Cheeseburger

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A cheeseburger.
A cheeseburger.

A cheeseburger is a hamburger that contains cheese. The cheese is usually sliced, melted, or grated and then added a short time before the hamburger finishes cooking to allow the cheese to melt. The cheese that makes up a cheeseburger is usually American cheese, but there are other possible variations.

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In 1924, Lionel Sternberger grilled the first cheeseburger in Pasadena, California. The date and place of this event has been called into question.[1] When Sternberger died in 1964, Time magazine noted in its February 7 issue that:

“ …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…[2] ”

Others have claimed the invention of the cheeseburger as part of their local legend. Louisville, Kentucky-based Kaelin's Restaurant claims to have invented the cheeseburger in 1934.[3] The following year, the mark for the name "cheeseburger" was awarded to Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in Denver, Colorado.

A cheeseburger from The Hat
A cheeseburger from The Hat

A cheeseburger can be served with toppings such as pickles, tomatoes, lettuce, onions, bacon slices, mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise, and barbecue sauce. A double cheeseburger is a cheeseburger consisting of two pieces of meat with two slices of cheese in between.

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.

  1. ^ "Who Invented Hamburger Sandwich? And What About the Cheeseburger?", Metropolitan News-Enterprise, January 2, 2004, <http://www.metnews.com/articles/2004/reminiscing010804.htm>. Retrieved on 2007-11-08
  2. ^ "Lionel Clark Sternberger Obituary", Time, February 7, 1964, <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870712,00.html>. Retrieved on 2007-05-18
  3. ^ Louisville Facts & Firsts - LouisvilleKy.gov. City of Louisville, Kentucky. Retrieved on 2006-07-29.

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