Way too big to eat off the skewer. I'd also want a plate and cutlery.

Gimmicks made for the camera. Don't take it seriously.

Agreed! It looks like whatever the word is for clickbait of the silly food kind.

Eat, nothing. All that stuff is going to fall off! Sliced tomatoes? Really? Of course, it's all stone cold. That's how you keep it on long enough for the picture. Just look at the dry rolls, unmelted cheese, drips of 1000 but no meat juice. AI?

As I’m typing there are twelve comments on the blog for this recipe. Eleven of them are about how one would eat these.

ROTFL!! Well, the way one eats actual kebabs is to slide them off the skewer onto a plate using a fork or a standing someone serving a big, long skewer, using the back of a heavy knife, then they're eaten with a knife and fork, in the normal way. Because grown people the world over have table manners. I assumed these were a cute way of serving cold burgers, and that they'd be moved to a plate of here's everything you need, self assemble and heat or cut up and eat like any cold salad. …. But that's just me…

The bun to patty ratio is all wrong.

“Of course, it's all stone cold.”

That too!🥴😵‍💫

Here’s the link…

Skewered Cheeseburger Sliders

“The bun to patty ratio is all wrong.”

Right! The whole idea seems all wrong.

This blog has to be what we in Oz would call a "piss take".

You’ll have to explain that ”piss take” to me.

The blog clearly states that they are a fun party bite. And fun to eat! I would tend to disagree and be following you guys who are looking for a plate and some utensils. :)

PM, I looked it up. It's from the expression ”take the piss out of someone”, which I've heard a lot on TV. Extrapolating from the way I've heard it, and a breeze past a dictionary, it means to make fun of, mock or prank someone, perhaps in order to knock their ego down a bit. So a piss take would be the noun for that act. Or something like that. I also learned just now that ”take the Mickey out of” is a related phrase but in rhyming slang with the word ”piss” elided, though I didn't find the full origin. I've heard that on TV too.

I still wonder if that was an AI thing, or at least a Tik Tok. She says the guests loved it, but she also says the cheese was melted. And cheddar. We have different definitions. :)

As wonky as the skewers seem, I doubt her intent was to mock or prank. I have a couple of her books with both hits and misses. There truly are some very good hits. I get daily emails with recipes from her site (Half Baked Harvest). I save some that sound particularly good, but have noticed she could definitely use some help with editing recipes on her site. That being said, she seems to have had quite a bit of success with her cookbooks.

Well, it's definitely a half-baked idea!

Plllog, thanks for the explanation, but I agree with chloebud that the article didn’t seem to be mocking. I just don’t see how they would be fun or even enjoyable to eat, whether they were served on a skewer or on a plate. And I agree with John about the bun ratio, but adding more bun wouldn’t improve the situation. A stacked hamburger on a stick doesn’t make any sense to me at all. I would even consider it to be a bad idea. Now I need to hope I don’t run into these at a 4th of July party. lol!

It must be taxing for content creators to come up with new ideas to attract viewers.

Fun, I agree! Some new ideas can be a stretch, like skewered burgers!😵‍💫

Speaking of stretches with skewers, I saved this pic of a bloody Mary and “garnishes” some years ago.

I call those ”recipes” the OMG recipes. As in, “what were they thinking and who would even try them”.

“…and who would even try them”.”

I’m often surprised by who does.😵‍💫

You know, it isn't necessarily stone cold. You could stick each skewer in the microwave before handing to the suitably unimpressed guest.

::snicker:: I'm just talking about the picture, which I'm guessing isn't what she made at all. The guests might have liked what she actually made. I think the picture is from AI or the 'net because it's so off. The recipe says to melt cheddar, not fold American cheese, as pictured. Etc.