Today I will be taking a look at the BAB Burger – billed as for The Big Eaters.

Available at the Commercial Hotel in Swan Hill, this burger comes in at the cost of $23 so I was expecting that it would be substantial (I’m guessing BAB stands for Big Arse Burger) and was not disappointed.  However the size of this burger is really the only notable thing about it.

Presentation and Customization

First of all, I asked for my burger sans tomato and beetroot and as you can see from the picture above this was apparently too much effort for the chef, though he did remove the relish that I had wanted.  Also as you can see from the photo there were four chips (well – 3 and a broken one) sticking out at an odd angle at the bottom of the burger on one side.  However when looking at the rest the chips on the plate, one realized that they were not put in the burger on purpose, but must have just got caught up in its construction as the other chef dumped the chips on the plate.

The Eating 

Despite the pic above, this burger was too big to eat with the hands in a restaurant (you could probably get away with it at a truck stop cafe or something) so you had to disassemble it and eat it with a knife and fork.  With double bacon, double cheese and the two huge patties there was certainly a lot to get through – you wont walk away hungry!  However there was not a lot of taste to be found despite all the ingredients (they REALLY should not have left the relish off).  The two patties were indeed huge in size, way more meat than you get with say a Mega Mac which boasts 4 patties, but they were made of cheap mince and quite bland.  The underside of the buns were burnt and the egg yolk had disintegrated with the frying so tasted the same as the white.  So a big burger, but every ingredient was either overdone or of such cheap quality that you’d need an electron microscope to search for the taste (for an example of how fine quality ingredients can make all the difference to a burger – read my review of the Cheeseworld Cheeseburger).

Overall

It’s a big burger and you get a decent amount of chips with it, so if your idea of a good feed is quantity over quality it is worth the $23 they charge.  Again, you will not walk away from the table hungry after this.  But if you are looking for something to dazzle your tastebuds or made to your particular specifications then definitely don’t bother with this.  If you want quantity AND quality then try the meat at somewhere like The Kings Hotel.

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