Photo: McDonald'sDouble Cheeseburger
The McDouble’s slightly richer twin. From the outside they are identical; the difference is a second slice of cheese, one on each patty, so the melt runs all the way through instead of pooling in the middle. It sounds trivial and it is not. If you have only ever had the McDouble, try them side by side once.
The story
This was the Dollar Menu’s headline act until the arithmetic stopped working. As beef prices climbed in the late 2000s, franchisees argued they were losing money on every dollar double, and in 2008 McDonald’s moved it up the price list and dropped in the McDouble, with one slice of cheese instead of two, to hold the dollar slot. The burger itself never changed: two patties, two slices, pickles, onion, ketchup and mustard, exactly as before.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Double Cheeseburger yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef and cheese
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McDonald's Cheeseburger (Copycat)
The Double Cheeseburger 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 Double Cheeseburger.- Pickl · beef, cheese and a double stack
SignatureThe Original Cheeseburger - Wendy's · beef, cheese and a double stack
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Cheese - Vkusno i Tochka · beef, cheese and a double stack
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About McDonald's
Nobody sells more burgers. McDonald’s began as a single drive-in run by Richard and Maurice McDonald in San Bernardino, California, and became a burger machine in 1948, when the brothers threw out most of the menu and rebuilt the kitchen like a production line. Ray Kroc, a salesman who sold them milkshake mixers, started franchising it in 1955 and later bought the brothers out.
More than 40,000 restaurants in over 100 countries.
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