See The Capital Region’s 10 Best & Tastiest Burgers [RANKED]

On the surface, cooking and building the perfect burger seems easy. But to achieve perfection creating an amazing burger takes great skill.

It all starts with a patty with the perfect ground beef combination of lean and fat. That patty needs to be cooked just right. The cheese to needs to be great. The bun needs to taste amazing and have just the right ratio of bread to meat. The balance of lettuce, tomato, onion, and other veggie toppings needs to be perfect. And condiments, well, with thousands of options and combinations - they need to have a personality that fits the burger.

When you put all of these elements together, what seems like a simple combination on the surface clearly becomes a meal that needs to be made by a master. Creating the perfect burger is no joke and balancing all of these simple elements is way more complicated than we think, and that skill needs to be executed with speed and precision. We want great burgers, and we want 'em fast!

So which local restaurants are burger masters? The experts in turning ground beef into an amazing, perfectly balanced hand-held meal? We opened this one up to our listeners on Facebook, and tasked who serves the best burgers in the Capital Region? These were the 10 most popular answers - ranking them as the 10 best in the greater Albany area.