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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Meal No. 1714: Peanut Butter Bacon Burgers


It's likely because I first made peanut butter bacon burgers over the 2010 Thanksgiving weekend that I feel drawn back to them about this time of the year. To the uninitiated, I'm sure they might strike you as an unfathomable concoction that only a wild imagination and unbalanced palate might dream up. But you just have to try them for yourselves to know if they're amazing or amoral. It is a much-loved treat among the heartiest RoHo regulars and I think any announcement of their return usually sets hearts understandably aflutter.

A review of key points about the Roediger House peanut butter bacon burgers, on the occasion of their 25th appearance on the dinner table:
  • Inspired by Yo Mama's in the French Quarter of New Orleans
  • First Made: Meal No. 180
  • Last Made: Meal No. 1639
  • Fresh Home-Ground Beef, typically from boneless beef short ribs and top sirloin
  • Homemade Peanut Butter
  • Homemade Classic Burger Sauce (recipe below)
  • Labeled Sample "Final Product" Burger: Guide to Meal No. 234


Classic Burger Sauce
from Cook's Illustrated, July-August 2008, p. 11.
4 T mayonnaise
2 T ketchup
1 tsp sweet pickle relish
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp white vinegar
1/2 tsp ground black pepper

Whisk all ingredients together in a small bowl.



Guidance on grinding, shaping, and cooking burgers from "Best Old-Fashioned Burgers," by J. Kenji Alt, in Cook's Illustrated, No. 93 (July/August 2008), p. 10-11.

Original bacon braid guidance from "Bacon Sheets," from MyFridgeFood.com. See also: "How to Make a Bacon Weave for the World's Best BLT," a nice video demonstration, from Justin Chapple's Mad Genius Tips on the Food & Wine website [published 02 March 2015].

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