A Canadian chef tried to set a new world
record earlier this month by grilling up
what he hopes is the world’s largest hamburger,
the Toronto Sun reported.
Barbecue master Ted Reader created the
590-pound behemoth burger in downtown
Toronto, using enough meat to make 2,360
quarter pounders.
Reader spent six hours sizzling up the
300-plus pound beef patty, which was then
tucked into a 105-pound bun and topped
with lettuce, cheese, tomatoes, red onions,
pickles and barbecue sauce, the Sun reported.
“I’m amazed that we got it out of the grill
and onto the bun,” Reader told the paper.
“That was the whole trickiness to it, but it
held together, it’s edible, it’s delicious.”
Reader told the Sun he didn’t care if he
actually broke the Guinness World Record
for burgers of unusual size.
“Whether they say ‘yea’ or they say ‘nay’,
I don’t care. We built it, now we’re going to
serve it,” he said. “We tried to do all the
checks and balances and make sure we followed
the rules. Let’s hope they go, ‘Yea’.”
The standing “world’s largest burger”
weighs in at a measly 185.8 pounds.
The burger was auctioned off, raising
$8,500 Canadian to benefit Camp Bucko,
an Ontario-based camp for children with
burn injuries, the Sun reported.
-SLASH FOOD
