BBQ Bacon Cheeseburgers

Here is an idea I got from working at a place that was my income for a long time. Rafferty's gave me a lot of ideas that I took and ran with. Some for the better and some flopped but I can make some mean fried mushrooms and I can make one hell of a bbq bacon burger. Another thing that I learned from many attempts at trying to recreate the magic of this burger and putting a hit spin on it, I realized that there was no way that I could do this right unless I used rendered fat. Yes the sound of the Theramin starts ringing in your ear and you feel ominous in some way. I said rendered fat. The thing that you always thought was taboo and evil and in some ways it is. Using rendered fat and grease will send your taste buds into euphoria and put you on cloud nine. The secret behind the flavor of this burger is use of bacon grease on the onions. As for the burger there is nothing really crazy about it other than the seasoning in and on the meat. I'll list the things you'll need but other than using a hot grill and a frying pan for the onions, there really are no tricks to the building of it.

2 lb of 80/20 ground chuck
1 medium size sweet yellow onion.
8 slices of bacon
BBQ Sauce
Dijon Mustard
Worcestershire Sauce
Italian Bread Crumbs
1 Large Egg
4 slices of Smoked Cheddar Cheese
Hot Sauce
Salt
Black Pepper
Celery Salt
Garlic Powder
White Pepper
Italian Seasoning
White Pepper
Creole Seasoning

Put Meat in a bowl with a 1/2 cup of Worcestershire Sauce, 3 tbsp of Dijon Mustard, 4 dashes of hot sauce, 1/2 cup of bread crumbs, and 1 large egg. Mix this together with your hands. If you don't like getting messy you can wear gloves. When you mix everything together, you're going to make 4 rather large 1/2 pound burgers. Place burgers on a plate and your going to mix the other spices left above into a small baggie. 2 tbsp of italian seasoning and creole seasoning and tsp portions of everything else. Mix seasoning vigorously in baggie and cover burgers in plate with 1/2 of spice mixture. Place burgers on the grill seasoning side down for 7-8 minutes and cover other side of meat with the other half of seasoning rub mix while the other side cooks. Flip the meat and cook for another 5 minutes the burgers are going to basically be done. Remove from the heat for a little bit and the burgers will continue to cook as the juices in the meat will settle back and back into the burgers. Do not squeeze the burgers at all, and I mean ever before eating. Don't press them on the grill and do not ever squeeze them. You also only ever want to flip them once. Now for the other thing. Frying the bacon and onion. You want to fry up the bacon until crispy and remove it and throw in the sliced onion into the rendered grease. Don't think about it, just do it. Fry the onions until they become slightly transparent and are pliable. Place the burgers on a cookie sheet, put 2 slices of bacon on each, split the onions between them, put 1 tbsp of bbq sauce on each burger and then put on the slice of cheese. Place in oven on broil long enough to melt the cheese and then remove. Toast 4 egg buns or sesame rolls and put a little bit of bbq sauce on them as well and place the burgers on the buns. What you have is a work of pure art. These things will make a sane person want to smack someone in the face. They are just that good.