A good old bacon and cheese burger - it's hard to go wrong.

It's the perfect thing to cook outside on the barbie

and just as good if you cook it inside

on a little grill pan like this.

I'm gonna show you how to make a delicious burger

and a couple of little accompaniments that just make it perfect.

This is how we do it.

You get yourself a nice hot pan

and I'm gonna saute just a little bit of onion and a little bit of garlic.

(ONION SIZZLES)

You throw your onions in and you wanna hear that sizzle straightaway.

A little bit of garlic as well.

Then we're just gonna saute those two together.

The reason I cook them

is because once you get them into the patty of your burger

you don't want to bite into a raw piece of onion

and if you just go ahead and mix that onion and garlic

straight through the burger, that's what you're gonna end up with.

Now, you can add just a little bit of salt...

..and a little bit of pepper.

And before this starts to caramelise -

you don't want to have any colour on it -

turn it off and just pop it into a big mixing bowl

and just let it go cool before you mix it through the beef mince.

What I'm gonna do is get my buns over here

and I'm gonna brush them with a little bit of olive oil.

We're gonna actually put these buns on the grill

so they go nice and crisp on the inside

and then still fluffy and delicious on the outside.

I've got some worcester sauce. I'm gonna pour that into my onions.

And a little bit of Dijon mustard - toss that in as well.

And then you pick up your mince.

Add that.

Now it's time to get a little messy.

You just get in there and work those flavours into the mince.

Make sure you combine them all really, really well.

You're gonna divide your mince into equal portions

of how ever many burgers you're making.

I'm gonna make four, so you just split it in half like that

and then out of each ball you split them in half again.

I like just to throw them from one hand to the other

'cause I think it sort of just combines the meat just a little

and then I just sort of work it into a shape that I'm happy with.

Don't forget to make them

ever so slightly larger than you would want them to end up

because they're gonna shrink up a little bit when they hit the grill.

Beautiful.

See how we've got that nice crispy part on the bottom of the bun there?

That's what we're looking for.

So once you've got them ready to go on both sides

just stack them back up.

And then it's time to start cooking the burgers.

My burgers have been pressed out to the right size.

Just get a tiny bit of oil and I oil the burger instead of the grill.

That stops it from flaring up into any sort of flames.

You can just pick it up...

..just like that.

Now, you'll see I've just used half the grill with my burgers

because I'm gonna cook some of this beautiful bacon.

You just leave them on for just a minute,

nice high heat so you get that golden crust on the outside of the burger

and then I'm gonna flip it over before it becomes too cooked

'cause you still want to eat a burger about medium, medium-rare.

Right, while we're waiting for our burgers to cook

over here I'm gonna bring up my burger buns

and get a piece of lettuce.

Now, this is a really important part of building a burger.

You start off with your lettuce on the bottom of the bun.

The reason for it is any juices that fall out of the actual patty

are gonna be caught by that lettuce

and it'll stop you from getting a soggy burger.

Flip these other two.

As soon as you've turned your burgers over...

I've got some tasty cheese slices here.

I'm gonna place that, one over each

and that's gonna help it to melt while it's still on the heat.

There's nothing better

than a little bit of melted tasty cheese on a burger.

Turn my bacon.

So we're getting close.

Now, I always say that you should only

put your favourite sauce onto your burger.

I'm gonna show you what mine is.

It's a little bit of mustard

and a little bit of tomato sauce mixed together.

So I get a bowl.

Dijon mustard.

A little bit of tomato sauce.

Then you just go ahead and mix those two together.

Once your burger's cooked on both sides

you just pick it up off the grill,

straight over here onto your lettuce leaf.

Like I said, that lettuce leaf's gonna be your friend.

It's gonna catch any of the juices that come out of the burger.

You can see that beautiful tasty cheese has melted.

I'm just gonna put a little spoon of my favourite sauce.

Top it with a slice of bacon.

It smells so good in here, I've gotta tell you.

You get your buns, you pop them back on top.

I've got a few skewers here.

Just skewer those,

which makes them just a little bit easier to move around.

But I tell you what - you won't have to move them around for long

because as soon as people see these coming off your barbie,

they'll be lining up for it.

Enjoy.

Mmm.

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