I’d be interested in seeing some videos in a “But Faster” series. Show us how to make quick meals at home faster than you could by driving out to a restaurant, ordering, and returning.
I’m 50 years old so I remember when Burger King opened up in St.Louis MO. The Whopper burger was a bit smaller than a dinner plate and each burger was flame grilled to order, there was actual smoke in the air because they fully cooked the fresh meat over open fire grills that you could see. They fixed It exactly how you liked it so it was absolutely delicious and put other burger chains to shame. Now the whopper is the same as any other burger out there, the same thing happened to McDonald’s food. Back in the day it was actually tasty food.
BK in the UK was like that too back in the day, now it is the same awful crap shown in this video. They used to actually flame grill the burgers now they are flame grill flavour, just terrible.
@@BurnerTurner To remember a world before Net 2.0 but after the near-total commodification of everything is... a mood. The 90's really were a bizarre twilight decade that bridged two separate worlds.
Hey quick note: if the garlic turns cyanide blue over time (like a few days) in that pickle brine it's perfectly normal and still edible. It's a reaction between the chemicals the garlic releases from being bruised with the acidic solution it's sitting in that produces that blue pigmentation.
The nodule things you saw on one side of the burger is from the cooking. It's cooked on a flame "char broiler" conveyor belt thing. Those are the juices that kind of congeal and break away from the main burger. You get them on your own burgers if you dont flip them. The act of flipping them gets them off your burger.
I used to be a supervisor at A&W. Believe me, we did everything we physically could to try and make the food decent... but during Covid, upper management made massive price cuts. I'm talking labour percentage of 11-14% and our manager getting written up and screamed at on the phone if it went higher. Any restaurant owner worth their salt will tell you that this is COMPLETELY INSANE. Everyone quit in April, starting with our manager, and including myself, because we were being pushed to work unpaid overtime just in order to keep things up to standard. I was a supervisor and I didn't want anyone getting food poisoning, so I was going in unpaid after hours (in exchange for food that my manager slipped me) trying to clean the place up because having one cook and one cashier on a Friday night means that nobody has time to clean. And my manager came in, unpaid, on CHRISTMAS DAY to clean because that was the only day of the year where there weren't any customers. One day my manager finally went rogue and authorized for a bunch of us to stay late and get paid to deep clean the place (because the HEALTH BOARD told her to), and head office screamed at her over the phone. I heard it. She told them that she needed more labour to get the place up to health board standards, and they punished her for it by cutting our hours even more. After that we all coordinated finding other jobs, and one by one, all quit over the course of a month. If you ever go to an A&W during rush hour and you only see two people working, or if the line is around the building... go somewhere else. If you must go there, try to keep your focus on the popular, standard items that sell quickly, and you'll be more likely to get it fresh. And please... go easy on those kids. They're trying their best out there. I know this video was about BK and not A&W but... I just had to get that out there.
Working in the horeca sector is a stressful job. I loved to cook and from the age of 16 I was working in restaurants. By the age of 22, i fell out of love with cooking. It's a tough job and it'll break you literally and figuratively. That's why when I order something and it takes long, I always go back to the times I worked in a kitchen in my mind and calmly wait for my order to be ready.
More people in the world need to hear this story and others like them. It sucked that you had to go through that but I'm glad you're all out. Fuck em. I love A&W but i'll make sure to avoid it as much as possible. 👊
@@Everything4Tech Something I forgot to mention was that this is A&W Canada - other countries are entirely separate legal entities. With any luck, if you're in a different country, you MIGHT be okay. When you go to a place, scope out how many people are working and how clean it is. If it looks filthy in there, ESPECIALLY if there's only one cook and only one cashier (or if the cashier is alone and running into the back to help the cook), it's a red flag.
The high school I went to was right behind a Burger King, when the weather was warm and we had the windows open, all you could smell was the burgers cooking. You don’t know how hungry by lunch time we all were. Burger King was always packed during week days. Even now when I drive past it during the week, you always know what time the school is out for lunch.
Mine was across the street from a Burger King! And a Tim Hortons, a Chinese restaurant, and a grocery store. Then they tore down my high school and put a Walmart in it's place. 😔
There’s no comparison, any homemade anything will beat any fast food item! You made the buns, Mayo, pickles and grind your own beef, seasoned all the ingredients, fast food doesn’t even salt theirs. Even if you did not take the extra steps and made the burger with store bought items (buns, Mayo, pickles and ground beef) it would have been 100%better.
Just made this for my birthday! We made everything just like you said (except for the buns). Lots of prep, but it was a family effort 😀. Easily the best burgers I have EVER had, let alone made by myself (and I've eaten A LOT of burgers!). Hi from Australia and thankyou for your videos!
Yes. Create a gourmet burger to compete with fast food. Of COURSE the carefully constructed version would beat out the fast food version. But I will say THANK you for the instructions to make a gourmet burger at home. Will definitely use when I can. 💗
Yeah, I thought that was very weird. Also, inflation must be hitting Houston hard for two double whoppers be be over $15 and that's with no fries or drinks.
If you don’t wanna make your own buns, I’d definitely recommend aldi’s 4 pack of brioche buns. Easily the best store bought buns I’ve ever gotten and it’s not even close
@@googlesucks925 The way he grossed out on it? You could be right. Or he hasn't had one for a long time, because he made them himself. If you cook on that level, all fast food smells and tastes like garbage, because you know it can be better. Bit of a home cook myself, so i'm getting where he's coming from. But i can still enjoy a whopper, every now and then.
Just for reference, BK doesn't use mayo, they use whopper sauce which is a mayo-based spread. Not far off, but it does taste a lot better than standard mayo. It has stuff like Cayenne, Pickle Juice, etc.
Not impressed that you wasted food that way, so disrespectful. You slammed it into the bin, as bad as you may think it tastes there are people out there that are hungry. Get off your high horse.
When I was younger I hated "mayonnaise" until someone put mayonnaise on my burger accidentally and I said "this isn't mayo" that was when I found out that what my parents called "mayonnaise" was actually "miracle whip", I have liked mayonnaise ever since, nor have I forgiven my parents for their lie all those years, lol :)
I had a similar experience growing up. Hated Miracle Whip so much I refused to even try mayo since I assumed it would be the same. When I finally did it blew my mind. Loved it ever since.
@@danielbateman6518 When I was young, it was much cheaper than mayo - Think Butter vs Margarine. It was sweet and tangy, and absolutely awful, but people were saving money, I guess. So Bring Out the Best Foods, and Throw Out the Kraft!
I worked at BK for 3 1/2 years and I will say that if the whopper meat is fresh off the broiler and the add ons are adjusted to your liking, the Whopper can be a decent choice. I will also say that I absolutely hated working there and had many break downs in the walk in freezer while doing inventory. I can only dream of trying this recipe for myself but I am positive that you de-crowned the King
Your attention to detail truly brought that Burger King's Whopper to life; the ring molds sculpted the buns into flawless rounds, while the homemade pickles exuded a delightful tanginess. Your mastery of mayonnaise added a perfect touch, and the spicy ketchup was simply outstanding. The unique way you sliced the vegetables showcased your creativity and skill, making the entire dish a harmonious culinary masterpiece. Thanks for sharing!
5:25 That's salivary amylase, specifically. Amylase is largely produced by the pancreas, and when the pancreas is injured, some of that amylase will go into the blood. Amylase levels in your plasma/serum can be tested and is useful in assisting in the diagnosis of pancreatitis (but outdated thanks to lipase being a better and more indicative test). :)
The reason amylase is outdated as an indicator for pancreatitis is that it is not specific to the pancreas, as lipase is. Amylase is released by the salivary glands to start the conversion of long, more complex sugar chains into shorter chains that we taste as sweetness. Because pancreatitis is treated mostly with empiric pain medication, people could pretend to have pancreatitis by rubbing the angle of jaw and... abracadabra, elevated amylase -> treat with morphine.
pricewise, I bet this is cheaper off raw ingredients, I wouldn't be shocked if those raw ingredients where 1/4 what a whopper costs. Thing's the time, this guy's got a whole off screen cooking habit, you brush your teeth before bed, he's like time to start the dough proofing.
I love this series, but I am not sure if this has been brought up before, but it would be interesting to see if Josh is doing this while also utilizing the same profit margin as the name brand. It doesn't surprise me that he is able to make every item with better quality, but what if you had to produce the item for the same profit margin that Mcdonalds, Burger King, etc had to?
This format shows how to make the products better. He's not competing in making the margin they make, he's comparing the products. They claim that their products are good and because we hype them so much, Josh shows us how to do them better. You are basically asking him to change the video format
@@YAH995 It'd presumably be a new series with this format rather than changing the "But Better" series to match it. It'd be pretty cool to see what he could pull off with only a small budget.
Whopper, Whopper, Whopper, Whopper, Junior, Double, Triple Whopper, flame-grilled taste with perfect toppers, I rule this day! Lettuce, mayo, pickle, ketchup, it's okay if I don't want that, Impossible or Bacon Whopper, any Whopper my way! You rule, you're seizin’ the day, at BK, have it your way. You Rule!
I made this as I'm a fan of BK but hardly ever eat them and fancied a 'treat'. I didnt make the bun and I didn't charcoal grill my burger or make my own mayo ( Hellmans ) also used pickled gherkins from a jar. The result was a super juicy and flavoursome burger and no question your burger beats BK, even mine was definitely much tastier. It didnt take long to make from start to finish maybe 20 minutes and not much mess to clean up. It is worth the effort to follow your full recipe if you have time to do it and my burger cost about £3 for the ingredients as I used a 1/2 lb of beef. Thanks for your help. I will be making this again and will try some of your other recipes. You clearly know how to cook and your videos are snappy.
I was 3/4 through a law degree before I decided to quit it all and pursue a career as a chef. Since making that decision at the beginning of this year the quality of my life has improved so much. All credit to you Josh for inspiring me over the last few years. I just ordered your cookbook and I am so so excited. Please come visit New Zealand!!!!
As a homebrewer, kind of cool seeing beer brewing products/manufacturers low key being advertised, intentional or not 🤷♂️ Love the vids. Homebrewer and cooking enthusiast and always talk to friends about the overlap between the two. Nice to see it in you videos
Same here in Ireland, the one in this video looks grim xD what kind of shit fastfood quality you guys have over there in US? xD all their fastfood burgers looks like they got sat on by the employee's, gross.
Amylase is also an enzyme you can use in beer making! If you add it to the mash (your grain and hot water steep step) then you’ll be able to extract more sugar from the grain starches. There is an enzyme called amyloglucosidase that you can add in the mash^ and also while fermenting because it can also convert complex sugars into simple ones that the yeast can utilize. Cool to see more food science on the channel!
@@isabellaloignon5302 omg you have won the internet today. This has got to be the best thing I have read all week. LOL LOL. Oignon. The fact that its the truth kills.me. LOL love it.
Hey, that Burger King in particular is a god send. During the Houston freeze last winter I waited 2 1/2 hours in the drive-thru to get a couple whopper meals because they were the only place open in a 5 mile radius of my house. Best meal I’ve had in my entire life.
I want to see you do these “But Better” videos in other countries, because by the looks of it, here in Australia, our Wopper’s at Hungry Jack’s (it’s not call Burger King here for legal issues or something idk) are pretty decent, and the Ultimate Double Wopper; though a bit pricy, is huge and is really good.
that would be awesome; seeing joshua traveling the world and recreating different country’s fast food or maybe any kind of food. would make a great TV show i think. would love to see it.
Maybe not the best presentation, but still BK is my fave fast food when it comes to burgers below 10€. At least in Spain, their lettuce and tomatoes actually taste what they suppose to taste, not like MC lmao. Anyway, this whopper at home looks amazing and easy enough to try and make my own ~
@@Bakardadean I really enjoy the long chicken hahahahahaah I was a "MC is better" person and didn't eat in BK until I worked near one (so it came in handy) and it was another experience xd And I'm happy that they're getting the start of getting veggie options as a fast food restaurant, their veg whopper is pretty great tbh
Oh wow, a homemade burger made by a gourmet chef turned out to be better than a mass produced burger made in a fast food joint. I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
I like the wide burger king size - its a lot more balanced in flavor and ingredients and easier to bite into than a 4 inch high narrower burger. I do like your channel and many of your 100s of recipes are great.
I was a manager at BK back in the 90s. The whopper has undergone some changes since then(at least in my area), and not for the better. They no longer steam the buns which makes them hard and dry. They no longer use shredded lettuce so when you take a bite the whole leaf slides out. The meat now has like an artificial charcoal lighter fluid flavoring added to it(gross, I know). And for whatever reason whenever I happen to get one I always get the tomato butts. When I was running my store I threw the tops and bottoms out. I know it's fast food but I tried my best to at least make it palatable.
When you’re strugglin to making ends meet.. a whopper after pay day hits the spot Ngl. Those were my after high school years when I first moved out of my parents place 😂😂 once in a year I catch myself going back to BK to try it out, it’s my guilty pleasure.
Josh you have my deepest respect as a UA-cam chef. You definitely are talented and have skill I wish I had. But, I am sure you are aware, fast food and restaurants are different, one is built for convenience and one is built for quality. What you are making is gourmet fast food. This is stuff they serve at restaurants. Please don't hate on fasts food so much that it is disgusting to the common people. They are not bad in their own scale. Thanks for the vids
That's why it is called "but better" not "but like the original". The goal literally is to make a better version of the original regardless of time and cost. For that there is the "but cheaper" segment. And to be fair no matter how you look (timewise, quality wise or price) at it, the original really looks bad and super processed (the patty alone). It is what it is and all the power to those who want exactly that but it is bad.
@@mrteeeeeeee I understand that. But I would just appreciate if he showed a bit more respect for these establishments as they are instead of always pointing out how bad they are.
That whopper deserved to be dissed for not even looking like the ones in BB’s ads. That’s the least we should get. Mr. T is correct - Josh isn’t saying BK’s whoppers should be like his. This series is about his improvements on the popular foods, regardless of the source, though it’s often fast food, take out =, and chain restaurants He even finds ways to copy the popular features of the contenders, like the soft texture of the buns in this case. My inner sloth insists there’s no way we’re going through the trouble of obtaining two specialized ingredients to make hamburger buns, BUT I really like soft bread, especially on my burgers. Bother.
@@Obsidian_Iris_yeah to be fair I think LilDinoBoi was referring to the establishment and Josh bitching about waiting times and service. Basically the things he said in the beginning of the video. Which can be a fair point. Depending on how you look at it. Not for me though. I don't know how it generally fares in the us but in Berlin i get a very decent freshly made burger for the same price in a restaurant and it also takes like 20 minutes from ordering to being on the table. All in all it's maybe just Josh complaining because that's what he does and also it is good entertainment. Sure he should be respectful to the people working there which I think he is but towards the company itself? No fucking way. It's a ruthless company serving super bad food for high prices and misleading advertising. Nothing to like about it at all.
Man. I gotta give you props for your cooking skills. Made literally everything from scratch..... But at this point this video should be named how to spend $40 bucks and 3 hours to make a burger. Of course yours tastes better man. You compared what could be considered a gourmet burger to frozen mass produced food. Looks damn good though.
Exactly, UA-cam keeps showing me these in recommendations. Is good content and knowledgeable. But is basically taking a 14 year old kid and putting them against a 20 year martial arts vet in a fight. It is an easy win and easy content. I love burger king, reminds me of moments with my mom as a kid. Same with how enjoying a sausage mc griddle reminds me of saturday mornings with my dad. Its not the quailty its the memories that keep me coming back. Thankfully I am very big on eating at home so definitely dont eat fast food for 90% of your weekly food in take if you can avoid it.
Feel like you are entirely missing the point of the video. He takes a popular fast food item and makes it better. Hes not saying "this is how Burger King burgers should be" hes saying "I'm gonna make something like a Burger King burger but better and show you how to do it" hes challenging himself to make fast food better - not telling Burger King how it should be done.
i kinda just skip the whole him rating the original at this point because every time without fail it's just "that's bad" yeah josh who woluld've guessed
Joshua's first day at Burger King: "Okay, Josh, order in, timer started, you have 1,5 minutes to sent that order out else they will yell for the manager and ruin the store!" Josh: "B..b.b.bbut I just took out the flour of the cabinet, how do you expect to make a proper burger what looks nice and taste premium under that time??" "Do you think we love to work here, Josh, DO YOU?" just my imagination scenario XD Anyway I love the video, just wanted to point this out :) Also is there any fastfood burger what you like or "good enough"?
Yeah, it's WAY easy to beat a fast food burger when you spend half the day making buns, dill pickles, sauces from scratch. The entire point of fast food is FAST.
when making mayo i highly recommend using kerrygold butter or animal fat in place of vegetable oil*. (makes for a healthier tastier mayo) *if you have seen how vegetable oil is processed, you wouldn't want the rancid & scent removed oil in your body
@@KiltedBlackDragon that's what I meant by "whole butter." 🙂 I've been using ghee or clarified butter instead of oil whenever possible but I've never made mayonnaise before. I just might try a small batch now. Thank you!
Problem is that the cost of your’s is far more I guess than the cost of a Burger King, would be good to see you try something with a comparable budget, the cost of the actual item to make rather than the retail price. Otherwise as always, your food and cooking is top level. Thank you for your content.
Buy some cheap ground beef with medium fat (hell, even 90/10 would be fine), some cheap buns, a red plastic tomato from walmart, and make 3-4 better burgers by cooking the meat until it's to your liking, putting it on the bread, and then putting some sliced tomato on it. It takes nothing to make a better burger than Burger King for cheaper per-burger.
Amazing recipe! I made this and was really yummy! Even my partner liked it a lot who normally doesn't eat burger, he's learning 😀 I made the buns without the enzyme and with my normal instant yeast and worked great for me. I also put salt on the tomatoes, so can we now watch Batman together?
No don't be ashamed of yourself. Something that Josh doesn't yet get is that you cannot make a but better of fastfood meals. People don't order fastfood nessecarily for the taste but for the simplicty.
@@CarlosHuiskens idk if I wanna pay 15$ for "simplicity", 15$ is a fkton of money in my currency, and I would opt for taste if I'm gonna be paying that much. If there's anything we can all agree on about what Josh said, Burger King is _not_ the king of burgers. Overpriced, sloppy, not even tasty. Some of them tasted like nothing. My local burger chain delivers food that tastes better than theirs. Its cheap, fast and delicious to top it off. Even those sImPliStiC burgers taste way better than the Burger King counterparts. So yes, there can _absolutely_ be better food for fastfood meals. If you're paying and have a choice, you never have to compromise quality. Even in fastfood. This "simplicity" bs is an excuse.
I see a lot of thumbnails on youtube of burger comparisons with the small compressed one vs the big tall one.. I might be alone here but am I the only one who actually loves the squished, soft and cheesy burger over the thick big topping heavy burger? Like a nice hot, compressed small double cheeseburger with a soft bun I can just bite into knowing it's bad for me is one of my favorite comfort foods.
No, there's nothing wrong with wanting a sandwich that you can actually fit in your mouth. A practically spherical burger looks great on film, but it's just annoying once it's in your hands. Styled food is never as good as it looks, because looks come before taste for foodtubers. One of the things I love about Chef John is that he feels free to make something that's ugly and either explain how to make it look a little prettier or just admit that it's ugly but delicious.
When the organ sound played for the burger funeral, I immediately thought of Fix You by Coldplay. Then Josh started making the new burger. I got chills down my spine. Just documenting the experience so I don't forget, it was kinda cray.
he never realizes or states that the food he’s comparing to his own version is FAST FOOD and made to be quick and fast, he’s spending time and quality to make a better version but he calls his better which it obviously will be
He probably knows that bro, but the fun of his videos is to see something that we can eat world wide being transformed in a more heatlhy and tasty meal. I'm from Brazil and I can relate to his content, because he is dealing with something that we can eat here
@@mac2857 how? What special ingredients did he use that are soo hard to get a hold of? Make everything at the beginning of the day, keep it in cold but not frozen condition... People order, you fry up the burgers and you assemble it the same as always... :/ There are places where you can get good burgers fast guy.
I went to Burger King in Germany once and they had this king selection menu with Kings mustard & smoked cheese double. Literally the best burger I’ve ever eaten at a fast food chain. If you told me that this burger was made in a burger restaurant, i would believe it
A lot of chain restaurants are better in Europe. Went to a Subway in Germany near my hotel and it was just... stellar. On par with the best mom'n'pop subs in my home area in Massachusetts. Not gonna say better, but definitely whoops U.S. Subways and other chains. I suspect the restrictions on many additives and preservatives in Germany/other European countries helps improve the overall taste, also many ingredients often have less distance to travel from the farm to the restaurants.
One of the best burgers I've tasted was a signature mcdonalds mexican burger in mexico, it was basically a better quarter pounder without ketchup and with pico de gallo, guac and pepperjack cheese, it was incredibly good for a fast food restaurant.
The thing i hate about it when people say "but better" is that it just isn't better, it's completely different and tastes nothing like the original food
@@CarpetHater if he really wanted to make a but better he would find an actual fast food meal he likes(which he doesn’t) and enhance the good parts and elevate them
@@kingworldadventures agreed, like if he tries to make a big mac for example, he should make a sesame seed bun, and make that perfectly instead of "let's make brioche buns because that's better".
A great practical joke would be to take a regular customer that orders a whopper at a Burger King and instead give him this masterpiece that Josh has just cooked right out back in a food truck and using a charcoal grill in a fenced area behind the store. Then note the customer's reaction. "This seems a lot better than usual!"
This are just my thoughts, but I think u should do a challenge from the master chef's challenges. After choosing dishes u want to cook, make a poll and let us vote what dish u would be cooking:)
The Whopper has two slices of cheese, two swirls of mustard, three swirls of ketchup, 4 pickles, onions, tomato, lettuce, and mayo. I just read an article that said it doesn't have mustard but our restaurant had it on the training video. I was management for a year.
As a passionate cook who lives in a very uncultured small Midwest town, I absolutely love your But Better series. There is literally one restaurant that I enjoy going to, the rest is all bar food or fast food joints, and I end up succumbing to these crap menus because I just don't have time or feel like cooking at home after a long day of cooking at work some days. I begrudgingly order something and as I eat it all I can think is, "Why didn't I just carve out some time to just make this at home, but better?"
I live in Ames, Iowa and there’s this insane restaurant here called Macubana that’s specializes in Mac n Cheese but has a menu full of flavorful food. If Ames is a little boring, the Walnut in Des Moines, Iowa is also some of the most phenomenal food I’ve ever had. Never thought I’d find a grilled chicken sandwich that’s better than any fried I’ve had.
By the time you are done with your burger, I already ate at burger king, went to cinema, watched a movie, got hungry again, and went for a second round at mcdonalds and came back home with time left to spare
I’d be interested in seeing some videos in a “But Faster” series. Show us how to make quick meals at home faster than you could by driving out to a restaurant, ordering, and returning.
thats already a series by another channel, people would come for his throat and call it stealing
@@jackiebrot959 if he mentions him i dont think thats a problem
I would love to see that!
@@jackiebrot959 which channel ?
yes yes yes
I’m 50 years old so I remember when Burger King opened up in St.Louis MO. The Whopper burger was a bit smaller than a dinner plate and each burger was flame grilled to order, there was actual smoke in the air because they fully cooked the fresh meat over open fire grills that you could see. They fixed It exactly how you liked it so it was absolutely delicious and put other burger chains to shame. Now the whopper is the same as any other burger out there, the same thing happened to McDonald’s food. Back in the day it was actually tasty food.
Totally agree!!! Had a same experience with BK in New York - but that was 30 years ago...
I'm a millennial and our generation is doomed. Lol
BK in the UK was like that too back in the day, now it is the same awful crap shown in this video. They used to actually flame grill the burgers now they are flame grill flavour, just terrible.
@@BurnerTurner To remember a world before Net 2.0 but after the near-total commodification of everything is... a mood. The 90's really were a bizarre twilight decade that bridged two separate worlds.
@@NieroshaiTheSable exactly brotha
Hey quick note: if the garlic turns cyanide blue over time (like a few days) in that pickle brine it's perfectly normal and still edible. It's a reaction between the chemicals the garlic releases from being bruised with the acidic solution it's sitting in that produces that blue pigmentation.
I’ve always wondered why this happens! Thanks for the info.
The nodule things you saw on one side of the burger is from the cooking. It's cooked on a flame "char broiler" conveyor belt thing. Those are the juices that kind of congeal and break away from the main burger. You get them on your own burgers if you dont flip them. The act of flipping them gets them off your burger.
You bring the whole “we have food at home” to a whole other level. Your kids (if you choose to have them) will be extremely lucky 😂
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I think hes sweet girl, only kids he goin have is ones orderded off e bay or wherever folks buy them kids from. Chile please.
@@whitealliance9540 lmfao
Making Kids But Better
I used to be a supervisor at A&W. Believe me, we did everything we physically could to try and make the food decent... but during Covid, upper management made massive price cuts. I'm talking labour percentage of 11-14% and our manager getting written up and screamed at on the phone if it went higher. Any restaurant owner worth their salt will tell you that this is COMPLETELY INSANE. Everyone quit in April, starting with our manager, and including myself, because we were being pushed to work unpaid overtime just in order to keep things up to standard. I was a supervisor and I didn't want anyone getting food poisoning, so I was going in unpaid after hours (in exchange for food that my manager slipped me) trying to clean the place up because having one cook and one cashier on a Friday night means that nobody has time to clean. And my manager came in, unpaid, on CHRISTMAS DAY to clean because that was the only day of the year where there weren't any customers. One day my manager finally went rogue and authorized for a bunch of us to stay late and get paid to deep clean the place (because the HEALTH BOARD told her to), and head office screamed at her over the phone. I heard it. She told them that she needed more labour to get the place up to health board standards, and they punished her for it by cutting our hours even more. After that we all coordinated finding other jobs, and one by one, all quit over the course of a month.
If you ever go to an A&W during rush hour and you only see two people working, or if the line is around the building... go somewhere else. If you must go there, try to keep your focus on the popular, standard items that sell quickly, and you'll be more likely to get it fresh. And please... go easy on those kids. They're trying their best out there.
I know this video was about BK and not A&W but... I just had to get that out there.
Working in the horeca sector is a stressful job.
I loved to cook and from the age of 16 I was working in restaurants.
By the age of 22, i fell out of love with cooking.
It's a tough job and it'll break you literally and figuratively.
That's why when I order something and it takes long, I always go back to the times I worked in a kitchen in my mind and calmly wait for my order to be ready.
Capitalism bay bee.
More people in the world need to hear this story and others like them. It sucked that you had to go through that but I'm glad you're all out. Fuck em. I love A&W but i'll make sure to avoid it as much as possible. 👊
@@Everything4Tech Something I forgot to mention was that this is A&W Canada - other countries are entirely separate legal entities. With any luck, if you're in a different country, you MIGHT be okay. When you go to a place, scope out how many people are working and how clean it is. If it looks filthy in there, ESPECIALLY if there's only one cook and only one cashier (or if the cashier is alone and running into the back to help the cook), it's a red flag.
@@MedorraBlue "Look at the restaurant, and if it's FILTHY, don't eat there."
I'll keep that in mind.
The high school I went to was right behind a Burger King, when the weather was warm and we had the windows open, all you could smell was the burgers cooking. You don’t know how hungry by lunch time we all were. Burger King was always packed during week days. Even now when I drive past it during the week, you always know what time the school is out for lunch.
I’d wager you could tell what time school was out for lunch because it has lunch at the same time every day...
Same for me but with chick FIL a
Mine was across the street from a Burger King! And a Tim Hortons, a Chinese restaurant, and a grocery store. Then they tore down my high school and put a Walmart in it's place. 😔
@@VeryCherryCherry I'm so sorry
Did they have foot lettuce?
the amount of work put in that burger was mind blowing but does look like the best burger ive ever seen.
This is literally the definition of do what you love, I wish everyone had this amount of passion.
There’s no comparison, any homemade anything will beat any fast food item! You made the buns, Mayo, pickles and grind your own beef, seasoned all the ingredients, fast food doesn’t even salt theirs. Even if you did not take the extra steps and made the burger with store bought items (buns, Mayo, pickles and ground beef) it would have been 100%better.
Just made this for my birthday! We made everything just like you said (except for the buns). Lots of prep, but it was a family effort 😀. Easily the best burgers I have EVER had, let alone made by myself (and I've eaten A LOT of burgers!). Hi from Australia and thankyou for your videos!
Sounds like it's more work than it's worth.
I will do the same for my birthday thanks for the idea 🔥
@@Gamer-vs3xl Good food is it's own reward my dude
@@Gamer-vs3xl
Well you can keep eating the crappy burgers made with teenage sweat and tears
Yes. Create a gourmet burger to compete with fast food. Of COURSE the carefully constructed version would beat out the fast food version.
But I will say THANK you for the instructions to make a gourmet burger at home. Will definitely use when I can. 💗
"Can i have a double Whopper" - "We have an extra patty" - throws it away
This should be pinned! 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, I thought that was very weird. Also, inflation must be hitting Houston hard for two double whoppers be be over $15 and that's with no fries or drinks.
lmao xD
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley fast food places punish you for only getting a burger and not a combo. It's like basically the same price.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley 6/7 bux for a DOUBLE Whopper WITH cheese IS pretty cheap.....they're cheaper on a Wednesday too.......
If you don’t wanna make your own buns, I’d definitely recommend aldi’s 4 pack of brioche buns. Easily the best store bought buns I’ve ever gotten and it’s not even close
lol im always buying those
papa dont like it that way....
Those are so good
Aldis usually don’t miss
have to agree there leagues above any other store, especially Tesco there brioche buns suck.
Him: “they added an extra patty”
Also Him: “Can i get a double whopper with cheese”
was looking for this comment lol
Literally 😂
Don't think he's ever ordered a BK before or any other takeaway for that matter.
@@googlesucks925
The way he grossed out on it? You could be right.
Or he hasn't had one for a long time, because he made them himself.
If you cook on that level, all fast food smells and tastes like garbage, because you know it can be better.
Bit of a home cook myself, so i'm getting where he's coming from.
But i can still enjoy a whopper, every now and then.
@@googlesucks925 he has a shitload of videos showing him ordering other fast food takeaway
Just for reference, BK doesn't use mayo, they use whopper sauce which is a mayo-based spread. Not far off, but it does taste a lot better than standard mayo. It has stuff like Cayenne, Pickle Juice, etc.
Lies again? Polite Home Delivery
I work there that is so untrue
I dont remember that when i worked there, but then again i never added mustard.
im a manager at bk and trust me its regular mayo it comes in a long tub and it has that annoying plastic film cover on it, its literally regular mayo
We use regular mayo at BK New Zealand
8:28 I feel disturbed watching this "sack" being slapped by Papa
bro he violated it so hard
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The man himself. Remember me for twitch chat brother?
I’m ordering a whopper
Thats not what I felt >:D
As a Burger King employee, without even having to taste Josh’s burger, I’d say his burger is better.
As another Burger King Employee, this is his best burger, and all of his burgers slap BK
As a patron of Burger King; 10:1 Josh’s burger doesn’t make you taste said burger for the next 4 days. 😂
Ye no shit Sherlock
Quite a bold statement if I say so myself
As a burger, i would say me is better.
Joshua is definitely the king of having it his way .
I’ve got a feeling this particular Burger King is a front for a crystal meth conglomerate.
Boom
Not impressed that you wasted food that way, so disrespectful. You slammed it into the bin, as bad as you may think it tastes there are people out there that are hungry. Get off your high horse.
*queen
You got it
9:59 that 'oyion' pronunciation made me spit my coffee out, hahaha
When I was younger I hated "mayonnaise" until someone put mayonnaise on my burger accidentally and I said "this isn't mayo" that was when I found out that what my parents called "mayonnaise" was actually "miracle whip", I have liked mayonnaise ever since, nor have I forgiven my parents for their lie all those years, lol :)
I had a similar experience growing up. Hated Miracle Whip so much I refused to even try mayo since I assumed it would be the same. When I finally did it blew my mind. Loved it ever since.
What is this miracle whip and why is it so bad?
@@danielbateman6518 When I was young, it was much cheaper than mayo - Think Butter vs Margarine.
It was sweet and tangy, and absolutely awful, but people were saving money, I guess.
So Bring Out the Best Foods, and Throw Out the Kraft!
@@imaytag So I wasn't the only one, lol
Yea, it was surprising mayo had such a different taste.
@@danielbateman6518 For one it is a little sweeter and is used and sold as a salad dressing. But many use it as a substitute for mayo.
I worked at BK for 3 1/2 years and I will say that if the whopper meat is fresh off the broiler and the add ons are adjusted to your liking, the Whopper can be a decent choice. I will also say that I absolutely hated working there and had many break downs in the walk in freezer while doing inventory. I can only dream of trying this recipe for myself but I am positive that you de-crowned the King
U good now my friend?
Damn, that was unnecessary
@@skyrimplayer2335 not really
@@skyrimplayer2335 capitalism is unnecessary
@@KeboYo I am much better today! I’m now working in the field I want to be in and I’m getting therapy. Thanks for asking, friend :)
This looks so perfect it looks like the Crabby Patty when it is shown having been made correctly on Spongebob. That is a HIGH compliment!
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH who lives in a pineapple under the see
Burger King is basically the Chum Bucket compared to this.
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Sometime I wished Plankton would succeed in getting the secret formula.
Your attention to detail truly brought that Burger King's Whopper to life; the ring molds sculpted the buns into flawless rounds, while the homemade pickles exuded a delightful tanginess. Your mastery of mayonnaise added a perfect touch, and the spicy ketchup was simply outstanding. The unique way you sliced the vegetables showcased your creativity and skill, making the entire dish a harmonious culinary masterpiece. Thanks for sharing!
You're an asshole.
Yummy.
"Papa's here. Did you drink water today?"
*sweats nervously*
Unable to sweat because I drank no water today
@@TomYourmombadil was about to say the same lol
So when will Josh upgrade “But Better” from a single food item to a full meal? Looking at you Olive Garden soup salad and breadsticks
@UC7PqUrd228q6bY0sxYevPsg I know but that’s why I said meal
Awesome idea
I’d love this so I can stop having a staring contest with the waiter waiting for me to say when on the shredded cheese.
He's already done the breadsticks, so why not?
5:25 That's salivary amylase, specifically. Amylase is largely produced by the pancreas, and when the pancreas is injured, some of that amylase will go into the blood. Amylase levels in your plasma/serum can be tested and is useful in assisting in the diagnosis of pancreatitis (but outdated thanks to lipase being a better and more indicative test). :)
The reason amylase is outdated as an indicator for pancreatitis is that it is not specific to the pancreas, as lipase is. Amylase is released by the salivary glands to start the conversion of long, more complex sugar chains into shorter chains that we taste as sweetness. Because pancreatitis is treated mostly with empiric pain medication, people could pretend to have pancreatitis by rubbing the angle of jaw and... abracadabra, elevated amylase -> treat with morphine.
I can’t believe the hours I’ve spent watching this show. It’s amazing! Funny as hell too.
Josh: complains about fast food being bad quality.
also Josh: complains about fast food not being fast enough.
He’s so pretentious it’s off putting lmfao
BK > McD by a landslide
@@jmains not even close BK is so garbage
@@D_slade Person: just enjoying a meal
Josh: I diagnose you with Mental Illness 1:22
@@D_slade I don't think calling out the poor quality of most fast food is being pretentious.
Me: looks delicious, I'll have one burger please.
Josh: No problem brother, that will be $65....please pull forward in two days 😂
.....I would do it to be honest. I would pay if he made that shiet personally for 65 bucks 😂
@@der23 brother
ikr!!! BK is a fast food restaurant not a private 5 star place
pricewise, I bet this is cheaper off raw ingredients, I wouldn't be shocked if those raw ingredients where 1/4 what a whopper costs. Thing's the time, this guy's got a whole off screen cooking habit, you brush your teeth before bed, he's like time to start the dough proofing.
@@adrianramos8872 if you read the title it says "But Better", its a recreation
I love this series, but I am not sure if this has been brought up before, but it would be interesting to see if Josh is doing this while also utilizing the same profit margin as the name brand. It doesn't surprise me that he is able to make every item with better quality, but what if you had to produce the item for the same profit margin that Mcdonalds, Burger King, etc had to?
Good comment, bad formatting. Remove the returns on every line.
Their margins are so small because their products are not real. Hence why it's so cheap. And terrible for you
This format shows how to make the products better. He's not competing in making the margin they make, he's comparing the products.
They claim that their products are good and because we hype them so much, Josh shows us how to do them better. You are basically asking him to change the video format
Yeah but the way you wrote that is weird
@@YAH995
It'd presumably be a new series with this format rather than changing the "But Better" series to match it. It'd be pretty cool to see what he could pull off with only a small budget.
BK: "Have it your way!"
Joshua: "And I took that personally."
Josh : “We got an extra patty”
Also Josh : “ DOUBLE whopper with cheese”
That's what I was gonna say
For real, he asked for 2 double whoppers 🤣🤣
Whopper, Whopper, Whopper, Whopper,
Junior, Double, Triple Whopper, flame-grilled taste with perfect toppers, I rule this day!
Lettuce, mayo, pickle, ketchup, it's okay if I don't want that, Impossible or Bacon Whopper, any Whopper my way!
You rule, you're seizin’ the day, at BK, have it your way.
You Rule!
I’m a massive fan of the smash burger. I do admit though, this looks phenomenal! Thanks Josh
i am too :D
Josh should've edit the "Preparing the Krabby Patty" song after his burger was assembled. Would've made so much better. 😂
Da. Daradadada.
I can't put a patty on a bun with lettuce cheese onions tomatoes ketchup mustard pickles and top bun in that order
I made this as I'm a fan of BK but hardly ever eat them and fancied a 'treat'. I didnt make the bun and I didn't charcoal grill my burger or make my own mayo ( Hellmans ) also used pickled gherkins from a jar. The result was a super juicy and flavoursome burger and no question your burger beats BK, even mine was definitely much tastier. It didnt take long to make from start to finish maybe 20 minutes and not much mess to clean up. It is worth the effort to follow your full recipe if you have time to do it and my burger cost about £3 for the ingredients as I used a 1/2 lb of beef. Thanks for your help. I will be making this again and will try some of your other recipes. You clearly know how to cook and your videos are snappy.
BTW, Amylase can also be found online and from most baking retailers as “diastatic malt powder”
is that a fellow Regusea fan i see?
ua-cam.com/video/sh7tL1c2aMU/v-deo.html Christmas Starbucks drinks ;D
Joshua is the one person who can do everything from scratch and make it look super simple
I made his hot dog buns from scratch, was easy af.
I mean ya know the old saying, if ya want something done right ya gotta do it yourself
That’s because he loves to cook like me
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I was 3/4 through a law degree before I decided to quit it all and pursue a career as a chef. Since making that decision at the beginning of this year the quality of my life has improved so much. All credit to you Josh for inspiring me over the last few years. I just ordered your cookbook and I am so so excited. Please come visit New Zealand!!!!
ayyyy hello fellow kiwi
You mean the envy of the US?
As a homebrewer, kind of cool seeing beer brewing products/manufacturers low key being advertised, intentional or not 🤷♂️
Love the vids. Homebrewer and cooking enthusiast and always talk to friends about the overlap between the two. Nice to see it in you videos
It’s been years since I last ate at Burger King. Weird how time flies.
I had a whopper recently after years and that char-broiled taste was so deeply nostalgic
One day literally all the comments will just be bots and we won't be able to do anything about it:(.
@@aharonsidorov5145 Why we have bots in this comment?
@@Pridetoons because youtube sucks at detecting them...
don't go there for anything. tried their food recently and it doesn't taste like it used to and it's overpriced... not worth it imo
idk, the whopper is actually really good in germany, taste and looks
yea same in holland its better than mcdonalds
Same in Norway, the burgers are really good with fresh vegetables. Better than McDonalds
Same here in Ireland, the one in this video looks grim xD what kind of shit fastfood quality you guys have over there in US? xD all their fastfood burgers looks like they got sat on by the employee's, gross.
I think it's a requirement for fast food burgers in the US to be thrown at the wall before serving.
@@nor1sh4 bk er sjukt i norge as
The only thing better than waking up at 10 on a Sunday is waking up to a but better episode at 10 on a sunday
im new here watched two videos and already want his cook book xD
Having a really bad day but this, this does put a smile on my face
I hope your day gets better or at least tomorrow is a better one
@@G4M4YUN13L thanks man
Amylase is also an enzyme you can use in beer making! If you add it to the mash (your grain and hot water steep step) then you’ll be able to extract more sugar from the grain starches. There is an enzyme called amyloglucosidase that you can add in the mash^ and also while fermenting because it can also convert complex sugars into simple ones that the yeast can utilize. Cool to see more food science on the channel!
Hearing Josh say “onyo” has helped me find peace
It's so true.
It’s oignon. I would know because my name
@@isabellaloignon5302 omg you have won the internet today. This has got to be the best thing I have read all week. LOL LOL. Oignon. The fact that its the truth kills.me. LOL love it.
3:20 Man, I laughed so hard thanks Josh 🍔🔥🔥
Me: I'm totally doing this
Josh: AMYLASE
Me: instant mac it's ok
You can leave that out and it'll be fine
u can buy it at a home brew supply store
just spit in the dough
It's quite literally just salivia...so.
Josh “so we have an extra patty”. Josh few minutes prior “can I get 2 double whoppers with cheese?”
Hey, that Burger King in particular is a god send. During the Houston freeze last winter I waited 2 1/2 hours in the drive-thru to get a couple whopper meals because they were the only place open in a 5 mile radius of my house. Best meal I’ve had in my entire life.
Now that’s just sad
When you're starving, donkey meat tastes like ribeye.
@@futanaritentaclefucker so was running out of food for a week 🤷🏻♂️
That burger looked soooo good!!! YOU ARE TRULY THE BURGER MASTER "i MEAN KING" LOL
I want to see you do these “But Better” videos in other countries, because by the looks of it, here in Australia, our Wopper’s at Hungry Jack’s (it’s not call Burger King here for legal issues or something idk) are pretty decent, and the Ultimate Double Wopper; though a bit pricy, is huge and is really good.
that would be awesome; seeing joshua traveling the world and recreating different country’s fast food or maybe any kind of food. would make a great TV show i think. would love to see it.
ikr, in my country the burger doesnt looks like what it is on the ads but it doesnt look THAT bad.
same here at Philippines
ikr im aussie too and the burgers are eh but their whopper is godly
True, the burgers are definitely better here from what I've sampled between the 2 nations.
As someone who use to work at one i find it really depends on the staff you have on and how much they cared - and it really wouldnt be hard to beat
Maybe not the best presentation, but still BK is my fave fast food when it comes to burgers below 10€. At least in Spain, their lettuce and tomatoes actually taste what they suppose to taste, not like MC lmao. Anyway, this whopper at home looks amazing and easy enough to try and make my own ~
Yeah exactly! I always tell my husband BK actually tastes like a real burger, unlike MC!
Same, i've been always eating Mcdonal's 1€ burgers until some weeks ago i went to burger king first time.
Long chicken > all xD
@@Bakardadean I really enjoy the long chicken hahahahahaah I was a "MC is better" person and didn't eat in BK until I worked near one (so it came in handy) and it was another experience xd And I'm happy that they're getting the start of getting veggie options as a fast food restaurant, their veg whopper is pretty great tbh
Oh wow, a homemade burger made by a gourmet chef turned out to be better than a mass produced burger made in a fast food joint.
I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!
This show should just be called “but bigger” at this point
I mean bigger for foods technically means better lol
Or perhaps more accurately, 'but more spherical and difficult to eat'.
But bigger is better! 😆
Every burger commerical shows a "tower" burger emphasizing the size so I guess
Making Fast Food | But Slower
I could taste the bun just from this video it looked so good, amazing job Josh!
Chicago Josh, honestly because of you I've learned how to cook. Keep it up! I can't wait until my cookbook comes
I like the wide burger king size - its a lot more balanced in flavor and ingredients and easier to bite into than a 4 inch high narrower burger. I do like your channel and many of your 100s of recipes are great.
I was a manager at BK back in the 90s. The whopper has undergone some changes since then(at least in my area), and not for the better. They no longer steam the buns which makes them hard and dry. They no longer use shredded lettuce so when you take a bite the whole leaf slides out. The meat now has like an artificial charcoal lighter fluid flavoring added to it(gross, I know). And for whatever reason whenever I happen to get one I always get the tomato butts. When I was running my store I threw the tops and bottoms out. I know it's fast food but I tried my best to at least make it palatable.
No wonder the bread is gross now it used to be my favorite everything taste off used to be so good
@marisol escobedo the only thing that I get at BK is the mozzarella sticks but that's once a week
Thanks so much for this video! Never salted tomatoes, tried yesterday and it was really big difference!
I swear Josh hires a cinematographer, his videos are more cinematic than a blockbuster movie
When you’re strugglin to making ends meet.. a whopper after pay day hits the spot Ngl. Those were my after high school years when I first moved out of my parents place 😂😂 once in a year I catch myself going back to BK to try it out, it’s my guilty pleasure.
Josh you have my deepest respect as a UA-cam chef. You definitely are talented and have skill I wish I had. But, I am sure you are aware, fast food and restaurants are different, one is built for convenience and one is built for quality. What you are making is gourmet fast food. This is stuff they serve at restaurants. Please don't hate on fasts food so much that it is disgusting to the common people. They are not bad in their own scale. Thanks for the vids
That's why it is called "but better" not "but like the original". The goal literally is to make a better version of the original regardless of time and cost. For that there is the "but cheaper" segment. And to be fair no matter how you look (timewise, quality wise or price) at it, the original really looks bad and super processed (the patty alone).
It is what it is and all the power to those who want exactly that but it is bad.
@@mrteeeeeeee I understand that. But I would just appreciate if he showed a bit more respect for these establishments as they are instead of always pointing out how bad they are.
@@mrteeeeeeee But thank you for your feedback ☺️
That whopper deserved to be dissed for not even looking like the ones in BB’s ads. That’s the least we should get. Mr. T is correct - Josh isn’t saying BK’s whoppers should be like his. This series is about his improvements on the popular foods, regardless of the source, though it’s often fast food, take out =, and chain restaurants He even finds ways to copy the popular features of the contenders, like the soft texture of the buns in this case. My inner sloth insists there’s no way we’re going through the trouble of obtaining two specialized ingredients to make hamburger buns, BUT I really like soft bread, especially on my burgers. Bother.
@@Obsidian_Iris_yeah to be fair I think LilDinoBoi was referring to the establishment and Josh bitching about waiting times and service. Basically the things he said in the beginning of the video. Which can be a fair point. Depending on how you look at it. Not for me though. I don't know how it generally fares in the us but in Berlin i get a very decent freshly made burger for the same price in a restaurant and it also takes like 20 minutes from ordering to being on the table. All in all it's maybe just Josh complaining because that's what he does and also it is good entertainment. Sure he should be respectful to the people working there which I think he is but towards the company itself? No fucking way. It's a ruthless company serving super bad food for high prices and misleading advertising. Nothing to like about it at all.
Man. I gotta give you props for your cooking skills. Made literally everything from scratch..... But at this point this video should be named how to spend $40 bucks and 3 hours to make a burger. Of course yours tastes better man. You compared what could be considered a gourmet burger to frozen mass produced food. Looks damn good though.
made me cringe in the mcdonalds vid too
Yeah I feel the fact it's fast food made by teens for minimum wage isn't really taken into account and not everyone has time to spend making a burger
Exactly, UA-cam keeps showing me these in recommendations. Is good content and knowledgeable. But is basically taking a 14 year old kid and putting them against a 20 year martial arts vet in a fight. It is an easy win and easy content. I love burger king, reminds me of moments with my mom as a kid. Same with how enjoying a sausage mc griddle reminds me of saturday mornings with my dad. Its not the quailty its the memories that keep me coming back. Thankfully I am very big on eating at home so definitely dont eat fast food for 90% of your weekly food in take if you can avoid it.
Feel like you are entirely missing the point of the video. He takes a popular fast food item and makes it better. Hes not saying "this is how Burger King burgers should be" hes saying "I'm gonna make something like a Burger King burger but better and show you how to do it" hes challenging himself to make fast food better - not telling Burger King how it should be done.
@@skulledpitchingwedge71 he didnt even flame broil the burger tho
i kinda just skip the whole him rating the original at this point because every time without fail it's just "that's bad" yeah josh who woluld've guessed
Yeah that whole segment is just a bit stale.
It doesn't look like the picture! This observation has never been made before!
I skip because he sounds a little pretentious and it’s somewhat annoying.
Just like the onyon bit that's what like 20 years old? Guy can cook for sure but man, for being a memer his memes are old as fuck
Yea I find it kinda annoying. He exaggerates how bad it tastes and its just meh
I can't wait to try this. My hubby and I used to love Burger King 👑 🍔 but the past few years it's definitely not the same.
Joshua's first day at Burger King: "Okay, Josh, order in, timer started, you have 1,5 minutes to sent that order out else they will yell for the manager and ruin the store!" Josh: "B..b.b.bbut I just took out the flour of the cabinet, how do you expect to make a proper burger what looks nice and taste premium under that time??" "Do you think we love to work here, Josh, DO YOU?" just my imagination scenario XD
Anyway I love the video, just wanted to point this out :) Also is there any fastfood burger what you like or "good enough"?
Yeah, it's WAY easy to beat a fast food burger when you spend half the day making buns, dill pickles, sauces from scratch. The entire point of fast food is FAST.
Exactly lmao
@ScrapperNoHand of course the biggest concern is cost, to put out a cheap product, cheap ingredients go into it.
@ScrapperNoHand why are you dunking on fast food employees like they have a say in the food they serve
Prep is important
Josh: Orders double whoppers.
Also Josh: "We got an extra patty".
Glad I'm not the only one that noticed that.
Josh: "Meet us in Dallas"
Me, a European: "WAIT FOR ME PAPA"
13:06
Josh: (Shows the Burger King Whopper Patty) Want this?
Me: Yes
when making mayo i highly recommend using kerrygold butter or animal fat in place of vegetable oil*. (makes for a healthier tastier mayo)
*if you have seen how vegetable oil is processed, you wouldn't want the rancid & scent removed oil in your body
finally someone who's actually intelligent about food and the dangers of PUFAS
Would that be whole butter or clarified? Ooo...I wonder if ghee would work...🤔
@@ForbiddenChocolate you could use ghee, and kerrygold is actual butter made of pasteurized cream and salt....so i'm guessing "whole butter".
@@KiltedBlackDragon that's what I meant by "whole butter." 🙂 I've been using ghee or clarified butter instead of oil whenever possible but I've never made mayonnaise before. I just might try a small batch now. Thank you!
@@ForbiddenChocolate do let me know how it turns out. also, make sure it is a low temperature melt as not to cook the eggs in it
Problem is that the cost of your’s is far more I guess than the cost of a Burger King, would be good to see you try something with a comparable budget, the cost of the actual item to make rather than the retail price. Otherwise as always, your food and cooking is top level. Thank you for your content.
He has a serie called "but cheaper", and it should have some burger recipe
Buy some cheap ground beef with medium fat (hell, even 90/10 would be fine), some cheap buns, a red plastic tomato from walmart, and make 3-4 better burgers by cooking the meat until it's to your liking, putting it on the bread, and then putting some sliced tomato on it. It takes nothing to make a better burger than Burger King for cheaper per-burger.
It's the time not quality, BK makes the burgers in like 10 seconds lol
@@CreateHarmony they taste like trash, I'd rather spend more time and money than eat trash
@@josephstalin9225 Honestly burger king is one of the best fast food places, fuck yourself.
Amazing recipe! I made this and was really yummy! Even my partner liked it a lot who normally doesn't eat burger, he's learning 😀 I made the buns without the enzyme and with my normal instant yeast and worked great for me. I also put salt on the tomatoes, so can we now watch Batman together?
I just buy the buns at the store lol
@@the8balls293 make them once and compare the difference..
Just bought this dudes cookbook, he’s somewhat inspiring in a way. Thanks man!
*is it bad this made me wanna get a whopper...........haven't had one on years*
No don't be ashamed of yourself. Something that Josh doesn't yet get is that you cannot make a but better of fastfood meals. People don't order fastfood nessecarily for the taste but for the simplicty.
Get one to remind you why you haven't had one for so long.
@@CarlosHuiskens its called "fast food" for a reason.
The amount of times I’ve seen youtubers I watch commenting on videos of other youtubers I also watch recently is starting to scare me.
@@CarlosHuiskens idk if I wanna pay 15$ for "simplicity", 15$ is a fkton of money in my currency, and I would opt for taste if I'm gonna be paying that much. If there's anything we can all agree on about what Josh said, Burger King is _not_ the king of burgers.
Overpriced, sloppy, not even tasty. Some of them tasted like nothing. My local burger chain delivers food that tastes better than theirs. Its cheap, fast and delicious to top it off. Even those sImPliStiC burgers taste way better than the Burger King counterparts. So yes, there can _absolutely_ be better food for fastfood meals.
If you're paying and have a choice, you never have to compromise quality. Even in fastfood. This "simplicity" bs is an excuse.
Best parts of all his videos is the one of a kind “Papas B ROLL!”
I see a lot of thumbnails on youtube of burger comparisons with the small compressed one vs the big tall one.. I might be alone here but am I the only one who actually loves the squished, soft and cheesy burger over the thick big topping heavy burger? Like a nice hot, compressed small double cheeseburger with a soft bun I can just bite into knowing it's bad for me is one of my favorite comfort foods.
No, there's nothing wrong with wanting a sandwich that you can actually fit in your mouth. A practically spherical burger looks great on film, but it's just annoying once it's in your hands. Styled food is never as good as it looks, because looks come before taste for foodtubers. One of the things I love about Chef John is that he feels free to make something that's ugly and either explain how to make it look a little prettier or just admit that it's ugly but delicious.
When the organ sound played for the burger funeral, I immediately thought of Fix You by Coldplay. Then Josh started making the new burger. I got chills down my spine. Just documenting the experience so I don't forget, it was kinda cray.
he never realizes or states that the food he’s comparing to his own version is FAST FOOD and made to be quick and fast, he’s spending time and quality to make a better version but he calls his better which it obviously will be
true
He probably knows that bro, but the fun of his videos is to see something that we can eat world wide being transformed in a more heatlhy and tasty meal. I'm from Brazil and I can relate to his content, because he is dealing with something that we can eat here
also COST
if Burger King started selling those burgers they would be $100 at which point no one would buy them
@@mac2857 how? What special ingredients did he use that are soo hard to get a hold of? Make everything at the beginning of the day, keep it in cold but not frozen condition... People order, you fry up the burgers and you assemble it the same as always... :/ There are places where you can get good burgers fast guy.
Mans made his own buns and pickled his cucumber
I went to Burger King in Germany once and they had this king selection menu with Kings mustard & smoked cheese double. Literally the best burger I’ve ever eaten at a fast food chain. If you told me that this burger was made in a burger restaurant, i would believe it
BurgerKing and McDonalds in Europe is better than in USA
A lot of chain restaurants are better in Europe. Went to a Subway in Germany near my hotel and it was just... stellar. On par with the best mom'n'pop subs in my home area in Massachusetts. Not gonna say better, but definitely whoops U.S. Subways and other chains. I suspect the restrictions on many additives and preservatives in Germany/other European countries helps improve the overall taste, also many ingredients often have less distance to travel from the farm to the restaurants.
@@39zack Swiss BK and MickyDs have great quality.
A medium Whopper combo costs like $13.50, but the employees earn like $20.00 an hour.
One of the best burgers I've tasted was a signature mcdonalds mexican burger in mexico, it was basically a better quarter pounder without ketchup and with pico de gallo, guac and pepperjack cheese, it was incredibly good for a fast food restaurant.
Still don’t know why this series isn’t called “But Bigger”
The thing i hate about it when people say "but better" is that it just isn't better, it's completely different and tastes nothing like the original food
@@CarpetHater if he really wanted to make a but better he would find an actual fast food meal he likes(which he doesn’t) and enhance the good parts and elevate them
@@kingworldadventures agreed, like if he tries to make a big mac for example, he should make a sesame seed bun, and make that perfectly instead of "let's make brioche buns because that's better".
A great practical joke would be to take a regular customer that orders a whopper at a Burger King and instead give him this masterpiece that Josh has just cooked right out back in a food truck and using a charcoal grill in a fenced area behind the store. Then note the customer's reaction. "This seems a lot better than usual!"
The Intro Hits Different EVERY TIME. Its soo good!!
"Tell me what kind of memories come back"
"Mustard"
Josh: *proceeds to not put any mustard on his burger*
I guess mustard is that traumatic, huh?
8:54
To be fair, burger king does not put mustard on their burgers. At least not in NY. But the fact that it smelled like mustard is sus
There is no mustard in any of the BK burgers, at least not in the U.K. Any way
Laughs in nazi
I work in bk and there is mustard but its only in hamburger and cheeseburger, theres none in whopper
Joshua's about to be crowned the Burger _Emporer_
I always come back to this video a lot just because how gorgeous and picturesque that thing is
This is definitely better but definitely more expensive and time-consuming :)
No it isn’t
@@the8balls293 it definitely is? not that it's a bad thing, it just is.
@@DustyyBoi no it isn’t it’s better more filling. its probably more healthy too
@@flip9231 okay, but that doesn't have anything to do with the comment i replied to?
Ok?
This are just my thoughts, but I think u should do a challenge from the master chef's challenges. After choosing dishes u want to cook, make a poll and let us vote what dish u would be cooking:)
It’s when I watch videos like this one I suddenly become unsure if I have actually ever tasted a really good burger 🙁
If you don't wanna cook, go to a steakhouse and yes, burgers can get amazing
My book just came in today! I’m excited to start making everything in it!!!
The Whopper has two slices of cheese, two swirls of mustard, three swirls of ketchup, 4 pickles, onions, tomato, lettuce, and mayo. I just read an article that said it doesn't have mustard but our restaurant had it on the training video. I was management for a year.
As a passionate cook who lives in a very uncultured small Midwest town, I absolutely love your But Better series. There is literally one restaurant that I enjoy going to, the rest is all bar food or fast food joints, and I end up succumbing to these crap menus because I just don't have time or feel like cooking at home after a long day of cooking at work some days. I begrudgingly order something and as I eat it all I can think is, "Why didn't I just carve out some time to just make this at home, but better?"
Oh my I've never been this early to Papa's video
Make your own liquid yeast, it take about 3 to 4 days for your first batch, its easier after that.
Blessings from Durban, South Africa.
I live in Ames, Iowa and there’s this insane restaurant here called Macubana that’s specializes in Mac n Cheese but has a menu full of flavorful food. If Ames is a little boring, the Walnut in Des Moines, Iowa is also some of the most phenomenal food I’ve ever had. Never thought I’d find a grilled chicken sandwich that’s better than any fried I’ve had.
"Here's how to make ketchup" "Step 1, add some Ketchup"
By the time you are done with your burger, I already ate at burger king, went to cinema, watched a movie, got hungry again, and went for a second round at mcdonalds and came back home with time left to spare
My toxic trait is that i think i could do all this without any prior experience 😂
Still give a try. Nothing beats experience. 😁👍
@@MiketheNerdRanger thats actually really wholesome. Not related, but i. Trying this coz u said so(evem tho its not addressed to me)