 I haven't been in a fast food restaurant in literally like 10 years. I remember when I was a teenager and I was really into weightlifting, I was dirty bulking. I would go to McDonald's two or three times a week stuff my face to gain weight and now we're doing it a little bit healthier. I went to McDonald's, I went to Wendy's and I made some homemade patties. We are going to compare the price point as well as the flavor of these patties and most importantly I'm going to tell you guys how to order these patties because I was at Wendy's having a hard time trying to figure out how not to pay five dollars for a single burger patty. So first of all let's go over what we have here. So at McDonald's I bought a quarter pound patty for a dollar 25 and I bought two regular patties for a dollar 98 so I paid 347 at McDonald's for this which to me 347 that's a pretty good deal I got like a pound of meat. At Wendy's I paid well actually just four cents more but at Wendy's I got a junior hamburger with two extra patties for Wendy's oh they put the bread with it they didn't apparently they didn't listen but I just got three patties there's three patties like that with the bread well what are you gonna do so you know comparison McDonald's you're probably getting a little bit more for your buck but eh not not too much more eh and then here on this plate I have just two tiny grass fed burgers that I made and this costed me about a dollar 50 and if you buy grass fed beef for like five six dollars a pound it's really gonna be hard to beat the price and taste of making it home but the purpose of this video is obviously you know if you were out and did not have access to home cooked beef we just have it side-by-side as a taste comparison so first I'm gonna try the regular McDonald's patty I mean it looks like and just a very well done you know not really too even of a sear on the patty it smells very seasoned I don't think they put salt and pepper on this if they did maybe just a little bit it's okay you know just relatively bland grain fed beef all right so now I'm going to try the quarter pounder patty from McDonald's it looks a little better much better sear still very well done on the inside way better seasoning on the quarter pounder patty way better taste way better flavor I would never order the regular McDonald's patty unless you had to in this case and so now I'm going to try the Wendy's patty I mean it looks better than the regular McDonald's patty but not as good as the McDonald's quarter pounder it's still very well done as a very classic I mean Wendy's flavor let me see if I like I'm not sure if I like the quarter pounder from McDonald's more or the Wendy's patty more but I definitely like the regular Wendy's patty more than the McDonald's patty the Wendy's patty definitely has a better beef flavor but the McDonald's quarter pounder is seasoned a lot better let me try just the regular beef that I made myself and this looks this looks exceptional obviously you know you can't have a nice medium rare burger at McDonald's the taste isn't even close you know I took this grass-fed beef salt and pepper five minutes on each side in a pan like it's it's not even close this is like crazy crazy good so at McDonald's you just ask them for the patties off the a la carte menu you could ask them for just a regular burger patty they ring it up is sausage and a quarter pounder beef patty and I would just get the quarter pounder beef patty every time it tastes better it's cheaper for the amount of meat you get at Wendy's it's a little tricky at Wendy's you have to order a junior hamburger which is a dollar 29 and then you have to tell them to use the extra patty button and add as many patties as you want which is 99 cents you know if you're stuck with these two as an option you know definitely go with either the McDonald's quarter pounder or the Wendy's regular burgers if you want to save a little bit of money the McDonald's quarter pounder is going to get you more food for your buck but both of these seem pretty reliable maybe we'll try some other fast food burgers I don't know but guys it's not even close to a homemade burger it's not comparable price wise it's cheaper for me to make the grass-fed burger too so and that doesn't factor in the cheese you know the reason I didn't get cheese on these burgers is because the cheese from these places generally has additives like soy lecithin, whey powder just milk powder things you don't want in your cheese not only are there negative things in the cheese there's also a lack of nutrients in the grain-fed beef you know this grass-fed beef has four to five times the amount of nutrients the grain-fed beef does particular vitamins and fatty acids in addition to that if we did put cheese on these burgers a raw cow cheese is going to have far more nutrition than any of the cheeses that you get in any of these places maybe the swiss cheese that you get might be a bit higher quality than the regular american cheese but I guess that's all I have for you guys so thank you guys for watching hopefully this helps some of you guys out eating out on a carnivore diet I personally just fast so I don't really need to go to fast food places but thank you guys for watching if you guys would like to support the channel please subscribe and share the video if you guys want to check out my patreon I am offering patreon only videos to my subscribers on there now if you guys do want to know maybe what salt and pepper I used on the burgers I made today check out my amazon shop I'm on twitter I'm on instagram you guys can follow me there if you guys want to reach out to me for one-on-one consultations feel free to shoot me an email frank atifano at gmail.com or contact me through the form on my website in the description but outside of that again thank you guys for watching let me know what videos you 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