{"id":8782,"date":"2017-05-22T16:00:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/?p=8782"},"modified":"2023-11-20T10:06:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T10:06:42","slug":"worlds-most-expensive-foods","status":"publish","type":[],"link":"https:\/\/www.factstoryhub.com\/worlds-most-expensive-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"The World’s 7 Most Expensive Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"
Now we all love food don\u2019t get me wrong, and who can beat a nice meal in a more upmarket restaurant?\n
But paying over $600 for a burger, or $150 for a pizza seems ludicrous – though if you have the money, why not!\n
Here we\u2019re going to look at some of the world\u2019s most expensive foods, obviously, this doesn\u2019t list every type of food by any means but I\u2019ve chosen some of the world\u2019s favorites and those that are most common.\n
So let\u2019s begin!\n
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Wagyu beef is the world\u2019s most expensive beef, costing around $275 per lb for the meat itself, and a 2000 vintage cote de boeuf, or rib steak, costing $3200.\n
Why is it so pricey? Apparently, for the steak at least, it\u2019s due to the very small numbers of hanging aged Wagyu ribs and the very low-stress levels the cattle are put through both during slaughter, with a specially designed abattoir, and during rearing. \n
Wagyu beef itself must come from a specific breed of Japanese cattle with incredibly high-fat marbling, allowing the meat to in essence melt in your mouth.\n
There are, however budget versions offering Wagyu beef burgers at $4.40 for a pack of 2.\n
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Civet coffee or Kopi Luwak is a type of coffee derived from coffee cherries that have already passed through the South Asian palm civet or Civet cat\u2019s digestion system and a quick search puts the price at about $75 per 9-ounce packs.\n The cats eat the cherries for the fleshy pulp, and as the bean travels through its digestive system the enzymes seep into the beans causing them to change.\n After gathering, thorough washing, sun drying, roasting and brewing, these beans have a distinct flavor that\u2019s much less bitter.\n Saffron holds the title of the most expensive spice, with Spanish Saffron for example costing around $300 an ounce in Walmart.\n Saffron comes from the saffron crocus, this flower bears up to four flowers with each having three vivid crimson stigmas, these stigmas are handpicked, dried and then air sealed which kind of explains the price.\n One pound is the equivalent of 80,000 flowers or one acre, so use it sparingly.\n Truffles are one of the most expensive ingredients in the world, with white costing more than the black varieties.\n Truffles are held very highly in society and are incredibly tasty but in many people’s opinion the price is nothing more than a status symbol with white truffles costing up to $1,400 per pound.\n The Perigord, a black truffle, for example costs $1.47 – and it long weighs 0.03 ounce!\n Matsasuke, a prized Japanese answer to the black truffle, holds the title for the world\u2019s most expensive mushroom, costing around $1,000 per pound.\n The most expensive of all caviar and the world’s most expensive food is “Almas” or Belugan Caviar which comes from the Iranian Beluga fish – a sturgeon.\n A kilogram (2.2lbs) of “black gold” is sold for over $28,850. Almas is produced from a 60-100 years old rare albino sturgeon\u2019s eggs which swam in the southern Caspian Sea which is much less polluted.\n The world\u2019s most expensive hamburger is expensive not due to ingredients but size.\n The burger sells for $5,000 and is made by Juicy\u2019s Foods and Ovations Food services for Juicy\u2019s Outlaw Grill, USA.\n This was a humongous burger weighing 777lbs.\n The most expensive normal-sized burger, when discounting those that must be purchased alongside expensive drinks etc., would be the Honky Tonk burger in Glamburger, London, England.\n The burger costs around \u00a31200 ($1500) and consists of a Kobe and Wagyu patty garnished in gold leaf, with lobster, caviar, venison, a duck egg and black truffle.\n The most expensive chocolate concoction comes from Knipschildt, a Danish chocolatier.\n The Chocopologie is a $250 dark chocolate truffle, with black truffle at its heart.\n It\u2019s made of blended 70% Valrhona cacao combined with truffle oil to form a ganache and hand-rolled before being dusted with cocoa powder.\n In terms of simple chocolate though, the To’ak wins.\n To’ak means earth and tree in Ecuadorian dialects and costs around $260 per bar this, according to To’ak, is because it\u2019s made from the 5% of cacao labeled as ‘fine-grade’ whereas normal chocolate comes from the other 95%.\n With that price you’d hope it’d be the size of a baseball bat but no, the bar weighs just 1.5 ounces with a 7-8mm cacao bean in the center and must, for flavor, be eaten with wooden tongs.\n It takes 36 steps to produce and is 81% cacao mass and 19% sugar, that\u2019s it.\n \n So there we have it, there really are so many ways to spend a fortune it seems and it doesn\u2019t have to be $100,000 watches or supercars, it can be on a pound of meat or fungi and why not? Because you\u2019re eating it that\u2019s why!\n Having said that, some of these do sound unbelievably tasty. Whatever you\u2019re opinion on spending however much on these foods, you have to admit, if you have the funds for it, you\u2019d love to try them even just once!\n If you love these facts, have a look at some other foods, there really is an insanely priced version of almost every food, like a $1.65 million diamond-encrusted fruit cake.\n The issue lies with foods like the fruitcake I just mentioned is that they require “extras” to make them stupidly priced, things like diamonds and gold.\n That\u2019s why I didn\u2019t include them in the list above, it only contains pure produce because who really wants to eat gold?\n I don\u2019t and I\u2019m sure you agree!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Now we all love food don’t get me wrong, and who can beat a nice meal in a more upmarket restaurant? 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Truffles & mushrooms\n
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Belugan caviar\n
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Juicy\u2019s Outlaw Grill hamburger\n
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The Chocopologie\n
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