Photo: McDonald'sDouble Quarter Pounder with Cheese
For the days when the single Quarter Pounder feels like a warm-up. Doubling the fresh beef changes the balance completely: the bun and toppings become a frame around a lot of meat and melted cheese. It is one of the heaviest burgers on the American menu and it eats like one, so skip the large fries and you will still leave full.
The story
For most of its life the Quarter Pounder was a frozen patty, like everything else on the board. That changed in 2018, when McDonald’s finished switching every Quarter Pounder in its roughly 14,000 American restaurants to fresh beef cooked when the order comes in. The change was aimed squarely at Wendy’s, which had spent decades advertising that its beef was never frozen. On a double it shows more than anywhere else: two fresh patties put twice as much crust and juice into the same bun.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
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Everyone who has cooked, copied or taste-tested it on camera.
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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.
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