McDonald’s Changed The Big Mac?
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- McDonald's has been bragging that they have been researching and developing massive changes to their most iconic menu item, The Big Mac! But how different is it really?
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I don’t know what changed it, but the flavor changed.. I don’t hate it but definitely prefer the way it used to be
I like it more.
actual beef back then.
@@maxwellbrisk5622 😊😊😂😂 was actually beef back in 2023 so it was…
@@smoll.miniatures your guess is as good as mine.
The Big Mac sauce was changed it's tangy now
I will never eat a Big Mac again. The meat is the size of a silver dollar and smaller in thickness than the pickle. I will never go there again.
Had one a few months ago for the 1st time in years.. Very small from what I remember and tasteless
Why are comments turn off? Dislike but sub.
and the meat taste like plastic
These never have enough sauce, the patties are way too thin.
Agreed
Not in my town
Not enough sauce? Where I’m from they put tons of sauce on it and it’s disgusting. I have to leave my city to get a good Big Mac.
Big Mac should be renamed small mac. It’s literally pathetic !! Another reason everyone isn’t going out now!
Yeah they changed it alright! Thinner patties and higher prices 😡
Whoever made that Big Mac needs to be fired. It's so haphazardly put together.
McDonald's need to go back in a time machine and get the Real Big Mac ,The Fries ,the regular QP, hell even the McDLT for real
McDLT was an abomination. Whoever decided to put the cheese on the COLD side should have been exiled.
Big Mac ⭐
Whopper ⭐⭐⭐
Give me the Whopper🍔
Me too!!
McDonald's needs to go back how to things were in the 80s, the Big Mac was 40% bigger in the 80s, and a lot cheaper, it just looks better back then
used to be big fan, but mcdonalds food has REALLY gotten bad
What they changed was the size and increased the price!!! The Big Mac was a good burger in the late 90’s - early 2000. Now they are so small it’s just a baby cheese burger
Yep! I was a young teen when they came out and they were delicious! I didn’t eat them often but when I did c I enjoyed it.
They use to have grilled and crispy chicken wraps with ranch or honey mustard. Those were great! But discontinued them maybe 15 years ago. As far as the Big Mac now, taste like 💩 and overpriced. I’ll never eat there again.
For the amount it cost for a meal, is insane. Instead we go to and it down restaurant. It cost about the same but the food is wicked good compared to McDonald’s and somewhat healthier depending on what you order.
Large now is a small back then every chain gives out smaller portions compared to before
Hate the Big Mac. Slides apart. Don't need the middle slice of bread.
Never again…. Last time I went was in 2015. It’s no longer a Big Mac, but a THIN Mac. Depressing!
The big Mac is to be my favorite.But anymore the burger or burgers are too small. Need to add bigger burgers onto it.That would be a great improvement
The burgers have not changes in size. Other burgers have gotten bigger, the patties have always been 1.6 ounces. Google it.
The integrity of this Big Mac and its review was lost when it was cold, disassembled, and reassembled at someone's home.
Maybe he had two
Ya😮😢
@@SleepExports I know you are but what am i.
Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun
The frys tasted better because they used beef tallow they now use dangerous oil.
You must have worked there like I did! Not many know about the beef tallow. Man those were good fries.
@@tomhull7427 Lots of people know about the change to oil, as opposed to Tallow. It made national news at the time.
@brkitdwn True, but since it happened in 1990 then I venture that most under 45 never heard about it!
Andrea
Glorified double cheeseburger, same meat patties
The price is ridiculous ,the big Mac used to be good and now its a midget😢
I think they prefer, "little burger" ;)
$8.00 USD?
FIsh sandwich is even smaller now
Why can they never get the cheese actually on the burger? It always misses 1/3 of the meat. On the rare occasion I get a Big Mac I take the middle bun out.
It is baffling isn't it
Sounds like you should just buy a McDouble add Mac sauce
I don't know I've tried double cheeseburgers and McDoubles with only Big Mac sauce, lettuce and pickles and it doesn't taste the same
I'd venture to guess that's because you're able to taste the actual burger meat not just sugar, bread and sauce. But we all like different things right
@@BeergrYT🎉😢
I used like Big Mac's. The new ones are garbage. I couldn't taste the beef and it was steamrolled thin. I won't be buying it again.
The new Big Macs fall apart. The buns taste strange. By the time your half way through it, it self destructive.
Also cost 10$
Hadn't ate a Big Mac in a while , got a desire for that taste so i got the combo . I was disappointed , the sauce taste like they have changed the formula . It was just under 10.00 for combo .
Very few people seem to notice the strange taste of the bun. Tried it twice, both times I did not finish the sandwich.
I was was never a fan of the meat quality, now in addition, I can't stand the bun.
The new bun has a bitter taste. I don’t like the new Big Mac. I loved the old one.
The big mac is supposed to have 90 grams (3.2 oz) of patty in total. I'd say it classifies as a sandwich with beef rather than a burger.
Thanks for that, so just under 1/4lb total! Would probably be fine with less bread.
Then why do you insist on buying it with extra bread? @@BeergrYT
@@noamto Because I was reviewing the whole burger and the "changes" and not really doing a vid about how I would customize it.
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The new buns taste like garbage. Way to ruin a 50 year old classic McDonalds!
When I was in college, the local McDonalds had “Big Mac Mondays”, and sold them for $1.
Haha they did $0.20 cheeseburgers back in the day too.
I thought it used to be 2 slices of cheese which would taste better plus no pickles
I did too, apparently it's always been one slice.
Sing the song: 2 all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun. Pickles have always been there.
I don't see how McDonald's can compete with Wendy's or Burger King their large burgers are still large burgers with significantly more meat than a Big Mac
I usually get my fast food reviews from The Report of the Week, but I enjoyed hearing your thoughts in this in-depth review!
Also, I prefer the Quarter Pounder to the Big Mac, but it's still not a great sandwich and the primary flavor is salt. It is very salty.
That guy is pretty great! Thanks!
I don’t remember the taste of the older version but I definitely can smell the amount of sugar in today’s burger
That's not new. Dehydrated onions on a Bic MAc where a thing back in the early 80s when I worked there. They were called reconstituted onions. In my day we used to use an open grill and use a sear tool to sear the patties and we would cook 12 patties at a time (6 Big Macs). If it was super busy, once we flipped the original 12 patties we would lay 12 more patties on the other half of the grill. This was referred to as a "turn/lay".
I work in McDonald's in Europe, the price of each meat is around 0.20 euro, bun 0.25, the sauce lettuce pickles is hard to count, probably cents... Plus, the meat you say, it's overcooked or undercooked? No, it's not happening.. I'd say, it's perfect every time...if not, you need to adjust the grill, you don't flip them anymore, the grill closes, top and bottom grills have different temperatures, top has higher, and when it opens after 45seconds, it's ready from both sides, you just sprinkle seasoning and onion on top..
Not a fan of the Big Mac. I always felt it was overrated
hi. i worked at my local macdonalds a bit ago. I mostly did the grill job, as nobody enjoyed getting burned so much lol. I can tell you 6 patties insdead of 8 is a pain in the a$$.
The meat timer is 15-20min, once you take them out. It's also why the meat is so dry, most of the time. When you take them off the grill, you basically squish them to drain the excess juice, as there's a lot of it. You put them in a long plastic drawer and into a timed heater. all of the juice just evaporates, by the time you're using it. Such a horrible system they had. I had to try my best to minimize the waste and also have meat ready ALL THE TIME...
If the beef juices evaporate, the why smash down the burger to get rid of the juices?
@@sarahvincent8656 well cuz you never really know if they're gonna be used straight away or in 15mins. And if you don't smash em down, you're gonna have a bucket full of grease soup and when the water eventually evaporates, it becomes a disgusting dried up hardened grease. The only time meat ended up being nicely moist on the burgers was on the rush hours. When everything was getting used up immediately.
The ONLY way to eat a Big Mac is WITHOUT the middle bun. It allows you to taste the beef and also ingest less bread. It also insures that you dont get served a ' heat lamp " burger. Win, Win 🏆
Saw a trick on a video where apparently if you ask for a McDouble “dressed like a Mac” you basically get a Big Mac without a middle bun for half the price. Not sure if that works outside of the US though.
It was the only Burger Ever Made with NOTHING Between Top Bun and Burger. HISTORIC
The big mac has changed drastically for the good and the bad , for the good, the new bun is a game changer, for the bad, the meat has gotten thinner, but I always add an extra patty and they are delicious,if you haven't tried them lately you must.
Now you need to do a video along the lines of... "I Made My Own Big Mac..." or "I Made a Better Big Mac!" or (To keep it alive) "Made a $2 Big Mac Meal" (Homemade Pop and Fries included)
If you could manage to make a Big Mac combo of burger, fries, and drink for around $2 would be impressive and probably get a lot of attention, but the end product still needs to be recognizable as a Big Mac ish done in your own style.
I shall try and think through just that!
I don't get why the big mac even exists when you have the quarter pounder. Big mac is just two tiny happy meal patties.
If you find the second bun unnecessary why do you just not get a double burger????
Hey thanks for watching, I did say at the end I'd rather enjoy a double cheeseburger sub mac sauce but this video was just a review of the "new Big Mac and how silly McDonald's is that they took 7 years to come up with these "changes" lol
A Big Mac is a guilty pleasure for me, and I almost always regret ordering it after I eat it.
Not because it doesn't taste like I remember, but because it looks like it was assembled by a 6 year old with developmental issues. Burger patties offset from each other, sauce on one side, cheese not centered, pickles in one spot etc.
Your video is evidence of that, you instinctively re-assembled it.
When you order a Big Mac you must order a double cheese burger.. add the meat and cheese to the big mac and toss the top bun and flip the Mac middle bun on top.
One way to tell the changes is to look at calories in 1980 and calories in 2024. This burger has shrunk so much - it's like 5 bites now.
People should study the downfall of McDonalds
Never been a huge fan of the big mac. I used to like the "big n tasty" burger I think it was called before they got rid of it, but these days if I go to McDonalds I'll normally just get a regular double cheeseburger because everything else is ridiculously overpriced for fast food.
Oh I remember the Big n Tasty! It was good!
Big Mac gets one slice of cheese the meat patties used to be 10 to the pound (10:1) are they still the same size?
McDonald's is no longer a restaurant, it's a slop trough. You only have one body, treat it better than this
McDonald's seriously needs to simplify the menu to say 1990 and concentrate on making those items excellent
Thankfully what I like to do when I order my big mac is add an extra beef patty, extra cheese, extra mac sauce, everything that makes a big mac, try it and tell me if it's a big mac
I get 4 cheeseburgers for that price and you get the same thing without the Mac sauce
All the burgers are now so small its barely worth it. I bought a cheeseburger and I could put it in the palm of my hand and CLOSE my hand around it. Its a joke.
Big Mac is more like a little Mac over time. Put some beef on that burger. 1/3 pound beef would be a definite improvement.
They sometimes have what they call a “Grand Big Mac” on the menu, which is exactly that, a Big Mac with 1/3 pound of meat instead of 1/4. Although it’s usually a limited time item and doesn’t appear often.
Seriously, McDs has never had good burgers, I can't fathom why people think they do.
Why do they keep changing the size of the fish and burgers and then charge you too much for it
The fact that food never looks like the picture is not OK. In some other countries it’s required by law that the food matches the advertised pictures. I understand that they’re gonna be a little off, but it’s gotten to the point where the food that we get looks nothing like the picture and that is not OK.
There must be a lot of people who like the Big Mac in order for it to be on their menu for so long. I enjoy a Big Mac once in while. I probably have about two a year.
Wild it takes 7 years to come to a decision
My exact point...it's comically horrible lol
Dump the two thin meat patties and middle bun and replace a seared 1/4 patty of beef!
OBTW- McDonslds does not want you to taste the beef because it is so bland….there are too many carbs in the existing Big Mac!
I exchange the patties for quarter pounder patties, now that's a big Mac to match the name and pairs well with all the breads
the tastiest Mcdonalds burger I ever had was when I worked there, and transferred the meat straight from the grill to the already-dressed-bun. It was greasier but 100Xbetter than the burger they're pulling out of the wwarming tray that's been sitting for 10 mins already.
And for the same reason I enjoy Wendy's or Five Guys as they cook to order, practically grill to table.
I wish they'd get rid of the sesame seeds on the bun. That's why I don't order Big Macs. I'm hideously allergic to sesame and it's becoming a common allergy.
Funny thing is that everyone keeps talking about much bigger they were. I worked for McDonald's start in 83 and the macs were made with 1 to 10 patties which means 10 of them equal 1 pound,quarter pounders are 4 to 1,meaning big macs had and still have 2 hamburger patties on them. We have just gotten older and bigger feel like they are smaller
Every time I hear something like this I don't believe it. I am not saying it is not true, and I am no longer a kid, but I swear the meat to bread ratio was better years ago. Something has changed because Big Macs taste like they are mostly bread now. And i have eaten quite a few Big Macs in my time 😂 Who else remembers 1 dollar Big Mac's!🎉
I have had the newer version and honestly it should not have taken 7 minutes much less 7 years to come up with the new changes. Still my favorite burger from McDonalds but usually disappointing. Doubling the beef and cheese gives you a completely delicious sandwich.
Well, I stopped growing 30 years ago and they are absolutely smaller.
Lol same here. More than 30 years ago. They are smaller lol.
Everything is small than before and will continue to get smaller the price on it all just get more expensive in my opinion Sadly!
Jimmy, you are spot-on. I worked for McDs from 1971 to 1984, most as a store manager, and they used 10 to 1 paaties back then. And they STILL use a 10 to 1 patty now! Our perceptions change as we age.
Mc Donald's needs to revert back to the original Big Mac and give a big hairy middle finger to the FDA on the oil they use to cook the fries! The new big Mac sux ass and fries are tasteless and soggy not worth the money I'll eat at home.
Our mcdonald's Big Mac buns are "chewy" and hard to eat. Just taste the sauce. just awful!
I don't know what they've done but they've cut too many corners, the burger is damn near the size of a White Castle. And the texture of the meat is like dry jerky not juicy at all.
last time I ate a big mac, there was too much sauce, my burger fell apart because there was too much sauce. I prefer my burger stay whole so I can eat it, and not feel like my patties are sliding into home base from all the sauce. Now I have to ask for light sauce when eating a big mac. The burger is good, but too much sauce.
Do your research in Google and you'll see the size of the "Big Mac" in the 70's 80's what a difference😮😮😮
They spent seven years on making a product shittier?
At least the beef patties are double the size of the ones here in Oz.
We literally have Big Sliders here and my one the other day,had no pickles.
I don't like the new bun.
heard! 👍
The new bun tastes like absolute garbage. Couldn’t even finish my Big Mac, it went into the trash.
I was a kid in the 70s and early 80s. I WAS a Big Mac guy (they were awesome BACK then but you weren’t born), but something, and I don’t know what exactly what, changed. I haven’t enjoyed one like I used to in probably 30 years? They’re just different. I don’t think you have a clue how good they were once honestly.
I grew up at the same time as you bud, I remember
Bro they changed the big Mac sauce and now the big Mac tastes like shit
Lol 7 years of research to basically just add more sauce and have softer bun.
I’ve been eating Big Mac’s since 1975-ish. They used to be so good. The last one I tried was December 2024. I’m done eating them because they now really suck and they’re way too small.
The Bread recipe was changed around the same time as the Subway Bread recipe was as well. The Patties are definitely smaller too and the "cook" is different. These are supposed to be "healthy" changes. But truth is that one doesn't go there for healthy. Put some butter or fat on the grill for the cook of all the patties. Also bring back the fried apple pies. $15 bucks for a Big Mac Meal is crazy.
I used to love the big Mac, but I haven't eaten McDonald's in 12 years. Part of the reason was the taste of the burgers. So if you can't taste the burger now, you are lucky. I don't know if they changed the recipe for the meat since I last ate them. I do know what it was at that time and will never eat there again.
Best way to improve the Big Mac is NOT to press the juice out, but to keep the yummy juices AND improve the size!!, BIGGER, JUICY andTASTY. . . NOT SKINNY AND DRY!!
Agreed!
Have you tried the new Double Big Mac??
I haven't, I really try not to eat too much fast food but when I do, I stick to Wendy's or Chik Fil A
It's horrible I will never order it again.
The big change in McDonald's burgers, and not just the Big Mac, occured about 20 years ago. It was imho a disaster. The old method for preparing burgers was to put a quantity (let's use 8) of 1/10 lb. patties on the grill. When it was time to flip the burgers, the cook would ask how many need cheese (let's say 5). The cook would then flip all of the patties, and place a cheese slice on five of them. The patties would finish cooking, and the cheese would be melted/welded to them. The cook would then assemble the burgers, wrap them in white or yellow wrap (HB/CB), and slide them into the chutes that led to the front counter. The register person would then simply pull the pre-assembled burgers from the chiefs when they were ordered. Simple, fast, and tasty. Then someone decided that customers didn't like to get food that was already packaged, and so developed a system wherein parties were cooked without cheese, and stored in a warming tray. When a hamburger is ordered, the patty is pulled from the tray and the burger is assembled. That's fine. But when a cheeseburger is ordered, the same process is done except that a slice of cheese is added, with the hope that the warm patty will melt the cheese. But even close. So this is why you now get burgers at McDonald's with luke warm and soft cheese, and not melted. It's because McDonald's thinks it's better to serve you patties that have been sitting in a warmer behind the counter where you can't see them, instead of ones that have been sitting under a warmer in your view. You're still getting paid that have sitting under a warmer, but you don't get the good melted cheese. If you ever have a chance, some of the McDonald's that have extremely high traffic still use the old system. The one outside of the train station in Kyiv is one such. I recommend you brave the crowd just once, and try a cheeseburger made the old way. You'll see a huge difference.
This is why God created WHATABURGER
@@rockkirby9979 Unfortunately Whataburger is not in my region. But thanks for the tip. I'll give them a shot when I travel.
As a manager at McDonald's I can't tell you how many times I answered the grillperson's call of "Cheese on 12?"
@@BentRebar you will love been eating since. 1960..
They should change the nMe to little mac with more big mac sauce lol.. I just ate one.. Whollllle bunch a sauce. Lil itty bitty peices of meat that make the pickles look big lol.
And 1 quickly used napkin lol
Does anybody actually like Big Macs? I feel like they’re the soggiest burgers on the planet
I personally feel it's time they retire it. You can only put so much lipstick on a pig lol
@@BeergrYT I like their basic cheeseburgers and double cheeseburgers so much more, I feel like you have to be a serious sauce enthusiast to enjoy a completely wet burger
I honestly think they need to use bigger patties and buns on them.
I don't go to McDonald's very much, but I will tell you a couple of times I have had a great BIG Mac and when that has happened I've noticed the employees were adults. If I go to any fast food place and don't see some adult personal, I simply leave.
I don't think I've ever had a Big Mac in my 52 years on earth. Quarter pounder or occasionally a double cheeseburger. Like this guy says with a Big Mac it's too many toppings.
"unnecessary second bun"? Blasphemy!
It tastes a lot dryer to me...😢😢
Yeah, the bun consistency and taste are really off. It has the consistency of eating cardboard or paper. It has ruined the big mac. The fries are different as well not the same .
Too bad it's still crooked. They should have started with a neat looking burger
Order a Mac with quarter pounder patties with no middle bread, its better
They'll tell you anything to try it and buy it and then they up the price.ill stick with Wendy's or burger king
Let's be honest, cooked to order "gourmet" burgers are burgers that the chef screws with to try and be different with his bacon onion jams, micro greens, Gorgonzola/Emmenthaler blends aged in a secret cave in the Alps, etc. and are not worth the $15-$20 price.
The changes are definitely noted.....especially the last 10yrs or so....definitely different taste than in 90s 2000s 80s 70s just like the fries have not been the same since they stopped using beef tallow to cook them
I've never had a Big Mac nor do I eat McDonalds either, but if I did I don't think I would still get Big Mac over a double because I don't want that middle bun.
A few weeks ago they released the Mac Family burgers. They have the Grand Big Mac which is the size of the Big Macs they used to sell in the 1980's. I couldn't finish it. The Big Macs we have have shrunk to it present size since 2000's (in which I can finish eating).
I was a fan when they were 99 cents. I ate 2 every lunch for a week. ❤
In my country in europe. This change was many years ago of course for worse, bun taste like old, stale, special sauce to sour, meat so much smaller and overall burger way smaller
To me the Big Mac should have the quarter patties.
Hello Mr. Beergr do you happen to have a steak searing video? Is searing a steak obsolete? I don't have a grill. :(
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No more high reviews from this -Guy
You are trying to do a comparison when you haven't eaten a Big Mac in years? No way you could remember a burger you at years ago to do a comparison.
To me, the Big Mac is a sad burger. Colorless, boring, the worst of the worst. When I go to McDonald's, from time to time, I always pick something else.
Agreed!