--- title: Woman Eats 20 McDonald's Cheeseburgers in 16 Minutes: Video description: A video that might make you rethink your next meal canonical: https://time.com/4029504/woman-20-mcdonalds-cheeseburgers-16-minutes/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-10T16:55:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:03:00.368Z og:title: Watch This Woman Devour 20 Cheeseburgers in 16 Minutes og:description: A video that might make you rethink your next meal og:url: https://time.com/4029504/woman-20-mcdonalds-cheeseburgers-16-minutes/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Woman Devour 20 Cheeseburgers in 16 Minutes twitter:description: A video that might make you rethink your next meal twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch This Woman Devour 20 Cheeseburgers in 16 Minutes ## Video: Our food. Your questions. What are McDonald’s fries made of? [Watch (HLS stream): Our food. Your questions. What are McDonald’s fries made of?](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/nGOOAY0j.m3u8) (5:05)  _Published 2015-01-20. Our food. Your questions. What are McDonald’s fries made of?_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 10, 2015 4:55 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 10, 2015 4:55 PM UTC A New Zealand woman has amazed the Internet by posting a video that shows her consuming 20 McDonald’s cheeseburgers in just over 16 minutes. Nela Zisser, a former beauty pageant winner and current competitive eater, attempted the stunt as part of a one-on-one competition with a friend, [Erik ‘The Electric’ Lamkin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5Fi%5FBnupbrSo). Zisser defeated Lamkin by more than two minutes. “This was a lot of food and was seriously not easy,” Zisser wrote on YouTube. “I ate the first 5 in [1:32](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yamVYngWayE#) and I had finished 10 by [3:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yamVYngWayE#) which I was pretty happy with but as they got colder it became a lot more difficult.” Zisser has been on a competitive eating binge recently, according to [The Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/woman-eats-20-mcdonalds-cheeseburgers-isnt-lovin-it%5F55f186eee4b093be51bdbfad). She took on Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest in July for the first time and has posted several other challenge videos to her [YouTube page](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO9-JxPuNA4UhhlGVwY%5FVdQ). A notable few include her consuming [five pounds of Kiwiyo frozen yogurt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6FOgaoy2Wo) in 9 minutes 45 seconds, [five Subway Footlongs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zo3mEQxvps) in 9 minutes 17 seconds and over [8000 calories of cheesecake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQQqBZP8psA) in 16 minutes 44 seconds. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4029504/woman-20-mcdonalds-cheeseburgers-16-minutes/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4029504/woman-20-mcdonalds-cheeseburgers-16-minutes/"},"headline":"Watch This Woman Devour 20 Cheeseburgers in 16 Minutes","datePublished":"2015-09-10T16:55:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T08:03:00.368Z","description":"A video that might make you rethink your next meal","url":"https://time.com/4029504/woman-20-mcdonalds-cheeseburgers-16-minutes/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Food","Mcdonald's"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4029504/woman-20-mcdonalds-cheeseburgers-16-minutes/","name":"Watch This Woman Devour 20 Cheeseburgers in 16 Minutes"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Our food. 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