One animator, a kitchen, and 200+ burgers cooked exactly as written — then rated honestly, with no sponsors deciding what ends up near the top.
Ranked by BM score — the number given after cooking the recipe and eating the result. The community diamond next to it is the average of reader votes, which regularly disagrees with me, and that disagreement is half the fun.
Foie Gras Luxury Burgerbeef · premium★ 9.6◆ 9.8
McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese (Copycat)beef · cheesy★ 9.5◆ 9.7
McDonald's Big Tasty (Copycat)beef · cheesy · bacon★ 9.5◆ 9.1
Green Chile Cheeseburgermovie · beef · cheesy★ 9.3◆ 9.6
Big Mac Tacobeef · smash★ 9.3◆ 9.2
Big Mac Hot Dogbeef · cheesy★ 9.3◆ 9.5
Dean’s Breakfast Burger from Supernaturalbeef · bacon · movie★ 9.2◆ 9.2
McDonald's Big Mac (Copycat)beef · cheesy★ 9.2◆ 9.4
Croissant Big Macbeef · cheesy★ 9.2◆ 9.5
McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe (Copycat)beef · cheesy★ 9.1◆ 9.0Most burger nights die at the shopping list. Tap what is actually in your fridge right now and see what you can cook without leaving the house. No account needed — sign in only if you want the list remembered next time.
Pick two or three ingredients to see what they add up to.
A running project on the channel: take a burger that only ever existed on screen, work out what it would actually be made of, and cook it for real. Nobody else is writing these recipes down, so they only exist here.
Springfield has been feeding cartoon burgers to the world since 1989, and almost all of them are jokes about American excess. Cooking them straight — real ribs on the Ribwich, a proper sauce sequence on the Krusty Burger — is the only way to find out which gags were secretly good recipes.
Fifteen seasons of two brothers eating diner food between exorcisms left a surprisingly specific menu behind. These four lean roadside American: a stuffed Juicy Lucy, a breakfast burger built on a honey-sriracha glaze, and the turducken slammer that fans still argue about.
Albuquerque food runs through the show constantly, so this set is half tribute and half regional New Mexico cooking. The green chile cheeseburger is a genuine state institution, and the Heisenberg build is the one recipe here where you make blue candy on purpose.
Every recipe carries one or more of these tags, and the menu filters combine them, so you can ask for a spicy smash burger with bacon and get an honest answer.
Every recipe on this site was bought, cooked and eaten before it got a number. The BM score is mine: one figure out of 10 covering how the burger actually tastes, whether the recipe survives a normal home kitchen, and whether the effort matches the result. A burger that tastes incredible but needs two days of prep loses points against one that gets ninety per cent of the way there in twenty minutes.
The community score is separate and I never touch it. Anyone signed in can drag a slider from 1 to 10 on any recipe, and that average is shown next to mine as a diamond. When the two disagree by more than a point it usually means the recipe is fussy — my score reflects a cook who has made it four times, theirs reflects the first attempt. Both numbers stay visible so you can judge which one applies to you.
Nothing here is paid placement. No brand has ever asked for a position on the list, and if that ever changes it will be labelled on the page, not buried in a footer.
I am a 2D animator. This started because I wanted a burger from a cartoon I was working on, could not find a real recipe for it anywhere, and decided to work one out myself. That turned into a channel, then into a habit: buy the ingredients, cook the thing exactly as written, film it, eat it, give it a number. I pay for the groceries, so I get to say when a famous recipe is not worth the money.
All of them, permanently. Every recipe on this site shows the full ingredient list and every step without a paywall, a login wall, or an email form in the way. The site costs money to run and that is covered by ads and, eventually, the shop — not by charging you for a burger recipe.
A copycat recreates a restaurant item at home from scratch — the Big Mac, the Zinger, the Quarter Pounder. It is not the official recipe and it is not affiliated with the chain. It is my best reconstruction after cooking it repeatedly and comparing side by side with the real thing.
Not to read anything. An account only unlocks four things: saving recipes to a list, voting on a burger with the community slider, keeping your pantry ingredients between visits, and syncing all of that with the iOS app. Browsing, cooking and printing need nothing at all.
Yes, and it is being expanded. On the home page you can tap a few common ingredients and see what they add up to. The full version, where you tick off everything in your fridge and the menu ranks recipes by how little you are missing, is the next thing landing on the site.
The star rating is mine, given after cooking the recipe myself. The diamond rating is the average of votes from signed-in readers and I never adjust it. Both are shown on every recipe, and when they disagree the recipe page shows the vote count so you can judge how solid the average is.
There is an iOS app on the App Store with the same recipe library, offline access, and a shared account so your saved burgers and votes follow you between phone and browser. An Android version is planned but has no date yet.
Send it over. There is no public submission form yet, but genuinely good builds have made it onto the channel before. Email the recipe with a photo and, if you have one, a note about where it came from — regional and family recipes get priority over restaurant clones.
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