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How do you know if the variation between the different Shake Shacks is greater than the variation you would find if you visited the same Shack multiple times? You may have hit the original place at a really good moment for them but gone to the UWS when they weren't at peak performance. I'd also assume that by the time you got to the fourth place your expectation and desire to taste yet another burger, fries and shake might have changed a lot (even if you were just sampling from each place).

Serious Eats is a reference to people being into food, but competitive eating has nothing to do with food.

Yes, the heat of a grill isn't going to separate the chemical bond between hydrogen and oxygen.

I can only think of two things that might go wrong using a spray bottle of water.

First, oil and water don't mix. You don't pour water on a stove top grease fire because that only serves to spread the grease, and thus the fire, around. However, unlike a flat stove top, grease in a grill is going to sink into the well of the grill and is not going to spread to your walls and kitchen cupboards. Some may bounce back toward you and that might be unpleasant.

Second, spraying water into your grill will kick up the ash and embers, which may land on whatever food is being grilled. Usually this is not a big deal as you can just scrape it off, but some people may be easily skeeved by this.

Finally, this whole discussion verges on overthinking a plate of beans. I've grilled hundreds of times and have rarely had a flare-up last more than a couple of seconds. Moving the flaming food away from the heat and closing the cover for a few seconds has always put the unintended fire out.

Seconding Soul Dog in P-town!

Newburgh's a strange town. It was one of the most prosperous cities in America during the 19th and first half of the 20th century. It was the home of Andrew Jackson Downing, father of landscape architecture. After the decline set in following WW2 the city made some horrible, and blatantly racist, decisions in the name of urban renewal. The wholesale razing and hideous rebuilding of the waterfront area verges on criminal.

Not to be nit picky but Pittsburgh is nowhere near Bethlehem.

I've been to the Owl Bar and can attest to the awesomeness of their green chile cheeseburgers. San Antonio is little more than a dusty crossroads off of I-25 about ninety miles south of Albuquerque and well worth the trip.

If those two pages in the photo are representative there's lots of padding in the Harlem edition as five of the six restaurants listed aren't in Harlem.