Double Whopper Recipe: Flame-Grilled Burger King Copycat at Home

To make a Double Whopper at home, grill two thin 4 oz (113 g) beef patties over a very hot flame. Stack them on the heel of a toasted sesame bun, then add pickles, ketchup, raw white onion, two tomato slices, shredded iceberg and mayonnaise, in that order going up. That’s the whole recipe, and it makes two burgers in about 25 minutes.

This is my homemade copycat, not Burger King’s official recipe. I worked it out on a lidded kettle grill, and the build below is the one I kept. The chain doesn’t publish its seasoning, its sauce formula or its broiler settings. What it does publish, I used: the US patty weight, the stacking order and nutrition sheets from France, Switzerland and Latin America, all checked on 8 October 2026. For the single burger, its history and its country variants, start with my Whopper ingredients guide and copycat recipe.

What’s in a Double Whopper? Official specs by market

A Double Whopper is a Whopper with two flame-grilled beef patties instead of one. In the US, Burger King describes it as two 1/4 lb flame-grilled beef patties with tomatoes, lettuce, mayonnaise, ketchup, pickles and sliced white onions on a toasted sesame seed bun. I took that wording from bk-menus.com, which reproduces bk.com, because the official US page wouldn’t load for me.

The burger isn’t identical everywhere. Here is what each Burger King site publishes, all checked on 8 October 2026:

Market	Product name	Beef	Cheese	Calories	Source
United States	Double Whopper	2 × 1/4 lb (4 oz each)	None	No official figure verified	bk-menus.com, reproducing bk.com
Switzerland	Double WHOPPER®	222 g total, 355 g burger	None	874 kcal	burger-king.ch
France	Double Whopper Cheese	Not published	Cheddar	934 kcal	burgerking.fr
Latin America	Doble Whopper	Not published	None	920 kcal	burgerkinglatino.com

Double Whopper specs by market (US, Switzerland, France, Latin America): product name, beef weight, cheese and official calories, checked 8 October 2026. (Table: Burger Breton, original compilation (CC BY 4.0), from burger-king.ch, burgerking.fr, burgerkinglatino.com and bk-menus.com)

How much beef is in a Double Whopper?

A US Double Whopper carries about half a pound of beef: two quarter-pound patties of 4 oz (113 g) each (Wikipedia, citing bk.com). Burger King Switzerland lists 222 g of flame-grilled beef for its Double WHOPPER®, roughly 111 g per patty, which lines up with the US figure. Burger King France publishes no patty weight, so I don’t assume the same figure there.

Does a Double Whopper have cheese?

No, the standard Double Whopper has no cheese, just like the classic Whopper. Cheese only appears in the ‘Cheese’ versions. In France, the Double Whopper Cheese is the only Double I could find on burgerking.fr; the plain Double Whopper page returns a 404 error.

The French page also contradicts itself. Its description promises ‘une délicieuse tranche de fromage’, one slice, while its ingredient list says ‘cheddar fondu (2 tranches)’. My cheese variant uses two slices per burger, but I can’t tell you which number is right.

Double Whopper calories and nutrition

A Double Whopper has between 874 and 934 kcal depending on the market and on the cheese. The Swiss version without cheese has 874 kcal, the Latin American one 920 kcal and the French Double Whopper Cheese 934 kcal, per the official sheets.

Per burger (official)	France, Double Whopper Cheese	Switzerland, Double WHOPPER®	Latin America, Doble Whopper
Energy	934 kcal	874 kcal (3,658 kJ)	920 kcal
Fat	58 g	52.3 g	58 g
of which saturated	21 g	16.7 g	21 g
Carbohydrates	49 g	47.9 g	51 g
of which sugars	12 g	Not listed	Not listed
Protein	52 g	51.8 g	48 g
Salt	3.5 g	Not listed	Not listed

Official Double Whopper nutrition table per burger: energy, fat, saturated fat, carbs, sugars, protein and salt in France, Switzerland and Latin America. (Table: Burger Breton, original compilation (CC BY 4.0), from official Burger King nutrition sheets)

You’ll see US figures of 920 to 980 kcal online. They come from calorie aggregators, not from bk.com, so I’ve left them out.

Double Whopper calories by market: 874 kcal in Switzerland (no cheese), 920 kcal in Latin America (no cheese), 934 kcal for France’s Double Whopper Cheese. Sources: burger-king.ch, burgerkinglatino.com, burgerking.fr, checked 8 October 2026. (Chart: Burger Breton, original chart (CC BY 4.0), rendered with QuickChart; data from official Burger King nutrition sheets)

Double Whopper nutrition compared: fat, saturated fat, carbohydrates and protein per burger in France (Double Whopper Cheese), Switzerland and Latin America, from the official sheets. (Chart: Burger Breton, original chart (CC BY 4.0), rendered with QuickChart; data from burgerking.fr, burger-king.ch, burgerkinglatino.com)

Allergens differ by market too. France declares celery, sesame, egg, gluten and milk, with possible traces of soy, tree nuts and mustard. Switzerland declares egg, sesame, celery and gluten, with possible traces of milk, soy, mustard and lupin. Latin America lists gluten, egg, celery and sesame.

Double Whopper recipe ingredients (for 2 burgers)

You need 1 lb (454 g) of ground beef for two Double Whoppers, split into four thin 4 oz patties. The topping quantities below follow the per-burger Whopper build from Top Secret Recipes, doubled for two burgers. Bun size, butter and the cheese count come from Dan Toombs’s Double Whopper with Cheese copycat.

• 1 lb (454 g) ground beef, 80/20 (20% fat), divided into 4 patties of 4 oz (113 g)
• Salt and black pepper
• 2 sesame seed buns, about 6 in (15 cm) across
• 2 tbsp (28 g) soft butter, for toasting
• 2 tbsp mayonnaise (1 tbsp per burger)
• 2 tsp ketchup (1 tsp per burger)
• 6 pickle slices (3 per burger)
• 6 to 8 thin rings of white onion (3 to 4 per burger)
• 4 tomato slices (2 per burger)
• 1/2 cup shredded iceberg lettuce (1/4 cup per burger)
• For a Double Whopper with cheese: 4 slices of cheddar (2 per burger)

Equipment: a gas or charcoal grill with a lid, an instant-read thermometer and a thin metal spatula. If you want to bake the buns yourself, my homemade burger buns recipe gives a soft sesame bun that holds two patties.

Times and temperatures

The grill does the work here: very hot, very fast. These are my reproduction choices, since Burger King doesn’t publish its broiler temperature.

Yield	2 Double Whoppers
Prep time	about 15 minutes
Cook time	about 10 minutes
Total time	about 25 minutes, plus preheating the grill
Grill temperature	450 to 500°F (230 to 260°C)
Grilling time	2 to 3 minutes per side
Safe internal temperature	160°F (71°C)

How to make a Double Whopper at home: step by step

There are seven steps to a homemade Double Whopper. Shape thin patties, heat the grill hard, prep the toppings and toast the buns. Then grill the patties to 160°F (71°C), stack them and build the burger in Burger King’s order.

1. Shape four thin patties

Divide the beef into four 4 oz (113 g) portions and press each into a thin patty slightly wider than the bun, as Top Secret Recipes does. The meat shrinks on the grill, and you want it to reach the edge of the bun. Keep the patties in the fridge until the grill is hot, and season each side with a pinch of salt and pepper just before grilling.

2. Heat the grill very hot

Preheat the grill to 450 to 500°F (230 to 260°C), lid closed, then clean and oil the grates. Burger King cooks on a conveyor broiler: gas flames below, refractory bricks radiating heat from above (Wikipedia, Flame broiler). A home grill only gives you the flame below. I close the lid while the patties cook, which brings some heat down from the top and cuts the cooking time.

Burger patties grilling over direct flame on a backyard grill: the very hot fire (450 to 500°F) that gives a homemade Double Whopper its flame-grilled taste. (Photo: Valters Krontals, CC BY 2.0 — https://www.flickr.com/photos/53442856@N06/7668772348 (1024×678))

3. Prep the toppings

Slice the tomato and onion, shred the lettuce and lay out the pickles, ketchup and mayonnaise before any meat touches the grill. Thin patties cook in under six minutes, and the burger has to be built the moment they come off.

4. Toast the buns

Spread the butter on the cut sides of the buns and toast them on the cooler edge of the grill for about a minute, until golden. The US Double Whopper comes on a toasted sesame bun, and the toasting keeps the heel from going soggy under two patties.

5. Grill the patties

Grill the patties over direct flame for 2 to 3 minutes per side, flipping once and never pressing them. Slide the thermometer into the side of a patty and pull it at 160°F (71°C), the USDA minimum for ground beef (USDA FSIS). With the lid down, mine got there in about 2 minutes a side. The one I left for the full 3 came off dry. Check early.

Thin homemade beef patties on the grill grates, cooked 2 to 3 minutes per side without pressing until they reach 160°F (71°C) inside. Original step photo with a thermometer still to be shot. (Photo: Pavel Ševela, CC BY-SA 3.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19890579 (2799×2051). Flag: the brief calls for an original photo of four patties with a thermometer reading 160°F / 71°C.)

6. Stack the two patties

Stack the two patties directly on top of each other, then onto the bottom bun. For the cheese version, lay one slice of cheddar on each patty for the last 30 seconds, lid closed, so it melts and glues the two patties together. Burger King doesn’t publish where the second patty and the cheese go in its build. Putting the second patty straight on the first is my choice, so all the juices run into the heel.

7. Build the Double Whopper in order

Build from the bottom up, in the reverse of the official order Burger King France gives for the Whopper (burgerking.fr, checked 7 October 2026):

1. Sesame bun heel
2. Two flame-grilled patties (with cheese, if using)
3. 3 pickle slices
4. 1 tsp ketchup
5. 3 to 4 onion rings
6. 2 tomato slices
7. 1/4 cup shredded iceberg
8. 1 tbsp mayonnaise, spread on the crown
9. Sesame bun crown

Serve right away. The hot patties wilt the lettuce within minutes, and a Double Whopper doesn’t wait well.

Why this recipe tastes like the original

This copycat tastes like a Double Whopper because it copies the three things that define it: real flame, thin quarter-pound patties and the official build order. The toppings are ordinary. The flame and the order are what make it a Whopper.

Burger King’s Duke and Nieco broilers cook a patty in a cycle of roughly 2 to 4 minutes (Tasting Table). Two to three minutes per side on a very hot grill is the closest home equivalent. The build order matters just as much: hot meat sits on the heel, and the cold, wet toppings stay up under the crown.

A Burger King conveyor flame broiler, gas flames below and radiant heat above, cooks each patty in a cycle of about 2 to 4 minutes. A home grill with the lid closed is the closest equivalent. (Photo: Jason Lam (jasonlam), CC BY-SA 2.0 — https://www.flickr.com/photos/93512023@N00/4426527450 (500×375))

My take: the Double is the better Whopper. A single thin patty gets lost under a 6-inch bun, a pile of iceberg and two tomato slices. With two patties, the beef and the smoke come through first and the toppings back them up.

A smashed burger on a flat-top is the opposite technique. It builds a crust through full contact with the steel, as in my Shackburger copycat recipe. I love that burger, but it isn’t a Whopper: no flame, no smoke, a different crust.

What I don’t know, because Burger King doesn’t publish it

Several parts of the official Double Whopper are not public, and I haven’t guessed at them:

• The patty seasoning. Salt and pepper is my choice.
• The fat ratio of the beef. 80/20 is my choice.
• The broiler temperature. 450 to 500°F (230 to 260°C) is my choice.
• The French ‘sauce’. The French page never calls it mayonnaise; I use mayonnaise because the US list names it.
• The patty weight in France.
• An official US calorie count.
• Whether the French Double Whopper Cheese has one slice of cheddar or two.

Can you make a Double Whopper without a grill?

Yes, you can make a good double burger without a grill, but it won’t taste flame-grilled. A cast-iron skillet gives the patties a crust, not char. Your oven broiler gets closer, because it cooks with intense heat from above, like the refractory bricks in Burger King’s broiler. Use the same thin patties and the same 160°F (71°C) target.

Whopper vs Double Whopper vs Triple Whopper

The difference is the number of patties: one in a Whopper, two in a Double Whopper and three in a Triple Whopper. The toppings stay the same.

The classic single Whopper: one flame-grilled patty with the same toppings. The Double Whopper adds a second quarter-pound patty. (Photo: Tokfo, CC0 1.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37367904 (4679×3128))

Burger	Patties	Beef (US, 4 oz per patty)	Cheese as standard	My recipe
Whopper	1	4 oz (113 g)	No	Whopper copycat
Double Whopper	2	8 oz (227 g)	No	This recipe
Triple Whopper	3	3 patties	Cheese versions exist	Triple Whopper Cheese copycat

Whopper vs Double Whopper vs Triple Whopper: number of patties, US beef weight (4 oz per patty) and whether cheese comes as standard. (Table: Burger Breton, original compilation (CC BY 4.0), from bk.com via Wikipedia and burgerking.fr)

A Triple Whopper served at a Burger King in Valencia, Spain: three patties, one more than the Double Whopper, with the same toppings. (Photo: Haydn Blackey, CC BY-SA 2.0 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=146188529 (4232×3345))

Want more than cheese? Hungry Jack’s, Burger King’s Australian brand, adds bacon and cheddar to its premium Double. I rebuilt it in my Ultimate Double Whopper copycat recipe.

A short history of the Double Whopper

The Double Whopper appeared in the mid-1970s, according to Tasting Table. At that time, Burger King promoted ‘double beef’ across its whole US menu, which meant half a pound of beef in the Whopper (Tasting Table). That’s the only source I found for the date, so treat it as approximate.

The original Whopper is older. James McLamore created it in Miami in 1957 and sold it for 37 cents (Wikipedia).

In late February 2026, Burger King updated the Whopper in more than 7,000 US and Canadian restaurants. It got a more ‘premium’ bun, a creamier mayonnaise and a hinged box, but the patty didn’t change (CP24). That update has only been confirmed for the US and Canada. I cover the rest of the year’s launches in every new Burger King Whopper of 2026.

How much does a Double Whopper cost?

I couldn’t verify a current official price for the Double Whopper, so I won’t print one. Prices vary by restaurant and by deal. For current Burger King pricing against McDonald’s and Wendy’s, see Burger Breton’s coverage of the 2026 burger value wars.

Double Whopper FAQ

How many patties are in a Double Whopper?

Two. In the US, each one is a 1/4 lb (4 oz, 113 g) flame-grilled beef patty, so about half a pound of beef per burger. Burger King Switzerland lists 222 g of beef for the pair.

Is the Whopper sauce mayonnaise?

In the US, yes: Burger King lists mayonnaise on the Double Whopper. In France, the official page only says ‘sauce’ and the recipe isn’t public. I use mayonnaise in my copycat.

What ground beef should I use for a homemade Double Whopper?

I use 80/20 ground beef, meaning 20% fat. Burger King doesn’t publish its fat ratio. 80/20 keeps thin patties juicy over a hot flame.

Is the Double Whopper the same in every country?

No. The US, Swiss and Latin American versions have no cheese. In France, only the Double Whopper Cheese turned up on burgerking.fr. Calories run from 874 kcal in Switzerland to 934 kcal for the French cheese version.

In what order do you stack a Double Whopper?

From the bottom up: heel, two patties, pickles, ketchup, onion, two tomato slices, lettuce, then mayonnaise on the crown. That follows the official Whopper order from Burger King France, with the second patty placed on the first as my choice.

For more burger recipes, from buns to sauces to copycats, browse the Burger Breton recipes hub.