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- [Narrator] Welcome to BBQPitBoys.com.
Today we're cooking up some
smoked bacon cheeseburgers on the grill.
And they're real easy to do.
All right, here I've got some quality bacon,
it's a thick-cut bacon.
You wanna use a good bacon
any time you're making up some cheeseburgers on the grill.
What we're gonna do with it here first,
we're gonna take it and we're gonna put it indirect
here on a kettle grill,
'cause we're gonna low and slow this bacon, man.
It's gonna take about an hour,
maybe an hour and a half, or two.
Wanna do it low and slow.
So what you do here, is the pound,
you spread out those slices
and that's pork belly bacon right there.
Low and slow it.
And this is what you got, about, maybe an hour,
hour and 15 minutes into this low and slow.
You can see that bacon's looking real good.
And through the miracle of time,
we've smoked up this bacon.
Oh yeah (chuckles).
If you've never done this before, you gotta check this out.
All right now, I've chopped the bacon up in small pieces
and here I've got some ground chuck,
I've got some chopped onion, we've got some cheese.
And let me put this together here.
That's about, maybe five pounds of ground chuck,
put in about a cup of chopped onion in there,
and here we've got about a pound of chopped bacon,
that smoked bacon.
And here I'm gonna add about a cup of cheese.
I think you know where we're going with this.
All you need to add there, is a little more black pepper.
Yeah.
There's plenty of salt in there already with the bacon.
All right now give it a good mix.
Blend it all up.
Oh baby (chuckles) oh yeah.
Give it a good mix.
Man.
That's good enough to eat already, if you know what I mean.
All right, that ground chuck has been mixed.
Nothing left to do now but,
we're gonna make some patties.
Now we're gonna make about 3/4 pound
to one pound patties here.
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If you've never formed a good burger, this is how you do it.
You're gonna compress it pretty tight.
It'll hold together while you got it on the grill.
Man.
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There's nothing like smoked bacon cheeseburgers
on the grill.
Like I said, you gotta check this out, man.
In fact, let's push this along.
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All right, those patties have been made.
Uh, look at that, with the onion,
the smoked bacon in there, some cheese, oh yeah.
Now what we're gonna do, is we're gonna put it on the grill.
We're gonna sear it directly first, each side.
You know all about that if you've been watching us.
These are fairly thick burgers here
so we're gonna use this technique over medium heat.
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Oh man.
Do you smell that?
It smells good.
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All right, these burgers have been seared.
The trick here is move 'em indirect,
opposite the hot coals,
'cause we don't want 'em burnt.
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Oh yeah.
Could've moved this video along a little bit faster, but
kinda like doing this.
Put the cover on, we're gonna cook 'em to about
medium-rare or medium.
Or you cook 'em well-done, the way you like.
And through the miracle of time,
these burgers are just about done
and what we're gonna do here
is we're gonna take some of this shredded cheese
and we're gonna put 'em on a couple of these burgers
and fix 'em up the way you want.
Some more onion, maybe mushroom.
Oh yeah.
All right, I'd say it's time to eat.
Take 'em off the grill.
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I'll take a cheeseburger.
Sometimes, just a simple barbecue like that
is all you need.
Now I know a lot of you know how to make burgers,
if you haven't done it this way,
phew, you gotta give it a try, all right?
Throw some more bacon on there.
And a big, fat slice of Vidalia onion.
Just a shot of chuck.
Whatever your favorite condiments are.
And as always, we apologize,
oh yeah, for eating in front of you like this.
That's pitmaster privy .
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So the next time you're looking for a burger recipe
for your barbecue,
you check out BBQPitBoys.com.
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