The Best Homemade Burgers

🧂 Ingredients

• 8 slices bacon
• 1½ pound ground beef

  20% + fat
• 1 teaspoon salt

  or to taste
• 1 teaspoon pepper

  or to taste
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 large onions

  sliced into rings
• 8 slices Swiss cheese

  or cheddar cheese
• 4 hamburger buns
• lettuce
• tomato slices
• ketchup
• mustard
• relish
• pickles

Instructions

• 1 In a large skillet until nice and crisp. Set aside.
• 2 Separate beef into 4 equal portions. Use your hands to form into patties that
  are about 4 inches (10 cm) in diameter. Don't overwork the meat, soft patties =
  juicy patties. Season each patty generously with salt and pepper on both sides.
• 3 Heat 1 tbsp of the olive oil in a large skillet. Add the onion and cook until
  wilted and caramelized. This should take about 15 to 20 minutes. Season the
  onion with salt and pepper then transfer to a plate.
• 4 Heat the remaining 1 tbsp of olive oil over high heat in the same skillet. To
  avoid the patties from shrinking up and having a dome, made a small dent in the
  center of each patty. Add two patties to the skillet and cook for 2 minutes
  until deep golden brown. Do not press anymore and only flip patty once the one
  side has a great crust. Once you flip the patty cook for 1 more minute. Top with
  2 slices of cheese, cover the skillet with a lid and cook for another minute
  until the cheese melts. Repeat with remaining burgers.
• 5 Toast the cut side of the buns lightly. Spread the base of the buns with the
  condiment of choice, such as ketchup, mustard or relish or all. Top with
  hamburger, patty, pile with onions, 2 slices of bacon, tomatoes, lettuce,
  pickles and more condiments if preferred. Add the top bun and serve immediately.

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