The Burger Lab: The Ins-n-Outs of an In-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style
Gone animal. [Photographs: Kenji Alt]
You West Coasters have it easy. Your dogs have yards to run in. Your grapes have vines to grow on. You get to watch the sun setting and the ocean at the same time. You're never faced with the tough decision of Motorino Brooklyn or Motorino Manhattan. Even the darn earth's rotation goes in your favor, letting you sleep three hours later than me every single morning!
And all that before we even mention In-N-Out, perhaps the second most compelling reason to move out west like my wife would like me to*.
I've been a rabid, if underexposed fan of the cult-ish fast food burger joint since I tried my first Double-Double (that's two patties, two slices of cheese) a couple years back. As burgers go, it's an oddity in my book, in that it's not about the beef.
Sure, the fresh-never-frozen patties are tasty enough, but the sandwich is more than that. It's the interplay between the ooey-gooey American cheese, the sweet, darkly-toasted bun, the juicier-than-average tomatoes, the crisp iceberg, the full, un-separated-into-rings slice of onion, and the all-important sweet, tangy, pickle-laden Spread. It's a bomb that's rigged to hit every pleasure center on my brain's taste analyzation terminal (by which I mean my tongue). Salty, sweet, savory, soft, crisp, and fresh. "Overrated", people say? I think not. Let me quote the much morThe Burger Lab: The Ins-n-Outs of an In-N-Out Double-Double, Animal-Style | A Hamburger TodayIt's a bomb that's rigged to hit every pleasure center on my brain's taste analyzation terminal
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