Need strategy help on eating 72 oz. steak in Amarillo Texas

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[Rodney King]

 

The 72oz. Steak

There's no bigger steak-eating challenge anywhere! The famous 72 oz. steak is a legend across the US and around the world; so if you can't travel to Amarillo to try it on for size, you now can have one shipped right to your front door!

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72oz. Steak Facts and Stats

• Nearly 4800 people have succeeded in eating the 72oz. steak (since 1960).

• Almost 30,000 people have attempted to consume the free 72oz. steak (since 1960).

• Approximately two women each year successfully eat the steak of the 4 or 5 who try. About 50% of the women who try are successful.

• Richard LaFeare chomped his way through 2 steaks on the "Donny & Marie Osmond Show" in 2000.

• Frank Pastore, who was a professional pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, ate the complete steak dinner in 9 and 1/2 minutes.

• The oldest person to eat the steak was a 69-year-old grandmother; the youngest, an 11-year old boy.

• Klondike Bill, a professional wrestler, consumed two complete dinners in the one hour time limit back in the 1960s.

Some Rules 72oz. Steak

Rule # 1 is to have fun. We really want you to win! The $50 dinner consist of a baked potato, salad, shrimp cocktail, roll, and a 72-ounce top sirloin steak. You must sit at the designated table in our dining room. You may not leave the table for any reason once the contest starts. No one may assist you in any way (such as cutting up your meal). You must complete the dinner in 1 hour (if you can't do the meal in an hour, you ain't going get it done in 2 hours anyway). You may not share your meal even if you don't complete the dinner (like take it back to your table to be shared by any folks you may have invited to cheer you on). If you get sick (its been know to happen) the contest is over, period. You can order the steak cooked anyway you want. We will allow you a sample bite (small) prior to the start of the timer to make sure it is cooked to your satisfaction and the taste meets with your approval. Then we start the timer for one hour. You do not have to eat the fat or gristle (if you can find any), but we must judge this. Again, we want you to win but we do know our meats and will judge accordingly. The contest is just that, a contest. The steak is not offered on our menu as a meal. We do not allow the dinner to be ordered as a meal (unless you want to spend $200). It takes us a little more than a half an hour to cook the steak and it is available 365 days a year from 8:00am to 9:30pm. Enough with the rules! Refer to rule #1 - HAVE FUN!

Of course, when you take the 72oz. challenge at home, you don't have to limit yourself to one hour...and, you can share it with your friends and family. Most importantly, you now gain the bragging rights to say you too have savored the taste of this Texas-sized steak.

The successful 72oz. steak eaters in our restaurant will take home a special limited-edition t-shirt proclaiming their gastronomical feat. So until you are able to visit us in Amarillo, why not have a practice session in your own home? Invite a few friends over, and have a Big Texan party!

 

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Well, I have heard that smoking pot produces the feeling of being hungry, but I wonder if it would actually help when it comes to consuming as much as possible.

Many years ago, my friends and I played 36 holes of golf (drinking alot of beer in that time), then got high, and then when to an all-you-can-eat seafood place in Myrtle Beach.

It was honestly the most horrendous display of eating you've ever seen. You could have rebuilt the Bering Straight land bridge with the discarded Alaskan King Crab leg shells. We dented the Atlantic seafood chain, permanently disrupting food chains that had taken millenia to evolve.

At the end of the night, a few of us were sticking our heads in the deserted lobster tanks, hoping to skim up some overlooked plankton.

[skinkinthegrass]

I wonder if there's a place in Eugene, OR that serves a 72 ounce Gardenburger?

..there use to be a hamburger chain in Tx called "Whataburger"...

Great burger/Root Beer..ok, fries.. :))

[Rodney King]

LOL. Great post. Frame of mind is key in everything that you do.

[tiamat]

unhinge your jaw?

Works for snakes....but then you'd have to spend a week sleeping it off!

;-)

Tia

[CindyDawg]

My husband reading along here and says that a good steak should be enjoyed.

[Rebelbase]

" we were about as humanly hungry as healthy adults could get."

Phimont is a great place. I agree about being starved when you get off the trail. I lost 15 lbs on one of my trips there.

[razorback-bert]

I watched a big truck driving, motorcycle mama fail one night.

Didn't laught!

[Tredge]

The best advice I can give is don't fill up on bread.

[weegee]

Actually practice eating 4 or 5 pounds of steak. the 72 ouncer will seem like nothing after that...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Chain still exists, atleast in NM.

[JaimeD2]

I've been thinking about this since I first saw the post - you and I are built comparably, though I'm a bit taller and a bit heavier (6'3" and 190lbs). What I think I'd do is make sure that I exercised and ate a ton in the weeks approaching the event, to keep my metabolism as high as possible and keep my stomach used to digesting a lot of food quickly. Then I'd probably eat breakfast the day of the event, and nothing else until the dinner, like someone else here suggested. One last thing I'd do is make sure I cut it all up before I started eating anything, though that's not very interesting for the spectators, and they might accuse you of copping out a bit. But I figure it'd let me eat it all in less time from my first bite. As it is, I might think about trying this if I'm ever in Amarillo, Texas, but I'd have to prepare pretty extensively.

[Rodney King]

I don't exercise much, but I have at various times in my life so am not adverse to it. Would it help that much? I suppose I could jog a few miles every morning and evening leading up to it.

[Welsh Rabbit]

LOL! Yeah I've been there too. I'd go to some resturaunt with the munchies and order an obscene amount of food. Then, if the service was slow, I'd get over the munchies and be stuck with two appetizers, the largest meal on the menu with extra side dishes, and a desert. Good times...

[JaimeD2]

I can't say with any confidence that exercise would help much, but I can say from personal experience that I always eat more when I'm more active, and less when I'm less active, and my weight doesn't change either way. So I imagine it'd help me build up an appetite, and it might help digest the food more quickly if my body were used to going through a lot every day.

[debg]

Google and read everything you can about...Takeru Kobayashi.

[The Great RJ]

I ate a 20 oz steak once--it's the digestion afterward that was the problem. I'd be prepared with magazines, Tucks wipes, a plunger and some industrial strength air freshener in your bathroom.

A chaser of Angustora Bitters and a splash of charged water might help too.

[Cloud William]

Go out and rent "The Great Outdoors." John Candy will show you how to do it.

LOL!... the "Old 96'er".

"Processing nicely!"

[Prodigal Son]

Assuming that speed is key,

Personally, I think it is. I can wolf down a lot of food if I tear into it like we used to in basic training when the drills would only give you a few seconds to eat a whole meal. But I've never chewed my food really good my whole life. I can swallow big chunks of meat after I've only chewed it three or four times.

Do you have to eat the whole meal or just the steak? The carbs (from the potato) are tricky. Carbs will give you a full feeling very quickly (as compared to protein) because carbs are sugar. It takes the body longer to get into that protein. If you have to eat the potato too, I'd save that and the roll for next to last (salad last because it is easy to eat even if you're full- there's nothing too it really but roughage).

[skinkinthegrass]

Another demostration of People Eating Tasty Animals.

Yeah...some Eviro/PETA (the other ones)-Whacko/ELF Terrorists Demo in front of an Lexington, Ky. KFC, here about 2 weeks ago...missed them, would have bought a bucket... :))

[skinkinthegrass]

Another demostration of People Eating Tasty Animals.

Yeah...some Eviro/PETA (the other ones)-Whacko/ELF Terrorists Demo in front of an Lexington, Ky. KFC, here about 2 weeks ago...missed them, would have bought a bucket... :))