Burger King Bacon Cheeseburger Recipe

Burger King's Bacon Cheeseburger is a small flame-grilled beef patty with bacon, a slice of cheese, pickles, mustard and ketchup on a toasted sesame seed bun. This copy presses half a pound of ground beef into four thin 2-ounce patties, cooks them for about two minutes a side on a very hot grill or skillet, and builds four burgers with a slice of bacon each.

What is on a Burger King Bacon Cheeseburger

Burger King's Canadian menu, as listed on DoorDash on 2 October 2026, describes the Bacon Cheeseburger as a flame-grilled beef patty topped with crispy bacon, a layer of cheese, pickles, mustard and ketchup on a toasted sesame seed bun. The description names no lettuce, tomato or mayonnaise.

It has been a low-priced item for a long time. Wikipedia's article on Burger King's products lists a bacon cheeseburger among the seven items of the chain's first value menu in 1998, all at 99 cents. In 2024 it was one of the three sandwiches in the $5 Your Way Meal, beside the Whopper Jr. and the Chicken Jr., as TODAY reported.

The menu gives no patty weight. Burger King's 2022 release on the Whopper Melts counts two Whopper Jr. patties as a quarter pound of beef before cooking, and this copy uses a patty of that size, 2 ounces. It is a reconstruction from these descriptions, and one burger comes to about 435 calories by USDA figures. MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Burger King.

Recipe

Burger King Bacon Cheeseburger

A reconstruction of Burger King's Bacon Cheeseburger — a thin beef patty with bacon, American cheese, pickles, mustard and ketchup on a toasted sesame seed bun. Four burgers.

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Prep

10 min

Cook

15 min

Total

25 min

Serves

4

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 4 slices thin-cut bacon
• 8 ounces ground beef (80% lean)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 4 slices American cheese
• 4 sesame seed hamburger buns
• 12 dill pickle slices
• 4 teaspoons ketchup
• 2 teaspoons yellow mustard

Instructions

1. Cook the bacon in a large skillet over medium heat for 6 to 8 minutes, turning, until crisp. Drain it on paper towels and cut each slice in half. Pour off the fat.
2. Divide the beef into four 2-ounce balls. Press each between two sheets of parchment into a thin patty about 4 1/2 inches across, a little wider than the bun. Season both sides with the salt and pepper.
3. Toast the cut sides of the buns in the dry skillet over medium heat for 1 to 2 minutes, until golden, and set them aside.
4. Heat the skillet or a grill over high heat. Cook the patties for 2 minutes, turn them, lay a slice of cheese on each and cook for 1 to 2 minutes more, until the cheese has melted and the beef has reached 160°F.
5. Spread 1 teaspoon of ketchup and 1/2 teaspoon of mustard on each top bun. Set a patty on each bottom bun, add two half slices of bacon and three pickle slices, and close the burger.

Nutrition

Calories:

435

Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.

A 2-ounce patty, pressed wider than the bun

• Thin and wide. Two ounces of beef pressed to 4 1/2 inches is about a quarter inch thick. It shrinks as it cooks and ends up the size of the bun.
• 80% lean beef. Leaner beef cooks dry at this thickness.
• Salt on the outside, just before cooking. Salt mixed into the beef makes the patty firm and springy, like sausage.
• High heat, short time. A thin patty is done in about four minutes. On lower heat it turns grey before it browns.

Grill or skillet

The menu text calls the patty flame-grilled. On a gas or charcoal grill, cook the patties directly over high heat for the same two minutes a side, and oil the grate first, because thin patties stick. Fat dripping onto the fire gives the charred taste that a skillet cannot.

A cast-iron skillet gives a brown crust in place of grill marks. Pour off the bacon fat before the patties go in, or they fry in it. For a burger with the bacon and the cheese worked into the beef, see the crack burgers.

The Bacon King and the bacon double cheeseburger

The Bacon King is the large one. The United States menu, as listed on DoorDash, describes it as two quarter-pound flame-grilled beef patties with crispy bacon, melted American cheese, ketchup and mayonnaise on a toasted sesame seed bun. At home, that is two 4-ounce patties cooked three minutes a side, two slices of cheese and four slices of bacon, with ketchup and mayonnaise in place of the mustard and pickles.

For a bacon double cheeseburger, which Burger King introduced in 1982, stack two of the 2-ounce patties with a slice of cheese on each.

The same patties between toast

Between two slices of toasted bread, with caramelized onions, two of these patties become the Bacon Melt. Its Stacker sauce can replace the ketchup and mustard here.

A much larger cheeseburger from another chain is the Jack in the Box Ultimate Cheeseburger.