The World’s Biggest Burger
By admin • Dec 14th, 2007 • Category: Burger BlogIn America the challenge to create the world’s biggest burger is one that is taken very seriously indeed. It began with the imaginable 6 pounds of meat used to make the “Olde 96er” at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pennsylvania.
Denny Leigey Jr., owner of Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub says his world’s biggest burger building race began all the way back in 1991 with a 2 pound offering to compete with another local diner. This local race led to a 3 pounder in 1993 but things really got going when Denny began competing with not so local diners.
In 1998 his daughter went to college and came back with tales of a 4 pounder being served at a restaurant – Denny could only respond in one way, he had to beat it. The result was the massive Olde 96er which used 6 pounds of meat, one large onion, two whole tomatoes, one half head of lettuce, 1 1/4 pounds of cheese, top and bottom buns, and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, relish, banana peppers and some pickles.
Since its launch on to the menu, the Olde 96er has drawn attention from all over the world. The pub itself challenges eaters to finish the burger within 3 hours to make it onto the Denny’s wall of fame and receive the burger for free. Many challengers have tried to eat the burger within 3 hours and most have failed, including veteran competitive eating star Eric “Badlands” Booker.
Badlands made his gallant attempt in June 2004 and managed to down the burger – but it took him over 7 hours to do so. Although he was the first person to eat the Olde 96er in full, the challenge to eat the burger in one 3-hour sitting was still unmatched. In January 2005 came an unlikely challenger – 100lb college student Kate Stelnick.
Kate Stelnick took a five hour drive from New Jersey when she saw photos of the giant burger online. She prepared by not eating for 2 days and wearing loose clothes. She came and she conquered. She ate the Olde 96er on 2 hours and 54 minutes. Another petit female, Lori Weiss, managed to meet the challenge on her 4th attempt in July 2005.
Leigey said he was pretty sure somebody would meet his world’s biggest burger challenge, though he didn’t have a petite woman in mind. “I wouldn’t have made it if I didn’t think it was possible,” Leigey said.
News of Denny’s Olde 96er has spread all over the world and has led to new challengers to the thrown of world’s biggest burger.
The Baloo Burger Co. of Glasgow, Scotland has even had its attempt at making the world’s biggest cheeseburger with its Baloo Big Burger which uses 7 pounds of meat and will set you back a huge $125. But the real challenger to the thrown is the Clinton Station Diner, New Jersey which created the Zeus in 2005 that also used 7 pounds of meat.
Once again, Denny’s was eager to hold the accolade of world’s biggest cheeseburger and could only respond in one way – the result was the Beer Barrel Belly Buster. This mammoth creation consists of 11.5 pounds of meat, 25 slices of cheese, 1 full lettuce, 2 onions, 3 tomatoes and 25,000 calories. This would set you back a modest $34.99.
And the challenge? To eat this creation within 6 hours. The prize consists of $350 cash, burger is free, a certificate of achievement, photo on the “wall of fame,” and a t-shirt. It is unlikely that someone will meet this challenge – but many will try. Believe it or not the Beer Barrel Belly Buster is not the current thrown holder, the big burger race has one final leg.
The Clinton Station Diner has introduced the Mount Olympus burger which, wait for it, uses 25 pounds of meat and its total weight is over 50 pounds. Taking over 1 hour to prepare and costing $99 the challenge that goes along with the burger is for a 5 person team to complete the burger within 3 hours.
Denny’s response? Queue the out of this world Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser. Using two 25 pound beef patties, 4 pounds of cheese, five heads of lettuce, a couple of onions, a cup of peppers, a jar of relish, smothered with loads of ketchup, mustard and mayonnaise. Nobody can deny that this is the world’s biggest burger.
Denny created the Bruiser just for a bit of family fun and doesn’t challenge anyone to eat it in full. The burger stands 34 inches tall and easily feeds groups of 35 to 50 diners. It takes an understandable 4 hours to make and must be ordered 24 hours in advance, and the price? A mere $179.
Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub has entered the 50 pound burger in to the Guinness World Records and is awaiting there approval to crown the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser as the world’s largest commercially available burger.
The race for the world’s biggest cheeseburger continues, watch this space…
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October 17th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Wow! That’ s the biggest buger I’ve ever saw or saw anyone who ate that buger!
October 14th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
ITS THE SMALLEST BURGER EVER;]
October 14th, 2010 at 9:40 pm
I SHOULD HAVE A LOOK AT IT???????????????????????????????????????????????
October 5th, 2010 at 7:47 pm
asking for a heart attack
September 30th, 2010 at 11:09 am
wow wat a burger!!!
After having heavy dinner again m feeling hungry.
I wish i could eat that burger
September 11th, 2010 at 5:49 pm
never seen a black person eat like that lol! wow! he was hungry wasn’t it!
lol smiley face!
August 24th, 2010 at 9:16 pm
Play Sudden attack
August 24th, 2010 at 11:07 am
Instead of breaking the guiennes book of world records, since we have all this food in the first place, we should send it to places where it is needed.
Notice in most of the pictures, the people eating the burgers are f a t?!
Yeah, they can survive not eating another burger.
July 10th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Hey Eric I totally think we should have 2pac instead! IHate Justine Beber
July 10th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
eric you want god to take me and give you 2pac then how about this you ask god for another 2poc or pac something you want but aint gone get laides with a 2pac
July 10th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
wow you people are crazy people in haiti are starving nd all yall can do is talk about how hungery u r nd then very few people mention haiti r all of you hungery if so go to b.k mcdonals r.r but really you all r dumb talking about how hungery yall iz omg’s
July 6th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
FAKE N GAY
June 25th, 2010 at 3:38 pm
That looks amazing if i could could have one of those i would eat one every moth and be at least 300 punds
May 25th, 2010 at 7:31 am
wow that is huge for a person like me, adam need 2 try that burger on man vs. food to see if he can eat that with a partner from the crowd.
May 24th, 2010 at 7:18 am
you guys are all fatttttttttttttttttt ffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkkkksssssssss
May 20th, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Only the stupid dum-ass americans would think of something like this! You guys not fat enough already!?! lmao
May 13th, 2010 at 8:54 am
Dat burger is big as shit
May 13th, 2010 at 7:56 am
please god take justin bieber and give us back 2pac
May 13th, 2010 at 7:54 am
obama is a nigger
my dogs name is obama
he is a nigger too hahahahahahahahahahahahahha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 29th, 2010 at 6:57 am
mama… i want that burger ….. nice…nice..nice slluuuuuuuup ahhhhhhhhhhh
April 10th, 2010 at 9:10 am
wow wat a burger
April 9th, 2010 at 6:44 am
that burger is more than all hatis food hahahahahahahahahahahahha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 9th, 2010 at 6:43 am
i wish i had beef
April 9th, 2010 at 6:43 am
i bet i could eat one of them.
April 9th, 2010 at 4:46 am
obama is a nigger.
my dog is called obama and he is a nigger too
March 29th, 2010 at 4:21 pm
Wow, some people are retarded.
“Hati Waaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”
“Starving people waaaaaaa”
Shut up.
March 21st, 2010 at 10:40 am
This is outdated Mallie’s in Detroit Michigan has the biggest burger
March 20th, 2010 at 8:56 am
i think that burger is so cool! like theres a show like i think its Worlds Biggest Burger Oh my god and when i saw it i kinda put them on google way to go guys.so anyways how do you make them so big?
and well why cant you send those huge burgers to haiti?
March 20th, 2010 at 7:11 am
That was tasty. What’s for dessert?
March 20th, 2010 at 3:18 am
very goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood
March 4th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
Tell all these fat ass folks to stop eatin in giv the damn burger to Haiti!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!LM@O!!!!!!!!!!!
March 4th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
Them is some nbig ass burgers ainy no way n the hell you can eat that in a day
February 8th, 2010 at 6:02 am
I could eat this in my airing cupboard. Yumm
January 29th, 2010 at 11:12 am
it would have to take a fat asz person that havent ate in days to eat dat burger word the fuck up
January 26th, 2010 at 6:34 am
gross, simply gross… unless they give it to a charity organisation and feed homeless people with it,
otherwise, this is disgusting to waste it on a single person trying to eat it all…
January 17th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
This is the most disgusting thing I have ever seen!!!
There are millions of people starving all over the world and these people are consuming half a months calories in one seating!!!
If this is a measure of an individuals greatest achievement, perhaps a little bit of introspection and self respect is in order.
Regards
Disgusted
January 17th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
This is disgusting, I can’t believe how American people can think that this is an achievement… Talk about promoting obesity.
January 15th, 2010 at 6:21 am
this website makes me hungry i am litterally dripping at the mouth pleaas give me your recipesssss
January 14th, 2010 at 8:23 am
I could eat that whole thing no problem, and i only weigh 568 lbs.
January 13th, 2010 at 9:23 am
i would like to try atumn!!! hey call me baby i got a big….. truck
December 28th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
damn that’s hell of a burger i’d like to try that… on second thought i might throw up
December 27th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
that looks good
December 11th, 2009 at 8:01 am
holy crap those are big ass burgers!
November 25th, 2009 at 8:46 am
why yall gotta make BLACK people look like that.
November 20th, 2009 at 3:28 pm
Eewwwww! holy S***! that is a big a** burgerf!!!
November 20th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Omg i wish i could try that!
November 18th, 2009 at 5:49 am
omg,this is a huge burger lol..how do you eat all that one to us would be a whole burger lord needs to help yall
November 17th, 2009 at 10:27 am
Gross!@#$
August 27th, 2009 at 11:05 am
If you’re looking for more food challenges like this one (besides the ones shown on the travel channel) check out http://www.ibetyouwont.com they have a bunch listed and new ones are added every day.
July 30th, 2009 at 10:53 am
i hav also seen that on the travel channel and they have a huge burrito and a huge burger with fries in the burger they also hav huge pancakes and big as the behemoth ice cream