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The Philip Burger

by Darren Lewis 9 photos Rated 88% 105 votes when voting closed

The Philip burger;
The burger that’s so big, it has a name.

4 kg of beef, 96 bacon strips, 18 eggs, 2.2kg of flour, 18 sausages, 40 cheese slices.
10kg total weight, 37,000 calories. 330mm diameter by 260mm tall. Total cost = £80.

The shopping haul: trays of minced steak, packs of bacon, eggs, cheese and flour

A baking tray was fabricated from sheet metal using cooking tools that no man should be without; and angle grinder and a mig welder (0.3m x 0.1m).

Angle-grinding a steel ring in the garden, sparks spraying right across the lawn

The layers:
– Bread base
– Bacon weave
– The 4kg burger
– 40 cheese slices
– Two more bacon weaves
– Sliced "chip shop" gherkins
– Sausage omelette
– Home made Jack Daniel’s sawce

Raw beef and kidney bean patty packed into a foil-lined steel ring, mug alongside

Enormous bun baking in the oven, filling the entire shelf

Cooked patty steaming on a rack with a coin resting on top for scale

Slab of melted cheese draped over the patty and bacon on the bun base

Pickle slices layered across the melted cheese and bacon

Side view of the assembled burger: patty, cheese, bacon, pickles, omelette and bun

The finished burger on an oven rack, sesame P on the bun and olives on a stick

The big "P" on top stands for PIMMMPED, and of course the burger’s name; Philip.

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