Sous Vide Burgers

For larger burgers, sous vide cooking is a wonderful method of ensuring that your burger comes out with an unparalleled level of juiciness every single time.

French Melt (Grilled Cheese With Caramelized Onion and Comté)

Want to impress your dinner date? Whip up a couple of French Melts. That's a big ol' pile of sweet, caramelized onions (see here for an easy technique to speed up the process) melted with a fat slab of Comté cheese. It's like French onion soup in an easy-to-pick-up, extra-buttery package. Set the table cloth and pull out the fine china, dear, tonight I'm wearing pants to the table!

Melty American-Style Cheddar Cheese Slices for Burgers and Grilled Cheese

This recipe will work with any medium-dry cheese such as Gruyère, Comté, Swiss, or Jack. Do not use pre-grated cheese as it is coated in starch that will affect its smoothness when melting.

Thick and Juicy Home-Ground Grilled Cheeseburgers

Up your burger game by grinding your own meat. For certain cooking methods, the superior texture of loosely packed patties offers a more open, juice-trapping structure.

Cheeseburger - double or single

All my tips for how to make the very best cheeseburger, including homemade burger sauces. Quick and easy.

Pimento-Jalapeño Cheeseburgers

There's something about the way the caviar of the South (as pimento cheese is affectionately known) melts into a rich, oozy coating, its acidity and punch of pimento flavor accenting a thick and juicy grilled burger in a way that regular cheese just can't. Add some pickled jalapeño peppers in there in place of standard pickles and you've got yourself one hell of a fiery backyard treat.

Grilled Hamburger With Cheddar Cheese From 'Prune'

Gabrielle Hamilton's burger from her new cookbook, Prune, is obscenely good and feels quite fancy, despite being so simple. The name really discloses the whole recipe: chubby beef and lamb patties are topped with white cheddar and sandwiched in a Thomas's English muffin, dressed only with the parsley-and-shallot compound butter. The cheese oozes down the sides of the salty, fatty burger, and the bright and potent butter, slathered on the top and bottom of the English muffin, seeps into every 'no...

Maitre d'Hotel Butter Burger With Garlic Confit and Seared Romaine

Classic maitre d'hotel butter is melted all over these generous hamburger patties, dripping down and coating them in richness and flavor.

Juicy Broiled Burgers

There's no need to fire up the grill when you need a satisfying burger fix: Here's the secret to think, juicy broiled burgers.

Mornay and Mushroom Duxelles Burger With Crispy Shallots

Loaded with intensely flavored mushroom duxelles, a flood of Mornay sauce, and crispy fried shallots, this French-inspired burger is sexy enough to make Escoffier blush.