The Best Burger in America, According to Science

Everyone uses a different method to judge what the best burger is — softness of bun, juiciness of meat, salty deliciousness of accompanying order of fries. But Hilary Mason uses a more objective approach.

Mason, one of the county’s top data scientist and CEO of data research firm Fast Forwards Labs, looks at quantitive data to apply numbers to prove what is the best burger in the country.

In this video for Bon Appetit, Mason looks at more than 900,000 reviews of “burger eating experiences” around the country and looks for which ingredients are most popular with diners and which of those ingredients — “the bun, the meat, the cheese and the other stuff on top of it” — have the most favorable responses.

To see which restaurant sells the best burger in America, you’ll have to watch the video, but here’s a hint — the bun on the country’s top burger is toasted. “Toasted correlated with higher reviews than not toasted,” Mason explained.

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