Grilled Bacon Burgers with Caramelized Onion

Name: Grilled Bacon Burgers with Caramelized Onion
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 8 slices, bacon; 1 , large onion, halved and sliced thin; , Salt and pepper; 1 1/2 pounds, 85 percent lean ground beef; 4 ounces, blue cheese, crumbled and chilled (1 cup) (optional); 4 , hamburger buns, toasted

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Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2017, America's Test Kitchen TV

Why put bacon on your burger when you can put bacon in it?

SERVES4

TIME1½ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Changing bacon from an add-on to an add-in promised savory, bacony bliss in every bite. But mixing raw bacon with raw ground beef overworked and compressed the patties so that they cooked up tough and dry, and cooked crumbled bacon—though i...

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