The Calgary Herald reports today that a pair of Calgary chefs will join forces Friday to create what may be the biggest hamburger the city has ever seen — a 60-kilogram monster that will be sold off, piece by piece, to benefit the Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta.
Owner of the eatery, restaurateur Itzhak Likver was quoted as saying, "It’s going to be so big, I don’t know how to cut it even. I need to find a big, big knife."
Friday’s behemoth burger is estimated to be about 20 centimetres thick and measure roughly one metre in diameter, requiring nearly 45 kilograms of hamburger meat.
The remaining 20 kilograms will come from 40 slices of melted mozzarella cheese, 20 juicy tomatoes, five large onions, three heads of crisp romaine lettuce and four cups of mustard and ketchup, topped off by eight crunchy pickles.

I’d be interested to know how (and if) the chefs plan to measure the internal temperature of this mammoth burger — it’s enough of a challenge to ensure food safety on a regular size patty. No talk of food safety in the original news article, but of course that might kill the feel good vibe surrounding the charity event.