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 thanks for tuning in i decided to switch it
up i mean why not i i i saw this suit still in the closet and it's been years since i wore it i think
the last time i ever even wore this suit was in 2016. i thought what the heck let's just try it
let's see if it's still uh if it still works and it does so i said why not you know i don't need
another reason to uh to wear it this say yeah why not it's there and i wanted to break it out
so there you have it the white they call it a seersucker suit officially but you could just
call it the white suit it makes an appearance for the first time in a long time actually
and i think speaking of appearances i think this is the second appearance
if i'm not mistaken this might be like the second or third review i've ever done for shake shack
i know i've had them a couple times i've had them like maybe i think like three times and
all of those times i enjoyed them first time i ever had shake shack was about a year ago
and i did a review of it and i enjoyed it i thought it was pretty good all things considered
so i saw that they have a new release out and i'm pretty excited about it because again based on the
limited experiences that i've had at shake shack i found the food enjoyable so i'm excited i'm hoping
this will be good but you know the way it goes anyway let's get into business this is the bourbon
bacon cheddar burger from shake shack so starting in may they're going to be introducing
two items to the menu both of them are obviously going to be bourbon bacon cheddar i believe one
is a burger the other is a chicken sandwich and it seems that most of the interest is surrounding
the burgers so that's what i'm going to be going with today and here's what it is obviously
it has on it the sauce the sauce is what it's all going to be about more specifically they call it a
sweet and savory bourbon bacon jam so you're going to have the bourbon bacon jam on the burger then
it's going to have white cheddar cheese on it onion i believe crispy onion and they also said
shack sauce and again you can get the burger as a single or a double i just went with a single and
price for this is anywhere from eight dollars and fifty cents to ten dollars and i paid
a lovely ten dollars for this burger but you know what it's not just any burger it's the bourbon
bacon cheddar burger like that somehow justifies the price but there you have it i guess you can
say that it was served in this little cardboard receptacle so maybe that does but either way
there you have it that's a hieroglyph
if you ever heard about those that's what that's what they look like and now
let's open it up it says it's about to get real so there you have it they said it
let's see what we have all right here we go let's get a look at it oh there's the jam on it
the cheese looks like it's melted to the the patty you've got the jam you've got the bun
i guess the onion is mixed in there let's let's take a better look at this
okay here we go here's here's a complete look at it so you could see right there we have the onion
that's the shack sauce no affiliation with shaquille o'neal
and there's the jam and there's the cheese and the burger thus completes the bourbon bacon cheddar
burger so that said you know what's on it i know what's on it we all know what's on it but does it
taste any good let's find out the bourbon bacon cheddar burger from shake shack it's going in
we'll take a couple more bites
i'm going to take a bite here to get the shack sauce
uh
you know when i try out various items obviously uh they're made up of various
components and i'll just turn the focus off let the camera do whatever it does and sometimes
everything comes together quite nicely and sometimes everything almost comes together
and there's just one or two things that just don't work and sometimes that could be ignored
other times that can change the entire course of things sometimes the issues that i have come down
to individual preparation and other times it's more of a more of a chain wide type of thing
and i i think that this is an individual preparation type of thing
because right now it's one of those times where what's this coming to mind is
so close you know so close and yet so far because it's this one issue with it that takes what would
otherwise be a pretty darn good burger and you know no pun intended you can't you can't shake
it you know you can't you can't ignore it you can't just say everything else outweighs this
all right my issue with the burger the toppings the uh even the quality of the beef is all
right the onions fine cheddar is good the bourbon bacon jam is great it tastes good
but the problem in my case i i think that the burger at least some of the outer edges or maybe
the top i don't know if they were just trying to get a nice crisp to it or what but it's charred
and i could taste that and you know how it is if you're if you're eating something
especially a lot of fried or grilled foods and something's just a little overdone you know
it's just cooked a little too much and you could taste that char in it you know that that taste
it permeates and it takes what could be a really good thing but this potent
just charred taste this burnt taste it doesn't go away it lingers it's strong and
even if it doesn't overpower everything else it makes it makes its presence known you know
you could just definitely tell that it's there that's the problem with this burger
let me tell you if you get yours and it looks like it's cooked properly and it doesn't look like it's
just even a little overdone i'll tell you this right now you're gonna get a really good burger
and if it weren't for that issue we would be talking this burger would be in the
at least in the upper eights out of ten now my policy when i try out items i say look
when i review an item i'm just the customer i'm going there let's say on my lunch break and i
heard about this new item i'm going to review what i get i don't want to go in and do a big show and
make them prepare the best one just for me so then that guarantees a good result and a good review
no none of that nonsense you know i have my ways of getting it that i'm just gonna get a burger
just like what anyone else would get and what i get is what i'm gonna review and
i run into these issues sometimes but i think it's a realistic portrayal of the fast food experience
this stuff happens now in my opinion it happens far too often given the state of things you know
i know it happens to plenty other people too but nothing irks me more than things like this
where you have what would be a great burger and everything tastes really good but then you have
and i still taste i taste the aftertaste of this still in the back of my mouth burnt and that char
it's still there i could still taste it and what a shame that is what a shame what
a disappointment because otherwise you know this would be a real good burger and like i said look
if this idea sounds appealing to you go out and get it try it see if yours is like this or not
if it's not you're going to be in for a real good burger but if it is i'm just warning you
right now that's all that you really you're going to be able to focus on and that's it
so that gets me and that that's all that i could say it's disappointing
because you see so much potential in this but then that one thing sets it back
and uh it's i mean what else can i tell you it's just disappointing that's all
especially sometimes you get these items that are just utter trash and it's just some piece
of garbage that had you know it's going to be no matter what you do to it it's just going to be a
flaming pile of of you know what but um when you have stuff like this that could be real good but
it is what it is what else what can i tell you in short forgetting about the burnt
charred taste that my burger has what are the what are the good things about it pretty much
everything else is great um the bourbon bacon jam is delicious i mean i really like it it's got
this lovely sweetness to it but they described it really nice sweet and savory and again it
blends in with everything else just so perfectly the cheese is great it's good quality and i i do
like that it's kind of there on the the patty to the point where you can get it in every bite
the onion too potent but good and it get it adds an ice crisp texturally to the burger the
only thing that i don't think it really needs is the uh the the shack sauce i mean it's all right
it kind of gets lost in the rest of the sauce but i'll take a tiny taste right now
on its own
it's all right you know it's like it's creamy it's savory has a little bit of a tang to it
but it gets lost in there because the the bourbon bacon cheddar sorry the bourbon bacon jam
strongly overpowers that so i don't really see any need for the shack sauce on this burger um
i think it just needs that that bourbon bacon jam it's great you could taste some of the bacon in it
too and i mean it's just a great sauce so many of these bourbon types of sauce for various burgers
are just great and they work so nicely with it and like i said what a disappointment it is
when you have these ingredients that just blend together so nicely and even the beef itself the
parts you know the interior of the patty is still fine but it's just when you have that char on the
outside and it just permeates every single bite and builds upon itself how disappointing and
look i'll admit this might just be an issue with the burger that i got that's why i say look
try it out if you want and see what see what you think um maybe you're not gonna have this problem
but for me this is kind of extra disappointing not only because it's a ten dollar burger
but because it looked good and so much of it tasted good it's like i i want to take another
bite but then i sit here and think what's the point it's just going to be more of the
same you're going to bite in it's going to but then you're going to you're going to taste the
char and then it's going to linger and you're not going to be able to get that taste out of
your mouth because it's still there right now so that's all that's all that i could really tell you
if your burger isn't overdone or isn't charred or whatever the issue is i you know i wasn't
i wasn't in the kitchen i didn't see what happened but
if your burger doesn't have that problem um and everything just goes together as it as it should
this is an 8.5 out of 10 burger definitely tastes good if yours has this problem that mine does
i just can't get past it but this is like a 3 out of 10 burger and that's that's the thing so
it just depends something to be wary of i think this might just be an individual thing but
you know if it happens to me i mean it could happen to you too it's just
disappointing as all this is an item with a lot of potential
just bear that into mind but i still advise look give it a shot see what you think but uh goes
to show as we see a lot of the time in the world of fast food this isn't just a shake shack thing
this happens so often with taco bell and burger king and the pizza places to all these places
this stuff happens sometimes it comes to individual preparation
but uh one thing gets screwed up and that could be it that could ruin the whole meal and i know we've
all been there before it's one of those instances for me but in the end you could just say yeah just
you know that's just the way that it goes on to the next and uh hopefully the next time we'll get
some better luck that's all that i i could really say there so that's all that i have for you today
uh disappointing but i kind of just have to be grudgingly accepted and it just is what it is
that's all that i have for you i'm your host the report of the week