Colossal Campfire Burger with Cheese

Fun burgers to make while camping! Make this colossal two-pound campfire burger on your next fall camping trip!

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Dig in and cook this big hamburger over your campfire and melt cheese to perfection over top. Add it to a huge sweet roll from the bakery and you’ve got yourself a massive hamburger or cheeseburger that you can share while telling ghost stories around the campfire!

Colossal Two-Pound Campfire Burger

Ingredients:

• 2 pounds ground beef
• Kosher sea salt
• Garlic pepper seasoning
• Hamburger toppings like lettuce, tomatoes, onions, mayo, etc…

Directions

• Form ground beef into two 1 pound patties
• Season each patty with sea salt and garlic pepper seasoning; set aside
• If you haven’t already done so, get your campfire going
• Use a BBQ campfire grill grate for cooking the burgers; wrap grill grates in foil to prevent flareups if desired.
• Place your burgers on the cooking surface
• Create an aluminum foil ‘tent’ over top of the burgers to aid in even cooking
• Once you see juice beginning to come out of the top of the burgers, it’s time to flip them
• Check burgers with a thermometer, place cheese on the burgers once they near the finishing temp for your preference.
• Cook your burgers all the way through, then pull them off the grill grate.
• Place your burgers on the large sweet roll and top with toppings
• Cut and serve!

Who knew camping could be so much fun and creating the ultimate campfire burger would feed the entire crew! Feeds up to 8 people – calculating 1/4 pound of burger per person.

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Colossal Campfire Burger Recipe with Cheese

A two pound hamburger cooked over a campfire and topped with cheese and other burger toppings.

Servings 8 people

Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 30 mins

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Total Time 40 mins

Equipment

• BBQ grill grate
• Aluminum foil
• Meat thermometer

Ingredients

• 2 pounds ground beef
• 1 tbsp Kosher sea salt
• 1 tbsp Garlic pepper seasoning
• Hamburger toppings like lettuce tomatoes, onions, mayo, etc.)

Instructions

• Form ground beef into two 1 pound patties
• Season each patty with sea salt and garlic pepper seasoning; set aside
• If you haven't already done so, get your campfire going
• Use a BBQ grill grate or heat a large flat rock for cooking the burgers; wrap grill grates in foil to prevent flareups if desired.
• Place your burgers on the cooking surface
• Create an aluminum foil 'tent' over top of the burgers to aid in even cooking
• Once you see juice beginning to come out of the top of the burgers, it's time to flip them
• Check burgers with a thermometer, place cheese on the burgers once they near the finishing temp for your preference.
• Cook your burgers all the way through, then pull them off the grill grate.
• Place your burgers on the large sweet roll and top with toppings
• Cut and serve!

Notes

For more even cooking, dimple each burger in the center and then place tin foil tent over burgers while on the fire.

Author: Scrappy Geek

Calories: 303kcal

Cost: 15

Course: Dinner, Lunch

Cuisine: American