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Have you ever been so hungry that you've said you could eat an entire ox, hooves and all? Well, not even a standard ox would have had enough meat to create the world's largest burger.
No, no, for once it wasn't the Americans who surprised us with their passion/obsession for making things bigger and bigger. It was the Germans, as if wanting to pay tribute to the city that saw the birth of the modern hamburger: Hamburg.
The largest burger ever made, according to the Guinness Book of Records, was prepared by a group of six chefs in 2017 in Pilsting, a small German village of barely 7,000 inhabitants located in the middle of nowhere.
The world's largest hamburger weighed a total of 1,164 kilograms (2,566 pounds), that is, more than a ton. To give you an idea, it's roughly the same weight as a strong adult polar bear, a standard Ford Fiesta, or the Kardashian's posterior.
The giant burger reached a staggering 3.8 meters (12.5 feet) from edge to edge. Wow, it would have hardly fit in a student apartment living room, at least not without removing the clothesline first.
It was prepared with three huge pieces of meat (about one and a half oxen), two slices of bread that could have been used as a beach mat, enough lettuce, onion, and pickles to fill half a market garden, and enough cheese to pave the Diagonal avenue back and forth.
If you find it difficult to flip an omelet, imagine doing it with a burger weighing over a ton. In addition to a grill worthy of a Valencian paella master and paddle-sized spatulas, they needed a small industrial crane to get it perfectly browned on both sides.
The six chefs at the helm took about eight hours to get the burger ready—the length of a workday or about as long as it takes a civil servant to return your greeting.
This achievement attracted about 6,000 onlookers—basically, almost everyone who lived in the village—since the giant burger's destiny was not to end up in a museum, but in the bellies of all those who wanted to, in a way, participate in this world record.
At Hideout Burger, we might not make the world's largest burgers (yet), but we do make the best burgers in Barcelona, specifically, the smash burger, the technique that consists of smashing them against the grill so that the flavor becomes more concentrated.
So, if you are in Barcelona and don't yet have plans for this weekend, pay us a visit at Hideout Poblenou or Hideout Eixample, order your favorite smash burger, and you'll discover that size doesn't matter: technique does.
