Astronaut cooks have made numerous attempts to wrangle hamburgers into space-ready meals, from dehydrated-pickle discs to vacuum-sealed burger bottles. Enjoy what our starry-eyed brethren never can with today’s Groupon: for $5, you get $10 worth of classic American stomach filling at Metro Burger, located in Highland Square.

Metro Burger's premium patties come in one shape but three sizes: $5.75 for a third-pounder, $7.25 for two-thirds of a pound, or $8.75 for the plate-abusing one-pound pattybomb. Once you've sized up your stomach, move on to the meat. Patty options include beef, ground chicken breast, turkey burger, or special house-made veggie burger. Slap it between wheat, egg, or pretzel buns, and cheese it with blue, cheddar, swiss, havarti, pepper jack, American, provolone, or smoked gouda. Then, choose from 16 free toppings (such as pineapple and tomatoes) and 12 special sauces (including chipotle-ranch and horseradish mayo) to give your creation life before immediately taking it away. Burger combo classics are also available for diners who refuse to create a Frankenburger. Click here to see the full menu of massively customizable eats.

Metro Burger has been slapping the face of hunger with huge flippers for years, so enlist the aid of its professional grill masters to help eliminate stomach rumblings with the multifarious flavors of custom burger art.

Reviews

Metro Burger won Best Vegetarian Burger at the 2009 National Hamburger Festival, and CityVoters nominated the burger joint for Best Burger in 2010. Metro Burger was also on The Five Best Burgers in Akron list on MyFiveBest.com. TripAdvisors give it 3.5 stars, and 84 percent of more than 100 Urbanspooners like it. Three Yelpers give Metro Burger an average rating of 3.5 stars:

• The food is super yummy. You can either pick one of their "classics" or you can design your own burger. – Zedabeth, TripAdvisor
• The Southwest Veggie was amazing. I've been a vegetarian for a long time and tasted a lot of veggie burgers... and this was one of the best. – Kate, Urbanspoon
• The food was fresh, the staff was very friendly. – TravelingTravis, TripAdvisor