LOADED JUICY LUCY SHEET PAN SLIDERS

My housemate has been waiting for me to make this recipe since I moved in. It’s been, uh, two years… so sorry for the slight delay.

I off-handedly mentioned the idea of sheet pan sliders in a random conversation with James’ friend Mike a couple of years back, when I first visited his place to watch a boxing match. I didn’t know at the time that I would wind up moving into his house just months later, or that I would spend the next 700-someodd days hearing about how I needed to make sliders for the blog, but that is the basic gist of how things unfolded from then.

So, in large part, these Loaded Juicy Lucy Sliders are brought to you by my housemate, Mike, and his stubborn-ass insistence that I make things with less “weird” ingredients (he’s a little picky) and a whole lot more “chopped meat”– which I eventually figured out means ground beef to those of us who aren’t from this corner of New Jersey.

INGREDIENTS
FOR THE BURGERS:

• 2 1/4 pounds lean ground beef
• 1 tablespoon kosher salt (or to taste)
• 2 teaspoons black pepper
• 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 cup grated onion
• 6 slices American cheese
• 6 slices mozzarella cheese
• 6 slices sharp cheddar cheese
• 12 strips uncooked bacon

FOR THE BURGER SAUCE:

• 1/4 cup mayonnaise
• 2 teaspoons hot sauce (or to taste)
• 1/4 cup thousand island dressing

TO ASSEMBLE:

• 12 brioche slider buns
• 3-4 large leaves of green lettuce
• 2 tomatoes, sliced thin
• Dill pickle chips, optional, to top

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Preheat the oven to 400°F. Prepare a 13×9″ nonstick rimmed sheet pan
2. In a large bowl, combine the ground beef, salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, and grated onion. Mix well until all ingredients are evenly distributed.
3. Press half of the ground beef into a thin layer on the sheet pan. Layer the cheeses into 2 rows, ensuring that you leave room around the edges to prevent any leaking while the burgers cook. Cover the cheese with the remaining beef mixture.
4. Weave the bacon on top of the sheet pan burger and tuck down any edges that might be hanging over. Place your smaller sheet pan on top of a larger one if you think you might have issues with grease dripping over as the bacon cooks.
5. Transfer the sheet pan to the oven and bake for about 30 minutes, or until cooked through and the bacon is beginning to cook through. Finish off by broiling until the bacon is crisp.
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