What is your perfect BBQ cheese burger combo?

[mattdaniels]

When you need a good BBQ cheeseburger what is your "old trusty" that never fails to deliver? After extensive research my current settings are the following :

Bun - Warburtons. Pack of 12, pre sliced, good size, nice dense bread and no seeds
Burger - Sainsburys taste the difference steak beef burgers (pack of 4)
Cheese - Cathedral city slice or sainsburys "strong" slices
Ketchup - Heinz.

[sidekickdmr]

If i can't be assed just any decent burger in a crusty White roll with plastic cheese, tomato slice and BBQ sauce

If I'm going all posh it would be a homemade garlic and chilli burger with brie on a toasted chibatta (however the hell you spell it) and some tomato and chilli relish!

Yum

[Pferdestarke]

I'd go with the following:

Oven bottom white bread cake

Home-made burgers with a minimum 30% fat content, made with onion, bread crumbs, herbs, mustard, salt and pepper, blitzed to a fine pulp.

Caramelised onions
crisp streaky bacon
Strong cheddar
mustard mayo

Yes please!

[mattdaniels]

sidekickdmr said:

If i can't be assed

Yes, perhaps I badly worded the thread title; I was looking for the "perfect CBA" burger - what can you buy off the shelf that's actually quite nice, as opposed to your 120% meat stroked by a virgin and gently wafted with flame, made it myself cos off the shelf is *so* Essex dahhling type burger.

That said, thanks for a couple of great ideas chaps [+]

[calibrax]

Bun... don't care too much but must be lightly toasted on the inside for crunch.
Burger... must be a quarterpounder at least, and preferably two of them.
Cheese... a couple of slices of the cheapest plastic cheese you can get.
Salad... A bit of chopped lettuce. That's it. Any more is dangerously approaching 'healthy'.
Mayo... Any will do, on the bottom bun.
Ketchup... Any will do, on the top bun.
Bacon... A must have. Crispy streaky works best.

[Caulkhead]

Burger King XL Bacon Double Cheese Burger with a sachet of BBQ sauce spread on the lower bun half and a couple of crispy onion rings on top of the burgers. Done.

If I'm cooking 'burgers' at home it's usually a rare fillet steak in a toasted ciabatta with melted provolone and tomato relish.

[Cotty]

Soft white buns
1/4 pounders BBQ'd
Leaves from the garden
plastic cheese

That hits the mark

[anonymous-user]

Far too many of you are leaving onions out of the mix!

For me, its:

Soft white plain bap -I prefer Warburtons
Good 1/4lb or 1/2lb burgers - for BBQs normally from Costco, decent steak burgers from their instore butchers, BBQd with a good slathering of Jim Beam BBQ sauce that they also sell
Big slice of beef tomato
Plenty fried onions
Any old cheese slices
Ketchup
Mustard

Keep your salad/greenery you gheyers, it has no place here

[soad]

White bun (sliced and lightly toasted/grilled)
Morrisons 100% The Best Beef Burger
Slice of mild cheddar
Lettuce
Beef tomato
Mustard
Ketchup
Fried onion (optional)
Bacon (optional)

[sgrimshaw]

My favourite "shop" burger was the Birds-Eye Mega Burger ... but I don't think they do them any more.

Good thing for me we still have a couple of packs in the deep freeze

[Soir]

Sainsburys taste the diff burgers. White buns. Cheese slice. Cherry tomato

Cherry tomato (m&s own) relish
English mustard
And most important..burger Mayo from (m&s..closest thing to big mac special sauce)

If adding bacon I usually go for piri piri BBQ sauce

[lauda]

Can't believe no one has suggested Stilton. It's delicious in a burger.

Plastic cheese my arse!

[Presuming Ed]

Whats all this shop bought burger rubbish. You can make your own in less then 5 minutes.

20% fat beef mince
chopped onion
Coriander
Chilli
mozzarella on top
rocket
in a ciabatta bun

[Cheese Mechanic]

I prefer home made burgers....the basic sort of recipe. Including onion.

Plastic cheese ....A nice slice of Beetroot. Mustard, made from very runny colemans powder mustard and warmed. Apply liberally.

I do have some pork mince in the freezer...I've a number of pork burger reecipes. Sounds bloody lovely.

Anyone tried them, Pork burgers?

[RosscoPCole]

Homemade burgers without onion but with horseradish mixed in. Scottish morning roll, Stilton cheese, gherkins and some ketchup.
Nom nom nom.
I know what I am going to have for lunch tomorrow!

[zac510]

Presuming Ed said:

Whats all this shop bought burger rubbish. You can make your own in less then 5 minutes.

20% fat beef mince
chopped onion
Coriander
Chilli
mozzarella on top
rocket
in a ciabatta bun

When I used to be a dish pig in a pub I sometimes had to make the burgers. We used to put raw eggs in to help it stick together (can't remember the ratio) but changes the flavour too and also often fresh bread to fill out the mix a bit Also ran it through a hand-wind pasta maker to mix and mince it all but that may have more to do with the volume of burgers we were making.

But as with all cooking, whatever floats your boat, have fun

[F i F]

Home made white bap (recipe is on one of the bread machine threads)
Morrisons pork burger (newly discovered makes a change from beefburgers) otherwise Sainsbury's TTD Aberdeen Angus
Bacon done crispy
Onions well caramelised
Monterey Jack slice
Sainsbury's tomato and chilli relish.

[Davey S2]

No sliced dill pickle?

[Melman Giraffe]

Soft roll
good quality burger (rare)
Stronge Chedder cheese
Bacon
mushrooms
Spoon some Chilli and add tomato and chilli relish.

Enjoy

[bob parr]

White Ciabattta lightly toasted
Dirty Mayonnaise (Mayo combined with caramelised onions, dijon mustard and garlic which is toasted into the ciabatta)
Smoked Applewood Cheese
Rocket

Just how they do it in the bar at my holiday home