Amelia's Spicy Bacon Cheeseburgers (Qview)

[smokinstevo27]

Hey everybody. I thought I'd share a Monday night tradition with my SMF buddies. Amelia and I try to do these burgers every monday night come hell or high water. They are pepper heavy so if thats your M.O then give em a shot. I start with 80/20 ground beef and season with sea salt, lots of coarse black pepper, whats this here sauce, ground cayenne, chili flakes, garlic powder, and Texas Pete Hot Sauce. I patty them up nice and flat with some bread crumbs for binding purposes. I get the Genesis LP grill nice and hot and away we go. Grill about 5 minutes per side at around 400 degs or cook to your taste. I like my steak mid rare but I don' mess around with ground beef undercooked. The bacon goes on the George Foreman (the only thing we use it for) We like crispy bacon, toasted buns, muenster chhese and some good old Duke's mayo cause these burgers are spicy. Here they are.

The essentials

The spices and sauces

The obligatory beer shot

On to the Genesis

We're Grillin!

George doin George's job.

Almost there

Cheesed

Money Shot

Thanks for lookin!

 

[tom37]

Now that looks like one heck of a Mon night meal. Looks like you got it perfected, to bad NC is so far away. I would drop by to check and make sure they were safe to eat, just trying to help out.

 

[smokinstevo27]

Anytime Tom! Mondays are awful but then Monday night is always fun for us. Can't beat a beer and a burger.

 

Now that looks like one heck of a Mon night meal. Looks like you got it perfected, to bad NC is so far away. I would drop by to check and make sure they were safe to eat, just trying to help out.

 

[mballi3011]

Now thoses burgers sure do look might good form here. But I do have one question for you. Is that grill brand new for it's awful clean.???

 

[smokinstevo27]

Got her in September Mark. I'm a little OCD about keepin it clean. It gets used about 3 nights a week.

 

[deannc]

Great looking burgers and that muenster cheese makes for a great topping!   

 

[chefrob]

looks good!

 

[scarbelly]

The burgers look great - too bad that grill is not getting used enought to get dirty -

 

[meateater]

Dang those look great!

 I suggest you search for "stufz burgers" here. I usually give the links but I'll let ya work a bit. You won't be sorry.

 

[smokinstevo27]

Thanks Dean! Muenster is definitely our favorite for burgers. I like to get Boar's Head from the Deli at the teeter but Sargento does the job too when I'm shoppin at the lion.

 

Great looking burgers and that muenster cheese makes for a great topping!   

Thanks Chef.
 

looks good!

Dude! I'm just breakin her in, you should have seen my old one. We grill out a few times a week year round. Thanks Scar.
 

The burgers look great - too bad that grill is not getting used enought to get dirty -

 

[smokinstevo27]

Dang those look great!

 I suggest you search for "stufz burgers" here. I usually give the links but I'll let ya work a bit. You won't be sorry.

 

[smokinstevo27]

Meat, the stufz is on the way for xmas, I cant wait to do a smoked black and bleu burger!

 

Dang those look great!

 I suggest you search for "stufz burgers" here. I usually give the links but I'll let ya work a bit. You won't be sorry.

 

[thebarbequeen]

Amelia is a very lucky woman!  and your taste in beer is good, too.  Red Hook way out in NC - I still think of them as our lil ol' microbrew!  That Long Hammer is one of my favorite IPA's. 

 

[smokinstevo27]

Longhammer is great. We have it in our grocery stores now. We used to only be able to get it in specialty places. All of their beers I've tried have been great. Thank you for the kind words.

 

Amelia is a very lucky woman!  and your taste in beer is good, too.  Red Hook way out in NC - I still think of them as our lil ol' microbrew!  That Long Hammer is one of my favorite IPA's. 

 

[meateater]

Meat, the stufz is on the way for xmas, I cant wait to do a smoked black and bleu burger!

 

Dang those look great!

 I suggest you search for "stufz burgers" here. I usually give the links but I'll let ya work a bit. You won't be sorry.

 
 

Your gonna love it, Your not limited to just beef with that unit.

 

[smokinstevo27]

Yeah we like chicken, turkey and pork burgers as well so we are excited.

 

[justpassingthru]

Those are some good looking burgers topped with cheese and bacon, oh yeah! and man I hear ya, there's gotta be a burger day in the week, Friday seems to be ours since we got the Stufz, with fries and a Coke, the chicken cordon bleu is an all time favorite, ...and would you mind sharing what your stuff in your pork burgers, that sounds interesting.

Gene

 

[smokinstevo27]

I don't mind at all Gene. I have on occasion made them just like the beef burgers in this post. The last few times I've done them I have used a carolina mustard based BBQ sauce. It's great just mix it in the ground pork patties and be sure to use some bread crumbs for binding. With the Pork burgers I like bacon and swiss. If they don't sell the sauce near you I'm sure you could make it from a web recipe. It's basically honey mustard.
 

Those are some good looking burgers topped with cheese and bacon, oh yeah! and man I hear ya, there's gotta be a burger day in the week, Friday seems to be ours since we got the Stufz, with fries and a Coke, the chicken cordon bleu is an all time favorite, ...and would you mind sharing what your stuff in your pork burgers, that sounds interesting.

Gene

 

[Bearcarver]

Looks like I'm two days late for Dinner, but it looks great anyway!!!

Bear

 

[smokinstevo27]

Better late than never. We always have room for Bears!

 

Looks like I'm two days late for Dinner, but it looks great anyway!!!

Bear