Monstrous 350-pound Michigan burger vies for Guinness World Record

A burger in Michigan weighs the
same as a quarter of a Holstein cow.

When I’m at a restaurant and the burgers on the menu read “8 ounces,” a shy grin lights up my face. When the menu indicates “10 ounces,” the excitement continues, but accompanied by a slight feel of insecurity: will I be able to finish this?

Now, if a burger on the menu reads “350 pounds,” I would run out the door in desperation—that’s a quarter of a Holstein cow.

A Michigan restaurant hopes to break its own Guinness World Record by concocting a monstrous 350-pound burger, which they've appropriately named the "Absolutely ridiculous" burger.

“I got the idea to do this from the Guinness World Record book. I was actually thumbing through it and I see Thailand had the world record for a 78-pound burger. It just didn’t make sense having it in Thailand. So, I thought it would bring it home,” Steve Mallie, owner of Mallie’s Sports Grill and Bar in Southgate, told Channel 4 Detroit.

Mallie said they first got the world record with a 134-pound burger, then they stepped up the bar with a 319-pound one, and now they want to establish a new record.

According to him, it takes 20 hours to bake 270 pounds of hamburger and eight hours to cool it in a freezer (This cooks down to about a 180-pound patty. You actually lose about 100 pounds of grease). The bun weighs 100 pounds and takes four hours to bake.

Then there’s 20 pounds of American cheese, 15 pounds of tomatoes, 15 pounds of onions, 10 pounds of pickles, 10 pounds of bacon and 10 pounds of lettuce.

Best part about it is that the burger is not just to show off, customers can actually order it for a heavy $2,000 price tag and have give the restaurant a 72-hour notice.

To find out more, read the Channel 4 Detroit story.

Check out the video of this record-setting burger in the making:


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