Juicy Pub-Style Burgers with Peppered Bacon and Aged Cheddar

Name: Juicy Pub-Style Burgers with Peppered Bacon and Aged Cheddar
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 pounds, sirloin steak tips, trimmed of excess fat and cut into 1/2-inch chunks (see note); 6 slices, bacon; 2 teaspoons, coarsely ground black pepper; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly; , Table salt and ground black pepper; 1 teaspoon, vegetable oil; 4 ounces grated aged, cheddar cheese; 4 , hamburger buns, toasted and buttered

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated May/June 2011

SERVES4

TIME1½ hours, plus 35 minutes freezing

Juicy Pub-Style Burgers with Peppered Bacon and Aged Cheddar

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To create a recipe for juicy, pub-style burgers with big, beefy flavor, we knew that grinding our own beef was a given. We chose sirloin steak tips for their supremely beefy flavor and lack of gristly sinew, and we upped their richness by a...

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