While dishes like SpongeBob SquarePants’ King-Size Ultra Krabby Supreme, with the Works, Double Batter Fried, on a Stick are entirely fictional, YouTube cooking star Andrew Rea executes them with the total seriousness of a regular cooking tutorial in his hit Binging with Babish series. He mixes up the special sauce, cooks the patties “smash burger” style (smashing the balls of meat onto a smoking-hot cast-iron skillet), tops the patties with cheese, beer-batters the fully-assembled quadruple burger (lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion, bacon, special sauce), deep-fries it in peanut oil, batters it and deep-fries it again (while noting you should take this moment to contemplate what life choices brought you here), and puts it on a stick.
Once done, he takes a bite and then squirts mayo into his mouth, just like Harold did in that SpongeBob episode. It’s about as outrageous as Rea gets. Paired with his light humor, soothing NPR vocal quality, and recipes re-created from TV shows, movies, and video games (ranging from Harry Potter‘s butterbeer and chocolate frogs to dire wolf bread from Game of Thrones to the huevos rancheros in Breaking Bad), Rea has generated quite the following—more than five million YouTube subscribers and counting.