4x4
Four patties and four slices of cheese: tall, heavy and structurally doomed. The bun gives up long before you do, so plan to finish it with a fork or not at all. It is less a meal than a rite of passage, the thing friends order on a first visit to see if they can.
The story
There was a time when In-N-Out would build whatever you asked for. In 2004 a group in Las Vegas famously ordered a 100x100, a single burger with a hundred patties and a hundred slices of cheese, and the photos went round the early internet. Not long after, the chain capped orders at four patties, and the 4x4 became the official ceiling.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the 4x4 yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
The Mr. Smiley Burger - Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
McDonald's Daily Double (Copycat) - Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
Whopper (Copycat) - Shares beef, cheese and a double stack
Big Beef Blopper
The 4x4 on YouTube
Everyone who has cooked, copied or taste-tested it on camera.
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the 4x4.- MOOYAH Burgers, Fries & Shakes · beef, cheese and a double stack
SignatureThe MDC - Red Robin · beef, cheese and a double stack
Red’s Double - White Spot · beef, cheese and a double stack
Double Double - Goiko · beef, cheese and a double stack
Smashic
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About In-N-Out Burger
In-N-Out has ignored almost every rule of fast food for more than seventy years. Harry and Esther Snyder opened a tiny drive-thru stand in Baldwin Park, California, in 1948, and the family still owns every location. No franchising, no freezers, no microwaves, and a menu that has barely grown: three burgers, fries, shakes and drinks.
Family-owned and never franchised. Spread across the western and southwestern US, slowly moving east.
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