Meet the Commando burger at Chuck Wagon, Adelaide

JUST looking at it is enough to make the stomach turn.

Meet the Commando: a monstrous burger packed with six beef patties, each topped with a rasher of bacon, double cheese and garnished with a bit of salad.

The gut buster, on sale at O'Connell St eatery Chuck Wagon, is the latest addition to a growing menu of big meal challenges popping up across Adelaide.

Inspired by the US street food scene and reality television shows such as Man v. Food, Chuck Wagon co-owner Stefano Timpano said he was keen to get on the giant food bandwagon sweeping Adelaide.

"The idea of it is we do a range of different burgers and to have an ultimate challenge burger that people can come in and be like, `Yep, I've done that' - that's our goal," Mr Timpano said.

"Ideally we'd like to do a challenge on the last Friday of every month."

For $35 customers get the 1kg burger and a side of fries. If they can finish the meal in under 20 minutes their picture is put on a wall of fame and they win 10 per cent off any meal for a month.

Those who fail, have their face put on a wall of shame.

Six diners tried the mammoth burger at its launch on Friday night and Mr Timpano said one managed to polish it off in 5min 4sec.

But dietitian and founder of Happy Healthy Me, Tania Ferraretto, said anyone planning to take up the challenge should be aware that the Commando provides about 2.6 times an adult's recommended daily energy intake and contains some 400g of fat.

"This basically means you could eat a healthy breakfast, lunch and dinner (and snacks) for more than two-and-half-days and get the same energy intake," she said.

"I have never seen a meal provide so much energy or fat and it is crazy to think that someone would try and eat it."

While competing in an isolated event may only make you feel sick, Ms Ferraretto said big food challenges promoted overeating.

"This sort of risk taking will have consequences," she said.

"In the short-term the burger would make you feel sick - nausea and vomiting would be highly likely

"In the longer term, eating this type of food can increase the risk of high cholesterol levels, heart disease, obesity and diabetes."

The stats

6 x 160g burger patties

 6 pieces of bacon

 Double cheese on each patty

 Sweet bun

 Lettuce

 Tomato

 Onion

 Garlic aioli

 Side of shoestring fries

Analysis

22,800kJ

405g fat (172g saturated)

To burn off the energy in the burger you would have to walk for 19 hours at a moderate pace, run for 5½ hours or swim for 10 hours.

*Estimates by dietitian and founder of Happy Healthy Me, Tania Ferraretto

roxanne.allan@news.com.au

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