The last “world’s largest hamburger” weighed a
massive 590 pounds, but that didn’t stop Brett Enright from blowing
it right out of the water with an even bigger calorie bomb.
Enright, CEO of Juicys traveling barbecue catering service,
first thought about attempting to make the world’s largest
hamburger last December, while on vacation. He looked up the
Guinness Record for the world biggest hamburger, and after a talk
with Nick Nicora, co-owner of Ovation Food Services, he decided to
try and beat it, at this year’s Alameda County Fair.
On July 2, at 5 am, Brett and his helpers started working on
their fast food monster, by preparing 600 pounds of meat, which
they expected would shrink to 400 pounds, after cooking. Then they
molded 340 pounds of dough into two buns, which after baking were
covered with 50 pounds of cheese, 20 pounds of onions, 30 pounds of
lettuce, 13 pounds of pickles and 20 pounds of mustard and ketchup
(10 of each).
The burger itself was cooked on a giant, mobile barbecue called
The Outlaw Grill. This mean contraption spends most of the year on
the road, traveling from NASCAR events to concerts and fairs,
cooking up a storm wherever it goes. This huge burger was its
biggest challenge yet.
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Now that's a
mouthful: Grill chefs at the Alameda County Fair wowed the crowds -
and Guinness World Record officials - by unveiling the largest
commercially available hamburger, weighing in at an incredible
777lbs.
The burger took
15 hours to cook, having started at 5am in order to have the hefty
meal ready for an 8pm sit-down, and was made with just one huge
beef patty.
Mr Enright said he came up with the idea while on a month off from
his job in December.
'I thought, "I bet I could build the world's largest burger",' he
said.
'So I looked it up.'
