Uneeda Burger’s “Fancy” vs Regular Burger

There’s always been hype around Uneeda Burgers upgraded(“Fancy”) burger.  Check out this excerpt from a food critic from The Stranger:

First of all, let me say that both burgers were excellent. Nothing wrong with relatively well-off suburban cows. Painted Hills, A+. HOWEVER. The Wagyu burger was a revelation. I mean literally like the book of Revelation, like eight flaming man-goats descended on fiery Segways and beat me in the face with their righteous swords of deliciousness….The Wagyu patty was soft without being insubstantial, drippier, darker, and beefier than its counterpart. The Wagyu burger made you forget that ketchup exists. Seriously, it was so good. If my mother were a cow, I would still eat this hamburger. If I were a hamburger, I would eat this hamburger. If I were this hamburger, I would eat myself.

Whoa.  After reading this wouldn’t you be a tad bit curious to see if this burger was that good?   So we had to do our own taste test.

As mentioned in our Uneeda Burger post, we have our favorite burgers, the Croque Madame Burger and the Crimini Mushroom Burger, so we’ve never had the “fancy” burger patty.

To really taste the patty, we just did the Classic Burger, which is as plain as you can get. It’s bun, patty, lettuce, tomato, pickle and sauce. We ordered one with the normal all-natural painted hills beef and then ordered the fancy patty made of gleason ranch 100% pasture-raised beef for an additional $2.  Both were cooked to medium.

The Verdict: The regular classic is $5.00 and the “fancy” 100% pasture raised beef is an extra $2.00. In order to really compare, we had to test side by side, and there was a discernible difference with the pasture-raised beef. It is a bit more flavorful, but here’s the thing-the regular burger also has quality beef and it’s nearly as good. It was a fun experiment to do the taste test, but with the 40% markup on the pasture-raised beef, it’s not soooo much better in our opinion. Plus more importantly, we like the Uneeda burgers with the other quality ingredients like cheese, eggs, mushroom, ham,etc, so with the additional flavors and the regular burger already being of great quality, we don’t envision ordering the “fancy” burger going forward.

Update 9/22/19: Uneeda Burger just made Seattle Met’s 100 Best Restaurant

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