World’s FIRST HAMBURGER!! 🍔 Amazing VERTICAL BURGER Grills Since 1898!!

hey everyone hope you're having an amazing day it's mark wiens i am in new haven connecticut today is a very special day because we're going to louie's lunch since 1895 where they have been they invented the hamburger never in my life have i been so excited for a burger i still get excited every day when i come in and make one yes that's awesome one of the world's most iconic foods they invented it they use these original vertical hamburger grills which will hopefully have a chance to see the entire process of them cooking the burgers cannot wait to share the original hamburger with you right now so welcome to louie's lunch since 1895 just walking down the road you can already smell the the aroma of roasting just grilling beef and it's such an iconic building the red brick the red shutters and black shutters it's so incredibly iconic i'm i'm so excited louise the legends so the legend goes that the main track from europe to america was from hamburg germany to new york and sailors brought over the ground beef and it was here that louis lassen uh gave a customer in a rush the ground beef which had been around for some time and stuck it between two pieces of bread so that he could run off in a hurry and this is the place lots of people say they invented the burger state fairs and things but this place popularized it and it's the only place still going so many people credit louise lunch as the inventor of the hamburger the modern hamburger jeffrey and i have discussed this a few times it's not necessarily that they 100 invented it but they're the ones who popularized it they're the ones who made it known to the world and so as far as we can say for sure is that louise all other hamburgers originally come from louie's lunch yes because all the other potential predecessors there's long gone and there's no trace of them and louie's still going so if you're eating a hamburger no matter where you are it likely has been influenced by louie's lunch that's just mind-blowing i think i mean this is possibly the most iconic food in the world in the world in the world yeah there's no hamburger in more countries and more cities no in more restaurants bars airports than the burger the burger and here we are you see this place inside i can't wait and i mean i haven't even stepped foot inside and i can already smell that aroma of the grilling beef louie's lunch this is like a pilgrimage destination let's do this let's do this we're dripping in the rain i really gotta clean off that lens before we before we film the burgers let's go inside [Music] hamburgers cheeseburgers sides all right you guys i'm gonna get step into here this is it's nothing has changed in 100 years over a hundred years four menu items it smells so good in here all burgers are cooked medium rare thank you no there's no choices there's no you do not make it how you like it you take it how they make it even the menu it's just a hamburger a cheeseburger tomatoes or onions only with an emphasis on only four cheeseburgers with cereal food traveling around the world and food pizza stuff too yes now the burger grills are on these vertical completely vertical flame broiled machines that have a chimney at the top the machines actually say since 1898 are those the originals the original burger flame flame broiled right flame broiled machines vertical cast iron broiler it's one of the most beautiful cooking devices the world has ever seen and he has these grills that you sandwich the burgers between these girls shove them into a that drawer the vertical drawer where they're just flamed and then every now and then he flips them over and then puts them back how long do the burgers take to grill in that 10 12 minutes all right never in my life have i been so excited for a burger i still get excited every day when i come in and make one yes that's awesome how often do you eat the burgers every day every day i work i work three days a week okay i have two or three all right so it's actually just like a hand smash of the burger it's not too tight no the more you play with it the more it doesn't stay tender ah so you don't want to pat it down too hard it's just like a it's almost just like a press a press right right no knife no knife cut it's all all hand just a ball of ground beef just slightly we already grinded this this morning [Music] okay [Music] so cool thank you so much i am in the kitchen where the hamburger was invented this is it by the toaster burger aromas back here are irresistible mark you didn't put your post on the toaster oh man oh i didn't tend to come back yes put me to work toasters from 1929 1929 still working perfectly the toast goes up the conveyor belt toasts coming down and then drops out the bottom gas toaster cool so electric drives the chains like a bicycle sponge look at that oh man so you got to flip them every now and then yeah because the heat rises so it cooks on the top more than the bottom ah [Music] okay oh yeah [Music] the flame on both sides sealing in the juices into the center of the burger what an invention [Music] [Applause] [Music] my brother's yeah yeah exactly yeah yeah i should pop better than we like yeah try it and is that that's the cheese oh yeah no bar's a different thing but at least at least they make a quality pizza okay oh look at that onion slice beautiful it's a lot of breakfast yeah oh man you know why we cut it down no so all the juices come up nice oh that is genius yeah the bottom the bottom cut how long have you been making the burgers here i've been here since 1994. wow wow awesome i only started cooking them all [Music] there it is thank you so much is that okay andrew all right this comes in okay thank you [Music] they have a number of tables but the coolest by far place to sit yes jeffrey please are these 1895 booths look at this this is the greatest chair this is the greatest eating chair in the world can we say that can we say that it's a burger throne it's a throne yeah this is a royal burger throne from 1895. here's etch their initials into the wood everyone who's ever eaten here has put their their hand oils onto this wood this is the greatest thing ever and again oh one thing you have to know is that there's no ketchup no mustard it's that cheese spread he made sure to tell me that never put cold cheese on a hot burger and so that's why louie decided that this spreadable warm cheese is the greatest thing to compliment the burger the vertical flame broil grill seals in the juices from both sides it's genius it drips all over itself why has it changed from this nothing should have ever changed it needs to go back yes they need to bring it back i can't even believe that i'm sitting here on the throne about to eat the world's first burger where they invented it okay one two three oh wow um do you oh it's see good your burger flavor yeah yeah unadulterated it's the pure yeah [Music] soap here try this you got it oh no we have our own blend of ketchup [Applause] oh my god i wish i the joke is on all of us we really thought he was serious their own their own house but the burger itself is just simple perfection you really taste the beef the the bread is not overpowering because it's just thin layers of toast you've got the juicy tomato i've got the onions on there which i love the onions and even the cheese is not overpowering at all that burger though i feel like that grill must have added so much like flavor as each one is cooked too you know it's like totally a flavor like in this burger totally sealed in the flavor yeah locks it into your patty it's every bit as great as i had imagined dna burger you know it's got like this is where it all started right with white bread every variation of the burger has come from this unchanged since 1895. even with the white bread white toast even i like the toast how it's so thin you just like kind of it's barely barely there to just so the burger is not hot in your fingers the burger actually pre-dates hamburger buns that's the reason they still use the toast the burger came before the bun yeah that totally makes sense it's the most pure burger that you'll have like not all these fancy ingredients i mean not even the ketchup and the mustard to cover up the flavor of the beef you just ultimately taste the flavor of the beef the crunch of the onion the subtlety of the toast [Music] the best thing about finishing your first shaft you have another half [Music] it will just like it's everything it needs to be nothing more nothing less precisely nothing changed have a seat have a burger man cheers last bite this is a bite i'll cherish for the rest of my life oh it's so good then i don't think you could possibly find a better burger eating situation experience in the world well i mean you can't they invented it louie's lunch 1895. it's so good you could just curl up in here you could spend the night in this in this pulpit this burger pulpit yeah just get a blanket just gonna try a bite of this the legendary potato salad too served in a cup a paper cup micah didn't get anything potato salad is awesome too minimal but so refreshing so creamy not too mayonnaisey even yeah it's like it's almost like mashed potatoes with a little chunkier oh it's great mashed potatoes is wonderful i mean potato salad is wonderful and apple pie cheat day eats has busted out the apple pie like i said there's nothing [Music] and then that flaky buttery crust is let me tell you she knows her desserts like we can trust her i do not know my dessert she knows her desserts i got the seal of approval from jessica here i gotta try oh it's thick yeah and the apples like still bursting bursting with oozy apple crustiness [Music] oh it is so good it's so classic it's like that is the apple pie you dream of it's like the oh that's this thing is a scoop of vanilla ice cream but it's like straight up the like [Music] as straight of an apple pie as possible right honestly and it's so good it's just the perfect thing to this burger you get the savory then you have to end it with a little sweet and the butteriness of the the pastry yeah the crush i like that they're like they have a little bit more to that yeah you're right they're big pieces of apple thank you they're juicy they're crispy cinnamon is amazing too perfect ending i'm gonna have one more bite it's rare that i take two bites of a dessert i'm usually a one dessert one bite dessert kind of kind of guy but i have to and enjoying it i feel honored that you took two bites i have to check out the restroom just one last thing here where's the light oh here we go that's different got to see your t-shirt too yeah who said that dirty word yeah you take that there's a picture the top picture in that room though the restaurant we were it was a little tight it was half this size oh really picked it up they moved it over here in 1975 on the table to pick the cave you see a picture of the restaurant truck okay i'm gonna come right over there [Music] paul and lisa thank you guys so much this was absolutely incredible i was born in phoenix actually from phoenix from phoenix but i my wife is thai we lived in thailand for about 12 years now thank you so much nice to meet you thank you you too bye it's amazing you know the migration in 120 years it's managed to spread from new haven connecticut around the entire world and that's not not to say that they can 100 invented the burger but they popularized it and made it known and that we can say with certainty so there's just no other experience like it eating experience like that in the world i still can't even believe we just ate the original burger that was amazing cannot recommend it highly enough and huge thank you to paul for just taking care of us and for so much hospitality generosity in the kitchen there and a big thank you to you for watching this video please remember to give it a thumbs up for the original burger let me know in the comments below have you tried louise lunch before or would you love to try louie's lunch and i'd love to hear from you thanks again for watching remember to subscribe for lots more food videos and i will see you on the next video

Channel: Mark Wiens

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Length: 19min 1sec (1141 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 08 2021