Burger Challenge at Bare Grill

We discovered today that Bare Grill out at La Parouse have issued a new burger challenge.

Our mouths watered as we watched the customers of Bare Grill attempting to eat this (thanks for sharing Hannah!)

Buy this burger for $45 and eat it within 30 mins and it's free.

Let the training begin.

Of ourselves this post wouldn't be complete without documenting our own culinary treat for the day...

Hamburguesa, Barrio Cellar

Right in the heart of Sydney, in Martin place, is a little bar called Barrio Cellar. One of the burgers here is called the Hamburguesa.

The menu boasts this burger as

barrio house beef patty, pickled jalapeño, chimmchurri Mayo, chipotle mustard, cheese , red onion.

The first thing you notice about this burger are the sauces. The chimmchurri Mayo and chipotle mustard held the burger flavours together well. The meat patty was so juicy and not overdone. The flavour was awesome. There was just the right amount of red onion to give this burger a little twang. We were pleasantly surprised by the jalepinos. They weren't too dominant, so a few bites in it was a nice surprise to experience their heat, and then to have a few bites without them. The buns were milky soft and sweet, and held the whole thing together. We were mopping up the juices from our shirt and face for a longtime afterwards. We loved the flavour of this burger.

The fries were string fries with smoked paprika. Very crispy and a great compliment to this burger. 

The only criticism we have is that it was too small. Next time we will definitely order the double patty.

The photos don't really do this burger justice...

We'll be back.

Sacrilegious Burger, Milk Bar

A Thursday afternoon burger sounded like the way to go. So we decided to give The Milk Bar another go. (The first time we stopped by there, they had run out of burgers).

Because we wanted to get into the spirit of Easter, we ordered the Sacrilegious Burger. This burger consists of 3 meat patties, cheese on each patty, roast beef, crumbled sausage and home made ketchup, onion relish, all served between a milk bun.

The patties were so dry that the cheese had actually disappeared into them, along with the sauce. Everything was soaked into the patty such that there was no juice dripping from my burger. Even our very life source was being vortexed into these patties. It was truly evil. 

On top of that, the burgers were over charred. The burnt taste of the patties was the dominant feature of this burger experience. This burnt taste was the thing that remained with us long after eating those burgers. Imagine having the taste of burnt toast lingering in your mouth. This was our experience.  

If that wasn't enough, the roast beef was truly foul. We wondered if we were being served the leftovers from last year's Easter roast. It had a pungent taste, truly unpleasant.

The home made ketchup may as well as not existed. Or come from a woollies name brand jar. It just wasn't present. And the onion relish serving was also very stingee.

The juiciest thing in this burger was the dry crumbed sausage. It was not enough to redeem the burger from hell.

We had hoped that the chips would in same way make up for the burger experience. But unfortunately not. The chips were too soggy, under cooked, and no crisp whatsoever. We wondered why these were offered to us as a reward for being fatty members.

We were quite surprised by this experience, given the popularity of the Milk Bar over at the Facebook group called Fatties Burger Appreciate Society. With each bite, we were praying that the burger would improve. Unfortunately the wretched reality set in. This burger was simply done very badly.

We feel as though we will need to exorcise this burger experience from our body by visiting Lashings in Brighton Le Sands very soon to participate in the 10-patty burger challenge.

Bacon Bad

Lashings Training for the Burger Challenge

Because we needed a little more training....

Burgers by Josh Upper Deck

Most of our training for the Lashings challenge involves eating burgers. So that's what we decided to do tonight for the second night in a row. As we've mentioned before, Josh of Burgers by Josh fame has become a bit of a burger legend around Sydney. His massive Double Deluxe has made burger lovers salivate at the very sight of it. And since we loved Josh's so much on Sayurday, we thought we'd venture out to The Upper Deck at Greenwood Plaza for Burgers by Josh round 2.

The burgers come with the following ingredients-

THE DOUBLE DELUXE

Double Premium Wagyu
Double American cheese
Twice fried Hash brown
Westmont pickles
Spanish onions
Milk sesame seed buns
Mustard
Ketchup

We were happy to see Josh working hard in the kitchen to make our dinner. These burgers looked SO good upon arrival. We were happy to see pickles and onions peaking out of our burgers. We thought we'd receive our free bacon for fatties but alas, it was no where to be seen.

Biting into these burgers was very satisfying. The buns were great, the American cheese was melted just right, and the double patty very satisfying.

There were a few salient points however that need to be made. The hash brown, whilst filling, didn't add anything to this burger. It didn't contribute to the taste, but made the burger more clumsy to hold. The patties were also not as juicy as we would have liked. Josh's burgers on Saturday smashed it with the taste and juiciness factor. Saturday’s pop up was dripping with flavour and fat, but these burgers just didn't have the same standard that Josh is capable of. We also want to say- a little more onion and pickles please!

Don’t get us wrong- we loved Saturday’s pop up with the char grilled flavours and juiciness, but last night’s didn’t smash it.

We are in fine form for the burger challenge... We nailed these burgers in under 5 minutes. We left satisfied, but improvements are needed in this Sydney burger war we are in.

Lashings Gourmet Takeaway

Today we had a hunger to try something different. Yes of course it's another burger. After all, this is what brings you, the burger lover back to this burger blog for more right? Well, this time we were so hungry we decided to have a look into Lashings burger challenge. So out to Brighton Le Sands we did venture.

You won't find the Lashings burger challenge on the menu. But if you mention the words 'burger challenge' to the friendly staff, and tap your index finger to the side of your nose as you nod, they will know what you mean.

Simply put, the challenge is to consume the Double Whiplash burger with 12 patties in 30 minutes and the burger is free. Otherwise it will set you back a stunning $54.

We decided that before we should accept this challenge, we would at least sample these burgers and decide if we wanted to consume 12 of these patties. No point in eating so much if the burgers are rubbish, right?

So we ordered the normal Whiplash burger as well as a Double Cheeseburger. Notice that the Whiplash comes with American cheese.

The Double Cheeseburger came with your standard Australian Tasty Cheese.

The first thing to say about this burger is the size. We. Love. It. The size is what growing boys like us need. The buns were soft but also lightly toasted, giving them a soft crunch upon taking that first bite. The burgers were juicy and cheesey. The Whiplash had a kick to it (jalapeños will do that, as well as the special sauce). The Double Cheeseburger came with plentiful onion which made us happy.

Now we have begun our training by eating these burgers. It took us 5 minutes to devour these beauties. We have now devised a strategy for eating the 12 patty whiplash burger. We might need to train a little bit more before we take the plunge, so it looks like we'll be back to Lashings. Stay tuned for more burger fun.