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 TheReportoftheweek, pleased to be here as always and i hope you're doing,
feeling all right wherever you are! You know... I thought about this one a lot... you receive word
of it, you start researching the item a little bit and I pondered this for a couple days.
I thought back to the last video that i did which - yes indeed - it was about a totally different item
from a totally different chain (Taco Bell) right now we're trying out Wendy's. It didn't send me
into a crisis but it made me think. Maybe i was wrong, I'm only human I get things wrong sometimes
perhaps I'll misjudge various things etc. thought to myself could i have gotten it wrong ?
Because you see in the last video that I did - I said
"That Taco Bell item may very well have been the biggest twist of 2021 by far!"
This might be it right here!
It's in the name... the writing is on the wall, it's in the advertising campaign
they even call this thing the "BIG bacon cheddar cheeseburger" maybe this really is the biggest
twist of 2021. Maybe as a matter of fact this is the biggest release from Wendy's ever and there's
a few indicators that this may be so. Because, number one you have to look at what the item is
with the item and the quality thereof one of the most important aspects of any business really is
the advertising campaign... viral marketing, letting people know that this product or service exists
the advertising is what what really got me going. What you're about to hear, I actually
got this in the mail and i clipped it out because I... Well you'll see in a minute... um
this is going to explain everything. Any questions that you have about anything are going to be
answered in this short reading. You're going to know everything there is to know about this item
except whether it's good or not which maybe that's more important than everything else...
but I think you're going to understand why this is so big. Your arms are probably going to start
uncontrollably flailing around and uh, that's to be ex- that's that's to be expected so give yourself
a little bit of room. So this explains everything let's just get into it and uh we'll go from there
Please forgive me for this. This is straight from the marketing team at wendy's
Oh... you like cheeseburgers... okay look at this thing... the bun!!! is a cheddar bun... that creamy
cheesiness spread under the bun is also cheddar... then we've got crispy fried onions AND applewood
smoked bacon!!!! WAIT... what's that deliciously dripping down the american cheese?!?!? BACON JAM
is what that is!!! Yeah... we have fun (imagine 'fun' to be italicised) but when it comes to cheeseburgers... we don't mess around.
Never doing that again, yeah i know... you... you heard it doesn't that um
doesn't that just inspire you to you have to get this thing now, I know. Yeah, the big bacon cheddar
cheeseburger is what it's called and as it implies you can get this in a single double or triple, it
comes with a quarter pound beef patty again creamy cheddar cheese, bacon jam, applewood smoked bacon,
crispy onion strings, american cheese and it's on a toasted cheddar bun - it's a big burger hence the
name, got a little bit of everything some bacon some cheese it's a pricey burger though it comes
at the price of seven dollars for a single so we'll have to see if it's really worth it or not.
In my case the double which i didn't get i just got the single is worth i believe eight
dollars and the triple is worth nine dollars but you could see what an absolutely compelling
advertisement that was and the reading did not do it justice, I mean it's more than that.
I imagine there's uncontrollable flailing in progress right now, as I open this I can
actually... I can smell the cheddar cheese that's on the bun here and I likewise can smell the onion
I'm going to cr (cry?)... I'm going to cut this burger in half, we'll do a cross section
but first a close-up of the sandwich in full. All right? Note the bacon, the condiments, the bacon jam
I think this is a little too close to the light but you can see that cheddar bun right
there and that's a little better i think... and uh yeah, it's definitely it's not as big as the
advertisements portray it but it still is a big burger. I'll give them that!
Before I cut it in half I'll do the thumbnail shots, I'll
do one like this (I know I've been doing these sorts of shots lately)
Oh i'll get that later!
One like that, I'll do one with a neutral face and then I'll do one a little closer.
And then i'll do one just smiling... you know the usual stuff
these thumbnails are important for the video.
And i'll figure it out. Okay so you see what's on the burger, I see what's on it we know what it is
I'm going to cut it on cut it in half real quick
because I do want to get an appropriate cross section of it for you. If the bun
comes off i could simply reconstruct it that's not a problem.
All right there you go there's that half of it, big bun, there's the meat, the toppings etc.
you know what's on it... I know what's on it... we all know what's on it! Is
it any good? Let's find out! The big bacon cheddar cheeseburger from wendy's, going in!
That's to signify that i'll take two more bites I'm not just... one of these days I'll just flash
like this two and just for no reason that I'll take like four more bites just for the fun of it
and one thing i want to taste real quick, I'll use
this onion... well... that's good enough, use this onion string
as a utensil I want to try this bacon jam directly.
Wash it down! I think this is cherry pepsi
the ever so rare soft drink!
Not bad, not bad
would I necessarily say this is a seven dollar burger? No I wouldn't,
but taste wise it's not bad. One of my biggest fears in terms of a sandwich like this
and I think you could understand why from experience
a lot of these establishments will sometimes go too over the top with these sorts of burgers and
sandwiches etc. where ... (explaining their thought process) We got to put this on it! we got to put that on it! we got to put all the sauces...
all the toppings, everything that could possibly go on it goes on it. You have so much stuff on it
that it just becomes a sloppy mess, flavors clash and it's like... why did they need this sauce
on it? Why do they need that on it? Would be so much better if it were a little more simplistic...
that is not the case here. Everything works, everything blends together
and while yeah you have this impressive laundry list of ingredients
it's not overbearing, it's not overwhelming there's not too much of this or too little of that
or something that, you know... it just works. That's what I'm trying to say
there's always that pronounced flavor of the beef patty which is good all right it's juicy, yeah
you know you kind of look at it and you might you might look visually at the cross section it might
say it looks a little dry... but in some instances looks indeed can be deceivin. This is one of those
instances, it is more flavorful and again, visually it may [not] necessarily seem at first so the beef patty
is fine it's flavorful it meets and maintains the wendy's standard which is what's important.
I like the bacon strips... okay? They're good bacon strips, you know, relatively thick cut
um, but they're not these pitiful you know little half cut strips that you sometimes see um from
other establishments so I like the amount of bacon, I like the quality of the bacon it's flavorful
um nice crisp to it that's good I'm fine with that also. The bacon jam is interesting, that's
why I wanted to try it a little more... it carries those you know, those flavors of the bacon but it
has a little bit of a sweetness to it as well which is nice, that's actually a very nice touch
to this burger I think it's one of the things that actually ties it all together - if I may say
so myself. Because it complements the cheese very nicely, it complements the onion strings and it
also works with the beef patty. Everything gets tied together I think by that, by that bacon jam.
Now in terms of the cheese let's go to that next uh if there's one thing that I would say, I don't
know if this necessarily needs the american cheese. It's there, you can kind of notice it a little bit
um, but the most prevailing flavor is definitely that cheddar cheese. Not only from the cheddar
cheese... the creamy cheddar cheese that's on it to begin with, but likewise the toasted cheddar on
the bun which you could definitely smell - you could also taste in terms of that, so the cheddar cheese
in terms of cheesiness, is the prevailing flavor on this burger. I don't... this is what I'm
just trying to say; it's not overwhelming, it's not overbearing, I just don't really know if it
actually needs that that american cheese on it because while I notice it - it's not like it's.
I don't think it would really make any difference in the end if it were there or if it weren't.
So that's the one thing that's not really a complaint though it's not like it's any worse
with or without it that's just one thing it's like ... I don't know if that really needs to be there but,
it's still fine either way and the onion strings again are nice it's a nice balance they add a
little bit of flavor but they're not over the top either and they also kind of add again a nice
little crispy crunch to the uh the burger as well. Uh one thing that some people may be wondering in
terms of the bun and this is just interesting um as you may for instance be looking at this cross
section you'll see all the bun right here you'll be saying, I don't know it looks kind of "bready" you
know? It's like I don't know it looks like the bun to you know toppings ratio is a little off
and maybe there's just too much bun ... is that the case? Not really. Interestingly enough
it actually condenses pretty well when you actually take that bite
again looks maybe deceiving but it's not like the whole thing is bread and, you know, the bread
soaks up everything like a sponge or something and it ruins it... not at all! So the looks, I think
in that case are deceiving but i think the bun to topping ratio in the end is actually fine
because again when you bite in it all condenses and I think the bun is a bit airy it gives the
impression that it's bigger than it really is so take note of that! It's all right in the
end, I'm fine with it all the flavors work they complement each other nicely it all comes together
and uh despite all the toppings it doesn't seem like a sloppy mess either everything works that's
good. In terms of price though, you know, I still wouldn't say this is a seven dollar sandwich
i guess in the end you know in terms of the economy it is what it is but
i think it is a little ... overpriced so keeping that in mind, though I still think it's
good, I'm still happy with it ... definitely not the best sandwich in the world you know not the worst
either but I think this is something that would get ... I would probably give it a 7.8 out of 10
because again, it's not perfect, yeah it's wendy's ... it's fast food, not the best burger I've ever had
but definitely a little bit above average there. I'm happy with it and any complaints that I have
are relatively minor, so with that, that's all that i really have for you today tried out the
big bacon cheddar cheeseburger from wendy's and uh, well again that's all that I have! I'm your
host TheReportOfTheWeek, thank you for tuning in to today's review... until next time!