Whenever I try to cook my burgers in a cast iron frying pan over

>>7360604
Lower the heat dumb dumb

get the sear and turn down the heat

Either lower the heat, don't make the burgers so thick, or sear them and then stick the pan in the oven to finish cooking.

You shouldn't need to add any extra oil, let alone 3 Tbs.

But yeah, don't cook it cold, lower the heat, flip it more often.

>>7360604
You're preheating your pan over a high heat for about five minutes. Cast iron will retain that heat.

>>7360618
This. You're preheating it at a higher temp than you're cooking at, and letting it get too hot.

I guarantee if you just turn your stove onto the temp setting you should be cooking it at, let your pan preheat at that level and do everything else the same you'll see instantly better burgers.

There are better ways to cook it, sure. But you can get a lot of the results you want to see just for changing one variable...

>>7360697
What are the better ways to cook it?