Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2008
True to their name, we wanted these smokehouse burgers to be infused with real-deal smokehouse flavor. For traditional barbecue flavor, we mix barbecue sauce into the meat, cover the patties with a spice rub, and smoke the burgers over soaked hardwood chips.
Smokehouses feed their cooking fires with hardwood logs, permeating the grill (as well as the restaurant and its patrons) with the unmistakable aroma of wood smoke. For these smokehouse burgers, we used our method for cooking with smoke on ...