wait patiently to do this as well! It's just like a fam tradition & a tasty one at that. Even though I'm just a kid at heart now, I still have to lick a beater clean once in a while!
Chef JJ jogged my memory as when I was growing up, before all this stuff was a NoNo... I remember at my grandparents house when we were having hamburgers (locally grown & processed) my Grandpa, Uncles & I would take some saltine crackers, put bout a teaspoon worth of raw, yep raw hamburger on the saltine.. top off with a shake or two of CBP & garlic powder, then chow down... I loved that! My Grandma would get after us, saying to leave some for the hamburgers! LOL.