I Cooked 100 Years of Burgers

We appreciate Guga for waiting 100 years to make this video, it's not easy waiting for 100 years to learn every burger, respect.

Fun fact: The Big 'n' Tasty burger (now known as the Big Tasty) is still available here in Malta. When McDonald's originally removed it, the Maltese population complained about it so much that the burger was re-added to the menu as a permanent addition.

As an ex cook at BK, i can say the soul of cooking has died. You don't cook anything yourself, you just put it in a machine, and put the burger itself together. No more seasoning yourself, no more real food, just overpriced garbage. If you ever want real burgers, go to your local family restraunts, or make one yourself, trust me, they're pretty great. (most of the time)

Got a old family recipe here, it was invented from my great grandmother in 1950 to feed the men that worked on the family farm, they ate 2 times a day, once at 5 in the morning, another at 7pm. She called it: "Gill Special" It was made with kieser role cooked in a kilm with garlic butter till golden brown, 5 ounces of venison/bison mixed patty mixed with saltand pepper/lemon/lime juice/molasses/honey then char broiled in a kilm till Carmelised, topping is with 1 Swiss cheese slice 1 slice provolone 1 slice of mozzarella, 1 thick slice of bacon cut in half, 1 thick slice of red onion, 6 pickles, mayo with pupon mustard. Hope you make it and give it a try. I'm the last that knows this and now all that read this know too. R.I.P Oma Nett.

The fact that steamed hams actually do exist blows my mind

I Love this format where we get to see how to make amazing burgers but we also get to see the history behind them. Heres hoping to more like this video.

Five guys wanted to choose quality over profits?! Hahahah couldn't be more different.

New Haven native here with fond memories of going to Louis Lunch with my grandfather--a true classic never goes outta style and I make my burgers with toast too.

Why does every word you say sound like a question

Full story: two German sailors ordered some hamburg steaks to go but they were in a hurry and patties were too hot for them to carry. So the chef have a simple but brilliant idea is to put two slices of bread ( some sources said they were two slices of toast ) and gave them to the sailors. The origin of the Hamburger is somehow still being debate: some ( include me ) believe the Germans created the Hamburger since it is confirmed that the Hamburger is named after the city Hamburg aka the place that the first burger was created, others said that the Americans are those who created the burger since its one of their "national" dish ( i think ) and the sheer amount of variations of burgers that the Americans made, America also consumes a lot of burgers compare to some other places

I remember watching a video recently from another cooking youtuber about the history of food, who skipped 95% of the time period and went straight to the last few decades to get to interesting modern cuisine. I really appreciate this video going through the early, basic versions so we can get a real feel for how it developed.

watching this my mouth was watering the whole time, everything looked so good

Onions on the Oklahoma Onion Burger were waaay too thick, they need to be sliced so thin they are transparent ( idealy with a meat slicer really works ), then they melt in the beef fat, and are far less dense.

To be fair, every burger you made was 1000% better than what we get today. This is why I rather cook it at home now. So, good.

This was such a cool video!! Very good research and well thought out!

I have never seen your videos before and I really enjoyed this one!

1:48 They still serve burgers on toast topped with cheese and caramelized onions in some diners, but it is often referred to as a patty melt.

A well presented history lesson combined with the usual Guga flair? This is the recipe for greatness

The first hamburger steaks were served in Hamburg, Germany as a cheaper version of the "Rundstück warm" (round piece, warm) which was a slice of roast with gravy sauce in what you call bread rolls. As ground meat was far less expensive the slice of roast was replaced with a burger bun ("Frikadelle") - especially in the port of Hamburg where the workers were in need of cheap meals they could eat in their workplaces. German Immigrants brought the recipe to the US and that's where the Menshes Bros and Louis (Ludwig) Lassen got "their" idea from. In lack of bread rolls they just used slices of bread. But (and that's kinda key) the original hamburger steak is that far off later burgers that to me it only counts as an inspiration. Modern burgers are a solely american invention built on the inspiration. Nowadays over here you have to look for one of the last few non-franchised small diners to get a Rundstück warm, most diners sell american burgers instead.

It is really soothing how you say beef. I can listen to that the whole day! Really nice video.