Burger King Bacon Melt Recipe

Burger King's Bacon Melt is two thin beef patties with American cheese, bacon, caramelized onions and Stacker sauce between two slices of toasted bread. This copy cooks one sliced onion slowly in butter, bakes eight slices of bacon, fries eight 2-ounce patties for two minutes a side with a slice of cheese on each and stacks them on buttered, toasted bread. It makes four melts.

What is on Burger King's Bacon Melt

Burger King introduced the melts on 7 March 2022 under the name Whopper Melts. The release lists the Bacon Whopper Melt as two slices of toasted bread, two Whopper Jr. patties, a quarter pound of beef before cooking, American cheese, crispy bacon, caramelized onions and Stacker Sauce, at a starting price of $4.29.

By the time they returned in December 2023 they were called BK Melts, and the Classic and the Bacon came back with a new Shroom n' Swiss. The recipe below is a reconstruction from those descriptions, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Burger King.

Recipe

Burger King Bacon Melt

A reconstruction of Burger King's Bacon Melt — two 2-ounce beef patties, American cheese, bacon, caramelized onions and Stacker sauce on toasted bread. Four melts.

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Prep

15 min

Cook

40 min

Total

55 min

Serves

4

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• For the Stacker sauce:
• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tablespoon ketchup
• 1 1/2 teaspoons sweet pickle relish
• 1/2 teaspoon yellow mustard
• 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
• For the onions and bacon:
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 1 large yellow onion, thinly sliced
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 8 slices thin-cut bacon
• For the melts:
• 1 pound ground beef (80% lean)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
• 8 slices American cheese
• 8 slices white sandwich bread
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened

Instructions

1. Stir the mayonnaise, ketchup, relish, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, smoked paprika and garlic powder together and refrigerate the sauce.
2. Melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add the onion and 1/4 teaspoon of salt and cook for 20 to 25 minutes, stirring now and then, until soft and deep golden. Tip the onions into a bowl.
3. While the onions cook, lay the bacon on a rack set over a baking sheet and bake it at 400°F for 15 to 18 minutes, until crisp. Cut each slice in half.
4. Divide the beef into 8 portions of 2 ounces and press each into a patty about 4 inches across. Season both sides with 1/2 teaspoon of salt and the pepper.
5. Wipe out the skillet and set it over medium-high heat. Cook the patties in two batches for 2 minutes a side, until browned and 160°F inside. Lay a slice of cheese on each patty for the last 30 seconds.
6. Spread the softened butter on one side of each slice of bread and toast the slices, buttered side down, in a clean skillet over medium heat for about 2 minutes, until golden.
7. Spread 1 tablespoon of sauce on the untoasted side of 4 slices. Stack two cheese-topped patties on each, add the onions and four half slices of bacon, and close with the remaining bread, toasted side out.

Nutrition

Calories:

950

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.

Onions that are caramelized, not fried

• Medium-low heat and twenty minutes. The onions should soften and colour slowly. On high heat they brown at the edges and stay raw in the middle.
• Salt at the start. It draws out water, and the onions soften sooner.
• A spoonful of water loosens the brown film on the pan if it starts to darken. It goes back into the onions.

Bacon from the oven

On a rack in the oven the slices stay flat, cook evenly and leave the stove free for the onions. Flat bacon also lies still in a sandwich. Thick-cut bacon needs about 5 minutes longer.

The Classic Melt and the Spicy Melt

The 2022 release describes two more melts built on the same bread and patties.

• Classic Melt: the recipe above without the bacon.
• Spicy Melt: American cheese, jalapeños, caramelized onions and a creamy spicy sauce. At home, add pickled jalapeño slices and stir 1 teaspoon of hot sauce into the Stacker sauce.

The fourth one, with Swiss cheese and mushrooms, has its own page: the Shroom n' Swiss Melt.

Stacker sauce, in a small batch

The sauce in the card is a half batch of this site's Stacker sauce. The full recipe keeps a week in the refrigerator.

Thin patties, and what can be made ahead

Two 2-ounce patties cook in four minutes and carry two slices of cheese, where one thick patty would carry one. The sauce, the onions and the bacon can all be made a day ahead and warmed; the patties and the toast are made last.

For a Burger King sandwich on a bun, see the bacon cheeseburger.