Picked up a 10lb box of bacon at the butcher today. Scraps, end pieces, etc. $1.69/lb. Sorted through it and found 6.5lbs of good bacon, but the rest wasn't really good for anything but cooking into bits, or as an additive to other dishes.

I asked my 15 year old what we should do with it, while we vac packed the good stuff. He replied, "We need to make some clogger burgers."

The "clogger" is a burger we had talked about at fish camp many a time, but had never made. So we took a pound of the scraps, tossed them in the food processor and minced them fine. To that we added another pound of lean ground beef, and mixed by hand for a few minutes. We put that into a gallon zip lock bag, flattened it out, and tossed it into the freezer for a quick chill as it had become a bit squishy.

45 minutes later the bacon/beef mixture was firm but not frozen, and then we formed the mixture into four 1/2lb patties. Two went on the grill immediately, the other two in the freezer. I tossed a few strips of bacon on the grill, in a foil pan, because there is no such thing as too much bacon.

WORD OF WARNING. Clogger burgers will cause a small grill fire. Just sayin'. Be prepared, but don't let this scare you. We started on high and before the flip moved to medium heat.

Cooking time is a bit longer, but a bit of charring on the outside it fine. Added a good bun, lettuce, tomato, onion, bacon and cheese. No seasoning needed at all.

It was pretty damned good.

Hang on the paramedics are on the way!

Anything with bacon is good...

Once had a talk with a guy who grew up a vegetarian, naturally as a man who loves a good steak or fish, I asked him if he ever had the urge to eat meat, said he's never been drawn to it, but said the smell of bacon is darn tempting....

If you haven't treid it before...



Add 7% bacon to your venison burger instead of pork fat or beef suet. The smokey flavor makes for amazing speghetti, tacos and chili!


I bet the burgers were killer.

Don't worry, we used lean ground beef.

If your gonna die someday, might as well eat good food while your here....

Life would be miserable iffin' I had to eat perfectly healthy....

"If you lead a perfectly clean life, you still won't live forever...but it will seem like it !"

And you put veggies on it. I say, a well balanced meal.

Lisa: “I’m going to become a vegetarian”

Homer: “Does that mean you’re not going to eat any pork?”

Lisa: “Yes”

H: “Bacon?”

L: “Yes Dad”

H: "Ham?”

L: “Dad all those meats come from the same animal”

H: “Right Lisa, some wonderful, magical animal!”"

ALL THE HOMER TALK IS KILLING ME! he is the best character in TV history.
homer "beer, the cause and solution to all man's problems" Priceless!

Just for you Dogfish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdEoputkE98

Man, Dogfish, that there was a fine idea!

As a side note, a grill fire is generally viewed as a positive indicator when I'm doing the cooking. Means there's plenty of fatty goodness meeting the flame.

TIP: Keep a glass of milk handy for persistent fires. Use whole milk, because it has more fat in it, so you will enjoy drinking the leftovers that much more.

Actually, the idea was my son's.

The boy is a fargin' genius.

Hey....If a cop eats bacon, is it cannibalism?

Thats sounds damn good! Not a huge bacon fan, but I would be up for that.