bacon Double Cheese XL-style premium burger

Ingredients

burgers (2 per burger)

• 800 g beef mince (20% fat)
• 1 tsp salt
• ½ tsp black pepper

bacon

• 8 slices streaky bacon

burger sauce

• 4 tbsp mayonnaise
• 2 tbsp ketchup
• 1 tbsp American mustard
• 1 tsp white wine vinegar
• ½ tsp garlic powder

To assemble

• 4 LARGE sesame seed buns (Whopper XL size, not regular)
• 8 slices American cheese
• 1 tomato, sliced
• ½ iceberg lettuce, shredded
• 1 tbsp vegetable oil

Method

1. Sauce. Whisk all sauce ingredients together. Rest in the fridge.
2. bacon. pan-fry bacon until crisp. Reserve 1 tbsp of the rendered fat.
3. burgers. Divide beef into 8 loose balls. press into large discs. Season both sides.
4. Grill. Heat a griddle with the reserved bacon fat. Lay burgers away from you. Don’t move for 90 seconds.
5. Flip + cheese. Flip, immediately lay a slice of cheese on each burger. Cook 60 seconds more.
6. Toast buns. Toast in a dry pan until golden.
7. Assemble. bottom bun → sauce → burger (cheese up) → bacon → burger (cheese up) → tomato → lettuce → top bun.

Tips

• The XL needs the XL bun. Regular Whopper buns are too small — the burgers overhang.
• Render bacon fat first, then cook the burgers in it. bacon-flavoured beef.
• Four slices of cheese sounds excessive. It isn’t.