Animal Style
The single most famous order in American fast food that is not printed on the board. The patties are cooked with mustard seared into the meat, then topped with pickles, extra spread and onions grilled slowly until sweet and jammy. It turns a clean, simple burger into a gloriously messy one. Once you have had a Double-Double this way, the plain version starts to feel polite.
The story
The secret menu was not invented by the company. Regulars in the 1960s and 1970s worked out that the kitchen would cook to order, and started asking for mustard fried into the patty, extra spread, grilled onions and pickles; staff gave the combination a name. In-N-Out went on pretending it was a secret for years, printing nothing, then finally listed Animal Style, Protein Style and the rest on its own website — which is how a customer habit became an official menu item without the recipe ever changing.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Animal Style yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef and cheese
McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
Zachariah's Shack Burger - Shares beef and cheese
McDonald's McFeast (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
McDLT
The Animal Style on YouTube
Everyone who has cooked, copied or taste-tested it on camera.
Animal Style Combo
Animal Style Burgir with Chef Boy Lee
Animal Burger with No Bread
1:08Animal Style Burgar
12:03Seth Rogen Tastes Secret Fast-Food Burgers
10:19In-N-Out and Shake Shack Clones with Babish
21:57The $315 Animal Style Burger and Fries
15:24In-N-Out Burger Sliders
17:15In-N-Out 4x4 Animal Style
8:59The Best Burger I’ve Ever Made
In-N-Out Double-Double Animal Style, Short
13:45In-N-Out Double-Double Animal Style
13:56In-N-Out Double-Double Animal Style
Better Than Animal Style Burger Sauce
In-N-Out Double-Double Animal Style
16:37Animal Style Burger
5:50DIY In-N-Out 6x6 Animal Style
5:33East Coast Eats In-N-Out
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Animal Style.- Roadster Diner · beef, cooked onions and cheese
Classic - Epic Burger · beef, cooked onions and cheese
SignatureDouble Epic - Killer Burger · beef, cooked onions and cheese
Classic - Big Smoke Burger · beef, cooked onions and cheese
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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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