hello everyone this is Running on Empty Food review well hello ladies gentlemen and everyone
watching welcome one and all to this newest edition of The Running on Empty Food review
series I'm your host the report of the week always a pleasure to be here McDonald's they
did it what exactly did they do they took a classic they took the Big Mac and this is
it's got me thinking and surely other people are thinking it too did they go too far is this just
too much because this is the Big Mac right this isn't the tiny Mac this is the the famous Big
Mac sandwich and they did something to it they did something that has never been done before
actually it has been done before they did it 4 years ago but it sounds better if I pretend that
never happened what did they do to it they took the Big Mac and they doubled the amount of beef
on it that's right McDonald's has now released the double Big Mac for a for a limited time as
if the option to add extra meat to your Big Mac burger never existed before this point in
time now it does because now officially you can get a double Big Mac yeah that's right it's it's
one of these releases that it has some people talking you know it's it's the Big Mac it's an
iconic sandwich everyone you know when you think of McDonald's you think of the golden arches and
you think of the fries and and you think of the Big Mac Sandwich so any sort of change to such an
iconic item does get people talking it drums people's interest up and uh some people have
they've been saying mixed things about this uh this release essentially what it is as I
sort of tongue and cheek pointed out you have the Big Mac which is pretty much unchanged right it
has the beef patties it has lettuce it has the cheese pickles onions and of course the secret
sauce it usually has two beef patties that's the big appeal it has the two beef patties and then
you know it's split with the middle bun now if you get the double Big Mac it has four Patties
on it instead of two so it's essentially as you'll see in a moment has the two Patties on
the top and then the two on the bottom they are still separated by that middle bun and that's all
that there is to it it's just a Big Mac with some extra meat to it but anyway anyway some
people have been saying that maybe it's too much of a good thing as they said that some individuals
contend anyway that the Big Mac is just right with two beef patties and that anything more than that
uh kind of offsets the balance of everything and doesn't make it as enjoyable now whether that's
true or not I'm going to find out in tonight's review and essentially it's going to be pretty
straightforward it's a Big Mac every reviewed the Big Mac probably a dozen times already so
I don't know how much how much there really is to say so essentially I'm going to be looking
at this see how easy it is to eat and does the extra meat make it worth it does it really add
to it does it detract does it make it too sloppy to eat does it cancel anything out you know and
just see what sort of effect if any has it on this iconic sandwich I have also noticed as far as the
double Big Mac goes it seems to be available at every McDonald's but I have noticed that online
it's not on every online let's say delivery service some it's there some it's not but if
you go to the store 100% they will they'll know what you're talking about and you'll be able to
get one but there are some services like door dash for instance that may have it as well and
pricewise the price varies based on location I've heard people say that it's generally the cost of
a Big Mac with an extra charge of around $150 so whatever the Big Mac is in your area add a150 to
perhaps $2 to it and that's what the price of this is in my case the double Big Mac came out
to the price of around $7.50 for the sandwich by itself no meal no no sides no drink just the
sandwich $7.50 some people have said theirs was $6 other people said theirs was $8 so the price shall
vary anyway just going to try it out and that's all that there is to it there's the McDonald's
Insignia Big Mac whereas I famously back in 2012 called it I called it
a big back I did I did once I think unintentionally I should
add it does look a little bigger definitely does and
now last thing I want to do is drop this by accident and that would be a that would be a
disaster so you could see has the two patties there on the top just stacked up like that and
then the two on the bottom you could see the lettuce some of which is falling off but that's
no big deal the middle bun cheese pickles right there has onions as well onions and the Secret
Sauce you don't want to know what would happen if you found out what the secret sauce really
is that's why it's a secret and it is a closely guarded Secret at that believe me you thought
if you thought the CIA was a was the real deal forget it you don't even know the intelligence
that goes into keeping that sauce a secret forget it you you you you don't even want to know believe
me so that said you saw what it looked like I would wager I know what it looks like let's
see what difference all the meat makes if any the double Big Mac from McDonald's it's going
in
for all right so I just wanted to make sure I had enough time to give a proper assessment because
the eating segment was going to be pretty monotonous so I'll show you just this quick
crosssection and then get to it you could see right there you could easily see all four beef
patties one two three four right there stacked on top of each other like that so what do I notice
you know as far as the quality of the sandwich um is concerned you know as far as the Integrity
of the ingredients everything is perfectly fine um the buns are are are fresh you know the good
sign is that the top of bun despite the pressure that I was putting on it as I'll explain in a
moment it didn't disintegrate sometimes you know I have a I've ran into this problem with a Big
Mac before where the bun is going to be a little stale and I'll try to get a good grasp on it and
it just like sort of disintegrates and that's never a good sign and I've seen it happen all
too many times especially at McDonald's but in this case the bun is most definitely fresh and
that's good that's what you hope to see as far as the quality of the meat is concerned as well
yeah it's McDonald's it's fast food that's you know you obviously aren't going to expect this
to be like some sort of gourmet uh Burger but all things considered it's still juicy it's
flavorful I could definitely Taste of course the salt and and pepper uh seasoning that they
have on the uh the beef so I could definitely taste that it's especially pronounced because
there's four patties all of which are seasoned to an extent uh compared to the usual two so
that sort of note is a little stronger in the double Big Mac than it would be in single and
likewise the flavor of the meat is just a little more pronounced you could just
taste it a little bit more there's obviously volume wise more in every single bite as far
as the rest of the ingredients go the lettuce is fine for what it is not the highest quality
in the world the onions you could you could taste um let's see pickle pickle is there so
just
looking I was curious how many pickles they had on it because I could taste a good amount
of the pickles and I was curious if they put extra pickles on it because it's got the the
two patties but it doesn't really look like it I think the pickles were just a little bit more
perhaps on the flavorful side so you know that's all that there really is to it the Thousand Island
dressing aka the the secret sauce they did put a bit more of that on that's what just got me
thinking for a moment I was thinking it seemed as though and maybe this is just how they it
could just be based on location maybe they felt to compensate for the extra meat maybe this is
just what they do with this one they put a little bit more of the secret sauce on this Big Mac than
uh than they normally seem to as a result the one thing that I noticed you know for the most part it
tastes fine for what it is there really aren't any major issues here it doesn't taste bad it
doesn't taste grows it's your standard McDonald standard fast food and it's fine for what it is
so if you want to just end the review right now and um you know save a couple more minutes of your
time it's fine for what it is and you could leave right now if you like uh because that's the final
assessment really the one thing though if you're more concerned about let's say the practicality
of eating this uh goes or you know maybe you're trying to eat this in the car or something and
you don't want it to be all that messy this is where my one point comes in in my case they put
it looks like a little bit more thousand island dressing on this and here here's the thing when
there's all the beef patties on this this makes it a bit of a bigger sandwich than the regular
Big Mac is obviously because it's going to be a little higher because there's more ingredients
right doesn't really need to be explained in my case and I can't speak for everyone I could only
speak for myself and it is what it is but I'm going to mention it anyway sure you all know
obviously that my bites aren't the biggest in the world and that's there's nothing that I
could really do about that believe me it's not as though I do that to try to to troll everyone
or anything like that it's literally my my jaw only opens a certain a certain span and I really
cannot physically take a bite bigger than than what I what I do you know if I did maybe I don't
know dislocate my jaw or some something like that you know I don't really want to risk any
sort of messing things up in that regard just to take a bigger bite out of a burger so in my case
because I can't take the biggest bites in the world trying to get the volume of all of this
in my mouth at once can prove a bit challenging now for some people that's not going to be an
issue you know you could just take a giant bite and just practically eat the thing in one Gulp
and then this doesn't really apply but if you take smaller bites like me it might be challenging to
get all four patties into one bite so what do I do of course to try to compensate for that I'll
apply some pressure to the top and bottom bun to make it a little smaller so then I could take a
more uh sufficient and reasonable you know size bite for me anyway and could still get a full
flavor of this sandwich in doing so though because it's a bit heavier on the sauce when you squeeze
it the sauce is going to start dripping out and it's sort of going to come out every which way
so there was instance after instance and I'm sure you could even start to see it in the the
limited time that I was on camera eating this kept getting on my my face and the sauce kept
coming out and it was proving to be a bit of a messy uh messy consumption of it you know CU as
I'm squeezing it there's some grease coming out as well and the the sauce is dripping out everywhere
and and other problem is then the bottom or I'm sorry the middle bun starts slipping toward the
back back and you know you just it could get a bit of a a bit messy for those of you who frequently
eat Big Macs I'm sure You' you know what I mean sometimes it could just get a bit messy and it
gets disproportionate it could turn into like a sloppy sort of sandwich so that's the one point
that I raise it's something that I have to deal with you it might not even apply to you if you
just take huge bites and or even probably normal sized bites compared to what I can do uh it might
not be a big issue but maybe it still will it might be to the point where it's even quite
large even if you take a normal bite you still might have to squeeze it and then it could get
a bit messy and that's the one thing that I wanted to mention there I don't find this overwhelming I
don't find it that the the beef of anything is too much I don't think it's too much of a good
or a bad thing tastes fine for what it is and in my opinion the amount of beef is still sufficient
it's not over the top or any of that I just find that it could be a bit a bit of a a messy sandwich
for some and that's something to be mindful of if let's say you know you're on break or something
and you just want to eat this in the car and then you got to get back to work and you know
you don't want to get it all over you or anything just bear that in mind it could be a little bit
of a messy sandwich and uh that's up to you if you want to do anything with that information or
not but that's about it so all things considered I think it's fine for what it is and uh here's a
here's a pro tip even when they get rid of this this promotion I should say and they say well
the double Big Mac is gone and it was here for a limited time only and now you can never get it
again you could still just go to McDonald's anytime and order a Big Mac with extra beef
and you could still get a double Big Mac so just because it's not explicitly on the menu anymore
if you're watching this video down the road ways you could still get it so if you like it you like
it if not then get a regular Big Mac and there you go problem solved so therefore out of 10 yeah it's
a little pricey but I think it's fine for what it is i'llbe it a little messy so therefore I am
going to give the double Big Mac from McDonald's a seven out of 10 and that's all that I have for
you thank you for watching and until next time I'm your host the report of the week