Grilling with Jeff: How to Make Beer Can Burgers by Jeff Karas, Engineering Electrician
There’s nothing better than a cold beer and a hamburger straight off the grill on a hot summer day. That’s why this recipe for beer can burgers with bacon from the BBQ Pit Boys is one of the best. Using an unopened beer can, you can create a bowl like structure from ground meat, which will allow you to easily stuff burgers with things like sautéed veggies. The recipe below is from BBQ Pit Boys, but I’ve added a few variations along the way. Start up your grills and enjoy! Ingredients: -4.5 lbs of 80/20 ground chuck -1 can of beer (unopened) -2 lbs of regular cut bacon -Ingredients to stuff the burgers (examples: cheese, veggies, BBQ sauce) Six Steps: 1 Prepare all fillings for the burgers. Before you get started on making the burgers, prepare all of the fillings you want stuffed inside the burgers. I sautéed veggies (green pepper, red pepper, yellow pepper, orange pepper, onion, mushrooms) separately to keep the flavors separate. 2 Roll ground beef into balls. Take your ground chuck and roll it up into balls to form the foundation for the beer can burgers. You should be able to make about six 0.75lb meatballs. 3 Use beer can as a mold for the burgers. Take a full can of your favorite beer and push it into the middle of the meatballs. Push it all the way down and form the meat around the can. (Make sure the meat is cold or you will have trouble forming the burgers.) 4 Warp bacon around burgers. Wrap bacon around the outside of the burger and use it to keep the whole thing together. When finished, gently remove the beer can with a dish towel. 5 Place stuffings inside of burgers. I stuffed burgers with sautéed veggies and then topped with cheese and BBQ sauce. 6 Grill the burgers. Set up your grill for indirect heat as a medium temperature (about 300 degrees). Place the burgers on the grill opposite the hot coals. Put the cover on the grill and let them cook for about an hour. My Southwest Airlines Experience by Joe Gomez, Ingredient Division Sales Manager, Southwest new people almost every day. I love getting to travel to a different location almost every day and many times, several locations in one day. I know travel isn’t for everyone, but for me, I love the variety the life of travel can be and not knowing what each day will bring. Most of the time a travel day can be pretty mundane; get up early, fight traffic to the airport, get through security, fly to another city, get on a shuttle, rent a car, fight more traffic. The life of travel can be one big line or traffic jam. Thankfully, most days go without incident, which is a big deal, especially if you are 40,000 feet in the air! But life isn’t perfect and things do go wrong on occasion. And when things do go wrong, it’s usually while on the ground. I love the fact that my job gives me the opportunity to travel and visit with people I have met over the many years I have been in the industry and the opportunity it gives me to meet
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