The Ultimate Hamburger - Neatorama

Nathan Myhrvold, Ph.D. and Microsoft tycoon, is the creator of the comprehensive Modernist Cuisine cookbook. His crack research team set about building the ultimate hamburger. Each component was redesigned from scratch. A video at the link goes into some detail. The beef? It's taken out of the meat grinder in parallel strands, then frozen and sliced with a band saw into cross-sections so that the grains are cut evenly by the teeth of the consumer. After the meat is sliced, it's then seared with liquid nitrogen and immediately fried in hot oil. The result is a caramelized surface that keeps the juices inside without burning.

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Looks delicious, I suppose

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Sorry, but it has no bacon therefore it cannot be the ultimate hamburger

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36 hours to make one. It's 'ultimate' in the 'final' sense of the word - after all the hassle of making it you'll really what a waste of your time it was so will never make another.

Ultimate food is when you're blind drunk and ravenously hungry, and comes in the form of 'anything I can cram into my mouth'. This is why donner kebabs are the UK meal of choice after the pubs shut :)

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I could do without the white glop, and I'd never heard of vacuuming tomatoes. Oh, and the lettuce looks awful, more like the part I normally toss out. Other than that...

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Beetroot, a decent burgers gotta have beetroot! And if it's a works burger then it needs fried egg, and bacon and maybe a bit of coleslaw and some pineapple and fried onion and I'm sure there's probably some other stuff that I'm forgetting.

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KISS!

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First they came for the Bankers, and I was silent because I'm not a banker. Next they came for the politicians, and I was silent because I'm not a politician. Next they came for the union members, and I was silent because I'm a craven coward. But when they came for the foodies, I shouted "Finally! Where have you people been?!".

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I have to say, the ultimate hamburger is a crappy $2 burger at 3 AM with your best friends out in the cold.

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The best burgers that I've ever had were at Harry's Place in Hoover, Alabama. Nothing could top them back in the day when Harry himself worked the grill.

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Some how they are so stupid they think that FREEZING the beef is going to make it better????

What bullshit processed crap......

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I didn't realise that salt could be smoked.

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what's with all the mushrooms? ugh..

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Nathan Myrhvold is also one of the world's worst patent trolls, so he funds this stuff by buying up patents for things he didng invent and has no intent to manufacture, then suing other companies who actially DO and CREATE things, filing a bunch of ridiculous patent lawsuits. Ever since I found out about that, I lost my appetite for his cooking experiments. I'm kind of surprised Neatorama would promote anything he does.

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