Description
When summer temperatures climb to 100 degrees, or higher, avoid heating yourself or your kitchen, and use the slow cooker instead! Create a “rack” out of hand-formed rolls of aluminum foil for the bottom of the cooker, so the burgers won’t sit in their own juices. Add a little smoke flavor and some browning sauce, and you’ll have a good-looking, tasty burger that is full of smoky flavor. Optional toppings for the hamburgers include cheese, mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup, pickles, sliced tomato, sliced onion, and lettuce.
Ingredients
- 1 sheet aluminum foil
- 1 ⅓ pounds 85% lean ground beef
- 2 teaspoons liquid smoke flavoring
- 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon grill seasoning (such as Montreal Steak Seasoning®)
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1 pinch salt and ground black pepper to taste
- ⅓ cup dry bread crumbs
- 1 egg, beaten
- 4 teaspoons browning sauce (such as Kitchen Bouquet®)
- 4 hamburger buns
Instructions
- Set a slow cooker to Low.
- Create a rack for the bottom of the cooker by rolling aluminum foil into 1-inch rolls. For a 5-quart
- oblong cooker
- make 4 rolls
- using the length of the cooker as a guide. Fold in any long ends and squeeze back on the rolls. Evenly space the rolls along the bottom of the cooker.
- Combine ground beef
- liquid smoke
- Worcestershire sauce
- steak seasoning
- smoked paprika
- salt
- and pepper in a bowl. Add bread crumbs and egg. Mix all ingredients using your hands until they are evenly distributed.
- Form meat mixture into 4 patties
- about 1/2 inch thick. Brush each side of the patties with 1/2 teaspoon of browning sauce
- and place on the aluminum “rack
- being careful not to overlap.
- Cook on Low for about 4 1/2 hours until burgers are no longer pink in the center. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 160 degrees F (70 degrees C).
- Place each cooked patty on a hamburger bun.
Prep Time: 20 mins
Cook Time: 4 hrs 30 mins
Total Time: 4 hrs 50 mins
Servings: 4