Saturday, May 8, 2010
Largest
Hamburger
- world record set by
Chef Ted Reader
TORONTO, Canada -- Chef and food entertainer Ted
Reader
, 46, and a 10-member crew made for Napoleon®
Gourmet Grills
a hamburger with a weight of 590 pounds
(267.6 kilograms) - setting the new world record for the Largest
Hamburger
.
Photo: Barbecue chef Ted Reader (R) holds
a bottle of champagne to celebrate the finish of The
World's Largest Hamburger
. Photo: Xinhua/Zou Zheng
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photo
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It took six hours to grill this 590-pound
hamburger at Yonge-Dundas Square; the grilled patty was then
nestled in a 48-kilogram bun, dressed with lettuce, cheese,
tomatoes, red onions, pickles and barbecue sauce.
"All I want today is to build the world's
biggest burger and so we try rally to break the record," he
said as he unveiled the beast. " The size is more than 300
times the burger we eat every day."
The
previous Guinness world record for the Largest
Hamburger
was a 185.8-pound hamburger.
The Largest
Hamburger
in the World
was made with approximately 300lbs of beef
and weighed in at 590lbs, almost tripling the current world
record.
The massive patty has been slow cooking
on a custom built barbeque with a built-in forklift mechanism
designed to flip the oversized culinary creation.
They then topped it off with all the fixings
a burger needs, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and barbeque sauce.
Reader expects to put his gargantuan burger on
his catering menu. "All I did is for fun and the burger helped
me to find fun."
The
World's Largest Hamburger
has also raised over $8,500
for charity, benefiting a camp program for children with burn
injuries.
Ted
Reader
, the barbecue guru, is on a cross-Canada tour
to promote his new cookbook, Napoleon's Everyday Gourmet
Burgers
.
His advice: if you want to keep your burgers
big and juicy, don't keep banging them on the head with your
flipper while you are cooking them. Biggest mistake made by
grillers everywhere, according to Ted.
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Saturday, May 8, 2010