What's The Best Burger Shape?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Today, Josh is determining the ideal burger shape! MK # 093
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Josh is doing an experiment with a control. He's even minimizing variables to isolate the question. Definitely a scientist move.
He's growing and learning before our eyes!
Maybe in time he will learn "Spanish"
@@FedoG88 ngl when he said that I laughed like an idiot 😂
Nerds.
"This will be easier, because it has exposed corners."
*One bite later*
"Corners are the enemy of burgers."
"you know I don't speak Spanish" is probably one of the best jokes Josh has ever made 🤣🤣🤣
agreed, it was too good! 😂
will ferrell, 2004
It's an Anchorman quote
Gotta love anchorman
Especially after going on about the Latin origins of triangle. Lol. It wasn't just the Spanish joke but comedic timing with all the rest of the context.
AKA: Josh spends 15 and a half minutes waging a war against round burgers and never stops to think about just cutting a burger in half.
😂😂😂
@Maverick Lanzerotti Than you're not gonna make a burger, especially not a star shaped one. You'd be making skewers most likely.
@Maverick Lanzerotti How do you go about making a burger without tools and in the wild? How do you make the bread? The seasoning? The saus? etc. Better off making skewers of meat ;)
Oh, but that makes sense! Josh isn't about sensical choices! They make his head hurt
@@deadso just pick them off the burger bushes! Then hit the pickle trees and on your way back snag a ketchup pod or two...
Just make sure you only pick the ripe burgers! Nothing worse on a camping trip than getting sick from an unripened burger.... and don't get me started on the forbidden corndogs!! 😂
Josh, you're missing an important variable here. You established that triangles are better than circles, but why should they have to be elongated 2D shapes? What about a pyramidal burger?
Omg! I have to see this happen. They would be like different shaped meatballs. But where would the condiments go
@@haleyperetic8285 Inside the patty. Not that it would be completely hollow, but that there would be cavities throughout it with the condiments inside of them.
Josh, it's December. You could have done a Gingerbread Man Burger and then you'd know exactly where to start (the head, obvi).
This is josh we talking about. he definately going to make “third leg” and we know where he’s going to start
If you start at the head, it won't suffer enough.
@@xecydez Thats just starting at the "other" head
Man you start with the legs so they can't run away but still suffer then the arms the last you eat us the head and laugh as you do
@@theworldswickedestclown right on
As Chef John says, people love pointy food
and i read that in his voice
@@12thMandalorian “it’s a proven unscientific fact”
Imagine walking in a restaurant and they have a star shaped burger, I can already imagine the price my 4 y/o inner self is willing to pay
Mcdonalds in disneyland paris when i went there at one point pre 2010 they had them. So its been tried
@@killerguythefox mcdonals is crap. Another restaurant needs to try and try it here in USA where we are open minded to new and odd foods compare to nit picky France.. -Mercy(sorry for the name confusion I am on my dad's phone at the moment)
How much of an allowance were you getting at 4!? I never got one 🥲
@@mrghost541 zero, the message is basically saying that the inner child in op is saying that they would pay any price for a star shaped burger
@@yes9691 lies! You’ve already revealed yourself!
Guys, hear me out, it might sound crazy but I think it's crazy enough that it might just work. A dinosaur shape burger
The controversy is over what kind of dinosaur.
@@recoil53 definitely the t-rex and flying bird that I can't remember the name of
@@internetexplorer217 Pterodactyl.
Stegosaurus fans will be after you.
@@recoil53 try me
@@recoil53 make sliders of multiple different dinos and then you arent limited to just having one dinosaur when you wanna eat burgersr
The star shape should be on the Carl's Jr. menu.
I thought he would do a square shape patty like Wendy’s.
It'd be a nice addition to the kid's menu!
Facts
I also suspect that fast food chains might like the idea because the amount of volume/area you can enclose for the same dimensions is smaller for a star as compared to a circle. It's just the perimeter that's larger. So they could basically sell you less meat at a slightly higher price in the name of novelty.
Can't wait for part two with the square, pentagon, hexagon, and-just to make Trevor suffer-a dinosaur.
This was just Josh entertaining the other kitcheneers :'D
So much laughter in the background, i loved it.
You know they keep these episode ideas in the back pocket for whenever they've all gone out and had too much fun the night before lol!
I find two major problems with this experiment:
1) To me cheese is an essential part of the burger eating experience. Typically a square slice of cheese is used on a round burger, meaning some edges of the burger are un-cheesed while the center of the burger remains the best bite. Would that stand true on other burger shapes?
2) I want curly burgs with my curly fries
Correction: Curly burger with curly fries as buns.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever watched and it is also unironically my favorite Mythical Kitchen video so far. I love it so much.
Also Trevor's background laughter throughout the whole thing just made it 1000x better.
“What’s your pitch wow me ,mines chili” I love the idea of them going to Rhett and link and pitching who gets to “steal” what from the kitchen 😂
Trevor losing his mind when Josh took a bite out of the star burger and immediately hated it took me out
Whilst this is probably the most orderly Mythical Kitchen episode with just josh in months, is it me or has Josh made an edible version of those wooden shape puzzles you had when you were little
thats right, it goes in the square hole
Saw the thumbnail, laughed and grinned slightly.
Josh immediately shouts "Don't laugh!"
I explode into nervous laughter even more.
Sous vide starburger to proper internal temp, then hard sear. I think it might keep the integrity of the bites, but reduce overcooking of the points.
I have a feeling that a crescent shaped burger would be nice or a rhomboid parallelogram one because it has no right angles so it wouldn't have the same problems as the rectangle one
acute angles are better than right angles, but obtuse angles are worse.
I want a dodecahedron borger
Problem with triangle burger is that once you bite off all three angles it just becomes basically a smaller circle burger.
Perfect burger shape is a diamond shape, that you cut in half to make 2 equilaterals. That way you get 6 bites with good coverage. Triangles make everything better!
But barring that, since diamond comprised of 2 equilaterals isn't efficient to make, 2nd best would be square cut on the diagonal. So we need more square shaped buns!
Wendy has been right all along 🧐
Square burgers cut into triangular halves is objectively the best solution for the eating experience of both edge and corner lovers, as well as cooking logistics of the burgers and buns, and condiment application and coverage.
Exactly! Squares are the best as you can cut it into two triangles. Satisfies both the edge and corners!
A triangle killed my wife...
@@NewWorldOrgone I am acutely sorry for loss.
What if you sous vide the burgers and then just give it a good sear? That would eliminate the over done corners on the star burger and have the edges not necessarily be much of a problem
hearing Trevor laughing in the back is the special sauce to this show
To be honest, it's the inhomogeneities in the filling that help me decide where to bite first. Is there a big bit of meat protruding? A tasty looking bit of tomato? Or maybe the burger isn't perfectly round because it was constructed by a teenager working minimum wage?
He should have done a perfect square like a Wendy’s or White Castle burger! Love the content though lol
But then doesn't that essentially become a circle once you bite off the corners? 🤔 Or would you have to eat it from side to side, like a cob of corn?
@@sw4mpy Sure, but you could start by biting into the corner and going inward from there.
Correct triangle burger eating route: 1st corner, 2nd corner, Josh says 3rd corner here but No! 3rd bite is the edge between the first two corners, followed by along that edge if more bites are required according to your mouth size. Then go to the third corner and come back along it's adjacent sides as required.
I think it's obvious that a burger should be the same shape and size (after cooking) as a piece of burger cheese. That way you get perfect cheese coverage (can always use a slightly smaller burger if you want cheese overhang), there are corners to attack when eating, you can use square/rectangular baking tins for the buns if baking them in batches which fit perfectly in the oven and 2 pieces of bacon make a square(ish). Perfection!
You're a Wendy's shill /s
@@Violianom Here in Australia Wendy's just serve ice cream, or at least they used to, I think they closed down. (Haven't seen one in a long while)
And you could totally fit four pickles on there!
I would probably like an oversized cheese on it. While some here want no cheese corners or with cheese corners. I want cheese corners *all* over the edges. I hate to have to dig after the rest xD
Rectangle > Triangle > Circle > Star
Rectangle beats out triangle. I don't think Josh delved deep enough into the prolonged experience. It gives you the perfect sequence of bites. You start at one end, bite one corner, then the other corner (on the same short length), then you're left with a perfect bite nub in the middle. Repeat. Corner, Corner, Middle. Corner, Corner, Middle.
Yeah, there's a reason rectangles are already the most revered shape for regular sandwiches. Burgers could easily learn from subs.
a teardrop schould be perfect. has one logical entry point, so it takes away the choice of the triangle and the uncomfortable zero entry points starting experience of the circle while keeping all the other benefits of the round burger.
Sounds like a Vulcan arguing in a thought experiment lol.
I HAVEN'T GIVEN UPON STAR BURGER! We briefly touched on smash burgers, make a smaller, thicker star, and smash it out for more even cooking, and STILL maintain the disability and bitefactor of 5 corners. Also, Id like to point out you made a pentagram when you set the triangle burger on top of the circle burger (14:48) and summoning Satan himself to make your burger tastier is definitely an admirable goal.
Star burger would work if you protected the points with foil, like you do the crust when blind baking a pie crust. 5 foil cones for 1-2 minute then remove & cook as usual. Problem solved for the burger. Then dill pickle relish solves the pickle problem!
You are a culinary genius
the foil trick is for keeping things from browning it doesn't actually stop things from cooking.. the meat will still be way overcooked in the points..
Jason, foil also keeps a layer between the pan and food & traps moisture preventing drying.
@@gaylehaeffner9595 slowing moisture loss* it's still baking.. moisture is still escaping the tips and moving to the non foiled center where it will be lost.. just no.. my decades of chef experience tells me you're wrong.. there is no "preventing" overcooked star points on a burger in an oven without undercooking the center mass it's scientifically impossible..
I always bite the part of the burger that has the most patty sticking out, that way my bites push the patty towards empty bun, rather than squeezing it straight out.
I will once again recommend for Josh to review Food Wars (the anime Shokugeki no Soma). I would really love a reaction video or even a recreation of some dishes in there.
Not sure how well that would translate to youtube given all the uhhhhhh,, Extreme reactions to the food but i would pay real money to see that lmao
There's already a ytber doing this! Pkchef should get you there
Dave Thomas says that the square patty on the round bun (Grill Skills 1989).
“We pattied it into squares so the hamburger hangs over the side of the bun”…. Then he talks about how they press the meat patty.. about how pressing the burger makes the part larger “so the sides hang over the side of the bun and the people will like that”
That is a good point. Kraft and Sargento should make burger slices that are round in other varieties besides provolone.
Gouda is round and I love a smoked Gouda cheeseburger!
they also do mozzarella and gouda.
Yeah. Just please no provolone. Provolone on a burger would just be... no.
Take this in for a second. Rhett and Link is paying this man and the mythical kitchen crew to do stuff like this lol. You gotta love it 😆
The triangle burger would have a great cheese melt
Obviously, the best (and most stable) shape is a hexagon. Clearly the best burger shape is therefore hexagonal. 6 corners to start a bite with but with enough uniformity to cook evenly.
What about a pentagram? Added bonus of using the ketchup to summon a demon
@@PrinceKaladin 5 sides < 6 sides and as we all know bigger number = better person. If you have to summon a demon you might as well just put 3 hexagonal burgers side by side and get an edible 666.
I love being early to this incredibly intuitive scheduled programming
I need more of Trevor's lovely buns.
Trevor good job on those buns for real though how the hell did you make the star bun work
reminds me of back when I worked in a butcher shop for a bit in high school, when one year around Canada day we made maple-leaf shaped burger patties. They were genuinely the most horrible things we'd ever put together but they sold so well that we just had to do them until Canada Day was over
Oh man more of Josh's meat arts
Also obligatory hexagon bestagon
Why did I read meat farts?
@@kyle20176 sweaty meat farts make you do wild things
@@apeaape In this case, it would solve the problem that the star has uneven cooking distribution, but I think the angles are too obtuse to be satisfying to bite into.
It would probably be a different question entirely if the burgers were cooked sous vide. Starburger may still have a chance at burgerdom.
I love how your always pushing forward with new ideas but they're very difficult to explain to the people behind the order counter and if they don't even watch mythical kitchen they just look at you funny
All sandwiches taste better when formed or cut up into triangles. No one knows why. It's just a fact of life.
star shape is perfect for samples, as you can cut the points off and can have toothpicks pushed through them to handout.
Then those are just small triangle burgers......
@@isosev it made sense in my mind...lol
A pentagon burger is pretty cool, though
Dave knew what he was doing when he made the square patty.
So by Josh's logic, the square burger is the ultimate burger shape?
He doesn’t identify it, but I think he only likes acute-angled corner bites. His issue with the rectangle was the 90-degree corners, not the long edge.
Now…if he made a parallelogram and placed his bites carefully, every bite would create a new acute-angled corner bite.
Star mixed with circle is CLEARLY a pentagon which would probably be a pretty good shape. corners are not too sharp so they won't get overcooked.
But hexagons are the bestagons and tessellate perfectly. If I was going to start a burger place, I would do hexagonal burgers.
You should do a Christmas cookie decorating competition with mythical creature shapes
The best part of this was Trevor laughing in the background as Josh assessed each burger.
The howling laugh while he's eating the burgers is the highlight - for sure. 😆
I would argue that the hexagon is the ideal burger shape, at least for restaurants. Like the circle burger, it has a high surface area to circumference ratio, aiding in even cooking and maximizing condiments. With straight sides, packaging can be made that minimizes wasted space. Like a rectangle or triangle shape, it can be tight packed without gaps between the individual burgers.
Could be "pizza sliced" into equilateral triangles!
I've always wondered what happens to the leftover food after either Josh, Rhett or Link take a bite out of it... Does the crew get to eat it? Do they even want to? 🤔
The crew can eat what they want, and at least as of a couple years ago, they donate a lot of food waste to a local pig farm
When it came to the triangle, Josh should have said, "That's all Greek to me," since it's from Latin taken from Greek (like many old, old school geometric and other mathematic terms).
It was a good equilateral attempt. but it was a touch scalene. Good eyeballing.
I wanna see Josh make a sphere burger! Meatball in a Takoyaki batter??
when Josh took that 4th bite of the triangle burger it instantly sold me on it because of the set up for the 5th and 6th bites
I admittedly don't watch most of the MK videos because they rarely have any applicability to my cooking or eating life (I find them all entertaining, but with extremely limited time these days, something has to fulfill that checkbox along with being funny for me to prioritize it. Weird fast food re-creations, overly expensive versions, or gross stuff do not check that box for me.) Just being honest! I suppose this was only borderline practical, lol, but it actually kind of was - enough for me to watch it (and giggle aplenty throughout!) More like this, please!! 😂❤️ And/or more of the Cook Food Good style ones.
My favorite thing is when Josh is just doing this stuff alone and Nicole is dying in the background.
I saw the title and thought “wow, we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel for video ideas.” And then Josh somehow Joshes it all up and I have a lovely time.
He's doing a comedy show, at the same time a cooking show. Wow!
You can tell this was a bottom of the barrel video idea, but they went with it, and I loved it. Embrace this wonderful idiocy more, please.
It's funny because this is the first video I've clicked on in a while. I make my own vegan ground chuck for burgers, so this is actually up my alley because I've thought about it before.
I like this kind of video way better than random expensive fast food mash-up recreations, actually. The more applicable it is to my actual life and what I might cook, the more likely I am to watch it! (As long as it's also funny, of course, otherwise I'd just watch cooking channels all day, lol.)
@@godminnette2 I'm with you, I haven't watched a video on here in a while but clicked on this one because it's actually somewhat relevant to my life!
Ahh, but it *was* in the barrel
Actually no it was top tier
7:36 something about how the way the star burger looks and moves is so graphic
I love the team's unenthusiastic clap at 5:45 😂😂
He realized he could without stopping to think if he should.
Josh I need more Christmas dessert ideas 🍰🍪🍮
3:35, that was too adorable, Josh.
I'm too lazy to read the comments to see if anyone said this already. But the best burger is obviously a round burger cooked first, THEN, you cut it into a star shape. You don't get overcooked edges, but you do get the ease of eating. I'll take my accolades in the form of sage head nodding and murmured agreement.
Well you have my kind murmur
Nah, then you lose the crispy edges. I love the crispy edges. Round burgers already don't have enough of them.
If you’re worried about corners getting overcooked just make a circle bun and cut it into the shape you want
Seriously though, the buns were half the product. Why is Trevor not in this episode?
After the cut between shaping and grilling the burgers, one of the star burgers went away, and apparently the triangle was redone since it's a different size than before.
First video I've watched since the production of This chanel and have to say Verry well done guys U have smashed it out of the park!! 👍✌️
I like wendys burgers because the square of the burger gives you a corner to start on but the round bun makes the next bites have corners
Could still claim the star burger is gourmet with those pickles.
Could also go with the best of both worlds, ease of making a boring round burger, add the cheese and toppings, then cut the whole thing into a star or whatever shape you like. Only problem then would be extra scraps.
Im not seeing how extra scraps are a problem.
You say “boring”
I say “P E R F E C T I O N”
I love how this basically feels like an episode inspired by a weird case of executive dysfunction. That hits close to home lol
This whole episode I feel I was arguing with josh even tho he can’t hear me obviously. Round burger is best!!! With the triangle burger you could very easily have the same issues as the star burger and have it over cooked on the edges. With the round burger it will cook more evenly. ROUND BURGER SUPREMACY!!
Nah, round burgers have the lowest edge to area ratio. I like crispy edges. Hence, round burgers are the worst! But I can see now how isolating sections TOO much (like with star burger) results in overcooking.
Round burgers are easier to make into it's shape so that is why it is the main way burgers are made.
Josh has finally come to the same conclusion that rice "balls" have been at for centuries.
This comments makes me want to see rice cubes, rice pyramids, and rice stellated dodecahedrons just because.
I really enjoyed this concept and video. Very well done Josh and Trevor. Loved it. 😀 These are the types of random, not thought of questions that we need answers to. Thank you.
The constant giggles off in the distance from Trevor made this video even better. Trevor is fantastic.
I am super impressed that Trevor correctly gauged the shrunken patty sizes and made the buns to perfectly fit. That’s my head-canon, and I’m sticking with it.
4:40 -Oh yeah! I remember that now! Wow...thats some old memories.
Honestly, super into the triangle burger. Would love to consume the corners
Trevor dying in the background made this whole thing exquisite 13:16
my arguments in favor of round burger:
1. tomatoes is round
2. onions is round
3. food is better when you can frisbee it
Totally unbiased experiment. Perfect execution. Answering the important questions.
I think the overcooking can be fixed either by other cooking methods or by practice getting the cook right. One option might be to core the center of the star, like a donut hole. This will get rid of most of the uneveness of the shape.
Slightly serious complaint:
A possible reason for the weird shrinkage is because the beef was under weird tension when it was cut and cooked (as in, it was pushed down, so as muscle fibers get cooked it tenses up weird).
Round burger doesn't have this problem because it was shaped, not pushed flat and cut.
All burgers should have been shaped with similar techniques imo.
Leave it to Josh to question this, lol..... So what about ROUND pizza in a SQUARE box?!
Also, I cracked up when he said he doesn't speak Spanish 😂😂😂
It might not taste so good, but Carl's Jr. (Hardee's) should have a star burger. It would be perfect!
The best part of these episodes are people just dying in the background because Josh is such a delight :)
For the Star burguer You could try using a cast iron needle in the middle to acomplish a more uniform cook
Circles fit the most food in the smallest diameter, but obviously rectangles and squares can be packed more compactly due to the straight edges.
Free handing a star is so easy. Start at the lower left point, draw a line up to the top point, line to the lower right point, line to the left, line to the right, and line back to the lower left. EZ. Yeah, there are lines in it but you can draw it lightly and erase the inner lines
Hexagonal burger is the clear winner. Not only does it have multiple entry point, multiple burgers on a tray can be packed tight together. Plus 20% more space for condiments.
I like this lower-key Josh, just being baffled by reality. More please!
The crews laughter during feeding time slayed me
1:32. Trevor's laugh is why I stayed.
the tri-burger looks the most appealing i want to try it