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Doughnut Time and Ze Pickle create a smoked-Nutella bacon burger

Lee Tran Lam
Lee Tran Lam

Don't tell your doctor about Doughnut Time and Ze Pickle's latest venture.
Don't tell your doctor about Doughnut Time and Ze Pickle's latest venture. Adam Pinzone

Get your arteries ready, Brisbane's Doughnut Time and Ze Pickle are collaborating on a burger – and it may be the ultimate hangover-destroyer. Placed between the fresh-grilled halves of Doughnut Time's O.G. (original glazed) doughnut will be a hand-pressed wagyu beef patty, double Jack cheese and yes, Nutella-smoked bacon. Brazenly named Doughnutf*kwitdis, the burger will be available at Ze Pickle's Gold Coast and Brisbane venues from January 3 – just in time for everyone to break their well-intentioned New Year's resolutions about healthy eating.

"The inspiration definitely comes from something we'd want to eat as well as pushing the limits and thinking outside the typical meat-and-cheese burger warriors," says Ze Pickle's co-owner Nathan Zuckerman. "We laugh at Maccas' 'healthy options' menu, we want to have the 'unhealthy options menu'. We have been messing around with these burgers for a long time with other sweet buns, but once we saw Doughnut Time and the way they operate, it was a given that we needed to work together on this beast."

The two brands have been talking about the collaboration for a month or so ("over beers, of course," says Zuckerman) and Ze Pickle co-owner Aaron Wilson says the idea for slamming Nutella-smoked bacon between the 'buns' came from Doughnut Time's Love at First Bite – a Nutella-filled flavour dusted with cinnamon sugar – and their desire to create a savoury reinterpretation of its taste.

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Given that maple-smoked bacon is everywhere these days, Ze Pickle's owners decided to concoct a Nutella version, which took some time to perfect in ZeLab, an experimental new venture they eventually hope to open locally in 2016. (It's "basically like a fun factory, where we will be constantly playing with the crazy ideas we have in our heads," says Wilson.)

"The taste of the burger is a little odd for some, but a winner in our eyes," says Zuckerman. "We are addicted to Doughnut Time's gorgeous and moreish glazed O.G.s – throw in the rich nutty sweet crunch of the Nutella bacon and the savoury flavours of wagyu and Jack cheese and it's a match made in, well, more like hell than heaven, but that's the way we like it."

And for any Sydneysiders feeling intense Burger Envy, don't worry – Ze Pickle is opening a location on Surry Hill's Foveaux Street in March.

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