FlameThrower Stackburger
The burger Dairy Queen has been leaning on for years, and the one with the most personality. A spicy FlameThrower sauce, pepper-jack cheese and jalapeño bacon with lettuce and tomato, stacked on thin patties. The heat is real but not punishing, and it pairs perfectly with a Blizzard afterwards, which is surely the point.
The story
Dairy Queen has spent eighty years being known for soft serve while quietly selling a lot of burgers, and the Stackburger name is its latest attempt to fix that. The line replaced the Signature Stackburgers branding in the early 2020s, built around thinner patties stacked rather than one thick one, and the FlameThrower is the one it leads with. The pattern goes back to 1958 and the Brazier line, the first time the chain admitted that people wanted lunch as well as dessert.
What’s inside
- beef patties
- FlameThrower sauce
- pepper-jack cheese
- jalapeño bacon
- lettuce
- tomato
- bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the FlameThrower Stackburger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, bacon, heat and cheese
Dean’s Breakfast Burger from Supernatural - Shares beef, jalapeños, cheese and a double stack
Big Beef Blopper - Shares beef, bacon, heat and cheese
Peter’s Fuddruckers Burger - Shares beef, bacon, cheese and a double stack
Peter’s Triple Bacon Burger
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the FlameThrower Stackburger.- MOOYAH Burgers, Fries & Shakes · beef, bacon, jalapeños and heat
The Double Diablo - Carl's Jr. · beef, bacon, jalapeños and heat
El Diablo - Wayback Burgers · beef, bacon, heat and cheese
Cajun - Burger 21 · beef, bacon, jalapeños and heat
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About Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen opened in Joliet, Illinois, in June 1940, selling soft serve that its founders had perfected. For most people it is still the Blizzard place, the thick blended ice cream served upside down to prove it will not fall out. But Dairy Queen has sold burgers since the late 1950s, when a franchisee in Georgia created the Brazier line of broiled burgers and hot dogs.
More than 7,000 locations, most of them in the US and Canada. Owned by Berkshire Hathaway.
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