"Cheeseburger"
"Cheeseburger"
FWIW - this picture has been floating around since the mid 2000's; the person who blogged about it cooked it super wrong. The instructions said to use a bain marie, and they didnt know what a bain marie, but saw you boiled water in it, so they just boiled the can. If you boil a can, water is 100% going to seep into it, and turn it into...what you see here.
77I think that context just graduates the food crime from second degree to first degree
53Ok so wtf is a bain marie?
28double boiler
put a metal bowl or nested pot over a pot of boiling water. The nested pot is heated by immersion into or steam from the boiling water so you get a steady maximum temperature around 100°c. Good for working with things like chocolate that burn easily.
How you would use one to prepare a tinned cheeseburger I cannot fathom.
23It's a lower pot that you boil water in with an upper pot that you put the food in. No water gets near the food, it's meant for applying even, indirect heat
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Wait are these cans not watertight?
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22I’m starting to suspect Dr. Oetker’s credentials may not be real…
10No, it's real. He got an actual doctorate and a specific patent on baking powder.
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I've had these, and they are actually pretty good. But you will burn your tounge. Badly.
8I will not hear a single bad thing about these. They were a gift of the gods and were only removed to punish humanities sinfull nature.
Repent, I say. REPENT!
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As disgusting as these appear and sound on paper, every single review I've seen across multiple brands of these canned hamburgers/cheeseburgers has been positive. Because of those I'd give 'em a try if I ever saw them for sale.
12"Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie, but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfucker."
5Look, you've been out in the wild in the rain and then get a bit of hot canned cheeseburger, of course it's going to taste great.
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no....this just cannot be real
12Yes, cheeseburgers in a can are a real thing. Haven't tried them myself, but I heard they're not awful.
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I remember watching youtuber try these out. She said it tasted better than she expected. Like, not good, but edible enough in a pinch.
12Pretty sure Ashens covered Trekking food in an old video on yt.
10I've noticed Ashens is kind of winding down, release schedule is basically just the holidays now, has he announced anything? Retiring etc?
4Haven't heard anything about retiring yet. I think part of it is a lot of the pound shops he depended on for tat have gone away. On top of that, after all these years I would guess that he is running out of novel junk from his collection to talk about. He's also been working on his feature films too, which may be more rewarding to him in the long run than reviewing wonky toys and terrible food.
I'm cool with him slowing down as long as he's enjoying himself.
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It’s a risky business model, going all in on catering to the post-apocalypse last-resort pre-cat-food desperate survival market.
10Cheesus Christ
7Na dann, Mahlzeit!
7It even has pickles, what's the problem?
5Considering that the worst cheeseburger I've had in my entire life was in Germany, that looks about right.
4My worst hamburger/cheeseburger (whatever that disgusting thing was) ruined my day and a half. It was in Gdynia, Poland in late 1990s and the taste was beyond bad but I was really hungry.
It was some disgusting piece of unidentified minced swine meat, pickles, enclosed in old bun and filled to the brim with despicable mixture of ketchup and mustard.
A perfect metaphor for what this country was back then. The one meal that described its aspirations and shortcomings.
2The one I had in Germany was disturbingly uniform in its thickness (which was quite thin), dry, didn't taste like much, and was absolutely overflowing with shredded lettuce. It was kind of like what someone would make if you described a hamburger to them briefly and they just kind of winged it.
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How can Germany be bad at hamburgers?
That's where Hamburg IS.
1Just because it started there doesn't mean it's good though.
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What did you expect?
4I thought the canned cheeseburger was from Germany, thankfully it's from the Swiss (Suisse). 12 month shelf life!
4Are the Swiss really that cheap they're saving on a .ch and settling for a .de?
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It doesn't look any worse than an AM/PM burger.
4Dear God, almost like comparing left testicular torsion to right testicular torsion lol… both are terrible and borderline prison food.
9True, but I expected it to look even worse.
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Reminds me of the one time I was desperate enough to order a veggie burger at burger king.
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