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The entries are in no particular order. I placed names in a hat and drew them out. When voting the number listed in the poll corresponds with the entry number show before each dish.
The photos are the original photos, formatted as best as possible to keep them all similar sizes but otherwise un-edited.
PRIZES!!!!
Winners of this Throwdown will receive a Lavatool Javelin Instant Read Thermometer and a Pacific Northwest care package.
Good Luck!
The entries are:
1.Bannock buns (native Flat bread ) done on the smoker, Moose and Elk burger mix for the burgers stuffed with cheese, onion and mushroom wrapped in bacon smoked on smoker. The side is Fiddleheads ( Fiddlehead ferns or greens are the furled fronds of a young fern )
mushroom, onions and bacon also on the smoker.
2. It is a Meatball Parmigiana Burger
Smoked Italian Meatball Burger, Stuffed with Mozzarella, Homemade Marinara, with Provolone and a Toasted Garlic Bread Bun.
3. Cheddar and Vidalia onion stuffed bacon wrapped ( fattie style ) smoked to an internal of 165, covered with 1 fried egg over medium, then lettuce tomato, and mayo, with a toasted potato bread cover, and garnished with bread and butter pickles.
4. The bun is home made. The ears and nose are mushrooms. Eyes are mozzarella and black olives. The horns are onions. For the burger I used 3/4 ground beef and 1/4 ground pork belly, topped with melted feta cheese.
5. 3am burger (after bar burger)
6oz burger from local farmer. (Grain fed non gmo beef)
6 oz venison from last seasons deer harvest
12oz pattie total
SPOG seasoning
3 slices thick cut bacon from local pig farmer
1 duck egg from friend who raises ducks
2 slices cheddar cheese
Homemade cherry pepper hot sauce
Toasted onion/poppy seed roll
6. This bacon wrapped burger was seasoned with salt, pepper, Rileys, and stuffed with jalapeño and pepper co-jack cheese. The burger was topped with lettuce, tomato, and avocado. Smoked using a Sweetwood blend in my Camp Chef smoker
7.Alfredo patty melt. Grilled onions,mushrooms,Alfredo sauce,bacon,swiss cheese and a parmesan crusted garlic bread bun
8. "Juicy Lucia". An Italian spin on the "Juicy Lucy". Apple smoked sharp provolone stuffed meatball burger on a homemade sausage arancinii "bun" with marinara and pesto. Both the burgers and the arancini cooked on my Weber 26 with the Vortex.
9. Mushroom and Swiss burger.
Apple wood smoked turkey burger top with Swiss cheese, grilled onions, a smokey horseradish sauce and some avocado. The bun of course is the mushroom portion of the deal, grilled portobella brushed in olive oil and a little garlic rubbed on.
The turkey burger itself is a mix of 93/7 and 85/15 ground turkey. I incorporate shredded zucchini to keep the burger nice and moist as the turkey gets dry easily. A few other spices and goodies included along with Lipton soup french onion mix.
10. Turducken Burger
3 patties (1 turkey, 1 duck, & 1 chicken) seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic powder and smoked over Apple Wood and finished on the grill with muenster Cheese melted on the chicken burger. Assembly included a smoked cranberry horseradish mayo slathered on the slices of toasted rye bread. Burger topped off with a cranberry orange compote and homemade fried onion strings. Enjoyed with a side of onion strings and Angry Orchard Hard Cider.
11. Quesadilla Burger Slider Trio
The trio includes from left to right venison, beef & pork sliders. Tortilla shells (buns) prepped, one half with melted shredded colby jack & the other with melted shredded smoked pepper jack. Meat put on the bun then topped with homemade chipotle mayo, pico de gallo & lettuce. Served with some homemade tortilla strips with red salsa, salsa verde & refried beans.
12. I smoked ground beef stuffed with American cheese topped with my smoked mac n cheese with a baked pretzel bun and provolone cheese underneath the burger.
13. Disqualified
14. Ground Corned Beef stuffed with Swiss cheese, smoked and seared, then sandwiched between slices of butter toasted rye swirl with sauerkraut & home made Russian dressing.
15. Bacon wrapped, mesquite smoked, sausage-mac-n-cheese stuffed burger
The entries are in no particular order. I placed names in a hat and drew them out. When voting the number listed in the poll corresponds with the entry number show before each dish.
The photos are the original photos, formatted as best as possible to keep them all similar sizes but otherwise un-edited.
PRIZES!!!!
Winners of this Throwdown will receive a Lavatool Javelin Instant Read Thermometer and a Pacific Northwest care package.
Good Luck!
The entries are:
1.Bannock buns (native Flat bread ) done on the smoker, Moose and Elk burger mix for the burgers stuffed with cheese, onion and mushroom wrapped in bacon smoked on smoker. The side is Fiddleheads ( Fiddlehead ferns or greens are the furled fronds of a young fern )
mushroom, onions and bacon also on the smoker.
2. It is a Meatball Parmigiana Burger
Smoked Italian Meatball Burger, Stuffed with Mozzarella, Homemade Marinara, with Provolone and a Toasted Garlic Bread Bun.
3. Cheddar and Vidalia onion stuffed bacon wrapped ( fattie style ) smoked to an internal of 165, covered with 1 fried egg over medium, then lettuce tomato, and mayo, with a toasted potato bread cover, and garnished with bread and butter pickles.
4. The bun is home made. The ears and nose are mushrooms. Eyes are mozzarella and black olives. The horns are onions. For the burger I used 3/4 ground beef and 1/4 ground pork belly, topped with melted feta cheese.
5. 3am burger (after bar burger)
6oz burger from local farmer. (Grain fed non gmo beef)
6 oz venison from last seasons deer harvest
12oz pattie total
SPOG seasoning
3 slices thick cut bacon from local pig farmer
1 duck egg from friend who raises ducks
2 slices cheddar cheese
Homemade cherry pepper hot sauce
Toasted onion/poppy seed roll
6. This bacon wrapped burger was seasoned with salt, pepper, Rileys, and stuffed with jalapeño and pepper co-jack cheese. The burger was topped with lettuce, tomato, and avocado. Smoked using a Sweetwood blend in my Camp Chef smoker
7.Alfredo patty melt. Grilled onions,mushrooms,Alfredo sauce,bacon,swiss cheese and a parmesan crusted garlic bread bun
8. "Juicy Lucia". An Italian spin on the "Juicy Lucy". Apple smoked sharp provolone stuffed meatball burger on a homemade sausage arancinii "bun" with marinara and pesto. Both the burgers and the arancini cooked on my Weber 26 with the Vortex.
9. Mushroom and Swiss burger.
Apple wood smoked turkey burger top with Swiss cheese, grilled onions, a smokey horseradish sauce and some avocado. The bun of course is the mushroom portion of the deal, grilled portobella brushed in olive oil and a little garlic rubbed on.
The turkey burger itself is a mix of 93/7 and 85/15 ground turkey. I incorporate shredded zucchini to keep the burger nice and moist as the turkey gets dry easily. A few other spices and goodies included along with Lipton soup french onion mix.
10. Turducken Burger
3 patties (1 turkey, 1 duck, & 1 chicken) seasoned with salt, pepper, and garlic powder and smoked over Apple Wood and finished on the grill with muenster Cheese melted on the chicken burger. Assembly included a smoked cranberry horseradish mayo slathered on the slices of toasted rye bread. Burger topped off with a cranberry orange compote and homemade fried onion strings. Enjoyed with a side of onion strings and Angry Orchard Hard Cider.
11. Quesadilla Burger Slider Trio
The trio includes from left to right venison, beef & pork sliders. Tortilla shells (buns) prepped, one half with melted shredded colby jack & the other with melted shredded smoked pepper jack. Meat put on the bun then topped with homemade chipotle mayo, pico de gallo & lettuce. Served with some homemade tortilla strips with red salsa, salsa verde & refried beans.
12. I smoked ground beef stuffed with American cheese topped with my smoked mac n cheese with a baked pretzel bun and provolone cheese underneath the burger.
13. Disqualified
14. Ground Corned Beef stuffed with Swiss cheese, smoked and seared, then sandwiched between slices of butter toasted rye swirl with sauerkraut & home made Russian dressing.
15. Bacon wrapped, mesquite smoked, sausage-mac-n-cheese stuffed burger
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