Monday Meals: B50 Burgers

The Wisconsin Test Kitchen recently read an article on NPR about the elusive, and delicious B50 burger. The article was equal parts hilarious and hunger-inducing. 

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/06/16/322580306/sandwich-monday-the-b50-burger

We of course had to share the article with the Arkansas Test Kitchen; and made the promise to enjoy some B50 burgers together sometime soon. But we couldn't wait. We didn't want to wait. We wanted to try this delicious beefy, bacon-y combination as soon as possible. So we tried our own take on the B50 burger. 

B50 Burgers

1lb. ground beef
1lb raw bacon
burger & steak seasonings

Roughly chop the bacon and put in food processor to grind. 

Pulse with food processor until bacon becomes almost the same texture as the beef. Don't let it turn into paste, but make sure it's not still in rough bacon-y pieces.

Combine bacon and beef together, and add a good quality burger and steak seasoning. Word of warning: these burgers are already going to have plenty of salt because of the bacon- go easy on the seasonings! If you have a salt-free seasoning you'd like to use- that would work well. Use any seasoning on these burgers very, very, sparingly. 

Form the meat into patties, and let them sit in the fridge for about 15-20 minutes so they firm up prior to grilling.

Fire up the grill- set it for medium heat. Once the grill is ready- put those bad boys on! 

Notice the brats on our grill? We had friends over for dinner; and we were afraid the B50 burgers weren't going to turn out. We shouldn't have worried. But it's always good to have a back up plan, just in case. 

Grill the burgers to your liking and top with cheese. We thought blue cheese would be a delicious condiment (it was), and we also topped a few with cheddar as well. 

Final verdict? Yum. The burgers were the perfect combination of bacon and burger combined together, into a tasty patty form. It was a fun recipe to try, and our dinner guests enjoyed them as well. Try this new twist on a bacon cheeseburger at your next cook out!

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The Cool Dads Crew