{"id":17548,"date":"2014-08-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=17548"},"modified":"2023-09-04T21:39:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T07:39:51","slug":"review-mcdonalds-jalapeno-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/08\/19\/review-mcdonalds-jalapeno-double\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: McDonald’s Jalape\u00f1o Double"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"McDonald's<\/a><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a hot, cheap date, I recommend sitting under a phoenix dactylifera<\/i> during an African summer. But if you\u2019re looking for a hot, cheap burger, I\u2019d recommend McDonald\u2019s Jalapeno Double.<\/p>\n

For two dollars, you get two beef patties, a slice of white cheddar cheese, pickled jalapeno slices, jalapeno crisps, buttermilk ranch sauce, a regular bun, a paper bag, and napkins. Although, through my experience, there\u2019s a 10 percent chance you won\u2019t get napkins.<\/p>\n

My McDonald\u2019s Jalapeno Double was topped with seven pickled jalapeno slices. I took that as a sign that I was going to get lucky and taste something good or Ray Kroc was smiling down at me…hoping I burn my mouth for all the negative McDonald\u2019s reviews I\u2019ve written.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for me, it was the former.<\/p>\n

While my burger had a nacho\u2019s worth of pickled jalapenos, I can\u2019t say there were a lot of jalapeno crisps. What are jalapeno crisps? That\u2019s a good question. You should be a journalist. Looking at their appearance and ingredients (jalapeno peppers, enriched flour, sunflower oil and\/or safflower oil and\/or canola oil, and salt), which I didn\u2019t include to increase this review\u2019s word count, I assume they\u2019re jalapeno bits that have been coated with flour and then deep fried to near oblivion.<\/p>\n

\"McDonald's<\/a><\/p>\n

The jalapeno crisps provide very little jalapeno flavor. I think they\u2019re really there to give the burger a bit of crunchiness, which they also don\u2019t go a good job of because there\u2019s so few of them. However, the pickled jalapeno slices completely make up for jalape\u00f1o crisps\u2019 lack of flavor and crunch.<\/p>\n

As for the burger\u2019s heat, the pickled peppers made my burger hole warm, but not uncomfortably so. Or, if you want to use a scale of heat that uses McDonald\u2019s products as references, then it\u2019s spicier than their Hot Mustard Sauce, but not as hot as their habanero sauces.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the reason why, with seven jalape\u00f1o slices, the burger isn’t burning my mouth is the buttermilk ranch sauce. It has that familiar ranch salad dressing flavor many of us use to make vegetables tolerable, but the flavor goes in and out like a radio signal through a series of tunnels. I found that weird because there\u2019s enough ranch sauce on the burger to make a McNugget jealous. <\/p>\n

Speaking of the McNugget\u2019s Creamy Ranch Sauce, it\u2019s not the same sauce on this burger. To prove it and to definitely inflate this review\u2019s word count, I\u2019ve listed the ingredients below.<\/p>\n

The McNugget\u2019s Creamy Ranch Sauce is made up of soybean oil, water, cultured lowfat buttermilk, distilled vinegar, sugar, egg yolks, sea salt, garlic juice, xanthan gum, salt, lactic acid, spices, modified guar gum, onion powder, natural flavor, potassium sorbate, autolyzed torula yeast extract, parsley, and calcium disodium EDTA.<\/p>\n

The burger\u2019s buttermilk ranch sauce has soybean oil, cultured buttermilk, water, sour cream, egg yolks, distilled vinegar, maltodextrin, salt, dextrose, modified food starch, soy sauce, dried onion, garlic powder, lactic acid, natural and artificial flavors, shallots, sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, calcium disodium EDTA, xanthan gum, spice, phosphoric acid, sodium acid sulfate, propylene glycol alginate, and autolyzed yeast extract.<\/p>\n

Like the ranch sauce, the cheese shows itself every so often and seems to help temper the jalape\u00f1os. I wish McDonald\u2019s offered a pepper jack cheese, because that would\u2019ve been a nice addition here. <\/p>\n

\"McDonald's<\/a><\/p>\n

The McDonald’s Jalapeno Double tastes like a McDouble with jalapenos, and that\u2019s fine and disappointing at the same time. It\u2019s fine because it\u2019s a tasty combination and it\u2019s only two bucks. It\u2019s disappointing because they added ranch sauce and jalape\u00f1o crisps to make it more than just a McDouble with jalape\u00f1os, but those ingredients don\u2019t do a good job at it. They seem unnecessary, like listing the ingredients for the jalape\u00f1o crisps and the two ranch sauces in this review.<\/p>\n

(Nutrition Facts – 430 calories, 23 grams of fat, 9 grams of saturated fat, 1 gram of trans fat, 80 milligrams of cholesterol, 1030 milligrams of sodium, 35 grams of carbohydrates, 6 grams of sugar, 2 grams of fiber, and 22 grams of protein.)<\/small><\/p>\n

Item:<\/b> McDonald’s Jalape\u00f1o Double
\nPurchased Price:<\/b> $2.00
\nSize:<\/b> N\/A
\nPurchased at:<\/b> McDonald’s
\nRating:<\/b> 7 out of 10
\nPros:<\/b> A spicy McDouble. Worth the two dollars. Strong jalape\u00f1o flavor with a warm heat. Crunchy jalape\u00f1o slices. Cheese is a great glue that keeps the beef patties together.
\nCons:<\/b> Listing ingredients to add to a review’s word count. Ranch sauce doesn’t stick out. Jalape\u00f1o crisps didn’t add much flavor or crunch. Ray Kroc haunting me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re looking for a hot, cheap date, I recommend sitting under a phoenix dactylifera during an African summer. But if you\u2019re looking for a hot, cheap burger, I\u2019d recommend McDonald\u2019s Jalapeno Double. For two dollars, you get two beef patties, a slice of white cheddar cheese, pickled jalapeno slices, jalapeno crisps, buttermilk ranch sauce, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1440],"tags":[1477,1481],"class_list":["post-17548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-fast-food","tag-mcdonalds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17324,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/30\/fast-food-news-mcdonalds-jalapeno-double\/","url_meta":{"origin":17548,"position":0},"title":"FAST FOOD NEWS: McDonald’s Jalape\u00f1o Double","author":"Marvo","date":"July 30, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Update: Click here to read our McDonald's Jalape\u00f1o Double review The McDonald's Jalape\u00f1o Double, which was being tested earlier this year, is now being rolled out nationwide. 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