The "Jucy" err... "Juicy Lucy"

Home Cooking: The Juicy Lucy -  cheese-stuffed hamburger


Call me a monster, call me repulsive, distasteful, a lunatic without boundaries... but I didn't make this up. This is a real thing, a zany serious creation from the burger-loving kitchens of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Besides, it may just as well be referred to as a regular cheeseburger, if not for only one important difference. The cheese comes from within.

the cheese is aliiiiiiive...

We all know that it's any self-respecting non-vegan food lover's dream to take a slab of brightly coloured cheese and stuff it into a big hunk of red meat, so I have no shame. Absolutely zero shame. Zip, nada.... OK maybe a little.

So I've been watching a lot of Man vs. Food, the eye-bulgingly absurd television show where a guy (let's call him... my hero) stuffs his gob with ungodly amounts of America's best known food exploits, generally for a t-shirt and his picture on the wall, before (most-likely) spending the next twelve hours infront of or on top of a toilet seat. Yeah I'm jealous, but this particular episode he visits Minneapolis to compare two self-proclaimed "founding" restaurants of the "Jucy (or Juicy to rivals) Lucy". What is it you ask? Oh wait, you obviously know what it is from my non-stop blabbering about cheese being inside of the burger, yadda yadda.

A thing of beauty.

To make this wonderful creature of carnivorous fantasy, take two thin patties of minced beef and *pinch* them together over a stack of whatever cheese you love most. The higher plastic content in the cheese, the better! Madness? Perhaps, but I'll let you decide. For me, just a mouthwatering excuse to play with my food, which is to say that Lucy's molten meat surprise is welcome between my buns anytime! Err...