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there haven't been a ton of releases lately but this is an item that's been I call it fairly new
it's been out for a few weeks and it was from Burger King and it caught my uh my interest
and I thought let's try it out why not about a year ago Burger King and you might remember
these you might not a fair time last year Burger King released what they called Whopper melts and
what those were were a couple beef patties and they were sandwiched between essentially toast
and they had American cheese and some sauce Etc and they were generally well received I think I
tried them and I thought they were totally fine I didn't have any problems with them so Burger
King has brought back the Whopper melt so now I think they just call them melts they got rid of
Whopper and they've also added a few specialty melts as well and one of them again caught my
interest so I thought why not there's nothing really else to try so let's let's see how this is
this is called The Spicy melt AKA they call it the spicy one and what it has two beef
patties now they say these are whopper Junior patties so in total the two beef patties would
equal around a quarter pounds of beef it has jalapenos caramelized onions American cheese
a creamy spicy sauce and that is on and it is on a Toasted Bun so you have the spicy sauce the uh
spicy sauce I suppose Vin determinate origin as well as the jalapenos and that's supposed
to give it a bit of a spicy kick hence the name now the price for this is about it fluctuates
anywhere between five and seven dollars so again I thought it sounds interesting I could usually
I could go for the spicy items so I thought why not may as well get it see how it is and
uh take it from there this will be available for a limited time again it's been out for a
few weeks it'll probably stay on the menu for another week or two so if it turns out to be
good I get it while the getting's good I would say in my cases on the pricier end
it was around seven dollars to me but many others have said it's around five dollars
and here it is right there you could zooming in you can see the jalapeno
the American Cheese Slices as well as the bread
a top is the spicy sauce again more jalapenos it's pretty much as advertised I would say I
think the onion is mixed in there let's let's take a look let's debun it and then see for ourselves
ah yes there it is you see right up there there's those onions mixed with the jalapenos
and there's a lot of that spicy sauce there's the patties
and again you can see it's kind of crispy around the edges but it's pretty soft on the uh
in the center there but that's a good look of it you could see in terms of its size it's not
gigantic or anything but you know it's still about the size of a standard Burger maybe a
double from Burger King so again there's the look there's what it looks like available
price five to seven dollars what I'm going to do real quick is I'm actually going to pause
the camera for a second well for you it'll be a second I'm going to cut it in half and we'll
get a good cross section and then I'll take it from there so I'll be right back in a moment
and indeed in my case it was just a moment and you can see there's a cross section of
it a freshly cut and uh there's a good look of everything so I could smell very potently very
sharply both the onion as well as the jalapeno so we'll see how this winds up being I'll try
it out right now the Burger King spicy melt from Burger King of course going in
foreign
very clearly I can see what they're trying to do here I easily can
this unfortunately is one of those instances where the idea itself excuse me for a moment
the idea itself might not be that bad might actually be a pretty good idea but
the execution of it took a good idea and just threw it right in the trash
at least in this case so here's the problem we'll just get right into it
as far as the beef patties themselves go those are actually fine that's not the problem the
beef patties themselves totally fine the foe flame grilled at this point you could pretty much say uh
taste but they're good they're juicy they're flavorful I'm totally happy with the quality
and the quantity and that worked out just fine the bread is is okay too it's more on the chewy
side than it is the crispy side you just have to bear that into mind but again that's not the end
of the world it's not too big of a deal likewise the cheese that's totally fine too but you have to
understand the things that I am complimenting about this item you could essentially get at
any other item from Burger King all right sure the bread might be slightly different but the
cheese and the beef patties themselves just get a burger from Burger King or get a Whopper those
are those are totally fine there's nothing wrong with those at all the problem comes in when you
begin to introduce the ingredients that make this the spicy one and that's when it all goes downhill
so all right what what's supposed to add to this now you have the caramelized onions the jalapeno
and the creamy spicy sauce first and foremost the creamy spicy sauce is not spicy in the least
it's like this creamy flavorless liquid all I could taste is just the creamy texture to it and
uh one unappetizing thing is that the sauce as it combines with the caramelized onions it takes upon
this sort of slime slimy quality so you're eating this and there's no spice and it's just the slimy
tasteless sauce and uh granted you know it's just the way the sauce is I was I was looking at it and
um and that's just its nature but it's extremely mild and it just takes upon this very unappetizing
quality and it contributes nothing to this item as far as flavor goes and then that leads me
to another problem I have with the caramelized onions they can be quite good if done correctly
they can really add a lot in terms of flavor its potency Etc but the problem in this case
is a few of the onions not even a lot but just a few of them
they're just two they're too charred for lack of a better word and as a result when it's so
flavorless then you're tasting that burnt Char on the onions and that cuts through everything
so now I'm eating this there's really no spice it's slimy and then there's this burnt flavor
that comes in as well yeah that's not all that appetizing finally you have the jalapenos there
is space there is Spice in these jalapenos but the problem is that the spice seems to remain confined
exclusively to the jalapenos themselves and it was actually kind of odd as I was eating this
I took a bite and there was a jalapeno a piece of a jalapeno in one of the bites and in my mouth it
was like I could actually feel the spice moving as I was chewing it from one side of my mouth to the
other side of my mouth and then as I swallowed at it moved down there's no lingering spice there's
no spicy aftertaste it doesn't leave any sort of spice on your tongue or anything it was just
so weird because it was like I could just I could feel the spice emanating from that one ingredient
as it was kind of moving around my mouth because everything else is either basic or just totally
flavorless so it's just weird and not in a good way either it's not weird and you know a sort
of quirky unique way it's just weird that it's just I don't really want to experience this again
so that's a problem like I said there's ways that you could go about doing this that could
certainly end up being quite good but in this case I think it's just due to probably the quality of
the ingredients this just isn't it's not something that I would get again Burger King has some items
that can be quite decent this I'm afraid isn't one of them it's a bit overpriced for what it
is again the ingredients that are actually good just get a burger from Burger King you can get
all of those good ingredients but everything added on to this is just disappointingly bad
so uh it's unfortunate again it's just not all that flavorful it's not spicy I didn't have to
the only reason I took that sip of water was to wash down everything else because I didn't want
it lingiving around in my mouth and it's just disappointing it's one of those items that had
potential but unfortunately just from what I've received here the sauce was especially a letdown
even if it weren't for that sauce I would still have complaints but that sauce just made something
that was a bit iffy into something so much worse it made it into something unpleasant because it's
just got this slimy creaminess to it no spice nothing to add in that regard the onions have
again that sort of burnt characteristic and the spice is so intermittent and the only good things
about it are the the beef the cheese and the bun and as I said for the third time now if you like
that so much just get a burger because this just isn't worth it so you know with Burger King they
have a hit or miss establishment they have some some good items they have some bad items they
certainly release a lot though so on to the next this one disappointed with and I wouldn't advise
getting it but if you do just understand that uh you might not like what you're in for so
they're four out of ten ratingly spicy Melt from Burger King it's disappointing I wouldn't get it
again I'm just gonna give this a 3 out of ten and uh the only reason it has that rating is
just because some of the ingredients they're not all bad but I would pass on this one that's all
that I have for you thanks for watching until next time I'm your host the report of the week