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!

 

	World Renowned 72-oz. steak Item No. BT-416 $72.00 (plus shipping and handling) Order the one and only 72 oz. Top Sirloin Steak and share it with six or eight of your friends!
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[JusPasenThru]

Gee, a few weeks ago there were threads on FR about obesity and how we are all innocent victims and how its not our fault we're all 40% over ideal body weight. This crap makes about as much sense as having a chugging contest at an AA meeting.

[strela]

I drove by this place yesterday and have resolved to accompish this feat on April 12th, 2004 (My birthday). I need some strategy help. Which course do you eat first? How to prepare yourself in the weeks and days leading up to the event, etc.

I did it, back in 1989 (and have the certificate around here somewhere to prove it).

My tips:

- Eat little or nothing the week before you go.

- Drink only from one small glass of tea with no ice during the meal - just enough liquid to keep you from choking if a piece of meat gets stuck in your throat.

- Don't add any extra butter, sour cream, or chives to the baked potato. (You have to eat all the trimmings too).

- Don't try to eat the whole thing in the first 10 minutes. You get an hour to do it - use as much of the hour as you can.

- Eat the food that will pack most densely in your stomach first and leave the steak for last. (Cut-up pieces of steak take up a lot more room in your stomach, and if you eat it first, you'll feel fuller).

[alnitak]

Does it come with giant veg?

[Rodney King]

Want some of us freepers that will be in the area to come cheer you on?

Yeah, I'm not talking about doing this for a long time, but that would be great. I'll post a follow up when the time comes. Maybe we could make a fund raiser out of it where everyone who wins donates the 50 bucks to FR.

[ConservativeMan55]

Drink A LOT of WATER!!!!

[Atlas Sneezed]

The top sirloin cut gets dried out fast, so order it rare.

[Joe_October]

Eat the first 71 ounces quickly and savor the last ounce.

Sorry, Best I can do.

There's a place in Vegas and Salt Lake and a few other places called Leatherby's. They offer a sundae that if you can eat it they put your name on the wall. I've always wanted to do that.

On top of the shear bulk of it, you gotta' deal with hyperthermia. Ain't America Great!

[netmilsmom]

Along with heavy eating for the days before, drink a gallon of water each day. Try it in the biggest glasses you can find.

[PatrickHenry]

Well, if you can't throw up, will they let you take a sex break? That always increases the appetite.

[July 4th]

I think eat fast and order it rare are two good tips. It will be much easier to chew and swallow rare. And if you eat fast, your stomach won't know that it's getting full until it already is. I've read about people doing this once in a while, and I think the people who are good at it down the whole thing in 10 minutes.

[Rodney King]

Also, ask yourself WHY?

Why not? I used to do a lot of drinking and sailing, producing lots of memories. I live in Oklahoma now, so sailing is out, and I also don't drink much anymore. This is a nice wholesome way to do something productively stupid that I can be proud of and tell my grand kids about.

[gorush]

I did that once in Portland back in the '70's. I was in my early to mid twentys and logging for a living in northern Idaho. I ate a ton and worked hard and was on the verge of skinny. The 72 oz. steak was "a piece of cake". Easiest free dinner I ever et. :{)

[Rodney King]

Gee, a few weeks ago there were threads on FR about obesity and how we are all innocent victims and how its not our fault we're all 40% over ideal body weight. This crap makes about as much sense as having a chugging contest at an AA meeting.

Yeah, but I'm not fat. In fact, I could probably use 10 pounds.

[kipj]

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

[alnitak]

Looks like I maxed that guy's site out in about 3 seconds :-)

You do realise that this thread has completely overshadowed my very worthy Gaddafi thread? *sigh* Such is modern life...so superficial :-)

[Rodney King]

Awesome! thanks. Had you ever eaten massive portions before? Did you practice in the weeks leading up to it?

[Rodney King]

Awesome! thanks. Had you ever eaten massive portions before? Did you practice in the weeks leading up to it?

[Southack]

Our Boy Scout troop stopped at the Big Texan on our way back from Philmont Scount Ranch.

We'd been eating a few survival foods and climbing mountains for our 90 mile, two week hike, so by the time we reached the Big Texan, we were about as humanly hungry as healthy adults could get.

I finished 36 ounces, and I'm a big guy.

The 72 ounce steak is just too much!

[Nachum]

There was an ice cream shop in the old Sorrento Hotel in Miami that had a sundae that looked like it had three gallons of ice cream in it. If you could eat the whole thing, they gave it to you free.

There were all sorts of celebrity photos on the wall of this place along with one of Frank Sinatra with the sundae in front of him and a spoon in his hand.

I was about 8 or 9 when I saw that place. Oh how I pined away for that sundae!

[RoseofTexas]

GOOD LUCK!! I witnessed a brave soul take on the mighty 72oz. steak there and FAILED! The food there is WONDERFUL and a great time was had by all watching this poor guy trying REAL hard to eat the WHOLE THING! And he wasn't a small dude either!