This past Wednesday Nathan Myhrvold, author of Modernist Cuisine, appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to demonstrate how to cook the patty for his "modernist" burger using the "cryofrying" method. All you need is liquid nitrogen, a sous vide bath, and a pot you can deep fry the patties in. ...Yeah. More
"Would you like your Slamburger in a traditional sesame bun, in a taco, on French toast, or rolled up in a naan, which is this traditional sesame flatbread?" "Do you want to lobsterate your meal?" "Would you guys like... More
The lovely and talented Katie Robbins dined with me and taco titan Farley Elliot broke burgers with some Yelp reviewers for the reopening of Burger Kitchen. It's being pitched as "most intense Kitchen Nightmares of the year." The first installment aired last Friday and tonight is the conclusion which includes the a reworked Burger Kitchen menu, staff, and interior. More
Congratulations to our friend and burger documentarian George Motz, author of Hamburger America, for his upcoming role as host of Travel Channel's Made In America. In the show George "explores 39 factories that crank out some of the most ingenious products this country has to offer"—nothing burger-related, but with George as host, it'll surely be worth watching. (George also has a Hamburger America TV series on his plate, but it's still in development.) Made in America will premiere October 4 at 8 p.m. More
Calling all LA Serious (Burger) Eaters! Kitchen Nightmares has come asked for a little help from Serious Eats on one of the upcoming shows that they're shooting in Los Angeles. More
In his reality show Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution, English celebrity chef and media personality Jamie Oliver aims to bring awareness about healthy eating, where food comes from, and diet-related disease to Americans. (He's done the same in the UK with his shows Jamie's School Dinners and Jamie's Ministry of Food.) The first season took place in Huntington, West Virginia; in the second season, he's in Los Angeles, attempting to bring his food revolution to the public school system and—closer to the heart of this blog—reinvent a family-own fast food joint. It's not breaking news that burger joint Patra's got a healthy makeover in the show—Oliver manned the grills at Patra's back in February—but the season is still going (now on episode four since it started airing in April), and if you haven't started watching the show yet, it's worth checking out. More
On last night's episode of Parks and Recreation, Chris Traeger (Rob Lowe) challenges Ron Swanson (Nick Offerman) to a burger-making contest after Traeger claims that he can make a turkey burger that tastes better than any burger Swanson has ever eaten. If Traeger loses, he won't ban Swanson's beloved hamburgers from the commissary as part of a government-wide health initiative. More
Yesterday's episode of Every Day with Rachael Ray featured a Battle of the Best Burger competition between three burger joint owners: Mauricio Oliveros from Frank-N-Burger in Long Island, New York; Tommy Up from PYT in Philadelphia; and Paul Malvone... More
If you missed last night's premiere of FOX's new animated sitcom Bob's Burgers—a show about a quirky family's floundering burger business—you can watch it online at fox.com or Hulu. ...Or check it out right here. More
If you live in the Los Angeles area and are addicted to burgers, there's a TV show with your name on it. We received this casting call for a show about "people with food extremes, whether it's severely picky... More
