Cheeseburger
A typical cheeseburger
Origin Information
Country of Origin :	United States
Dish Information
Course Served :	Main Course
Serving Temperature :	Hot
Main Ingredient(s) :	Ground Beef, Cheese, Bread
Variations :	Multiple

A cheeseburger is a hamburger, accompanied with cheese. A hamburger (or burger) is a Sandwich consisting of a cooked ground Meat Patty, usually Beef, placed in a sliced bun or between Cheese is a Food made from Milk, usually the milk of cows, Buffalo, Goats or sheep, by coagulation. The cheese is usually sliced, then added a short time before the hamburger finishes cooking to allow the cheese to melt. In America the cheese that makes up a cheeseburger is usually American cheese, but there are many other variations. This article refers specifically to one type of cheese For other cheeses of the United States see List of American cheeses. Mozzarella, blue cheese and cheddar are also popular choices. Mozzarella is a generic term for several kinds of originally Italian Cheeses that are made using spinning and then cutting (hence the name the Italian verb Blue cheese (or bleu cheese) is a general classification of cow's milk sheep's milk or goat's milk Cheeses that has had Penicillium cultures Cheddar cheese is a relatively hard pale yellow to off-white and sometimes sharp-tasting Cheese from the English village of Cheddar, in Somerset

The cheese in a cheeseburger substantially changes its nutritional value. For example, in comparison to their standard hamburger, with which it differs only by the slice of cheese, a McDonald's cheeseburger has 20% more calories, 33% more fat and 25% more protein. Food energy is the amount of Energy in food that is available through Digestion. Fats consist of a wide group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water Proteins are broken down in the Stomach during Digestion by Enzymes known as Proteases into smaller Polypeptides to provide ^[1] Other types of cheese would have varying effects, depending on their nutritional content.

Contents 1 History 2 Variations 3 References 4 See also 5 External links

History

In 1924, Lionel Sternberger grilled the first cheeseburger in Pasadena, California. Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The name of the restaurant and the precise year — the date has been pegged as late as 1926 — for that maiden grilling has been debated by cheeseburger enthusiasts. ^[2] When Sternberger died in 1964, Time magazine noted in its February 7 issue that:

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…at the hungry age of 16, [Sternberger] experimentally dropped a slab of American cheese on a sizzling hamburger while helping out at his father's sandwich shop in Pasadena, thereby inventing the cheeseburger…[3]

”

Others have claimed the invention of the cheeseburger as part of their local legend. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and Louisville, Kentucky-based Kaelin's Restaurant claims to have invented the cheeseburger in 1934. ^[4] The following year, the mark for the name "cheeseburger" was awarded to Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in Denver, Colorado. In some countries notably the United States, a Trademark used to identify a service rather than a product is called a service mark or servicemark The City and County of Denver (pronounced /ˈdɛnvɚ/ is the Capital and the most populous city of Colorado, in the United States

Variations

A cheeseburger can be served with toppings such as pickles, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, fried egg, mushrooms or bacon slices. The Hat is a popular Southern California fast-food restaurant specializing in Pastrami sandwiches A pickled cucumber, most often simply called a pickle in the United States and Canada, is a Cucumber that has been pickled in a The tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum, syn Lycopersicon lycopersicum) is a herbaceous usually sprawling plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family Lettuce ( Lactuca sativa) is a Temperate annual or Biennial plant of the daisy family Asteraceae. Organicsalsajpg||thumb|right|Onions used in salsa.]]Cooked onions in frying pan An egg is a round or oval body laid by the female of many animals consisting of an Ovum surrounded by layers of Membranes and an outer casing which acts to nourish A mushroom is the fleshy Spore -bearing Fruiting body of a Fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source Bacon is a cut of Meat taken from the sides belly or back of a Pig that has been cured, smoked, or both Typical condiments used include mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise and barbecue sauce. Mustard is a thick yellowish-brown paste with a sharp taste made from the ground seeds of a Mustard plant (white or yellow mustard Sinapis hirta Ketchup (also spelled catsup or catchup) also known as tomato ketchup, tomato sauce, red sauce, Tommy sauce, Mayonnaise (sometime abbreviated to mayo in American English and other languages is a thick Condiment made primarily from Vegetable oil and Egg Barbecue sauce (also abbreviated BBQ sauce) is a Liquid flavoring Sauce or Condiment ranging from watery to quite thick consistency

A Jucy Lucy is a type of cheeseburger, developed and popularized in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the cheese is placed inside the raw meat and then cooked until it melts. A jucy lucy (or juicy lucy) is a Cheeseburger having the cheese inside the meat patty rather than on top

There are also multiple patty cheeseburgers, with the name changing in correspondence to how many patties are used (two equals double, three equals triple, etc. ).

References

See also

• Patty melt
• Cheeseburger bill

External links

• The Tale of the Cheeseburger

A patty melt is a type of Hamburger Sandwich consisting of a hamburger (or other ground meat patty pieces of sautéed or grilled Onion, and Cheese The Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act, also known as the Cheeseburger Bill, was passed by the U

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