Should I do the Big Texan 72 oz steak?

[fuzzybabybunny]

EDIT:
I'm not going to do it. I can picture it being just too disgusting. Today I went to a sub par restaurant in Socorro, NM and had two entrees because I didn't gauge their sizes right by their cheap $8 prices. One entree was beef liver with onions and bacon, vegetables, and mashed potatoes. There was a salad. The second entree was some sort of fake mexican dish with pork, beans, red rice, and smothered in cheese. They were big, but certainly not too big for me. However, near the end of the second entree I stopped eating because the food was so bad and I felt like throwing up even though I wasn't completely full. I didn't finish a few bites of pork and a dinner roll. Based on this, I'd rather spend money on a meal that I enjoy.

******

http://www.bigtexan.com/72ozlive.htm

I'm passing through Amarillo. Should I try this? Anyone tried this before? Do I have to just eat the steak or the complete meal in one hour?

I can eat a ton of seafood, but I'm not too sure about a steak. I'm afraid I might get bored halfway through and then it'll just become a forced meal. Beef is also really dense, filling meat. The side items worry me a lot more though because they would act as just filler.

And of course if I fail... not good. $1 / ounce is rediculous.

 

[Modeps]

Are you insane, or just really overweight?

 

[JulesMaximus]

Dude, that's 4.5 lbs of meat!!! :shocked:

I'd pass on that.

 

[KeithTalent]

Either way you fail, so no, don't do it.

KT

 

[Svnla]

You have to remember that you also have to eat everything on that plate, not just the steak.

IIRC, there were a few that finished that task. One of them was a grandmother. If you win, you won't have to pay and your name will be on the restaurant's wall hall of fame.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I'd much rather have that weight in lots of ribeyes. My guess is that large of a steak can't be cooked that well or taste all that great.

 

[Schfifty Five]

I'd be worried about it getting cold half way through....cold steak = no way of finishing for sure.

 

[George P Burdell]

How on earth did the record-holder eat one of those in 9.5 minutes??

 

[ManyBeers]

Originally posted by: Svnla
You have to remember that you also have to eat everything on that plate, not just the steak.

IIRC, there were a few that finished that task. One of them was a grandmother. If you win, you won't have to pay and your name will be on the restaurant's wall hall of fame.

Approximately 8,000 people have done it.

 

[Farang]

You're guaranteed to either pay too much for steak you won't eat or be sick of it by the end of your free meal, so either way it is a bad choice.

 

[E equals MC2]

Unlike seafood, red meat is one of the hardest food for your body to break down.

The first 16-20 oz will be hot, red, chewy and delicious. The remaining 50 oz will be steak be cold, hard, stubborn and sickening just staring at it.

You are insane. I eat like a freakin' truck. 40-50 oz steak I can handle. When you see the very ounces of the 72 oz steak served right before you, you'd realize instantly that it's not gonna work.

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
http://www.bigtexan.com/72ozlive.htm

I'm passing through Amarillo. Should I try this? Anyone tried this before? Do I have to just eat the steak or the complete meal in one hour?

I can eat a ton of seafood, but I'm not too sure about a steak. I'm afraid I might get bored halfway through and then it'll just become a forced meal. Beef is also really dense, filling meat. The side items worry me a lot more though because they would act as just filler.

And of course if I fail... not good. $1 / ounce is rediculous.

I wouldn't suggest it. You should just get some good bar-b-que and fill up, but not stuff yourself to the point that steak is coming out of your ears.

 

[Josh]

Unless your name is Kobayashi - I'd say no.

 

[Spikesoldier]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Dude, that's 4.5 lbs of meat!!! :shocked:

I'd pass on that.

our ancestors just facepalmed themselves.

 

[randay]

edit for delivery

There are many reasons to eat, hunger, boredom, wanting to be the worlds fattest man, but not for revenge.

 

[FoBoT]

my boss stopped there last fall on his way back from Grand Canyon

some guy was in there eating that thing and finished it in 40 minutes


i wouldn't try that, i can't eat that much

 

[Damn Dirty Ape]

I remember a few family trips out west on I-40 I guess it was, seeing signs for a 72oz steak free if you can eat it -- probably the same place.

Yea those sides and fillers would make it a lot harder.

Most I've eaten of steak was right at 2 1/2# at one sitting at a golden corral. I didn't have much else. (I'm 5'10" 165). I just kept chowing down on the applewood grill baconwrapped filet mignons until the steak chef started giving me dirty looks. lol.

I'd worry about it getting out of me later too..

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Damn Dirty Ape
I remember a few family trips out west on I-40 I guess it was, seeing signs for a 72oz steak free if you can eat it -- probably the same place.

Yea those sides and fillers would make it a lot harder.

Most I've eaten of steak was right at 2 1/2# at one sitting at a golden corral. I didn't have much else. (I'm 5'10" 165). I just kept chowing down on the applewood grill baconwrapped filet mignons until the steak chef started giving me dirty looks. lol.

I'd worry about it getting out of me later too..

QFT You'd be constipated for a week after eating that much beef at one time.

 

[Capt Caveman]

I could do it but that baked potato and dinner roll would do me in.

 

[judasmachine]

Don't do it. I used to work for the adjacent hotel and have seen far too many people vomit during/after their attempt. It's sick...

Fun Facts: It comes with all the trimmings (craploads of them) and you have to eat ALL of it. The majority of people who do it, are actually thin. And again, most attemptees DO vomit.


BTW Stop at the 806 on 6th while you're in town...

 

[KK]

Go for it, you only live once. Just think if you do finish, the story you can tell your kids/grandkids. If you don't even try, well what stories would you tell them then? If 8000 have done it, I'm sure you can too. Even if you failed, the steak is still cheaper than most steaks at these up-scale steak houses.

 

[mugs]

He called me greenhorn, I called him Tony Randall.

 

[everman]

Sounds like you need to eat the whole meal.

Former Cincinnati Reds Pitcher Frank Pastore did it in a record time of 9 ½ minutes.

wft how do you eat that so fast? There's no way...

 

[isekii]

lmao you can watch the thing live.
they have a webcam set up.

You can clearly see the giant grey garbage cans next to the seats for the vomiters

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune
I'd much rather have that weight in lots of ribeyes. My guess is that large of a steak can't be cooked that well or taste all that great.

exactly what i was thinking.