{"id":2105,"date":"2012-08-27T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extraordinarybbq.com\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2023-09-27T12:14:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T17:14:07","slug":"the-bacon-cheeseburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/extraordinarybbq.com\/the-bacon-cheeseburger\/","title":{"rendered":"Bacon and Cheese Stuffed Burgers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Booooring.\u00a0 Anyone can make a standard hamburger<\/a> with a slice of cheese and a strip of bacon on it.\u00a0 This isn’t blog worthy…or is it?<\/p>\n

For this recipe I went WAY outside the box.\u00a0 With inspired help from my good friend -and fellow burger enthusiast – Jeff, I went ahead and put everything INSIDE the burger.\u00a0 Yep, it’s all stuffed inside.\u00a0 I’m serious, and it’s spectacular.<\/p>\n

\"Chunked

I started by cutting thick slices from a block of sharp cheddar cheese.\u00a0 These are about one inch in length, and as you can see, pretty decent thickness.\u00a0 I also had fried up some bacon that morning for breakfast with the family and kept about 6 slices aside for this glorious creation.\u00a0 I crumbled those up and tossed them in the ground beef with the cheese slices.<\/p>\n

Besides those 2 critically important ingredients, I used only a few basic spices, then made them into perfect patties, with almost all contents trapped safely inside.\u00a0 I set up my grill for indirect AND direct cooking and threw these suckers over the direct heat to sear them.<\/p>\n

\"Burgers

\u00a0After they had decent grill marks, I moved them to the opposite side for some indirect cooking – and SMOKE – to finish them off.\u00a0 I tossed on a handful of apple and hickory chips and cooked them for about 30 minutes to bring them up to medium well (150 – 155). (If you are working on a pellet grill then you could skip the searing step and just smoke the burgers<\/a> for maximum flavor.)<\/p>\n

\"Burgers

\u00a0Yep, a little bit of cheese oozed out…but not much…and doesn’t that look just crazy cool?\u00a0 Well wait until you taste it.\u00a0 Every bit is an absolute explosion of flavor.\u00a0 My mouth was thanking me with every bite I took.\u00a0 Cook this correctly and I’m giving you a promise it will immediately jump up to the top 3 of burgers you’ve ever eaten.<\/p>\n

\"Inside

\u00a0If eating this Bacon Cheeseburger is wrong, I don’t want to be right.<\/p>\n

In my opinion, this, my fellow burger lovers, is The Ultimate Bacon Cheeseburger.<\/p>\n

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