This Is Why Five Guys' Burgers Are So Delicious

When you want to satisfy an intense burger craving, there's one place to go: Five Guys. We all know a Five Guys burger is amazing, but what exactly makes it so good? Let's talk about the secrets to some of the best

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around. Five Guys won The Harris Poll's Burger Brand of the Year award in 2017 and 2018, beating In-N-Out Burger both years, which is no easy feat considering how passionate people are about In-N -Out Burger. “In and out, in and out, that's what a burger is all about!” They've also surpassed 17 other burger chains, including the usual suspects like McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's and Carl's Jr., and even fancier burger joints Whataburger and Shake Shack.

And that says a lot about his legions of fans. In-N-Out may have regained the title in 2019, but holding onto that honor for two years is something to be proud of and shows how much people love Five Guys. Why do we love them so much? Five Guys is known for two things:

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and fries. They also offer hot dogs, and you can get grilled cheese on the same bun and with the same cheese used for a burger...if you're the type of person who actually orders grilled cheese at a restaurant. But here's the thing: Five Guys doesn't serve chicken sandwiches, fish filet sandwiches, prime rib sandwiches, or fancy salads.

They are hamburgers. And chips. They're focused on making those things great, and they're clearly succeeding. In 2013, Americans ate about 50 billion hamburgers a year, which is equivalent to about three juicy burgers per person per week. "I'd like to buy a hamburger" "I'd like to buy a hamburger" About 60 percent of all sandwiches purchased worldwide are actually hamburgers, and that shows that Five Guys has some serious critics to please. To adopt another slogan from another burger chain, you can definitely have it your way at Five Guys, because they offer 15 different toppings to choose from. These include mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, A1 sauce, barbecue sauce, hot sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles, onions, relishes, grilled onions, roasted mushrooms, green peppers, and jalapeno peppers.

You can choose as many of these toppings as you want, for free, and heck, you can stick all 15 of them on your burger if that's your thing. Compare

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to the standard burger you can order at Burger King, which comes with ketchup, mustard, and pickles, or the McDonald's burger, which offers the same condiments as BK with the addition of some chopped onions. Sure, there's something to be said for the simplicity of a burger with just ketchup and mustard, but having the option to add up to 15 toppings to the situation is one of the things that makes Five Guys burgers so

delicious

and crave-worthy. "I want one." And thanks to those 15 ingredients, there are plenty of ways customers can satisfy their cravings.

The combinations are basically endless, and no matter how fanatic you are, you'll never be able to try them all. I'm sorry! This is because there are more than 250,000 ways to customize a burger. It's no surprise that fans of

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fast food joint are passionate about their favorite combinations. In fact, just thinking about them is enough to make you grab your car keys and head to your local Five Guys to explore some of these crazy

delicious

-sounding options. "I want one." Sure, you can order 15 different toppings and customize your burger about 250,000 ways, but that doesn't mean all those toppings are going to add up anyway.

That would be chaos and yes, order really matters when it comes to quality. Five Guys has a specific way of placing add-ins on their burger for maximum flavor: onions and bacon go underneath the burger, while tomatoes and pickles go on top. Burger fans have many different opinions on the proper placement of condiments and toppings on a burger, but it appears that Five Guys makes it so that the hot toppings stay with the hot toppings and the cold toppings are mixed in separately. There's also a lot of speculation about why Five Guys puts their order of fries on top of their burger in the brown bag it comes in.

When this question was posed on Reddit, one commenter responded: "I always thought this was so the burger just warms up a little. The cheese melts a little more, the bun gets a little steamy and soft." While you can customize your burger at Five Guys a million different ways, there's one way you can't customize it: how much it's cooked. No, you can't get it bloody, still mooing, or even half-cooked, because every burger cooked at Five Guys is well done. But that's a good thing. Five Guys has not officially explained the reasoning behind this policy, but security is likely one of the concerns.

There are some major health risks associated with eating raw meat, including consuming bacteria like E. coli and salmonella. Because of these risks, the FDA recommends that ground beef be cooked to a minimum internal temperature of 160 degrees Fahrenheit. And even if you choose to make your burger a little different at home, you should be grateful that Five Guys goes a little further with theirs. Nobody wants salmonella on their burger. The burger buns used for Five Guys burgers are the perfect vehicle to get that juicy piece of meat into your mouth: they're soft, fluffy, and perfectly charred on the grill.

Five Guys doesn't use a standard bagel toaster because it doesn't give you that caramelized flavor that cooking them directly on the grill produces. Can you imagine a Five Guys burger without that slight char on the bun? Perfect toasting aside, buns only contain a few ingredients, and are basically the same ingredients found in your average cake. They also contain twice as many eggs as regular buns, which explains their dreamy texture. Over at Inc., founder Jerry Murrell explains where these magical muffins come from. "We make the same bagel we started with. We hire the old guy who used to bake our bread for the first store, and one of his partners.

They work at the bakery in Virginia. We have 10 bakeries spread across the country. Our bread is baked daily , is picked up at 3 p.m. and placed on a truck or plane so that each store receives fresh bread every morning, even if they are 400 miles away from the nearest bakery." As they say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Did you know that the Green Bay Packers have official bacon? Well, they do, and it turns out it's the same type of bacon that Five Guys uses in all of their bacon burger offerings. If it's good enough for the Packers, it's good enough for you.

What makes it so special? Five Guys bacon is applewood smoked and that's important. Because? It's about the flavor. “Nothing burps better than bacon” Bacon Today had this to say about what makes applewood smoked bacon amazing: “Applewood chips result in a slightly sweet and smoky bacon. popular used after hickory, as it results in a bacon that is perfectly balanced between smoky and sweet." You can definitely taste that perfectly balanced flavor in each and every Five Guys bacon burger, and if you haven't already, try one of the bacon burgers on your next visit. Or if you want to skip the burger altogether, you can also just order a BLT.

With extra bacon, because that's the good stuff. Not that other stuff... "Would you like to try our vegan bacon? 100 percent meatless." "Yes Please" You won't get a weird pre-formed, freezer-burned burger when you order a burger from Five Guys because their stores don't even have freezers. Everything is made fresh to order. Five Guys is so committed to freshness that it takes a full three hours to open the restaurants each day because everything from the burgers to the produce that is sliced ​​and diced to accompany the burgers is prepared that morning. They also use wireless freshness sensors and, to get more technical and fancy, the RFID Journal explains it like this: "It uses 900 MHz active sensors from Point Six Wireless and helps ensure that raw ingredients are stored at a safe temperature and are not serve if they have exceeded the approved temperature threshold.

In other words, the technology makes sure you don't have slimy, warm, germ-ridden lettuce on your burger that can make you sick. And that's a great use for today's modern technological marvels. One of the coolest things about Five Guys burgers, and the reason their burgers are so well priced, is that their standard burger isn't even one burger, it's TWO burgers. That's a lot of meat for your money! “There are two of them!?” If you just can't handle that much meat, you can order a "small" burger, which is a single burger... but let's be honest, it's always a double, right?

As with all good things, there is a problem. All this delicious beef comes with a high nutritional price. If you opt for that small burger, you'll get a meal with 542 calories and 26 grams of fat, numbers that will, of course, vary depending on what ingredients you decide to add. Upgrade it to a bacon cheeseburger and you'll get 1,064 calories and 62 grams of fat, plus, again, all your choice of toppings. If you're someone who likes mayonnaise on your burger, you can add another 100 calories to that total! And in case a double isn't enough, you can definitely add another burger or two for a little more, if that's how you like it.

After all, you only live once. That is too much? Order your burger in a bowl and cut the bun completely. Whichever way you look at it, that's still a lot of calories for a single meal, but isn't that a big part of what makes something taste so good? Tomorrow is another day, right? "This is definitely what I'm going to have on my cheat day." Considering the fact that their burger is made from scratch, Five Guys does a great job of feeding you pretty quickly. Sure, it may take a few minutes longer than ordering a burger at a place with a clown mascot, but Five Guys is more of a fast casual restaurant than a fast food joint.

They form all the burgers by hand. They grill the bun. They don't use timers in their restaurants either, and that's because they always say their cooks are good enough to know when a burger is just the right amount of doneness. Your burger will be served to you fresh when it's ready and won't sit under a heat lamp waiting for someone to come in and order it, and that's a good thing. No, Five Guys won't take as long as a restaurant with cutlery and cloth napkins, but if the restaurant is full, you can wait a while. "Anyone want a peanut?" That's what all those free peanuts are for, so you can eat them while you wait for your burger to be prepared.

Five Guys has two major things going for it: excellent customer service and happy employees. Both of these things make any meal more enjoyable, and it's impossible to emphasize how much better a burger tastes when it's delivered to you by someone who's smiling. And according to those who have worked there, it is not just an act. One former employee took to Reddit to talk about what it was like to work at Five Guys, saying, "Fun for the most part, due to the fact that it's an open kitchen, employees are encouraged to joke around and have fun. Even to the point of dancing, as long as you can keep up with the work you're doing.

If your food is prepared with joy, it will taste better. Nobody wants a burger made by an angry guy who hates his job. "Food? I'll show him dog food! Check out one of our newest videos right here! Plus, there will be more Puree videos about your favorite foods coming soon. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and hit the bell so you don't miss a single one .