Shake Shack ShackBurger Copycat Recipe
A crust taken further than feels comfortable, on a soft sweet roll, with ShackSauce underneath. Twelve minutes.
Cooking Shake Shack at home, and what its menu costs
A potato roll, a proper smash, and a sauce that is mostly mayonnaise and patience.
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The Shake Shack recipes on this site
Not every menu item has a recipe here, and that is deliberate - We write a page when there is something genuinely worth saying about how to make the thing.
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What Shake Shack food actually tastes of
Potato rolls or nothing. Martin's in the US, and in the UK any brioche-ish soft roll is the nearest thing, but the sweetness matters more than the shape.
Smash on a surface at 230 C and do not move it. Press once, hard, within ten seconds of the ball hitting the pan; after thirty seconds the crust has set and pressing just squeezes out juice.
ShackSauce leans on pickle brine and a pinch of cayenne. The mustard is Dijon, not American, which is what stops it tasting like burger sauce.
About Shake Shack
Shake Shack started as a hot dog cart in a New York park and kept the sensibility: a very short menu, done carefully, with better ingredients than the price suggests. For a home cook it is the most achievable "premium" burger on this site, because the three things that make it are all within reach.
A potato roll - soft, faintly sweet, glossy. A smashed patty on a screaming-hot surface with the crust taken further than feels comfortable. And ShackSauce, which is a mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard and pickle-brine emulsion whose exact ratio is the most discussed thing in burger forums.
The crinkle-cut fries are frozen and the company says so, which is refreshing, and means the honest home version is to buy good frozen crinkle fries and concentrate on the burger.
What Shake Shack charges, from the menu we hold
35 priced options across 70 menu sections, as last recorded in Thailand. Prices move and vary by outlet, so treat these as a reference point rather than a quote.
Half the menu sits between $5.25 and $9.99. Here is the whole spread:
| Position | Item | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest priced item | $3.30 | |
| Middle of the menu | $7.49 | |
| Dearest priced item | $13.29 |
Shake Shack changes its prices without telling you. We read this menu once a month and keep the reading – have the changes emailed to you, free, one click to stop.
Every reading we hold is on the Shake Shack price history. The full list is on the Shake Shack menu page, and the 2 items we have rebuilt at home are listed here.
What Shake Shack charges in 9 countries
The same item, priced from each country’s own menu and converted to one currency so the columns can be read against each other. Shake Shack sets prices per market, so a gap here is the chain’s pricing rather than an exchange rate artefact – and the widest gap on this list is Chicken Shack®, which costs $14.35 in the dearest market and $4.93 in the cheapest.
| Item | 🇺🇸 USD | 🇬🇧 GBP | 🇦🇺 AUD | 🇨🇦 CAD | 🇸🇬 SGD | 🇵🇭 PHP | 🇭🇰 HKD | 🇲🇾 MYR | 🇹🇭 THB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $5.99 | $8.00 | $3.97 | $4.20 | $5.70 | $3.66 | $5.35 | $4.28 | $4.62 | |
| $9.35 | $14.35 | $7.11 | $6.66 | $7.73 | $4.93 | $8.15 | $6.12 | $6.26 | |
| $7.99 | $14.35 | $8.02 | $5.96 | $8.12 | $5.01 | $8.54 | $6.36 | $6.85 | |
| $9.49 | $15.61 | $9.34 | $7.36 | $9.68 | $6.92 | $9.94 | $7.58 | $8.19 | |
| $5.99 | $9.72 | $4.46 | $5.61 | $5.47 | $3.66 | $5.61 | $4.28 | — | |
| $3.40 | $4.50 | — | $3.15 | $3.36 | $2.15 | $3.70 | $1.71 | $2.68 | |
| $4.49 | $6.68 | $3.20 | $3.15 | $4.45 | $2.31 | $4.20 | $2.86 | — | |
| $13.29 | — | $10.18 | $10.52 | $12.65 | $10.42 | $12.87 | $9.79 | $11.77 | |
| $3.30 | $7.94 | $3.62 | $4.20 | $5.08 | $3.58 | $4.20 | — | — | |
| $9.99 | — | $7.18 | $7.71 | $9.60 | $8.11 | — | — | $9.53 | |
| $7.49 | — | $7.32 | $5.12 | $6.64 | $4.77 | $5.61 | — | — | |
| $7.79 | $14.15 | $7.95 | $5.61 | — | $4.93 | — | — | — |
Only items Shake Shack prices in at least 5 of the markets we hold are listed, because a row with three figures in it is a gap rather than a comparison.
What Shake Shack sells nearly everywhere
Ranked by how many of the markets in our price data carry the item with a published price. This is computed from the menu tables, so it reflects what the chain actually sells rather than what it advertises.
| Menu item | Markets priced | Recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Cheese Fries | 9 | - |
| Fries | 8 | - |
| Hot Dog | 7 | - |
| ShackBurger® | 7 | Shake Shack ShackBurger Copycat Recipe |
| Chicken Bites | 6 | - |
| Hamburger | 6 | Shake Shack ShackBurger Copycat Recipe |
| Fifty/Fifty | 5 | - |
| Cheeseburger | 5 | Shake Shack ShackBurger Copycat Recipe |
| Fountain Soda | 5 | - |
| SmokeShack® | 5 | Shake Shack ShackBurger Copycat Recipe |
| Avocado Bacon Burger | 4 | - |
| Shack-made Lemonade | 4 | - |
Build your Shake Shack order, see what it costs
Tick what you would actually order. The total runs as you go, and where we have built the item at home you will see both figures side by side - 4 of the items below have a fully documented copycat recipe on this site.
Other burger chains
What else people compare Shake Shack against, and what we hold for each.
McDonald's
8 copycat recipes
Wendy's
4 copycat recipes
Five Guys
4 copycat recipes
Burger King
3 copycat recipes
Hardee's
2 copycat recipes
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