new Angus Beef range of burgers currently on offer at Maccas. In other parts of the world the McAngus has been very popular, and if I can believe my beef industry contact Matty H, McDonalds sales have gone up 30% since the burger was released for sale in Australia.
So I feel it my duty to report on this new addition to the McDonalds line-up. A bachelor weekend at home alone is the perfect time!
Here is what the burger looks like freshly unwrapped
First impressions - this indeed is a tidy looking burger, and if the oblong shape is not completely groundbreaking it has been a long time since McDonalds have released anything in this format. The Grand Angus burger contains an Angus beef patty, fresh red onion, a solitary slice of tomato, a pickle, some 'gourmet' salad mix, which is actually seems to be iceberg lettuce and a few shreds of baby baby spinach ( just like on the lean beef burger ), thick rich mayonaise and on a good looking flour dusted "sourdough" bun.
The addition of raw onion is a good one, and it brings me to reminisce about what lifts a Hungry Jacks whopper - the fresh onion and mayo. So whilst the burger does`nt look like a whopper, it does have whopperlike characteristics. This is the lasting impression the burger left on me - that it tasted like a whopper, but not quite as good. Now I don`t eat whoppers anymore - I remember back in uni days when whopper`s were $1.65 and we`d pretty much live on them. through the late 90`s I'd often snack on whopper juniors. This burger reminded me of the whopper. Anyway more on that later.
So from the blurry profile view you can see a reasonable thick pattie - i reckon it was about a cm thick. You can also see a slice of cheese on the top and bottom of the pattie.
So I bit into the burger and noticed how light and spongey the "sourdough" bun was. The pattie itself, while allegedly being "Angus" beef, was not really discernable in flavour from any other McDs pattie i`ve ever eaten. In fact, the taste of the burger was unremarkable, if not, an obvious fatty flavour like you know you are going to regret eating it.
So about midway I broke into the mayo and this burger tasted like a half rate whopper but with Maccas style grease. There was no relish, sauce or mustard on the burger, and I felt it could have been seasoned more - seeing the marketing department had labelled this "Grand". I don`t rate this burger even as worthy of a must try - If I was to eat McDonalds I would stick to a the classic Big Mac and save my beef pattie cravings for a real burger from a real restaurant.
On the positive - for $6.45 my hunger is satisfied and I`m not craving more grease. 4/10
5 comments:
Best burger i have eaten in 10 years is at the Elaphant rock cafe currumbin it was a 10 dollar Wagyu beef burger with onion jam, great salad cheese sliced thickish and a toasted crunchy multi grain role and it was big without being painfull. It was more like a 2pm burger and dinner is an apple and some almonds!!!
If you want a great Burger and feel like a day at the beach give this a shot granted I bought it at the "gourmet BBQ Van" during the Swell exhibition but its an Elaphant rock cafe Burger and it was Sensational and I rate it a 9/10 only thing wrong was it neded some tomato and chilli jam or a little more kick than the onion Jam presented
You have to try Babu Burger and grill in Wilston. Once you try this pattie you will laugh at all the imitators, with their fluffy, breadcrumby taste, babu's is pure meat/fat at the perfect ratio, so creamy and juicy with such a natural flavour not masked by sauces or herbs.
Anyway, it's a juicy, delicious burger, my new Brisbane favourite.
yuk. the other angus burger was better.. i ate one and kindof enjoyed it.. then had another another day, and threw it out.
Theres a little cafe at Coopers Plains.. i can't remember the name, but it's on Lillian Avenue, and just a few doors up from South of Heaven Tattoo.. they make some really good homestyle burgers there.
Also.. the Charcoal Chicken shop on Old Cleveland Road at Stones Corner does nice burgers.. though i go there almost daily for the Charcoal Spicy Chicken Rolls and gravy on toasted rolls.
What you gone on a diet.. i was enjoying this blog. aha.
man, love ur blog keep going, i'm a burger fan too and i write a blog about food but in my native language
Cheers
ali
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