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Cheddar and Blue HAMburger

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Cheddar and Blue HAMburger

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by MyCommunalTable

Cheddar and Blue HAMburger

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by MyCommunalTable

  • This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Beef Burgers
  • A&M's Testing Notes: This is one delicious monster burger! I grilled one for my husband, a red meat and dairy boy from Wisconsin. He plowed through about half of it and quit, albeit in a state of bliss. When my...

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    MyCommunalTable's Notes: I have always liked my burgers simple... thick and cooked medium rare. I want to taste beef, but I created this gluttonous burger for a friend that loved cheese, especially the combination...

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Serves 2

  1. In a mixing bowl, add ground beef, onions, garlic, season salt, worcestershire sauce, and pepper. Mix together. Divid into 3 oz. balls

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  2. In your favorite skillet, melt 1-2 tablespoon over medium heat. Cut hamburger buns in half and toast both sides in the butter. Remove when toasty brown. Set aside.You will need to watch this. It goes quick.

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  3. Melt another tablespoon of butter into pan, then add ham. Crisp up on both sides. Pull out, drain on paper towel. Set aside.

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  4. Melt one more tablespoon of the butter in the skillet. Place a ball on skillet and flatten out with spactula. Flatten once. Only once. Do not press more often. It will dry out the burger. Repeat flattening all the balls.

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  5. Do not step away from pan. It will cook quite quickly. After flipping to cook other side, place cheese on immediately. 2 will have cheddar and 1 will have blue cheese. Three patties per burger.

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  6. Assemble. Bottom bun, mustard, cheddar patty,slice of ham, blue cheese patty, slice of ham, cheddar patty, tomato slices, then top bun. Ready for devouring. Remember serve with lots of napkins.

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7 Comments on Cheddar and Blue HAMburger

Newliztoqueicon-2 Reply

My Dad used to tease me and my mom, taking big bites out of something luscious as this, that we had "python jaws" that expanded to allow HUGE mouthfuls! Great job -

Hib_kitchen Reply

Yet another one I will using again. I think my son does that sometimes. I have to tell him to chew, not swallow whole. Thanks

036 Reply

Holy lipitor prescription Batman! This looks awesome. Buttery hammy cheesy goodness.

Hib_kitchen Reply

LOL! Maybe the burger should come with a warning: Take lipitor before consumption. It is so big that you just start giggling while trying to eat it. You made me laugh!

Ab_sum Reply

This burger should come with a warning! Such crumptious decadence.

186003_1004761561_1198459_n Reply

Wow!!!! You need a mounth like a hippo to take a bite out of this big boy! nice pic

Hib_kitchen Reply

This big boy is right. It is pure gluttony! Hilarious about the hippo mouth. I am using this that line again. It is something that I rarely make and I serve nothing with it. Way too much food for anything else. Thanks1

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