100%. The worst low grade beef broiled with flames is vastly superior to ANY grade of meat cooked on a flat top. The only thing burger king misses too often on the Whopper is that the patties require a dash of salt + pepper to make them come alive. They come without salt too often. This is why I will perish on a hill claiming a well-done Burger King Double Whopper is superior to Five Guys even ignoring price.
I will stand next to you on that hill, comrade. As a Texan, I should, by default, have Whataburger in my #1 spot, but GODAMN a whopper is hard to beat.
Hadn’t tried one in YEARS and had the Mando one a week or two ago and it was delicious. The fries were on point as well.
I worked at Burger King about 8 years ago, and a salt and pepper blend is supposed to be added to the whopper patties, but not the smaller patties for whatever reason. But a lot of the times the salt and pepper blend was skipped over for speed. Even though it literally only took 2 secs to add.
The pickles and mayo add some salt to it, but for the meat to have a more meaty flavor, they can be helped a lot with a small amount of salt and or pepper.
Yeah, when I cook a steak, or a burger, or whatever, I'll use some sort of seasoning. Which always has a ton of salt.
But for something that I am paying to be cooked for me, I guess I expect that its going to be seasoned/salted enough to taste good. Without having to add more.
That's a fucking bold claim. But.
I have to reluctantly agree. Those whoppers fucking hit different, even when you're not fucked up. And they are massive. If you could get Cajun fries at Burger King I don't think I would go anywhere else for a burger.
It never stopped being flame grilled in the UK. A double whopper with cheese is probably my favourite 'large' burger of any of the chains. That and they give military discount!
That’s not what changed, though. They’ve always flame-broiled their burgers. Officially, all that changed was the mayo, the bun, and the presentation (it comes in a box now).
Thing is, it actually is better. Like way better. So, my suspicion is they cracked down on quality control and training of the employees.
Agreed. I have gotten a few from places that had a cook that didn’t know how make them properly. You could attach them patties to a grinder and sand a rusty bumper with them.
I was always a Whopper fan until I moved to Texas and had my first Whataburger. I remember the fries were ass but I really liked the burger. Forty years later and the fries are much better and it's still a decent burger. It has something of a cult following down here.
EDIT: On that note I wish to express my displeasure at the omission of the aforementioned establishment by the OOP, clearly accidental I'm sure.
damn, i haven't been to BK in ages (mostly because it's out of the way and the closest one to me is in a bad location). that said, i've been wanting to go back for sometime and maybe this might be the time.
It was already like this in Australia for a while now, and it kinda shocks me why people still bother with most other fast food burgers, the only places that can beat hungry jacks burgers are dedicated burger joints like Hello Harry that charge you $20 per burger or KFC's stacker burgers on a good day with freshly cooked patties can compete with some of HJ's chicken range but yeah, they are just miles ahead of everything else here.
I swear by the Whopper but the fries are quite peasant as of now and that actually annoyed me into not buying there anytime soon other than Whopper deals with no soda or fries.
Went to self checkout, chose a combo with medium fries with the intent of accepting the extra charge to make them large, another option showed up to make them super, accepted it, and...
... the amount of fries received was far less than what I would have expected on a small, on a tray that was supposed from the picture to be a mountain of taters. If there was something written on the bottom of the paper tray I would have been able to read most of it.
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u/Indian_Bob 10d ago
Nowadays it’s Burger King. They improved their whopper considerably this past year and it tastes a lot like it used to