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When you're called the best burger in the country, those are some pretty big shoes to fill.
When you're called the best burger in the world by the London Observer, those are gold-laced sneakers of Shaquille O'Neal proportions.
Memorial Day weekend is practically the opening ceremony of the summer grilling Olympics, and this year, it's time to go for gold with your own personal burger trainer.
Joey Campanaro is the chef and owner of the Little Owl in New York City - he's also the man behind the meaty masterpiece that is purportedly the world's best burger.
The Little Owl's Bacon Cheeseburger
Courtesy Joey Campanaro
Serves 4
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef brisket
- 1 pound ground short rib
- 4 slices American cheese
- 8 slices precooked bacon
- 4 homemade buns
- Lettuce
- Tomato, sliced
- Purple onion, sliced
- Pickles
- Ketchup (suggested brand: Sir Kensington's)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons madras curry powder
- 1 1/2 tablespoons cayenne pepper
- Salt
- Pepper
Cooking Directions
- In a small bowl, mix curry powder, cayenne, 1/2 tablespoon cracked black pepper and 1 1/2 tablespoons sea salt until combined; set aside.
- Preheat a grill or grill pan over medium high heat.
- In a large mixing bowl, mix brisket and short rib until blended; season with salt and pepper. Separate into four balls and flatten into 3/4-inch thick patties. Season both sides of each patty with spice mixture.
- Place patties on hot grill or grill pan, cooking for approximately three minutes per side for medium-rare, four minutes per side for medium; top burgers with 2 slices bacon and cover with cheese during the last minute of cooking. Grill buns, turning over once with tongs, until toasted. Cover the burger with the top bun.
- Layer bottom bun with lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and red onion before adding the burger and top bun from the grill. Serve immediately.
- Serve ketchup and extra pickles on the side for those who want it.
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You pretentious cheese snobs are making me giggle.
It's impossible to call this the "world's best burger" when he's using processed Kraft American Cheese singles.
So has anyone tried the recipe yet? I dont know about all of you putting down american cheese but i do have to say I would never use Kraft Singles however Kraft Deli Deluxe has a great flavor and texture.
Please lets make it simple. Get really high quality ground beef(make sure it is lean so burghers dont shrink) use adobo seasoning mix together for about 10 minutes. cook untill medium rare screw all you ecoli freaks and for those who are worried but the raw eggs, there is no ecoli inside the egg the yolk and whites are pure but the shell is where the ecoli is.Get some fresh provalone and melt it on. there ya go
All I can say is a burger without Sir Kensingtons all natural scooping ketchup is like macaroni and cheese without the cheese!
What does England know about good burgers?
Have any of you ever tried English food? What makes the word of a UK newspaper law of the world? Did they actually send someone around the world to try burgers or they just guessed based on something else?
Nice reporting...not.
Toppings on the BOTTOM? Wilted luttuce and a mealy tomato within 10 seconds. Wheres the Maytag?
Just reading this article caused the valves of my heart to slam shut.
eww, pink hamburger meat
I'm going to put a seared pinapple ring around my bratwurst and you can tell me how that tastes baby.
Sounds delicious, but I always add a seared pineapple ring to this mix, its amazing.
Bobcat Bite outside of Santa Fe, NM. (Even Bon Apetite magazine named it Best in America.) Followed closely by Kuma's Corner in Chicago, IL.
Best Burgr? How in the world did anyone ever come up with this one being the bst burgr when you use processed cheese and not real cheese? Thin cut bacon instaed of a thick cut applewood smoked bacon? what kind of lame A??ed burger is tgis that you have chosen to the vbest? What kind of chef goes to all the trouble of triple grinding the meat, baking rolls from scratch and mixing together a wonderful creation of spices and then says let's just microwave some bacon and throw on a piece a fake cheese? Did your chef just get to tired to finsh this one off the right way? You guys need a new chef and a new eatocracy food writer if ths is their idea of the best burger in America...good god..America Cheese...what an insult!
Burger was ruined for me when I saw catsup! That's a yankee burger – come to the south for a great burger!
American (i.e. processed) cheese tastes absolutely HORRIBLE. This is the first time I have checked out the eatocracy page of CNN and it will be my last.
Peace out.
HMMM pure fattening lard encased burger! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koxRy4asAAc&feature=related Now thats a candidate for best burger!
sounds like nasty burger to me . some just do not get it . gotta try and get all fancy smancy and then ruin it even more with nasty "fake" american cheese ! i imagine a stray dog might like it though ....
Beef, Bacon AND cheese, world's best burger my tush! That's a vicious heart attack in one serving! Then again, we all gonna go one way or another!
lol....i like how everyone thinks they know how to make the best burger in the world....amazingly (as most of you haven't already realized)...it's a matter of opinion....so .....get off your high horse....shove your 'best' burger in your mouth...chew...swallow...and shut up....btw real cheddar on a burger is seriously overrated if not borderline gross
World's best burger, huh? Maybe Chef Campanara should've used this recipe using venison when he got his rear end handed to him by Cat Cora on Iron Chef back in '05. I loved it... A big shot New York ego getting destroyed by a little Mississippi girl. This recipe is garbage. Canned curry powder? Seriously? You are a Chef! Make your own curry!
Any burger with ketchup on it is not the best burger anywhere. Ketchup is for fries, not burgers.
You got that right! Yankee burger with catsup. Sissys.
I make my burgers out of ground up souls and midgets with other bits and pieces. 75% midget, 20% souls, 1% moon dust, and 60% toilet paper. As you can imagine, it is a very big burger.
honestly,
This guy is some yankee (as in New Yorker) who has no idea how to make a burger. Ketchup (properly catsup) does NOT belong on a burger. MUSTARD MUSTARD MUSTARD.
sounds like the worlds most average burger
Yeah, yeah. You all know how to make the tastiest burger in the world. Kudos to those people who actually cook, but again, if I want a burger with ketchup AND caramelized onions, nobody should be bothered with it. Heck, if my idea of a perfect burger is Nutella, sardines and a shoe, that's my business. In reality, a burger with just about anything on it will taste good. Jalapenos, onions, pickles, chopped garlic, ketchup, mustard, and whatever special sauce you feel like coming up with that day... blue cheese, green cheese, white cheese... they'll all taste good. And of course I always need a huge chunk of lettuce in it (though you do risk e. coli contamination unless you grow it yourself). Just don't make the bread soggy.
Burger might have been good had you not put processed American cheese on it... My two year old won't even eat that nasty cheese...
Why in God's green Earth would anyone in a right mind ever put cheese on a burger, and American cheese at that? My idea of the perfect burger is one with very juicy grain fed ground round grilled over charcoal with wet hickory chips mixed in. The Charcoal Oven here in OKC has it right. Then serve it with fresh cut fries. There is the onion burger argument with a hand full of absolutely fresh ground beef splatted on a flat grill and then pressed with a mess of cut onions. I like that with some dill pickles and mustard, noting else.
As for Mcdonalds the only way I eat burgers is the Home Style burger made with all the veggies on the side and I add my own deli mustard I carry in the car. I made the Latino cook remake one 4 times because she kept slopping it with mayonnaise. I told her if she did it one more time I would jump over the counter rip out her head and you-know-what down he neck. I then actually did the scene out of "Whole 9 yards". She finally made my burger right then went to the back to cry. Hey, if you can't take the Mcdonalds heat then go back to Juarez.
So apparently people "in their right minds" are simply mean SOBs? If you don't understand what cheese can add to a good burger, than no one can explain it to you.. but you are missing out on one of the great pleasures in life.
The winner for the best burger goes to Big Mac! :-)
Here's a real burger from Dangerous Dan's in Toronto.........
Quadruple C
"Collosal Colon Clogger Combo"
24oz burger served with a quarter pound of cheese, a quarter pound of bacon, and 2 fried eggs. Also comes with a large shake and a small poutine.
Only $ 24.45
only in america....
Toronto is in Canada. Moron.
Fail
Where, pray tell, does one libving outside of NYC get ground broisket and griund short rib, becasue my local Publix sure doesn't have either?
Quick poll : which fast food chain is your favourite ? VOTE 1 McDonalds, 2 Burger King, 3 SubWay, 4 KFC, 5 Pizza Hut
A burger made from quality meat doesn't need either bacon or cheese. And jeez, ketchup? Philistine!
A hamburger that is lauded as the best in the world by the London Observer doesn't carry much weight. Britain is not exactly known for their cuisine. They would think a hockey puck is "lovely"! Come to Texas if you want a kick-ass burger!
American cheese? That completely invalidated this award. Meunster, Smoked Gouda, Smoked Cheddar, Jalepeno Mont. Jack, Smoked Havarti......ANY cheese is better than American. I can't believe my mother ever fed that stuff to me.
wheres the mustard?!
MEAT IS MURDER!!!
That looks more like a suicide attempt than a meal.
Gosh..... I'm hungry just from looking ! Too bad i'm on diet :(
Best burger? Not even close, the author did come to house yesterday!
That the guy paid cnn to do this article
Best hamburguer in the country at HODAD'S, San Diego, CA. Traveling around the country I concluded that HODAD'S is by far the best hamburguer in the country.
The best burgers I've ever had are from the Royal Tavern and Village Whiskey in Philly. Phenominal.
Kuma's Corner in Chicago, that is all.
How about running that spell checker and spelling "meet" correctly! "Meat" is something you eat. "Meet" is something you do when you say hello.
It is called a "play on words"...an attempt at humor (FAIL)
Good Afternoon class,
Today we will be grilling Vegan. As you can see,I have cut up this small, scrawny and very white female Vegan,in the same way you would cut up a chicken. First we must put the brestesses on as they take longer to cook. As you notice I have already positioned the thermometer probe in to the anal cavity. We must not over cook the Vegan. Keep an eye on that until it finally starts to get some color,and then we will turn it over and cover. Continue grilling until internal temperature is 165 degrees. Let it rest covered while you start the legs and arms.
Any questions so far class?
One of the best burgers I've ever had was from a chain restaurant in Indy called Max and Erma's.
They still served them rare!
best burgers i've had were from seattle, texas and Queensland AUS.
Once you put the bacon on there, it's technically not a burger any more
Hear me now and believe me later. Gruyere cheese for the win!
This isn't even the best burger in NYC let alone the world. Also, why the hell is some London rag doing the rating? The English aren't exactly the best purveyors of food last time I checked. Lastly, Malcolm Gladwell did a great piece on ketchup, Heinz is the only way to go for its effect on your pallet. I poo poo on this article, I expect better CNN!
I refer you all to the Burger of the Month Club for a proper introduction to NYC burger tasting selections.
Heinz? I don't think so. I'll take my ketchup without high fructose corn syrup thank you. Putting ketchup on a great burger is a sin anyway; it doesn't need it.
My friend went to France and says that they make better burgers than americans. I'm not a cheeseburger person myself,can't stand ground beef. I know I'm missing out but I can't eat the stuff without gagging. :( I used to love em though...
Haggis or Sheperds pie certainly, but why would people in London know anything about cooking hamburgers?? They had a Wimpy's hamburger chain in England and I ate there. What they called a "hamburger" was actually sliced sausage on a bun. The Ollieburger – made in Miami Beach, Florida – was the best burger ever. Unfortunately, Ollie took the recipe with him to his grave. Umami Burger in LA is also excellent for a high end burger - and IN N OUT is the best fast food burger in So-Cal.
burned on the outside and rare in the inside!! thats just bad cooking! cooking on direct fire will only burn your meat and give what it gave on his worlds best burgers!! hahahahah even MCDEES makes better then that! and why you didnt chose angus!! love the angus! more fat but hey for ones you wont die! ahahahhaha
The price of bananas is directly linked to the size of the bogger that will fall out of your nose. Keep that in mind when you are preparing your burgers.
this is relevent how?
Sorry but gas grills don't taste like gas, its a tasteless gas.
Chemicals I do taste are on charcoal grills when using chemically enhanced coals or lighter fluid both of which are not tasteless neither is the coal you would be cooking with, not to mention the health issues of soot from the coals on your food. I like tasting the meat and seasoning so I will always use gas
I would like to know who called these burgers "the best in the world" because from what I see it is not, it is just a basic burger anyone makes in their backyard, nothing special.
he had me on board until the nastyass processed cheese singles..
Sounds like good eats except for the fact that everyone knows you should never eat ground beef unless it is well done. E-Coli lurks. This upsets me as I grew up in beef country, when it was all free range, and I preferred rare. Still, it is one of those nasty facts and if any one tries this and gets E-coli I suggest you sue CNN for publishing this potentially deadly food.
Shut up. you suck.
All you naive people realize this is just a bought and paid for advertisement from Sir Kensington's ketchup, right (check made payable to Time Warner)? Grow a brain already.
You guys are ret@rded. The whole point of American cheese is its melting characteristics, e.g. melted on a burger.
It is sure not the taste. It has all the texture of Velveeta and taste of plastic.
Don't most cheeses melt?
Looks like a damn good burger to me despite all you food snobs that supposedly make better at home.. Suuuuuure ya do.
Pizza dough for a burger bun is the biggest fail in this article.
And while I'm at it . . . nobody but an hamburger novice would serve a 1/2-pound patty in a burger. If you want a 1/2 pound of meat, you cook two 1/4 patties. Why? Because hamburgers are supposed to be served medium well. Not because of e-coli - although that's something to be concerned about when you don't know where the meat has come from or how old it is - but because that's how you serve a classic American hamburger.
It's hilarious how many of you seem to think your opinion is the only valid choice.. Look up the word preference in the dictionary...
You're entitled to your preferences, of course. Everyone is. But following those preferences doesn't necessarily lead you to the "world's best burger," as the title of this article claims.
No one would seriously claim that a turkey burger is the world's best burger, but you are entitled to eating them . . . if it's your preference.
Medium well? Yuck! If it's top quality (dry aged beef), I get it Medium rare, the only way. Bunch of novices here.
What the %&#$ is this frou frou ketchup crap? We're Americans, and this is MEMORIAL DAY. Keep the silly upscale produce placements out of the recipes.
We dig it because it tastes great & doesn't have high fructose corn syrup. It's not about fanciness – it's just delicious (and nope – no one paid us to put it there.)
Hand-grinding meats (not together!!! of course!!!, not until the *second* grinding . . . duh!), hand-made pizza-dough buns with just the exactly precise consistency to keep them from soaking up hamburger juices, Sir Kensington's catsup? This may not be the world's *best* burger. But it sure sounds like the world's most uber-finicky burger.
I get impatient with "chefs" up-selling the classic American menu to the American public. Don't you?
I'm happy to see there is a bit of a backlash with American cheese. Here in Vancouver BC, we never get to see American cheese, so I've always felt that I'm been missing out on something.
You are not missing anything. It has less taste than the worst cheap mild cheddar. It has a terrible over processed texture making it unfit for anything but melting. This is not to say you cannot get good cheese in the US. You just have to go to specially shops or a state like Vermont where they really know how to make a cheddar. When I worked in NYC I always bought my cheese from the Amish who had a booth at the World Trade Centre's farmers market or went to cheese shops on 9 Ave between 33 and 42 to get imports including Canadian Cheddar.
"The new five-year study of more than 2,200 adults claims to have found a link between obesity and the decline in a person's cognitive function. The research, conducted by French scientists, which is published in this month's Neurology journal, involved men and women aged between 32 and 62 taking four mental ability tests that were then repeated five years later."
I'll take a regular mustard Sonic burger anyday.. ;)
I suspect that the cayenne was supposed to be 1.5 teaspoons and not 1.5 tablespoons. True, cayenne powder comes in different heat grades, but 1.5 tablespoons for two pounds of meant is hell-hot.
This recipe borders on the irresponsible, if you consider that most folks are NOT going to hand-grind choice cuts of beef for their holiday barbecue before they serve it up medium rare. They're going to get their meat at a local grocery chain where the pre-ground beef(?) comes from God-knows-where.
As for what goes in it and on it to make it so great, no offense to the British, but I'll not be taking my advice from them. They seem to go totally gaga for anything seasoned with loads of curry. The best burger in the world is the one made YOUR way, not to the dictates of some pointy-headed chefs.
Everybody's got their idea about what's best, but gotta say, that's a damn fine lookin' burger. Like the idea of melting cheese on top of the bacon to keep it in place. Pass me one!
As soon as American cheese was mentioned I call Bull Sh@t. No way.....
El Cap in St. Pete, Fl makes the best burgers in the world.
So what kind of homemade buns are these? There is no recipe? Everybody knows that buns make the burger. Care to share that recipe? This is a very poorly written article.
Btw...Burgers are only good on a charcoal grill. You can have your fancy gas grills.
4 people, that means a half pound of meat, I thought we had an obesity problem in this country? How about 6 people?
Bacon and onions are nasty.
Did anyone check out BBQPitBoys.com for their version of a hamburger? Mmmmm... Smells Good!
Of course its the world's best burger. Anything with the worlds worse meat-PORK on it make it "best"
Hamburgers do NOT have pork on them. Bacon on a burger is one of the most disgusting things ever.
I'm not as picky about the type of cheese as some. If I have a choice, I prefer Longhorn Colby but American will do.
To each his own. Bonapatite'
I'd add mayo and mustard, but leave off the ketchup. To all you american cheese haters, give it a shot on your next burger and I guarantee you'll like it, nothing melts better. I use to turn my nose up at it, but american cheese is my go to topping for burgers these days.
Tommy's Original @ Beverly & Ramparts L.A.. The Best. The center of the universe.
I asked a person "you are a christian and talk about compassion and love then why do you eat meat?". He said "Being christian is just a social thing.. we don't have any compassion.. we dont mind seeing animals suffer in their blood, they are meant to suffer that way..".. And he said it as if it was no big deal... I was shocked.. and still am.. we like to celebrate our holidays by making our bodies a graveyard for dead animals.. hmmm
I was once told by a Christian that "there are two kinds in the world, Christians and animals. If you're not a Christian you're an animal and we eat animals." So sad. There is a video on YouTube of a Catholic Bishop arguing with a Buddhist monk that animals don't have feelings and that's why it's okay to eat them.
Albert Einstein once said, "Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Finally, somebody talks some sense
It's strange to assume that a plant wants to die any more than an animal does. Next time you eat a piece of corn, I want you to think about the conditions it was raised in.
Corn stalks are grown side by side, thousands or even millions clustered together in a field, with no consideration except a purely mercenary desire to extract the most amount of cornflesh from the least amount of soil. They are deliberately penned in, unable to sway and spread their leaves the way that corn plants were meant to live in the wild. Force fed the droppings of filthy animals, and covered in toxic pesticides, a typical corn plant may never know a single day of freedom in its life.
When the day comes that their seed is ripe and ready to be planted, they are mercilessly chopped down, massacred by machines custom built to murder helpless corn, and gather its offspring to be consumed. In some cases the corn may die quickly, but in others, it may linger for hours or even days before finally succumbing to these horrible injuries. Soon the corpses of the unborn corn are sifted from the "chaff" (this is what heartless farmers call the parts of the corn that cannot be sold), and eventually they will be plucked, and probably ground up, their flesh used as the basis for all sorts of ghoulish delicacies, such as bread and breakfast cereal.
I think that if more people understood the brutal conditions that grain and other plants are bred and slaughtered, all so that they can enjoy a tasty meal or beverage, they wouldn't be so eager to consume them. Think about that the next time you're chomping down on the spinal column of a poor celery plant, or noshing on a soy taco. How many unborn soybean and corn plants had to be sacrificed for your transient pleasure?
Humans have teeth whose entire purpose is to rend and tear animal flesh. If you believe that God created humans by design, then you must believe that God intended for humans to eat other, lesser animals.
I'm not sure where you get the idea that Christians wouldn't eat meat. Jesus supposedly fed an entire multitude with loaves and fishes. Last time I checked, a fish isn't a vegetable.
I'm sure there are Christians who don't eat meat because it bothers their conscience, but there's nothing within the religion itself to suggest that's a correct or preferable way to live.
Most of us do not have canines up to tearing apart raw animal flesh. Indeed, few even have noticeable canines on the bottom. The molars, you know the big flat ones in the back! are for grinding vegetable matter. Most other primates are vegetarians though some will eat bugs and eggs and whatever they can catch. We are omnivores and that does not mean we are meant to eat our own weight in meat every week. Too much meat can lead to cancer of the colon, gout, heart disease, strokes... It is a matter of degree. Properly done, a vegetarian diet is much healthier than the high animal protein diet most in the West indulge in. The outcome on our food and the planet from the overconsumption of animal flesh is extensive. However, even limiting meat to small amounts a few times a week would vastly improve the health of the nations and get rid of the need to factory farm sentient beings. It is also cheaper to produce vegetable protein on the land than growing the same thing to feed to cows but in much greater quantity to what would be fed to humans.
Do you have any idea of the amount of methane that blossoms out of a cow from both ends due to their many stomaches processing cellulose?
CalgarySandy: I'm not saying that eating nothing but meat is a healthy way to live. Just pointing out that it's irrational to think that Christians should be somehow averse to eating meat.
I think that common sense dictates that as omnivores, we'll be healthiest eating a variety of different things, and since plant flesh is more abundant in nature than animal flesh, we're probably evolved (or created, if you're religious) to be healthiest eating more plant than animal flesh.
The healthiest people I've known in my life are those who live their lives with balance and discipline. Too much of anything isn't good for you. Even too much exercise can cause you problems, so I have an easy time believing that too much meat could be unhealthy too. That said, I'm not about to stop eating meat, because it tastes good, has nutritional value, and frankly, it's something we were evolved or created to do.
Jason, first of all, there is no God, no Santa Claus, Jesus never existed (there is no proof of his existence, never was) and with regards to your attempt to equate an ear of corn to a pig or a cow, nice try; but very sad.
Vegetarians don't kill plants. When you eat a potato or corncob or pea the plant still lives on, you just eat the product they produce, which they want you to eat anyways, so that they can propagate.
Moreover, one of the concepts of the vegetarian lifestyle is that we as humans are of a higher intelligence, wisdom, and conscience so that we can create other means of finding nutrition and not make animals suffer. As we evolve as humans we become more enlightened and understand this. A non-human animal, although a sentient being (a plant is not a sentient being), does not have the capacity to make the kinds of choices humans can. This is a very big difference between humans and other animals. We may be, as humans, in the beginning of a very important transition point in existence when we should be moving away from eating other animals to eating plant based food. This transition may take centuries. As Einstein said, "Nothing will benefit human health and survival of life on earth so much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
I am Christian; I would go veggie but I grew up eating meat and I've tried but I just can't give it up... Others just don't think about what they're eating, if you don't think about it you care less. I probably sound ignorant, but like I said, I don't think about this so I am (somewhat) ignorant in this area.
Ok, I have one problem with this article. Because it would make a whole lot more sense if it went like this...
When you're called the fish n chips in the country, those are some pretty big shoes to fill.
When you're called the best fish n chips in the world by the London Observer, those are gold-laced sneakers of Shaquille O'Neal proportions.
Hamburgers are an AMERICAN FOOD. London Observer....declaring world's greatest hamburger...seriously? sigh
the key thing here is we are letting a newspaper from England tel us which iconic american food is the best. grade your own crappy damn food. anybody for some kidney pie?
American cheese? Really?! :(
Not for nothing, but shouldn't that say "Meet" the world's best burger?
And I'm pretty much on board with the mooseburger guy. Moose meat has not been force-grown with BGH and all kinds of other chemical crap, and they live in the woods right out back. One moose makes a heluva lot of burgers.
Meat ...get it? They used it instead of "meet".
The best burger in the world would not have American singles, it would be blue cheese. It would also have mustard not ketchup.
The best burger is the one you make yourself with what you like on it. Not one some chef says is the best.
agree..., although, I'd like to try these spices
"So it doesn't taste like fuel?" I guess all NewYorkers are attitude-filled retards. You CAN"T taste the 'fuel' if it's LP gas. I guess he must have grown up eating hamburgers grilled over a gasoline-fired grill.
Yikes – who eats this? It's a disaster to the body and to the environment. No wonder obesity is rampant in this country and incidents of cancer and other related diseases are on the rise. Stay away – adopt a more vegetarian diet – even the doctors are recommending this now.
I can't go Vegan,it gives me erectile Dysfunction.
Erectile Dysfunction is probably a good thing for you. Less chance of passing on your genes.
AJ, I totally agree. Most Americans, due to their lack of interest in facts or education, aren't even aware what they should be consuming. I've asked people how many calories they think they should be consuming in one day and more than 50% don't have a clue. They said, "I'm watching my carbs." So I ask them, "How many carbs are you allowed each day? How many good carbs and how many bad carbs?" Again, they haven't a clue. I've been told by people who are obviously over 30 pounds overweight that they think they only need to lose 10 pounds. Well, 10 is a good start, I suppose. This would not be such an issue if Americans were not facing an epidemic of obesity that is costing us billions every year in health care. It's totally preventable. FACT: Americans are 65% FAT, and 35% OBESE. I've seen it at the malls, at the parks, everywhere and it's not only embarrassing when I'm entertaining guests from Europe and Asian, but it's becoming really sickening. True story: I was in China two years ago. I was with a group of Chinese touring a location for business. Across the room walks in a group of about 7 or 8 enormous people, all caucasian. I cringe; I just know they're Americans. My group begins to laugh and remark in Chinese. I ask my interpreter what the laughter was about. He says to me, "They said, look, it's the Americans. We think of Americans as the fat people of the world." To say I was embarrassed is an understatement. What a joke we've become all because we want to eat EVERYTHING!
@ Indyman Although your statement sounds well thought out and factual, it contains a lot of sudo-intellectual bigotry. Although America is showing the signs faster than other cultures, our evolving environment has as much to due with our "obesity" problem as dose the food we eat. Watching you calories and quantity means nothing if you spend your time in front of a computer, ipad or video game. I would suggest you learn to deal with your bigotry towards the obese, as you are now, you're part of the problem.
@DBAB: I'm a bigot because I state the facts? 65% of Americans are fat, 35% are obese; I said it again. Am I a bigot? Our sedentary lifestyle has attributed to our obesity in America, that is true. We must compensate with more activity. This is how we achieve that balance. None of my facts are pseudo-science. They're very real. There is no bigotry here, just a real concern for our country as the laughing stock of the world. No one is born fat, they make themselves this way by EATING TOO MANY CALORIES than their body needs. There is nothing bigoted about this fact. I have no bigotry to deal with, instead I think that fat people should deal with their fat problem by consuming less calories and being more active. I don't care if they work in front of a computer all day, that's no excuse. Join a gym, ride a bike, walk around the neighborhood, walk to the store, get an exercycle for your home, do SOMETHING, and stop eating more calories than your body needs.
A few years ago there was a news story of a Doctor who was admonished by his medical group because he said to one of his patients that she was too "fat." Yep, he used the word "fat." This woman complained that he insulted her. The woman was 65 pounds overweight. That's fat. The medical group then issued a statement that the word "fat" was not to be used, instead they should say "overweight." At what point does 65 pounds overweight become fat? This is so absurd. The comments about this doctor were similar to the comments on my post, that this doctor was a "bigot" because he used the word "fat" to this woman. A bigot? Really.
@DBAB: By the way, please point out the "psuedo" facts of my post. I'll state it again, Americans are 65% fat and 35% obese. What facts are you referring to as "pseudo?" (That is the correct spelling for sudo.)
Yeah, I misspelled a word, so what, I couldn't go back and fix it. But, the attitude you display is still bigoted. No matter how you try to distract people with quoting so-called facts you got off some wiki, your attitude towards the obese is still bigoted.
In fact, many of your comments on the site show signs severe bigotry. You need to accept your bigotry and learn to overcome it. Or are you just a hate mongering troll?
Dont' Be A Bigot: Your low self esteem brought about by your inability to cease feeding yourself has left you resentful and bitter. You are compelled to find bigotry against fat people in my comments. There is none. Nothing. You have invented it. Your approach, instead of actually losing weight, is to shoot the messenger. There is nothing hateful or bigoted about my comments. They are real and they are honest. I never said I "hate" obese people. I never said anything disrespectful about fat people. When a person is 40 pounds overweight, they are fat. I understand in today's oversensitive society we can no longer say fat, we must say overweight or big-boned. That's a lie. I've nothing to "work" on except getting the word out: Being fat is extremely unhealthy. I have family members who are obese and struggle with their diabetes, heart condition, and various ailments constantly, and yet continue to load up at Costco and Wal-Mart, denying the connection to their over-eating. It is sickening, disgusting, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars a year in so many ways. Truth is, there is nothing "happy" about being fat. Fat parents embarrass their children, fat people are dismissed as lazy, fat people usually earn less on the average than non-fat people, and fat people suffer from depression and anxiety much more than non-fat people. These are FACTS. You can have your own opinion, but you cannot have your own FACTS. There is nothing good about being fat. Fat people are suffering everyday. It's time we encourage those around us who are fat to stay away from food like this and take care of their health. This is to the benefit of their health, their families, and the American taxpayer.
@John Holmes, you should see your urologist about your ED. Your wife or male lover are probably very frustrated. Did you know that fat people (overweight for the PC) are more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction? Not only that, when one's belly is so large, it's difficult to have relations with your male or female lover. I would recommend staying away from these kinds of meals, reducing your calorie intake, and start becoming active, maybe ride a bike or join a gym. It must be very lonely not being able to have relationships. Good luck to you.
Here is 12 inches of tube steak,smothered in underwear with cream gravy just for you. Enjoy.
Sorry, Mr Holmes. I'm not gay. Not that there's anything wrong with it. But I'm married to a woman. If you could reduce to a reasonable size maybe you could see your 12 inches from your perspective and start looking for a nice man for yourself. You seem very anxious to get out there and start dating again. That's good. It may be the impetus you need to lose that huge belly of yours. It makes it easier on your lover. But don't just fall for any man, make sure he's got a good job and nice family. Good luck to you!
its all about moderation people....ill never go vegetarian becasue i love meat and i dont wanna live longer if im not happy.....but i stay healthy by not gorgeing myself to death everytime i sit at a table....
@Eater, none of my posts have been advocating a veg diet, either vegan or vegetarian. I don't advocate anything more than people eating sensibly. That's all it takes to reduce one's weight and live a healthy life. Fat is not attractive any way you look at it. It's all about normal portions and the calorie intake we are supposed adhere to. Eat whatever you like, just know when to stop. I understand why people are so threatened by this rational advice; because they would rather everyone be fat (the remaining 35% of Americans who are normal weight) so we can all look the same. And at this rate, it looks like this may happen in two or three decades. Good lord, that would be very sad.
That is not even a hamburger. It is a ground beef sandwich.
American cheese...yeah, right.
Here's some news for you that you may not understand, appreciate, or believe – but it's true: When people become too fat their critical thinking skills lessen. This is true. They also are susceptible to heart disease, diabetes, joint ailments, stroke, and a host of other illness. When you drive in your car and your family weighs in at 100 – 150 pounds more than they should, imagine the extra gasoline you're burning carting this extra weight around; no imagine the extra effort you're putting on your body, your joints, our heart, your lungs, your feet. If your an average sized person you should not be consuming more than 2000 calories a day, a smaller woman about 1800. Most fast food meals are more than half of this amount in ONE MEAL! Every extra 3200 calories consumed and not burned through physical activity adds one pound of weight to your body. If a person consumes an extra 200 calories a day, in 365 days that equals 22 extra pounds. Do this for five years, and well, you get the picture. Is it any wonder why Americans are so fat?
America! You are the BIG AZZ joke of the world! Because so many Americans DON'T travel outside of their immediate area, you don't understand this. The entire world thinks of us as big fat stupid slobs. This is the truth. 65% are overweight, this means FAT. Yep, FAT! 35% of Americans are obese, this means HUGE WHALES! George Carlin once said he is confounded at American's obsession with food. "How do the wipe their a$$es!" Go to Costco, Wal-Mart, look around. C'mon, America. What the F happened? In the last 30 years we have become fat and stupid. STOP EATING, YOU FAT PEOPLE!
Another F#$%ed up Vegan that throws out false facts to make them look good. STFU!!!
Yeah, what jerks vegans are, what with their social consciences and sacrifices for a better future! How dare they!
Processed foods=Obesity
Hey, what are the false facts? State your rebuttal. Don't just curse at me. That's not very intelligent. My guess is that you're one of the 65% Fat people, which of course, we can't call fat because that would be politically incorrect, a term invented by people like you to call yourselves "overweight" or "big boned." Your fat or obese. That's it. What part of my statement is untrue?
@Goss: Yes, you're right. Processed foods to equal obesity. So does eating too much. Too many calories, unused, equals obesity. Most people don't include enough activity in their lives to be able to burn off the calories in one of the fat burgers. Even vegetarians can gain weight just by eating too many calories. I understand people don't want to look at themselves when their carrying an extra 50 pounds on their butts, but face facts, Americans are huge! This must be reversed lest we kill ourselves with food!
Exactly. Burn more calories than you take in. It's all very simple and Americans refuse to see this. It's sad.
Sorry, I couldn't read your comment. My monitor is covered in delicious bacon grease and Twinkie frosting.
Jason, you are a typical American. It's no wonder we are the fat joke of the world. Very sad. America will not be destroyed by outside forces, America will be ruined by food; slowly, gradually. Food will be the demise of America. I can only hope that more Asians are allowed into America, and in 3 or 4 generations they will take control of the ignorant that cannot stop eating and destroying themselves with food. Food is the new American drug..
Well, at least I'm capable of understanding sarcasm and irony on the internet, my friend. All those carrots might be good for your eyes, but they aren't doing much for your mind.
Jason, if that's sarcasm and irony, then I'm superman. That's the sorriest attempt at sarcasm and irony I've encountered. One must have at least a semblance of understanding of the English language to successfully write sarcasm and irony. Nice try, but no carrot.
Obviously never been to Tucson
ZenBurger has got to make THE Best burger
Grind a sirloin steak fresh for each order
Bake own buns
Make own ketchup and other condiments
Fresh picked lettuce etc
on and on and on...
Did anyone notice that the English chose a burger that used "Sir" Kensington's ketchup?
Sir Kensington's, and Curry. This burger is definitely made to an English person's taste. Not to say that it's not great (I haven't had it) but it probably wouldn't rate as the best burger to most Americans.
The burgers in this article aren't anywhere close being to the best as any experienced griller could tell just by looking at them, the reason: they are way too neat and pretty and any experienced griller knows that the UGLY, RAGGED, LESS FORMED burgers ALWAYS TASTE THE BEST as it gives the smoke & grill flavors plenty of places to hang-on to the meat. If you don't believe it try it, you'll never spend more that 3 seconds forming the patties again and remember when it comes to burgers pretty is never better!!! And another little tip, break-up the meat on a large plate and then spice it before forming the patties and just fold the spices into the meat 4 or 5 times and avoid overworking the meat as this can make it chewy. I think burgers are a lot better by doing this instead of the age-old tradition of burning the spices on the outside. And the one thing that makes an "OUT OF THIS WORLD BURGER" is grind the meat yourself, WOW WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT MADE when I started doing this 15yrs ago. I know not everyone will want to take on the grinding part, so make your Butcher grind it fresh for you. But please don't take it home and put it in the fridge for a day or two as that defeats the purpose of getting it ground fresh. Follow the 3 tips and get ready for the BEST BURGER YOU EVER ATE and right in your own backyard and ENJOY SOME GOOD EATS!!! OH and you'll be the envy of all of your friends, GUARANTEED.
Too many caps, not enough paragraphs. I can't read this!
Ah, where the heck is the Green Chili?!? Impossible to have a best burger without it. Heathens
Hwy 105 Grocery in Navasota, Texas has best burger in the world. PERIOD! (I've tried all the other burgers so know the facts).
Do they put Pecans on it too? :)))
Stupid to be eating ground meat medium or medium rare. You are taking a huge risk with your life.
Eating meat at all is risky – it's all full of toxins, antibiotics, disease, not to mention the possibility of ingesting prions responsible for degenerative brain disease (mad cow disease, Cruetzfeld-Jakob, etc), which can lay dormant for decades before activating
One pack of Lipton onion soup mix and 1-2 lbs of beef = Burger Heaven
Honestly, it is revolting that anyone would eat something like this
You get your tasty little burger, and an animal has to die so that you can enjoy it. I prefer my meals without brutality and needless murder, thanks
Chill out on the holier-than-thou stuff. By freaking out on people like this, you are not helping your agenda at all in the slightest bit, and perhaps may be hurting it.
When one develops an emotional understanding of the meaning of murdering other beings and then eating their corpses, it's hard to keep from become shocked and outraged
"The new five-year study of more than 2,200 adults claims to have found a link between obesity and the decline in a person's cognitive function. The research, conducted by French scientists, which is published in this month's Neurology journal, involved men and women aged between 32 and 62 taking four mental ability tests that were then repeated five years later." The Telegraph, UK
Until we humans are capable of photosynthesis to sustain ourselves, something will need to die for us to live. Who are you to say that a carrot is any less worthy of living than a cow? Our teeth are made to rend and tear meat, our taste buds are made to sense the salt from an animal's blood, and our brains are made to crave the taste of flesh.
If eating tofu makes you feel better about your self, then eat tofu. Eating bacon makes me feel good, so that's what I eat.
P.S.– I only eat animals that have been forced to watch Jersey Shore on a loop for at least 2000 hours. For whatever reason, cruelty makes the meat taste better.
Actually, 4 out of 5 studies show that vegans and vegetarians are better than everybody else. So, I'm scientifically entitled to look down at you from my lofty tower of superiority, eating my seitan and sprouted grains burger with my forest friends frolicking about
Burger, hot dog, fake Italian pizza, sugar and soda, the best of American cuisine!!! are "dog food" and a recipe for obesity... reason why 25 % or more of the US population is obese...!!! and one in five teenager is also obese, that’s 20% of the teenagers population, keep on feeding your kids “dog food”!!!instead of real food cooked at home…
Your numbers are way low. The latest figures on the American obesity epidemic are: 65% overweight and 35% obese. In the last decade this number increased, and at this rate they will be astounding if this continues. This is sick, America. Sick.
The figure for 2007 is 26.7%. However in only four years that figure has sky-rocketted to nearly 35% obesity rate in America. In terms people who are overweight in America (meaning just plain fat) the figure is closer to 65%. Very sad what we've done to ourselves.
Best burger is at Jimbos in the Hocking Hills, OH. Biker bar and the burgers are awesome. Also from growing up in the Bay Area Nations Burgers yummm
I just Love ANUS Beef!!
Ha ha
But no, seriously, a typical hamburger contains meat from hundreds of different animals.
No joke, hamburger meat is ground in 4000lb batches. Cross-contamination, anyone?
My burgers are better!
Hamburgers! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast. MMhmm–this IS a tasty burger. I do love the taste of a good burger.
I agree. I always make 3-5 more burgers than I want. Then reheat them for breakfast. A little salt and pepper and no condiments, but on a great piece of bread. Then reheat the whole thing in the microwave for 15 seconds. My wife has since joined the club and we look forward to a "Breakfast Burger" for the next 2 or 3 days.
Make a hamburger with real ground pork and Angus beef together with cheddar cheese or pepper jack cheese and you've got a customer. Curry is a standard with the Brits. Have a curry is all you hear from them. Their India connection from ruling the country no doubt.
A Hamburger is an American standard and therefore we are bias as to what goes in and on a burger.
It is not just because they once had an empire that included India it is because they have an enormous South Asian population in India. Curry is an English dish not an Indian one. There is a herb called Curry but it is not in every dish that is called a Curry in the English speaking world. I lived in NJ for 5 years a while back and there were Indian and Pakistani places everywhere. It was great.
That do look good to me.
Not black pudding good but good.
You outta yer freakin' minds? This is roughly 3 times as much food as one person shoould eat. Other than Porkers' Portionsa, it's a fairly dumb recipe, using processed non-cheese and lowgrade bacon. Ugh. A simple combo of veal, beef, herbs, and Dijon mustard would be bettter.
Earlier today, McCain was quoted as saying: "A moose burger could best this recipe. I have no doubt about it."
The best burgers were in my back yard last night watching NASCAR...
Did you run out of gas like JR. did? I hate when that happens.
Was cheering for JR, no gas issues here, but out of beer about 0100, bummer...
WOW, YOU'VE GOT A TV IN YOUR BACKYARD???
YES, doesn't everybody???
When you have nascar in the sentence, it immediately invalidates anything as qualifying as the best, unless you are stating the best way to spot an inbred redneck that should be removed from the gene pool.
Check this list out.
http://eater.com/archives/2011/04/27/15-of-the-countrys-hottest-burgers.php#Map
1 1/2 TABLESPOONS curry powder, 1 1/2 TABLESPOONS cayenne pepper, for TWO pounds of meat ????? I wonder who adapted and tested the recipe for home cooks ???
The curry measure sounds accurate, but the cayenne might be a bit much. More like 1.5 tsp – 2 tsp cayenne
Hank Hill is not going to like this. As he always says "Propane, taste the meat, not the heat!"
Looks nasty.
Not much of a chef! Fixins go on top of the burger, not on the bottom. He's covering the fact that he's made the wrong choice for the bun, by using the fixins as a barrier between meat and bun. Infidel! Plain ketchup? Surely you jest! If anything, add some Miracle Whip separately and mustard if that suits you...though I avoid it. Lastly a few tablespoons of worchestshire sauce added to the meat before cooking..or sprinkled on during grilling...adds a ton of flavor. There's even "Liquid Smoke" which is amazing if you can still find it. The one thing this guy did do right was use red onion.
Dude, you're worse than he is. Liquid smoke? Worcestershire sauce? Really? Why don't you go ahead and use tasteless tofu and call it a day. 80/20 ground beef is all you need with some kosher salt to bring out the flavor. Let the fat do the work.
The real flavor from a good burger comes from grilling it over hickory and oak; charcoal comes in second. Anything else, forget it.
And for atmosphere, not New York City, or any other city. Cook it on a campfire in the middle of nowhere.
Agreed, Bill, but out in the middle of nowhere the dangers of grilling are increased as well, specifically, the tendency to undercook because of the primitive conditions. Charred on the outside and raw on the inside due to wood flames means the trots the next day...
Please remember to drink plenty of beer so that you can fully extinguish your campfire. Only YOU can prevent Forest Fires. That is all!!
I don't know if that's the best burger, but I love burgers, so I wouldn't mind trying one. Although, there is a lot of prep and ingredients in making this one. As long as you have fresh ingredients and you don't over cook or under cook them, anyone can make a great burger. Pretty simple to make...
Saying that the world's best burger has ketchup on it is like saying that the world's smartest person is a circus clown...theoretically possible, but incredibly unlikely. Just say no to the Red Menace.
Stating opinions as if they are facts means you'll never be confused for the world's smartest man.
Good ketchup is delicious, and definitely belongs on a good burger, if the rest of the burger isn't already sweet. Don't put ketchup on the same burger with caramelized onions, for example.
and they didn't even say if it was a beef or pork rib. seriously, glad i have never been to london, they have NO idea what good food is there.
Im pretty sure short ribs are pork ribs
Most likely beef short ribs. Brisket and beef short ribs would provide a good balance of fat and beef flavor.
Definitely beef short ribs.
ha ha ha, about 100 things wrong with this burger, I guess i have been making better than the best burger in the world for 10+ years.. sliced American cheese yeah sure... if im at mcdonalds... the directions are also piss poor. and does anyone really want a half lb plus burger, ideal weight is closer to 6 maybe 7 ounces not 8... no detail on type of bun.
Shawn, as I agree with most of you, and are still waiting to eat the "perfect" burger, do you have a recipe that you can share? Thanks!
That is an awful lot of Curry and Cayenne Pepper for four burgers. A great burger should let the flavor of the meat shine through; heavy seasoning will hide that flavor.
Oh the urine and feces, the natural flavour of animal flesh sold by the USDA? Thanks but no thanks.
No one is saying you have to eat meat. But if you think that vegetables are free of disgusting contamination, then you are in for a big surprise.
There are unquestionably many ways to make a territic Burger. I, for one, have a chiliburger as my favorite. However, this burger looks fabulous. THANKS JOE! For sharing your terrific and easy to follow recipe to enjoy a special day. Remember our fallen heroes! :)
Best burger I've ever had was the Fat Doug at Michael Symon's B Spot in Cleveland. Absolutely fantastic and is only like $5.
Looks to be a tasty burger, no doubt, but there is a small problem. No grilled onions. Are you seriously trying to convince me that the best burger in the world doesn't have grilled onions on it?
It's already got ketchup on it. Just how sweet does it need to be?
Also, the texture of raw onions is probably better on a burger that's already going to be quite soft due to the fatty meat and cheese. If you're talking about food that's pleasing to all of the senses, texture and appearance matter as much as the flavor of each ingredient.
Perhaps I was to cryptic J. To me the best burger in the world has quality ground beef, lettuce, tomato, mustard, coarse black pepper and oh so yummy grilled onions. To you it is different. And to those guys arguing about cheese... Well, doesn't that make it a cheeseburger?
If there was a universal best burger, well, I guess we would wouldn't need menus at (insert your burger joint here).
Big Kahuna burger has the best burgers.......that is one tasty burger. Do you know what they call a 1/4 w cheese in France....the Royale w/ Cheese.......and the big mac.....le big mac. huh.......
I only eat at high class joints while in France like Le Jacque in Ze Box!
You wouldn't know a high class join even if you were sitting in front of one, unless of course if your talking about MacDonald....!!!!
Pulp Fiction: Royal with Cheese :
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Being named best burger by a London paper is like being named top seafood place in Omaha.
Sorry, fail. Best moo burgers are at Elevation Burgers in Austin TX, all grass fed organic, everything on the menu organic. And guess what? They are not much higher than Jack in the Box's greasy crap on a bun. The absolute best burger? My buffalo burger.
The best burger ever I had while vacationing in Spain and also had a fabulous red wine with it as well.
Did you put pimeinto cheese on that burger?
It wasn't "La Speciale" was it? Those are made from ground up bull balls, hacked off after the matador does his work. Not for me.
Best burger? No way with a pickle on it... and with the toppings underneath the burger... flavor proportion is out af whack. However, maybe it is great. Have they tried Kua Aina burgers in Hawaii, Port O' Call's masterpiece in New Orleans? Those burgers rock! I might buy their claim to the title if they listed the burgers that it was rated against. Still... half-sour pickle... yuck. No mayo? No mustard? Just ketchup? Sounds mediocre. I bet Five Guys Burgers and Fries would give it a run for its money.
Oops... hope the grammar nazis don't mind a typo or two in my post. (ie. "of" vice "af"...)
Umami Burger is the best burger in L. A.
Best burger? Not no way, not no how.
Too much seasoning, no mustard. Ketchup? Is it for an 8 year old? Meh. Give me a break.
Give you a break? Sure, you opinionated snob.
Which limb would you like to have broken?
Burger, hot dog, fake Italian pizza, sugar and soda, the best of American cuisine!!! are "dog food" and a recipe for obesity... reason why 25 % of the Us population is obese...!!!
Oh please, you are an ignorant idiot, so zip it. I'd rather eat American junk food than most British garbage.
You are the idiot, British food is the same as yours: dog food and you probably weight 400 lbs....
Thank you Patrick, finally someone speaks the truth about the poisonous refuse served as "American cuisine"
That describes my diet to the T. That DeGiorno Pizza really ain't bad, and it's inexpensive too. Obese? 55 years old last month, 5'6", 125 pounds. In Texas...where everyone is FAT. "Obese" is PC...mustn't hurt anyone's feelings, must we?
I like the comment about "Fake Italian pizza" as if any one cares whether it's authentic. American pizza is tastier than the authentic variety, which is why we eat it that way. I'm not talking about the big national pizza chains, by the way. That stuff really is terrible, for the most part.
The best American pizzas are there with the best but if you compare what the big chains serve to pizza in other countries we are way behind.
NY does have the best pizza on the planet. sorry to inform you.
and any hole in the wall restaurant in NY has great pizza (not chain restaurants!)
Sorry to inform you, but your opinion is just an opinion. At the very least, most Chicagoans would strongly disagree with your assessment.
Looks very Tasty i think the patty is the main ingredient and it what makes this one special..
umm..
For the veg friendly – best meatless burger (in my opinion) is at National Mechanics in Philly, PA. Exact ingredients are a secret, but it is so ridiculously delicious.
Add the bacon for a dollar and i'm in! J/K...
The avacado, mango and grapefruit salad looks mighty tasty as well.
Its not a burger then. End of story!
If you're not responsible for the slaughter of a living being, then it ain't a burger!
The first person that tries to sneak a piece of bacon under the cheese on my burger will be hurtin. I like the brisket/short rib mix tho.
Is You a Muslim?
There's the beef! Ketchup in a JAR! And that pickle looks home made.
I have tried many burgers in England but have never found one that was worth eating. Being certified as the best by the 'London Observer' means little. Besides, those buns look hopeless and Madras curry powder??? Did any American try these?
Good writing job SLT. Gonna try this Monday.:)
The London Observer naming the world's best hamburger is just as silly as would be the Detroit Free Press naming the world's best Yorkshire pudding.
Good point. Wouldn't Gourmet Magazine or Bon Apetit be better judges? That said, however, this does sound like a yummy burger and I plan to try this ground brisket and short rib combo this weekend.
Well it's not like they did it for Americans although CNN picked it up.
if Yorkshire pudding actually tasted good, it wouldn't matter where you're from
Sounds like enough food to feed a small third world country. 1/2pound each. Wonder how much it would cost to make these burgers? Remember, I have to put gas in the car to get somewhere to have the picnic.
1/2 pound pre cooked is standard for restaurant burgers. This isn't Wendy's or McDonald's with those piddly thin burger patties.
hahaha it sucks being poor, huh?
wow, Karma's gonna kick your a$$
Ground brisket and short rib? That has got to be the word's fattiest burger, no wonder it tasks so good. Just goes to show you that a good burger is in the meat, and that toppings don't much matter.... I love the simplicity.
Boka burgers are da bomb! Add some tofutti cheese, a bit of tofurkey bacon some veganese and that's all you need!
to puke
Yes, that jammie is very good!
and no one cares what you have to say.
You cared enough to tell everyone how much you didn't care. Can you say irony? HA!
If you knew how a cow is slaughtered, you'd go vege yourself.
If you knew what a vegetable was thinking, you would blush! Naughty naughty vegetables.
So a cow is led somewhere, and their throats are sliced? Blood gushes out..? No., they get a bullet between the eyes? An arrow in their lungs??? And then you can hear them weeezing and coughing... *hack* *hack* *hack* wwwweeeeeeeeez.
And then you slice into them w/a knife, pull some muscle out... grind it up and make a burger. Yum!
Ya know, I wouldn't have so much a problem with vegetarians... until that one day... That one day. A vegetarian who is pro-choice. A vegetarian that says "poor animals" and is ok killing babies. I lose all respect for such a person. Something w/ that person's philosophy is completely messed up.. "Save the cow!!!!" – "Woman's right to choose to kill a HUMAN!!!!" what a joke..... The same people that will donate money and time to animal shelters, but walk by the homeless man.. "tsk, poor guy." and not help..
Been to a slaughterhouse, slaughtered my own animals(pigs, goats, chickens). The most offensive thing about a slaughterhouse is the smell.. they do stink. I am an omnivore and proud. Veganism as a moral stand is silly. The only way i can uderstand veganism would be from a medically neccessary stand, or if you just dont like the taste of meat.
Meat Is Murder
I bet you get a hard one when you watch "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes".
Yeah you do ;-)
I'm mostly a burger purist, sticking with salt and pepper, but I've found the McCormicks Grill Mates "Hamburger" seasoning to be absolutely wonderful. It'll even make those crummy pre-made-and-frozen storebought patties quite good.
I'm sorry, but us simpletons in my family like our 90% lean beef with French onion soup mixed into the burger. Bacon, Velveeta (cheese product – because it melts so well), French's mustard, Heinz catchup, Hellman's mayo, green leaf lettuce, and a tomato. Toss some pickle spears on the side, and that's dinner.
World's Best? Them's fightin' words. If you have some extra change,say $5,000.00 then head on over to Las Vegas and hit up The Fleur Restaurant and Chef Herbert Keller. That's right kid's,$5,000.00 smakaroo's for a Burger and a bottle of 1995 chateau petruz(sp). Don't want the wine? A mere $75.00 for a Burger. Think I'll just "Naked Grill" and save $4,950.00.
Wow, you're stupid as hell
I could pay $80 for a burger....why not if I'll spend more on a monster crawdad (Lobster) but 5 grand for sour grape juice is stupidity.
In all seriousness, Chef Keller has another place at Mandalay Bay called the Burger Bar. The burgers there are very good, and not terribly expensive (unless maybe you go for the Kobe beef burger)
Fastest way to tell a barbecue hack:
Smashing the burgers on the grill flat to make them like shoe-leather and turning them 100 times before they are done.
Burgers are best just flipped one time with squashing the juices out of them. Leave the burgers alone...
Not squashing is very important, of course, but the flipping thing is a myth. As long as you're not tossing the patty in the air or anything ridiculous, it's not going to have much effect on "juices coming out."
The bigger problem with this recipe is the "squishing the round ball into a flat patty part." The best burgers in the world would never be in a hard-packed, tightly formed patty. That right there is the easiest way to ruin an otherwise perfect burger. Why go through all the trouble of sourcing ground short rib and brisket if you're going to press and form your meat so that the burger shrivels and dries into a nasty little ball?
Depressing.
Whee doggy! That is one tasty looking burger! Juices from the rare burger saturating a pizza dough bun. Oh my deliciousness!
Fuddrucker's is thee best!!
Seriously? You really need to get out more. Fuddrucker's is overpriced and dull.
Amen!
While it sounds like a good burger, I really don't think it sounds like the best burger in America. The patty may be the best hamburger patty in America, but the rest of the ingredients are too unimaginative to really earn that title.
Fair enough but truffle and seaweed flakes do not necessarily make a tasty burger :) There is something to be said about sticking to the classics. To each their own!
I'm with you...other than the bun and the curry powder I don't see how this is 'the worlds best'. Looks rather plain and unbalanced. And american singles, really?? It's not even cheese, they have to call it a 'cheese product'. They should have tried my own Roquefort, carmelized onion and candied bacon burger.
:) Now that is a flavorful, middle-of-the-night-craving burger.
Sounds tasty as well! How does one go about getting/making "candied bacon"?
Candied Bacon: dredge thick sliced bacon in sugar (equal parts brown/white) and bake on parchement paper in oven till crispy. 25-30 min at 350 flipping once.
Holy cow that sounds good.
Thanks!
Oh I think I'm in LOVE!
Yours sounds a heck of a lot better than this thing they are trying to push.
I was going to suggest using maple sugar, but its obvious you know what you're doing already.
Wonder if we could deep fry this candied bacon?
Hell to the yeah!
Yes, Yes Carmelized Onions!!!
The curry is because this is a British place that's declaring the best burger, and they love curry there. But in reality, what do they really know about a burger? I'll give 'em bangers, pasties and maybe Indian food, but Americans know burgers. I will be trying your recipe. Candied bacon sounds yum.
That is not exactly true, actually.
You can buy American cheese. It is a real cheese. It may be simple and primitive and obvious and a little bit overt, not as sophisticated or as subtle as some other cheeses, but it is considered a real cheese.
Yes, there are offshoots called 'processed cheese food,' or some such thing, but they are based on real American cheese. They are to cheese what margarine is to butter.
LOL. You would be arrested if you called that cheese in France.
If you scroll throught the step by step pictures of the making of this burger he specifically states using 'classic american singles'. That is processed cheese product. My kids won't even eat that. :)
Since when does a burger have to be imaginative to be the best? Adding all kinds of extra flash just masks what the dish is supposed to be about...the burger.
Uh oh... watch the vegans come crawling out from under their rocks...
Oh Oh, watch the ignorance and stupidity of the republican party come out in full force. And this slam is brought to you from a dear, duck, rabbit and everything else Democratic hunter you GOP P.O.S.
Seriously? Why is there always a moron like you to inject a political angle to a story...any story? WTF does a hamburger have to do with Republicans/Democrats or any other political issue? Freakin'idiot. Seriously?
Jim – why don't you get a job and start contibuting to society so we "republicans" can stop taking care of you. Typical of the liberal Left to turn a burger story political.
this is an article about a cheeseburger with bacon. If you turn it into a political fight, then you are the idiot.
You don't have to be Republican to eat meat. In fact, the vast, overwhelming majority of Democrats eat meat as well. So do most Independents. You know why? Because, despite the common misconception otherwise, meat is good for you.
Actually most meats are bad for you, especially processed meats. The problem is not so much the meat as is the chemicals, preservatives and hormones they put into it. Ted Nugent is a hard core Republican conservative and hunts his own food for this very reason. BTW, vegetarians and vegans I know have the most beautiful glowing skin.
Still I can go 3 days without meat...and then I'm climbing the walls ;-)
I should really take up hunting and butchering. I've always wondered how 3 hours of the carcass fresh differed from first day in Publix fresh. Does the meat taste that much better or is it just more fun? I'm just curious.
Of course the best burger is in New York City! Seriously, I doubt they looked in very many other places.
Did you read the part where is was decided by the London Observer? If it was biased, don't you think that the best burger would be somehwere in England?
And this looks absolutely tasty :)
My point is I doubt they looked beyond the obvious handful of metropolises known for fine dining (NYC, Chicago, San Francisco). I could be wrong, but like I said, I doubt it.
Hamburgers are vastly more popular in the U.S. than anywhere else; it would be too obviously transparent (and controversial, even, but that would've interesting, at least) for them to choose a place in London, instead of in the country where hamburgers – at least as we know them today – were invented.
It's got curry in it. Of course the English think it's the best burger. But I don't really consider the English an authority on burgers...
True, they can only judge black pudding, kidney pie and fish & chips. :)
And Indian food. Last time I was in London, it seemed liked there were two Indian restaurants on every corner.
@The Witty One so I'm guessing the London Observer went to a bunch of small cities blah blah blah. Filler article made by New Yorkers who think everything great is in New York and you only get to live and work there if you're considered one of the world greats too.
I hate pickles on burgers...this isn't the best burger in the world. Thanks for playing anyway.
Bitter much? And not an ounce of wit. Hmph, go figure.
It's not the best burger, to you, because it has pickles on it?
Do you do kids parties? 'Cuz you're just a barrel of laughs.
Or maybe it's the drastic influx of different cultures and cuisines that make New York a great place to find great food. Just sayin'...
I agree that pickles don't need to be on a burger. That's why there's Burger King. They'll fix it your way.
Everyone and anyone, knows that New York takes 1st place in Narcissism.
You just ain't whistlin' Dixie!
This article is about a delicious hamburger, not your ignorant hatred of NY'ers. Grow up.
You are right in that the article is about hamburgers. However, his disgust for New Yorkers is far from ignorant. They are easily the most self-absorbed morons in the nation, to include the Bible Belt. If only Florida would allow us to hunt snow birds.
Om Nom Nom. That is all.
Best burger my ăss! Not with thin cut regular bacon and fricken American cheese on it's not. You need thick cut hickory smoked bacon and any cheese would be better than American Cheese. Cheddar, Jack, Colby, Swiss, Muenster, etc.
I agree. American cheese is not cheese anyhow. And you have to have thick, crispy bacon!
Ok.. so there definitley could be some improvements.. but come on this sounds great! I am going to make these today. they are going to go great with my signature.. my "Love You Long Time Pork Ribs". that I make... they are these braised Asian BBQ ribs that I throw on the BBQ after simmering. They always come out so great.. and the recipe is actually online.. just google the name or "Whipped and beaten culinary works" and you will find them... But be warned.. if you get offended easily or can't take a good joke.. they are on a pretty UNpc food website.. (hilarious, but not for everyone) so if you don't have a good sense of humor.. skip it..
American cheese? What a joke. Whoever rated such a burger well must have had favorable sexual relations with the chef.
American Cheese was at one time a combination of Cheddar and Colby cheeses. What you guy are really complaining about is processed cheese products, which in some parts of the country can't legally be called cheese. But there are some of the old fashioned American Cheese still out there that is actually very good cheese.
I agree to disagree. American cheese by itself is mundane however melted on a burger it's perfect.
You got that right about the cheese, you might as well put a piece of paper there. Too bad there is no real cheese culture in this country. Only higher end stores have really good cheese. I was in France last year and they know their cheese whether it is soft, semi-soft or hard cheese. I would prefer a slice of sharp cheddar which can be found in many grocery stores. It should be so sharp it is hard to cut it without it breaking apart. No dyed orange cheese here.
American Cheese is crap. Cheddar, Smoked Cheddar, Colby, Jack, Muenster,...even Brie. there are hundreds of cheeses with much better flavor than American. Leave out the bacon and put the bacon slices on for those that want it. And 1/2 pound of meat?? A 1/3 or 1/4 pound burger is best, especially when you add all the delicious extras. How about adding avocado, grilled mushrooms, or an Ortega chili. Add the good stuff and cut down on the meat.
When people say cheddar on a burger you can tell they dont know anything about cheese, cheddar is a greasy oily mess when melted and loses all its flavor. In terms of melting cheese on a burger a good quality american cheese destroys cheddar.
Best burger only if voted on by none burger people. Curry is for Asian food. Not a burger. Only artsy people would accept american cheese on the best burger. "oh my it is so retro" Brutal. Bacon was a let down as well. I will share how to make a burger rock. 2 pounds of top sirloin and 1 pound of double smoked bacon put through the meat gridder. Try it. It will change your life.
I totally agree! What a bunch of hype. American cheese is like plastic and is not even real cheese (oil, milk, thickening agents, food coloring). The bacon looked extremely fatty. I say this guy just got really lucky. I do like the curry, though, and big, sturdy buns. I do the same. I'm sure his burgers are good but hardly "The Best in the World". They should try MY burgers!
I argue all the time, with my wife, over which cheese should be on a burger. In my mind "processed singles", are sacriledge and shouldn't be less than a mile, from the worlds best burger. Real Cheddar only!
I had to roll my eyes when I read in the recipe – American Cheese. And thought they must be talking about something other than what I was accustomed to. But, nope. If you trackback to the 1st hyperlink in the article – http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2010/10/26/you-can-has-the-worlds-best-cheeseburger/ – the jump will take you to "You can haz America's best cheeseburger". [Note:(sic) on the haz.] They are talking about Kraft American Cheese singles folks. The cheese your mom put on white bread for your lunch 40 years ago. I must admit, I thought it was cheese too. The same way I once thought that American lagers were beer.
Now, let's talk about that beer.
This guy will probably have his American cheese burger with an American lager.
I certainly hope they don't mean American Cheese as in the processes garbage that is everywhere in the USA. In Canada, we simply call that stuff Processed Cheese and we mostly ignore it in favour of actual cheeses.
Catchup on a hamburger???? What???? He'd get kicked plumb OUT of Texas.
We are in the 21 century, we should stop being cannibals. If our ancestors found someone else’s flesh tastier than the fruits and vegetables, it does not mean we should keep doing it. This is how we ended up using only 3% of our brain. This diet is destroying our health and the health of our children. As for milk and cheese, at the beginning we did not run after cow mothers to get their milk... we started drinking it when we started dominated them and taking away that milk from their babies, and kill their babies. All of our physical and mental problems come from animal products. They come with all kinds of garbage and cholesterol and wear out our organs. They destroy our immune system, our blood cells, and thicken the blood. As a result, our blood can not go through all the small veins and as a result can not feed the body the needed oxygen and the nutrients (so regardless how much vitamins you have from that peace of meat, you will get less out of them than a vegan). For every action, there is a reaction. Killing is never right – be it human, dog, cat, calf, cow, pig, chicken. Every living being wants freedom and runs from pain. By eating one, you become a killer. By advertising their body, their shed blood and pain as something tasty, is a sign of low conscious. By supporting a business that kills people, the environment and 60 billion animals a year, is criminal. Please, ignore your ego, do some research and think of all the killing that proved wrong humans did during our history.
Do you not believe that the people who wrote this article have had cheese other than American cheese? Yet, they thought this was better than any burger they've had. Your point is useless.
Yeah, HosieO ... he probably had the burger with a freakin bud or mgd light.
Hey, Elena ...
You know, every time you take a breath, you're inhaling thousands of living microbes that are killed instantly by your immune system. Does that bother you? I mean, if every living thing should be allowed to live, surely you're not excluding microscopic organisms. If you are ... well, that's just hypocritical. So if you think eating meat means I'm a killer ... then breathing makes you one too. How does it feel being a heartless, murderous, maniac? LOL The irony is overwhelming.
In your future ... I see a parasitic worm (and don't think you can't get one because you don't eat meat), and I see you doing whatever it takes to kill the little pest.
The #1 criteria for the burger is whether you use MEAT or SHMEAT. Everything else is details. If you have no clue what i mean, check the "most popular" article out on NoShmeat (.com of course). Otherwise your "best" burger will be just another shmeat sandwich.
There is nothing wrong with beef. The problem is how the beef is raised, handled and slaughtered. That is what makes it dangerous to eat undercooked conventionally raised beef. Buy grass fed and organic, people!! It is leaner, has more nutrients, doesn't contain growth hormones or antibiotics, and the flavor is much more superior.
Listen to all you faix connoisseurs rationalizing your ludicrous personal preferences.
#1 – burger outside of US? Get a grip, never compare to the greasiest spoon anywhere inside these borders.
#2 – American 'Cheese' – fundamental; How about 'salad pizza' for you.
#3 – "it has to have crispy, thick cut bacon" – another salad pie over here.
Fools.
No cheese tastes better on a burger than American (regardless if it's cheese or not). And thick cut bacon adds too much chewiness to the process. Thin cut gives the flavor without the pain in the butt.
Elena – What was used to build your home? Wood? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe trees are (or where, in the case of your home) living. And as for cannibalism...look up the definition and then pick a different word that's more appropriate.
Sorry, but i just had to say something...Elena stfu. You know NOTHING about human diet. We have the brains we have because of cooked meat..yes, cooked meat. Certain proteins are only created by heating meat. And we don't only use 3% of our brains...yes we don't always use 100% of our brains at any given moment, but we don't do everything we can possibly do at every single moment. But we do use all of our brains in the end, just because we don't use them all all the time doesn't mean we don't ever use all of them.
And wtf are you even posting this bull about the world's tastiest burger anyways? Did mommy never teach you not to badger people about their personal choices in life? Keep taking your vitamin supplements you have to take because of your diet choices so your brain won't rot away and leave us the heck alone!
Btw the burger sounds awesome, and even tho processed cheese isn't 'cheese' it does have it's own taste and therefore has it's own uses. If you limit your ingredients because they're 'fake' you can never hope to be the best chef..
Such is the subjectivity of taste... and the problem with calling anything so subjective "the world's best." For the record, I'm usually a cheese snob and can't stand American on its own... but it does make such a nice melter. Wondering if anyone who's bashed this recipe has actually /tried/ it?
First off I didn't see where it said what type of bacon. This is completely dependent on your taste and how big the patty is without bacon.
Second there was no stating of "Kraft Pasteurized Individually Wrapped Trash". There is a difference between that and real American Cheese. On a burger, real American Cheese is as good as any and again depending on personal preference.
You do seem to be great at reading failure though so props bro.
The bloody (literally!) hamburger is raw in the centre! Only a fool eats rare/raw ground beef. Hello e-coli!!
If you grind your own meat and have half a brain as to sanitary handling of same, the risk is very low. Bloody red burgers are the best!
Just knock the horns off, slap it, and throw it on my plate.
Get your meat from someone you trust and learn how to not destroy your hamburger patty before you put it on your bun.
If I wanted to eat a bloody cow Id call your mom back
Moooooooo!
An entire nation eats raw hamburger!! Ever heard of Steak Tartare.........because you don't like it, means little........
I eat my burgers rare and medium rare all the time. I'm 30 years old and I've had food poisoning exactly 3 times in my life. How do you ever expect to have a good immune system if it's never exposed to anything?
It's called rare, idiot.
Oh, bollocks. I've gotten liver flukes from COOKED food. And germ-phobia like yours – enough to troll websites and call people fools – means you've got way too much anxiety in your life. Perhaps you're not as healthy as you think you are.
And I wonder if Richard knows that E. coli live in his intestines too! Lots and lots and lots of them! Surely he does; sounds like he knows eeeeeverything. ;)
I thought that at first but I'm sure it's actually ketchup – it's a little too red. The chef did say this particular burger should be cooked medium to medium well, and the rest of the burger looks cooked.
Got to have my red meat. How else would I stay mean?
And I am no fool!
I have eaten rare beef including ground my whole life, which is well over half gone, I have never gotten ecoli. salmonella, trichinosis, shingles, post nasal drip OR waxy yellow buildup. Enjoy your food.
Actually, you can eat beef raw, as long as it is grass fed and organic. I make carpaccio all the time with grass fed organic, and have never gotten sick. I don't even touch conventionally raised beef.
My aunt made cookies every year with a raw egg yolk in the icing; I still make them, and nobody has ever gotten sick from them in over 50 years.
Sure, get organic meat raised without antibiotics, and the bacteria won't be so dangerous; if there would be bacteria, it wouldn't be immune to the antibiotics you would take.
If you have a weak immune system, cook everything (including salad), and cook meat well done. Otherwise, the lettuce is as dangerous as the rare meat. Lettuce is good for you; and vegetables reduce the main problem with hamburgers: not enough fiber.
My family's way of protecting against "germs" in lettuce: soak the lettuce leaves in salt water for about half an hour, rinse, drain, spin dry (in a salad spinner). I've read that this actually does kill e-coli, although I wouldn't say how much (and of course, don't re-use the salt water).
The caption is confusing. Does it mean 'Meat' is the best burger, or Meet the best burger?
I know...they're either very bad at spelling or very bad at making puns.
Seriously? It was a pun. lol They are well aware of the usage.
I myself prefer Boar’s Head products, so I always have fresh thick sliced Cheddar cheese slices ready to pile on top of my burgers in the last 2 minutes of cooking.
You can have any decent local butcher ground up the brisquet and short ribs for you. If you really want to go high end, have them ground up filet mignon pieces for you!
I also agree you should used smoked bacon, if you use that ingredient. I also go one step further and usually smoke the burgers while they cook, I get chips of oak wood, soak in water for 30 minutes to prevent them from burning. Then stick them in a small smoker box and put in the grill. Once the oak wood smoking starts, I add the burgers.
I use a Thermapen digital thermometer and test the burgers once near the end to make sure they are at temperature. Only do it once or twice and use the same hole to prevent losing juices. Make sure you coat your grate with olive oil before heating up your grill.
The patty itself seems like a good recipe. Of course some of the condiments could be switched up. Recipes should be about customization of a base product, not by-the-numbers instruction.
Personally, I'd switch up the cheese. Maybe pepper-jack or muenster.
Pepper Jack is fabulous on burgers!
The only problem with condiments: corn syrup is in most of them, and corn syrup is really bad for you. The same products made in Canada or other countries don't have corn syrup: we go to the trouble of getting either organic (double check ingredients), or imported ketchup, steak sauce, Worcestershire sauce, etc. We discovered the problem with corn syrup after my husband got cancer: it was like biting into an apple and finding half a worm. Nitrites and nitrates aren't good either, but it is much easier to find bacon that is free of these.
Hive Mind'd: I too was going to post 'om nom nom nom'
best hamburguer in the country at HODAD'S in Ocean Beach, San Diego California. By far the best around the world,period.
Mike,
I have to agree...I absolutely love Hodad's burgers!
I fully agree with the choice of meat for grinding. However, it should be cut like stew meat, combined and then ground, and only once. Not fine but medium. The less the meat is handled after grinding the better the bite. The bacon needs to be of high quality and nothing short of 14-16 slice ( per lb ). I would go with the lettuce on bottom but pickle on top. I dont think I need to speak about the cheese, but will kindly. The cheese could be blue or sharp cheddar. The med to med well cooking is correct for the chosen grind thus stuffing the cheese into the meat prior to cooking would add a layer not often found in the burger world. Seasoning for this would be at the point of serving. A pinch of coarse sea or kosher and a few twists of Tellecherry Peppercorn. Ketchup is for the Fries. Wheres the competition next year? SM from Vermont
How is this better than the soilent green?
You pretentious cheese snobs are making me giggle.
can you say death by heart attack?? ugh! to see someone chomping on this mess would be so nasty.