- What is the heaviest fast food burger?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good mythical morning.
- Is it just me or are fast food burgers
getting bigger and bigger?
I mean, is it that my mouth is getting smaller and smaller?
As a man with a famously small mouth,
what is your take on burgers getting mega mega mega?
- Well, first of all, I was going to say, yes,
I think your mouth is getting a little smaller
as you get older. (chuckles)
I didn't want to say it, but you brought it up.
And secondly, I see this as just
an opportunity for more bites.
So small mouth man doesn't matter, doesn't mind.
Yeah. Big burgers are good.
- Yeah and the burgers are getting bigger,
and when it comes to big burgers,
people care a lot about calories,
they care a lot about fat content,
they care about if they have tomatoes,
but do you want to know the funnest thing to care about?
How heavy a burger is.
And it doesn't get any fun in what's about to happen
because we're gonna determine the heaviest.
It's time for bring out the scales and give us that beef.
Which fast food joint burger weighs more than Omar Sharif?
Omar Sharif is just an average sized actor.
- Right, but he's probably heavier than a burger.
- Yeah. - Typically. Okay.
We took a very close look at all of the burgers
from all the major fast food chains,
and using a one burger per restaurant rule,
we picked what we perceive to be the biggest, biggiest.
- Yeah.
- That's my new thing, the biggiest burger,
the biggest six burgers.
- That's the title we're going with, biggiest burger ever.
- Based solely on the images
provided by the restaurants themselves.
Now we're strictly talking about the menu staples,
no hacks, no "can I add a patty?"
and no limited time offers.
- Yeah, and we're going to be doing this in match-ups
until we have determined the hefty hefty of the heaviest.
And it's going to be a competition between the two of us.
Who's better at eyeballing the hefty,
because we're going to be using elementary school,
school yard rules here, there's going to be no licking,
no punching, no biting, no smooching,
no touching of any kind to be done to any of these burgers
as a part of this competition.
And after we've made our guesses,
we will place the burgers on the official beefy boys scale
to see who was right.
The heavier the burger, that's the one that moves on.
- Yeah, that's right, what we're trying to find out.
- The heavier the burger, the heavier the burger.
- The biggier the burger, the heavier the burger.
Okay. So contain yourself, guys.
We're about to find the heaviest burger
that passes through a drive through.
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- [Stevie] Okay, boys,
let's begin with two classics going head to head.
First, the McDonald's Big Mac
with two, 100% pure beef patties, pickles,
shredded lettuce, chopped onion, a slice of American cheese,
big Mac sauce, and a sesame seed bun
with an extra half a bun in the middle,
versus the Burger King triple Whopper,
which has three flame grilled beef patties,
one slice of American cheese, tomatoes, lettuce, mayonnaise,
ketchup, pickles, sliced white onions,
and a sesame seed bun.
- Now it's missing a middle bun,
but the density of the meat is driving the most weight.
- Yeah, I mean, you get an extra patty in there.
- And mayo drives a lot of weight,
and every time I order a Whopper,
I'm just struck by how much mayo is slathered on it.
- Depends on which Burger King you go to.
So there's big mayo Burger Kings
and there's light mayo Burger Kings.
- Most of them are big mayo.
And of course, I mean, we didn't add this.
This is actually, the triple is actually on the menu.
- It is.
- I've never ordered it.
- I think I've gotten a quad before.
I think I had it on the show many, many years ago.
- Maybe. I think that was cinco.
- Okay. Let me just, just clarify a couple of things here.
So we're both going to be guessing
which when we think is the heaviest one
and then putting all the scales to see who is right.
Now, for every wrong guess, we must put on a heavy,
fast food chain, get it?
And then wear them by the end for the end of the episode.
So whoever's got more chains on at the end
is actually more of a loser.
- Yeah.
- I mean, there's no way.
I mean, hold on.
Now the Big Mac has between 385 to 400 sesame seeds
on each Big Mac bun.
- Oh, those are some heavy seeds?
- How many Sesame seeds does that have? It looks like more.
- [Link] Yeah, it's a biggie, I mean--
- [Rhett] It's a bigger bun.
- it's more seeds, more beef, 1,216 calories.
- And this is only 550 calories.
I mean, there's not, I mean there's no,
you can do a three two one,
but we're both gonna, we're not idiots.
We went to engineering school.
So we're saying that the triple Whopper weighs more.
- I'm just wondering if anything is gonna,
woo, weigh more than this.
- We're going to place it on here
and then we'll do a three, two, one, release
and then just watch the Whopper hit the ground.
Three, two, one, release. (laughs)
- That was fun.
- There was nothing to it.
I mean, look at that thing.
- Oh man. And even try to exert some effort--
- You might be able to add a whole nother Big Mac
on there and have that triple Whopper still take it out.
- [Stevie] Guys, look at how fun the scale is.
We should incorporate more scales into life.
- That's what I was thinking.
I wanna weigh more things.
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- [Stevie] Okay. This is a round I'm really excited about,
because first we have Shake Shack's Double Smoke Shack.
- Yes, that's a good burger!
- [Stevie] Two beef patties, two slices of American cheese,
Niman Ranch applewood smoked bacon,
cherry peppers, Shack Sauce, and a bun.
And then we have the In N Out Double Double
with two beef patties, two slices of American cheese,
onions, lettuce, In N Out spread, tomatoes, and a bun.
- Okay. Let me just say, you said this was a good burger.
I'm going on record.
If I haven't already,
this is my favorite burger on the planet.
- With the?
- This exact configuration.
- With the peppers, I like their classic.
- The Shake Shack, double Smoke Shack
with the cherry peppers, double beef.
- The beef is so good.
The backside of that, don't touch it,
but how the bun just kind of kisses together
and it's got a little taco-ness to it.
- A little taco-ness.
- And I think if you were just weighing the buns here,
they got a thicker bun over there, a heavier bun.
- That just looks like a bigger burger, the In N Out,
and that's a very, very good burger.
- Very good. - A lot of onions.
They'd like, they'll do a whole cross section of onion,
but that doesn't drive a lot of weight.
- I don't know, I've had a heavy onion in my day.
You know, Anthony Bourdain called that burger
a perfectly designed protein delivery system.
- It is great. I mean, I, I prefer Shake Shack,
but I love a good In N Out burger
and I treat them as separate entities.
- I just think it's a different thing.
This is like super fast, fast food.
And this is like, I got a little bit more time on my hands.
- [Stevie] What's the calorie situation?
- 870 to 670.
- But, wow. 200. Oh wow.
There's 57 grams of fat in this double Smoke.
I, you know, I'm not even gonna look at the information,
I'm not gonna look at it.
- [Link] It's not as good for you,
but it's definitely gotta be heavier.
- Oh, we're not doing a three, two, one, huh?
Yeah. We both agree. There's no way.
I mean, I've picked this thing up many, many times.
- Could be wrong, this is heavier than I thought.
Throw it on there.
- [Rhett] And we'll do it at a three to one and release.
- [Link] Nice little placement.
- Okay. Three, two, one, release.
Oh, Whoa.
- Oh it's closer though.
Had that little bounce, man.
Let's give it another shot, let's just see.
- Wow. So that is closer.
It wasn't a runaway.
- And if I eat it, it's going to get less heavy.
- Oh man, I want to take a bite so bad.
- No chains yet.
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So when this is over,
go over to the Mythical Kitchen channel,
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- Stevie, this matchup is epic.
- [Stevie] You bet it is.
Now this is our final preliminary round.
On Rhett's side, we have Carl's Jr's
spicy triple Western bacon cheeseburger.
- That's a mouthful.
- [Stevie] Which has three char broiled, all beef patties,
jalapenos, two strips of bacon,
three slices of pepper Jack cheese, two onion rings,
and tangy barbecue sauce, all on a seeded bun.
- Dang. - I'm so hungry.
- [Stevie] And Link, we have the Wendy's
triple bacon jalapeno cheeseburger,
which has three beef patties, pickled jalapenos,
Applewood smoked bacon, American cheese,
crispy fried onions, a savory cheese sauce,
a smoky jalapeno sauce, all on a bun.
- And a cheese, a cascading cheese explosion on the front.
- Both of these look good. That actually looks better.
I think the Wendy's one looks better.
The Wendy's one has square burgers and square patties.
- What are you looking at up here?
- I'm looking into my math mind
and the square, you can put a circle inside of a square.
- Unless the less the circle is bigger.
You could also put a square inside of a circle.
I think the squares are smaller than those circles.
- And they're sesame buns, sesame seeds.
- I think there's more beef over there.
I mean, if you look at the calorie count 1380 versus 1260,
both more than the triple Whopper.
- But there's 86 grams of saturated fat in the Wendy's.
- This is like a freaking Jenga stack of stuff.
- This is not going to be easy.
And we need, we definitely need to do the three, two, one
for this one because we don't need to influence each other.
- [Stevie] I got a three, two, one ready for you.
- Oh man, that is a thick, that's so concentrated.
- All I am is hungry.
- [Stevie] Here we go. Three, two, one.
- I think it's this one.
- I think, I think there's more beef,
but I just think once you get the soggy onions,
there's more other stuff.
- I didn't think about the soggy onions.
- There's more cheese too, it seems like it's--
- All right, let's pick 'er up
and well, that's pretty, it's heavy, it's heavy.
- This is not as heavy as I thought it would be.
- [Rhett] I can barely grip it.
- Get it on the scale. This is science.
- [Rhett] Okay. Got a three, two, one, release.
- Put it right in the middle.
- [Both] Three, two, one, release.
- I mean it wasn't even close.
- Yeah, 'cause it went down for a second.
But I think I just let go before you did.
Oh, let's make sure.
- (laughs) All right, yeah, let's make sure.
You lost it, put some of your onions back on there.
Get those soggy onions.
And you got lost a little bit there, put that on there too.
- Okay, and then.
- Nope, wow, this thing is so heavy.
Is this triple Whopper heavy?
Huh? There's only one way to find out.
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- [Stevie] This is it, the heavyweight finals.
At stake is the title of
the heaviest hamburger in the world
- At stake, that's a pun, right?
- [Stevie] we've got Burger King's triple Whopper
with cheese, Shake Shack's double Smoke Shack,
and Carl's Jr's spicy triple Western bacon cheeseburger.
- That triple Whopper is a photogenic burger.
I mean the fact that, you know, it just came up,
it just came off a truck and just landed here.
Whatever happened.
- That's how we get our burgers, from a truck.
- This is a mess. But sometimes a mess is the tasty stuff.
- This looks too clean, this looks too clean to me.
I want stuff pouring out of my burger.
- I mean, we gotta know that the Shake Shack
is not in the running.
I mean, that's the loser.
- Let's go ahead and weigh it.
We know that it's not as heavy as these others.
- So it comes down to these two.
- But it does weigh 9.81 ounces.
- I pity the fool who was thinking that was the heaviest,
you know me with the chain.
- 9.81 ounces. That's just half,
a little bit more than half a pound.
- He's underwhelmed. He's disappointed.
All the excitement is drained from his body,
but now let's get down to it.
It's time to vote, man.
'cause we've got mayo and meat.
- [Rhett] They both have three patties.
Their circumference--
- This, one's got that melty white cheese.
It's got a lot of girth, y'all.
- The circumference of the Whopper is a tiny bit bigger,
but this spills out more.
- And there's no bacon over here.
- And it would be a very Carl's Jr. Thing
to have the heaviest burger.
- I think the bonds are the exact same size.
- You think? Hold on, you think Burger King
and Carl's Jr. is the same restaurant?
Like Kroger and Ralph's?
- Could be.
I mean, we know that's not true, so let's not keep up.
- You don't know what's true in this world.
- Yeah, that's true.
- [Stevie] Okay. Here we go.
Three, two, one.
- Oh, you about got my finger.
So we agree because I mean.
- It's got bacon coming out of it.
- Just look at that thing, it's going all over the place.
It's got the three burgers.
- Okay, so let's put this one over here.
- Let's weigh that puppy.
- We think that the triple Whopper,
which, scale cut off, so let me turn it back on.
- Zero it.
- Make sure it's okay. And it weighs, guess.
- 11.3 ounces.
- 15.82, almost a full pound.
15.82 ounces
- Dang. Okay.
Are we going to break a pound?
- We're gonna break a pound.
- Well, you say a quarter pounder burger.
Well that's the weight before cooking.
- You're telling me this,
what do you call this thing first of all?
- [Stevie] The spicy triple Western bacon cheeseburger.
- Spicy 'cause it's got this.
- {gasps} it's only 14.89. We were wrong!
The heaviest burger in the world
is Triple Whopper at almost a pound.
We are shamed.
- I can't, I'm sorry, Burger King.
- Almost a pound, 15.8, it went up to 15.82.
I guess I must have spit on it.
- That is, my mind is blown.
Wow, man, we gonna eat good though.
- We're going to eat all this.
- You know what's up, heaviest burger.
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- I have literally one sesame seed left on my bun.
The last little guy's hanging on.