Bleu is the Warmest Cheeseburger

Episode: Speakeasy Rider (S5 E9)

Favorite Moment: The rivalry between the Belcher sisters. Especially at breakfast.

Favorite Quote:

Tina: ... and when we get back our hair will look like this...

Louise: And our faces will look like this...

Gene: And our penises will look like this! You can't see what I am doing... but it's pretty cool.

The Belcher kids create a go-cart out of a broken down bumper car with the help of motorcyclists Critter and Mudflap. After drawing straws (hairs from Gene's mole) Louise becomes the racer. In jealousy, Tina joins some teens from King's Head Island to race against her sister.

Meanwhile Teddy introduces Bob to his home brew, and they turn the restaurant into a speak easy. (Linda: Al Capone with breasts)

Bleu is the Warmest Cheeseburger is a play on "Blue is the Warmest Color," a 2013 french coming of age film. It gained notoriety for it's depiction of lesbian romance, all in a very male fantasy manner. I have never seen the film... so I will comment no further.

I will however comment on how Bob's Burgers, unlike a lot of the other adult cartoons, is very positive to the LGBTQ community. (Marshmallow is easily one of my favorite minor characters)

The cheeseburger pays homage to buffalo wings... and it comes with not one... but two sauces!

The first sauce is a mixture of Frank's Red Hot, butter, and white vinegar. I almost burned the first sauce... like an idiot. I always toast the buns first... otherwise I burn them (trying to do to much at once) and after I toasted the buns I put the butter and hot sauce in when the pan was too hot... so it boiled up so fast I screamed a little.

A lot.

The second sauce was a thick creamy (I almost never use that word... it's gross sounding, like pustule... just gagged) sauce made up of onion, flour, milk, and bleu cheese.

My sister was in town for the weekend, and she was greatly disturbed... as my whole family has been, at my inability to chop up an onion. Apparently I may lose a finger. Cest la vie (That's life. I think. It might just be something people say when they fail but want to sound educated)

The patties were the most complex I have made so far. The last couple of burgers have all been plain patties covered in excellence. This patty, however was stuffed with celery and bleu cheese, and marinated in hot sauce.

They were kinda hard to cook as well, because they were sloppy with celery and hot sauce. I had to be very tender when flipping and one of them almost completely fell apart.

A note about bleu cheese: it is moldy. The bacteria Pennicillium is built into the cheese, and that it is what gives it a unique aroma and flavor.

A note about mold: it can be tasty. But I would only recommend it paired with a nice balsamic glaze. Or with wings and beer. Or a burger made to taste like wings.

I didn't know if I would like the celery mixed into the patties... but the texture was excellent, and somewhat reminiscant of wings.

This was my wife's favorite of the burgers so far, and my sister enjoyed it too. Even though they were initally both nervous about the moldy cheese. Just shows you... trying new things is okay. Which is why at some point I will have to eat broccoli on a burger. And try okra. And find enoki mushrooms somewhere.

But all of that for another day. Until then I raise my glass to you- excellent burger that tastes like wings!