Build a Better Big Mac | Kenji's Cooking Show

kenji we have to get you a better mic - great show but you're a bit echoy. In your other kitchen you sounded better and I like hearing you talk! Keep up the great work!

Kenji casually shreds the shredduce
Camera: ZoooOOoooOooom

That iceberg shredding zoom in was on point

Call it "The Big Stac"

That doesn't look like a teaspoon

BigFac

It's a Big Mock!

@Kenji, when you were making the sauce, the amounts you put in don't really line up with what you're saying. Especially the "teaspoon of Dijon" (looked more like 2 or even a tbsp) and then when you said "teaspoon of sugar" you took two big spoon fulls..... are my measuring spoons inaccurate or did you misspeak?

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Please make a McGriddle recipe!!! I’ve never been able to find a good one.

I call it a Large Mackenzie.

While visiting my daughter and her husband in Portland last week we visited Powells Bookstore and I bought The Wok and am ready to take a deep dive into it. Thank you for all your content.

Always love a Simpsons reference.

I'd call it a Krusty Burger.

Nice Simpsons reference. 😅

Sorry Kenji, but 3.6-3.8 ounces of meat on a club style double cheeseburger is not a "reasonable" amount. Neither is a single slice of American cheese. The bread to meat and cheese ratio is way too high on the Big Mac as conceived. What the Big Mac gets right are the sauce, onions, pickles, and lots of shredded lettuce combo for toppings. It's about perfect. The protein portion of the burger is pathetic.

$449, no thanks I’ll continue to use my blackstone. Looks great btw

“The ninja turtles’ menace’s first job” should be a crossword clue

Fun. I love copycat burgers. The freshness really brings out what's great about the underlying recipe, which the fast-food process muddies up.

I call my homemade copycat Big Mac the Phat Pat!

How to make the Big Mac palatable: throw away that center bun! I wish this was an option on that app

Minute 9 - blew my mind! THAT’S why when I’ve done smash burgers on our big, non-stick, induction fry pan, they never sear the way I want them too and they move too much!! Thanks Kenji! I now have the perfect excuse to buy a teppanyaki grill!

Ugh, now I crave a big mac! but better!

Your videos are great but lately I just keep reflecting on how healthy you look and I know that is down to quitting drinking. I hope to be there soon even though it is a real struggle. Keep it up, stay healthy, and thanks for your videos.

It's a Big Mock! 😎🍔

I thought “Big Mike” was Michelle Obama!!!

Somehow, I'm still surprised to learn something from this video. Excellent!

Oh Jesus kenji please don’t go down the weisman route

"we're gonna add a teaspoon of sugar..." proceeds to add 2 heaped teaspoons of sugar....

Kenji – I don't have access to a microwave, any other suggestions?

Was enticed enough that I grabbed what I didn't already have at the store on the way home, an incredible recipe!

Dear Chef Kenji, with all due respect, sir, would you reconsider the title of your video?. The guys, gals, and non-binary pals at the golden arches (and other fast food places) only have a short amount of time (3 minutes tops?) to send one on one's way with a Big Mac.
There's too many people (some of them YT famous) that add up disrespect to their own videos on better than fast food recipes, and I would dislike that you are conflated with them because they just read the title.
Thanks for the recipe and all the best.
(Dear reader, please understand that I will not be answering any comments to this thread. Thanks)

Looking at comments on some Japanese videos for this grill and a lot of "very expensive" and "won't the oil splash everywhere?" Found a Korean video where someone is making fried rice and it's about as fiddly and messy as you'd imagine. I bet it would be great for a handful of things, if it retains heat as well as it should for $449. Commend them on their choice of advertising platforms though, supporting Kenji buys some goodwill from me for sure.

You should call it the King Ken 😉

That is the most appealing Thicc Malcom I've ever seen. The lettuce sequence was most amusing portion of this video, thanks for the awesome callbacks

Alicia, let Kenji movie back home. He's making Big Macs ffs...

"Beef vinaigrette"... A phrase I never thought I'd hear

I’ve said this before but certain people are dexterous in how they eat on camera. Like they make eating look good in how they hold it, bite, chew. Anthony Bourdain was the best but Kenji is great too.

"One and a half teaspoons of sweet pickle relish" he says while scooping almost a quarter cup of the stuff

When I worked there ten years ago, McDonald's used "9:1" patties for the cheeseburgers and big macs.
That is 9 patties = 1 pound
Quarter pounder was obviously 4:1, Angus 3:1
Figured you'd like to know the exact stuff if you didn't!

My wife would be so mad if I made all those dishes for a single (double?) burger

I would call it a “HackDonald’s” or a “Big Hack”

When I worked at McDonald's in the early 2010s the onions were rehydrated with water in a third pan. I don't remember them ever touching the grill.

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I crossed paths w/ Kenji a few days ago on the Seattle waterfront going opposite ways on a crosswalk. He had his son on his shoulders and was eating a slice of pizza (likely from Post Alley Pizza?). I didn't say anything since it mighta been weird walking opposite ways across a street.