Yea or Nay?
I love blue cheese and I had it on an otherwise delicious burger (1/2lb angus, thick crispy bacon, lettuce, onion and tomato). Unfortunately, the cheese sort of killed the taste of what would have been one of the best burgers ever. It was still good though.
Yes, it has to be bacon OR blue cheese, not both. Last week I had both on a burger, in some ground together combination, and it was… not my favorite. But a rare burger, with blue cheese on top, is wonderful.
As a change, sure. But not all the time. I prefer to taste the meat as opposed to the cheese.
I lurves me some Bleu on my burger.
But not as much as I lurve a sharp cheddar and some freshly roasted hatch green chiles on my burger.
I like bleu cheese and bacon burgers. That’s my husband’s favorite kind. They’re pretty salty together, but it doesn’t matter if the burger’s juicy.
Yes, please. I’ll be over right away.
Yes, stuffed inside the patty with some horseradish.
Real bleu cheese, yes. Or its cousins, like Stilton, Gorgonzola, Roqueforte, saga, or cabrales.
None of this ‘blue cheese food’ for me, though.
I think once in a while for me, too. I do as a general rule love bleu cheese.
I would think it would be “yes,” as I like both blue cheese and burgers, but the last one I tried didn’t really do it for me—something a bit mawkish about the cheese being warm.
Neither am I a fan of warm brie, which tasted—the first and only time I tried it—like a big mouthful of somebody’s yeast infection.
I enjoy bleu cheese on burgers the most when it’s a “black and bleu” burger cooked with Cajun spices. It’s a nice change of pace every once in a while.
Had it for the first time a few years ago at the Hard Rock in Niagra Falls. Loved it - have it all the time now.
Pretty good every once in a while, but not something all the time.
Ditto. I love it as a change of pace, but not every day*.
*note: I probably only eat one hamburger a month, so it’s not like I need that much variation
I’ll have my bleu cheese in salad dressing, please, or crumbled on my salad, with ranch dressing. My burger should have bacon, sharp cheddar (or port wine cheese!), bacon, steak sauce, and just maybe a thin slice of ripe tomato and a lettuce leaf.
To me, the flavor of bleu cheese is too strong for the taste of the burger.
Maybe I’m just eating the wrong burgers?
ETA: I don’t like bleu cheese on steaks, either. Maybe I just don’t like the combo of bleu cheese and beef. . .
Count me as a fan. As others have said, it’s a “once in a while” thing; my cheeseburgers are usually adorned with American or mozzarella (milder cheeses). Sometimes, though, I’m in the mood for the combo of a medium/rare burger & bleu cheese.
I had a bleu cheese burger once, and yea, though I love blue cheese, it was much too rich and overwhelmingly bleu cheesy. It was a bit much, I probably wouldn’t mind it sparingly, but generally the bleu cheese burgers I have seen are covered with it. Not really my favorite, haven’t had one since and probably wouldn’t order one again…
If you want to mellow out the cheese, here’s a quick tip.
Make 2 smaller, thin patties.
Put the cheese on top of one patty, then put the other patty on top. Squeeze the edges together.
Season the burger top & bottom.
Grille.
The cheese will melt into the meat, distributing the taste and mellowing it a bit. This works well with ANY kind of cheese, I do bleu cheese or swiss normally.
The one time I’ve had a burger with bleu cheese is at Red Mill Burgers in Seattle and I thought it was the best hamburger I had eaten in awhile. It also pepper bacon on it and it blended nicely with the taste of the bleu cheese.
Depends on the type of blue cheese. For me, Danish blue is mild and mixes well with a burger and bacon. Very sharp roqueforty blues assert themselves too much and are better in other recipes.