- Home page: 72 ounce steak webcam | page about Joey Chestnut setting the 72 ounce steak record
- List of all finishers 1991-2005 in the eatfeats.com database
- BBC article about the Big Texan Steak Ranch
- Amarillo.com article about Joey Chestnut breaking the Big Texan's 72 ounce steak record
- News video (without audio) about Joey Chestnut breaking the record
- Former Big Texan record holder Frank Pastore's blog entry about Joey Chestnut breaking his record. Pastore was a Cincinnati Reds pitcher when he broke the record for the seventh time in 1987 and is now a conservative talk radio host.
- Video clip from 2000 episode of Ripley's Believe it or not about the Big Texan starring Rich & Carlene LeFevre
Someone claiming to be Buffalo Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick is the most recent entry in the list of 72 ounce steak finishers at the Big Texan in Amarillo, TX.
A video from a Swedish television program about the rib eating contest held at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas. (video from January about the recording of the segment)
Amarillo.com reports that Erik Ekstrand and Mackan Edlund, stars of Swedish reality television, competed in the team rib eating qualifier at the Big Texan on Tuesday. The pair also appeared on a local television program.
Pat Michels has a blog entry for the Dallas Observer about the rib eating contest that started yesterday at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, Texas.
Reb Stevenson, travel writer for the Toronto Star, produced an article and video about her attempt at the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan in Amarillo, Texas.
BigTexan.com announces the Amarillo, Texas restaurant will hold a team rib eating contest with a $1,000 first prize. More information about the contest will be revealed on December 28.
Pat Bertoletti announces on his facebook page that the attempted the 72 ounce steak challenge today at The Big Texan in Amarillo, Texas and completed it in 16:01. Joey Chestnut also reportedly attempted the challenge.
NikkyDD announces she finished the 72 ounce steak at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in under 46 minutes, which is confirmed by the online finishers list (September 18 listing).
The Big Texan Steak Ranch makes an ESPN.com list of "Redneck Wonders".
Darren Dunham reports that a Big Texan billboard displays a picture of Joey Chestnut, the record holder for the 72 ounce steak challenge meal.
Traders Village in Houston has a gallery of a contest where competitors ate the 72 ounce steak meal from the Big Texan Steak Ranch. Bud Caudill finished his meal in 28 minutes and Donice Krueger was the runner up with a time of just under 40 minutes. (The only faster female time for the 72 ounce steak meal I am aware of is 30 minutes for Carlene LeFevre). US Weekly's website has a video of Tori Spelling attempting the 72 ounce steak challenge at the Big Texan in Amarillo from the April 5 season debut of Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood
Nations Restaurant News reports that the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo will have an IFOCE eating contest on April 10 in honor of the 50th anniversary of the free 72 ounce steak challenge.
105 pound woman finishes 72 oz Big Texan steak
Stephanie Torres is one of the most recent additions (December 18) to the list of 72 ounce steak finishers at the Big Texan in Amarillo, Texas. At 105 pounds, she is one of the all time lightest successful challengers. Aty Vargas was an eyewitness to Ms. Torres’ meal and reports that she defeated her father, the owner of the restaurant, in a steak eating contest.
The 72 ounce steak finishers list on the Big Texan website has been updated and now lists Ben Monson's time of 9:40 and Tom Gilbert's time of 13:15.
Ben Monson’s eating challenge road trip
“Big” Ben Monson has started a bodybuilding.com thread with pictures about his recent road trip throughout the southwest where he completed the following eating challenges:
- Quadruple Bypass Burger, Heart Attack Grill, 1:49, second to Joey Chestnut
- Big Texan 72 ounce steak, Amarillo, TX, 9:40 (3rd person after Joey Chestnut & Frank Pastore to break 10 minutes
- Chillz 8 waffles & frozen custard, Albuquerque, 11:12 new record
- 5 pound Sopaipilla, Sadies, Albuquerque, 7:56 new record
- 6 pound burrito, NASCAR Cafe, Las Vegas, 12 minutes, new record
The Big Texan's website has restored the list of 72 ounce steak finishers. The restaurant would like customers who finished the steak before 1991 to send a copy of their finisher certificate to restore records lost in a fire.
http://twitter.com/AgentBodah: The new NBC reality show The Great American Road Trip recorded at the Big Texan Steak Ranch today. The show will debut on July 7 and Reno Collier will host. Seven families will travel from Chicago to Los Angeles in RVs and attempt challenges along the way.
The Ranger: The 72 ounce steak competition to be held in 2010 to honor the 50th anniversary of the Big Texan will be an IFOCE contest and Nathan's Famous will participate in the event.
Former NBA star Dennis Rodman and other participants in the Gumball 3000 transcontinental race stopped at the Big Texan. No racer attempted the 72 ounce steak.
The Prairie News: The Big Texan will hold a 72 ounce steak eating contest next year to celebrate its 50th birthday. The contest will have professional and non-professional divisions which will both award $10,000 to the winner.
On a recent Jimmy Kimmel Live, Billy Bob Thornton talked about two members of the road crew for his band attempting to complete the 72 ounce steak challenge at the Big Texan after doing damage control for a controversial Canadian interview (The Big Texan segement starts at about the 6 minute mark of the video)
Link Buffet: January 26, 2009
- Drew Cerza, founder of the Buffalo Wing Festival, to be emcee at Wing Bowl 17
- Report on Tuesday’s Wing Off
- L & L Corned Beef Musubi eating contest February 15. First prize includes a trip to Hawaii
- Skinnyboy’s report from the KBPI Wing Bowl semifinals
- Moses News has a lot of new material, including a review of Katz’ Deli, featured in last week’s Man vs. Food
- Picture of the Big Texan 72 ounce steak finishers list from 2007. Kevin Carr is one of the finishers.
BigTexan.com revamped
The website for the Big Texan Steak Ranch has been updated. A page about Joey Chestnut breaking the 72 ounce steak record has been added. The foreword of the Story of the Free 72 oz. steak, which is now available at Barnes & Noble, can be read online. The webcam for 72 ounce steak attempts remains, but the finishers database, which was removed in 2005, has not been restored.
Link Buffet: January 10, 2009
- (from Pierre Abry) Food Network page about tonight’s episode (at 6:30 pm) of My Life in Food starring “Crazy Legs Conti , a dreadlocked veteran, Lovely Juliette [sic] Lee, a petite 100lb female rookie, and Patrick Deep Dish Bertoletti, a talented up-and-comer”. The episode will not be rerun in the near future and the series is not available online, so watch it when it is televised if you want to see it.
- Segments from the new tracks on the Best of Hungry & Focused are available on Badlands Booker’s myspace page
- Wing eating contest at the Den Again in Racine, Wisconsin January 25 $500 first prize
- Facebook page about the Seaside, Oregon mayoral campaign of “Consumption”
- Blog entry about Frank Pastore, former Big Texan record holder, from a resident of Pastore’s hometown
- Video of Joel Podelsky’s cheeseburger eating contest at a Newark Beaks game
- Wing eating contest in Beijing
- Don Lerman’s baked bean record (but not Lerman by name) was mentioned on Who Wants to be a Millionaire recently according to a Ray Meduna email
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