(crackling fire)
("Barbecue Shoes" by Blue House)
♫ I'm going down to the house of sausage
♫ I got my barbecue shoes on ♫
- Welcome to BBQPitBoys.com.
Today we're making some bacon burger sliders
on the grill and easy to do.
All right. You're gonna need some chopped onions,
here we've got some ground chuck.
You'll want some ground chuck or 80/20 burger.
Here we've got some thick-sliced bacon.
This here is pork belly bacon.
Gotta have pork belly bacon to make this work.
And you're gonna need some cheese.
You're gonna need some barbecue sauce.
You're gonna need some seasoning.
And, of course, you wanna choose
your favorite burger seasoning.
All right, let's make some sliders.
Now, like I said, here I've got some ground chuck.
And if you can't get ground chuck,
you wanna use at least
an 80/20 leaned fat ratio on your burger.
This is the best way to keep these sliders together.
Gotta have plenty of fat in there.
Here I'm sprinkling on some SPG,
some salt, pepper, and garlic.
And, like I said, use your favorite seasoning
for your burgers. Experiment.
Here I've got some red pepper flakes,
and I'm doing that because the ground beef,
of course, is real sweet and so is the barbecue sauce,
so I try to balance it up with the heat.
But do it the way you want.
I'm also gonna hit this ground chuck
with a few drops of my favorite hot sauce.
Now we'll give it a good mix.
Get all those seasonings all through this ground beef.
Now, if you've never had one of these
bacon burger sliders before,
you definitely gotta check this out.
Real good eatin'. Phew, man.
Perfect for tailgating. Backyard picnic.
Just, make them up for yourself after work,
you know what I'm sayin'?
Make a lot of 'em, you can eat a lot of 'em.
Now, I'm making a loaf out of this, as you can see.
I'm flattening it out, maybe an inch thick or so.
It just makes it a lot easier to prepare these sliders.
And I'll show you that in a minute.
Easy enough.
Now, I've got some chopped onions.
This is optional, but this is when you add
your chopped onions here on the top.
This will help keep all this burger together.
This is why you just do it this way,
rather than mixing it throughout.
Here I've got some barbecue sauce.
This here is some of our vodka sauce.
Use your favorite sauce, of course.
You wanna make these sliders real tasty.
All right, now what we're gonna do
is we're gonna start rolling.
We're gonna make two loaves out of this.
Just roll it like that.
All right.
Cut it.
Got yourself a loaf.
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All right.
One loaf down. Make another one.
Never enough sliders, especially when you're
cooking them off the grill.
Roll. Now you could put some veggies in there.
Maybe some green bell pepper. Oh yeah.
Maybe some jalapenos.
Do it the way you like.
This gives ya a good idea of where you can go with this.
Now, to make this work,
we're gonna be doing some weaving of bacon.
Again, like I said, this is pork belly bacon.
You gotta get your butcher to get you pork belly,
if you're outta the states.
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You're gonna lay these strips of bacon down like that.
You may have seen us do this before.
If you're a newbie,
we'll take some time to show you how to do it.
Now I've got about a pound and a half of thick-cut bacon.
I probably got about four pounds, four or five pounds
of ground chuck there.
You don't have to be exact ratio.
Just have plenty of bacon around,
and plenty of ground chuck.
Now I've got these strips laid flat, as you can see.
And now every other strip, I'm gonna pull back,
because we're gonna be making that weave.
We're gonna use a weave because it's gonna keep
all this meatloaf together.
(chuckles)
All right. Lay a strip of bacon down like that.
Pull back the weave.
Hell, right?
Martha's gonna be proud of me.
(chuckles)
All right, you just keep doin' this,
repeating the same process.
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Grab another slice.
Lay it across.
Fold back again.
All right?
Real easy, right?
See those yellow jackets starting to arrive.
Aw yeah, they know where the good food is.
All right, let me show you some more.
Now, you know how to do this,
you just fast forward that button
right there in front of ya. All right?
For some of ya, just hang in there,
and watch how this is done.
This is almost like weaving a bacon basket.
(chuckles)
Now as this comes together.
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Like I told you, there's a reason for this madness.
Make a weave like this, this bacon is gonna hold on tight.
This is doin' this on the grill.
(inhales) Oh yeah.
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Keep it goin'.
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Now, you can make these loaves beforehand.
Or make a bunch of 'em, especially if you're tailgating.
You're gonna have a lot right in front of your grill.
All right. We've done the weave.
Now we're gonna take one of these loaves,
pull up a corner of the bacon.
It'll stick, there's plenty of fat to hold on.
Give it a roll.
You only want it one layer thick.
Take your knife, give it a slice through the bacon.
Yeah.
You got a bacon burger.
All right, let's do another one.
I told you this is easy.
Roll.
Right.
Now we're gonna do, is put it on the grill.
Again, we're gonna do indirect.
All right? Indirect. Opposite of hot coals.
We got some aluminum foil underneath
to catch all that bacon fat.
You wanna do that,
otherwise you're gonna have a lot of cleaning to do.
Two rolls indirect.
We're gonna be cooking this at about
275 degrees Fahrenheit, and it's gonna take a couple hours.
Roast low and slow.
Now, after about an hour,
(exhales) man, take a look at that. Oh yeah.
It's almost ready to eat.
You wanna cook this bacon probably for about another hour.
Low temperature, like I said.
Here all I'm going to do is move these loaves around
for a little more even cook.
You may not have to do that on your grill.
This type of grill will do it.
See how that bacon is holding on tight man to that meat?
That's why you wanna weave it.
Just like that.
Oh yeah. (chuckles)
Now, for the last hour,
I'm gonna take some of our barbecue sauce
and baste it real good.
Create that layer of flavor.
Oh baby.
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Again, cook it at about 275 degrees.
We're set to go.
Two hours.
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Through the miracle of time, whoa.
These bacon burger loaves are done.
Just before pullin' it off the grill,
we've got some pepper jack cheese.
Put it right on top.
Use fairly thick slices,
you want it to melt all over these loaves.
This will probably take another ten minutes
to melt this cheese.
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All right. Cheese is melted.
Ready for some sliders.
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Oh yeah.
Do you smell that?
This smells good!
Oh yeah.
Now I'm gonna let it sit just for a few minutes.
This is gonna help to the bacon stiffen up a little bit.
Easier for cuttin'.
A few minutes is gone by.
We're gonna do is make slices off of this loaf.
Oh, man!
We're doing one inch cuts, slider roll.
Now these, what they call here in the states,
they call 'em slider rolls.
It's a small, hamburger roll. All right?
Designed for using one hand for eatin'.
One in each hand.
(chuckles)
Perfect size.
Gonna take these slices,
put them on these rolls.
Yeah, wrapped in bacon, cheese.
Now, use your favorite condiments.
Put some jalapeno peppers.
You've got some roasted, jalapeno peppers.
A little more heat.
Here I got a big, thick slice of sweet onion.
(chuckles)
How 'bout some hot sauce on this one.
Fix 'em up, the way you like 'em.
("Barbecue Shoes" by Blue House)
Now, here comes the hard part,
for you, anyway.
I'm gonna have to eat some of this right in front of ya.
♫ Gonna grab me some thighs at the chicken coop
(gun fires, glass shatters)
♫ I got my barbecue shoes on
♫ Gonna grab me some thighs at the chicken coop
♫ I got my barbecue shoes on
♫ Gonna throw up some legs and get some barbecue action
♫ My stomach just went to bed ♫
- So the next time you're looking for
a recipe for your barbecue,
you check out BBQPitBoys.com.
(crowing)