Why you’ll love this baked hamburgers recipe
The big game is right around the corner, and I’m dying to know what everyone is planning to eat. I could care less who’s playing. It’s all about the food for me. We all know there will be snacks, but when I’m hosting I always try to serve something filling – and these perfectly cooked burgers are my go-to choice.
This recipe makes 12 burgers, which makes it perfect for hosting, and you can cook them in the oven, which means you won’t miss any of the game and there won’t be any running out to the grill in the snow.
The key is cooking them in the oven is cooling rack set inside a rimmed baking sheet. This lets the air circulate all the way around each patty so they cook evenly while allowing the grease to drip below, just like a grill.
More game day favorites: dairy free potato skins / quick & easy beer chili / fried onion strings
Ingredient notes:
- Ground chuck (80/20) – The fat content here matters. 80/20 keeps the burgers juicy as they bake. Anything fattier might cause a buildup of grease.
- Granulated garlic – I find it easiest to just use granulated or garlic powder to make burgers, but you can use fresh minced garlic if you want.
- Mustard – I always add a little bit to my burgers. It adds a subtle tang and helps bind the patties.
- Hot sauce – This is totally optional, but it adds a nice kick without making the burgers really spicy.
Making changes to a recipe can result in recipe failure. Any substitutions listed are simple changes that I believe will work in this recipe, but results are not guaranteed.
Melissa’s tips & tricks
- Make sure your rack is oven safe. Not all cooling racks are safe to put in the oven. If your rack has a non-stick coating, make sure it’s safe to use in the oven (not all of them are) or opt for a stainless steel or aluminum rack instead.
- Weigh your patties. Use a kitchen scale to make sure your patties are the same size for even cooking. You want each patty to be 4 ounces or ¼ pound.
- Use a meat thermometer. The easiest way to check for doneness is to use a thermometer. 155˚F–160˚F is medium. 165˚-170˚F will be well done.
- How to serve: I like to create an assemble your own bar so my guests can choose their own toppings – starting with burgers and buns on one side, leading through the different toppings and, on the other end, condiments and napkins.
Frequently asked questions
Yes — and they turn out great. Baking at a high temperature (425˚F) gives you a nicely browned, juicy patty without any flipping required. The rack setup is the key to making it work.
For medium, take the burgers out of the oven when the center reaches 155˚F–160˚F. This should take about 15 minutes. For well done, the center should be 165˚F, so you’ll need to add a few minutes of cook time – about 5 more minutes.
The patties can be formed and refrigerated up to 24 hours before baking — just keep them covered and separate with pieces of parchment paper if you need to stack them.
More beef recipes: shredded beef tacos / grilled beef satay / bolognese sauce / Guinness braised beef / Greek meatballs / diner style cheeseburgers
Baked Hamburgers
Ingredients
For the burgers:
- 3 pounds lean ground beef, 80/20
- 1/2 teaspoon granulated garlic, or garlic powder
- 2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon yellow mustard
- 1 – 2 teaspoons hot sauce, such as Tabasco
- 1 teaspoon coarse salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 425˚F and place an oven-safe cooling rack into a cookie sheet. This allows the air to circulate under the patties, and lets them cook more evenly.
- Make your burger patties. Mix the ground beef with the yellow mustard, Worcestershire sauce, granulated garlic, hot sauce and salt & pepper until evenly combined.Then, divide and shape into quarter pound burger patties.
- Bake your burgers. Place the patties onto the rack and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the internal temperature reaches 155˚F – 160˚F for medium or 165˚F – 170˚F for well done.* Use a meat thermometer to check for doneness.If you want to add cheese, do this with about 2 minutes left in cooking time to give it time to melt.Remove burgers from oven and allow them to rest for 5 minutes before serving.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Probably a fantastic recipe, but since I can’t read a damn thing because of pop ups, I’ll never know.
That was a stupid reply. I have no pop up problem. Why ruin something goon for everyone
Yours is the rude comment. There are a TON of popups on this site. I got the jist of the recipe but had to wait for like 5 ads to download so I could click x and see the content
y’all need to download adblock plus as an extension on chrome if that’s the browser you’re using.
It is not the site’s problem, I have lots of popups on my phone, but on my laptop where I have an ad blocker, there are none.
BTW: I like to bake the burgers just because I hate the mess all over my stove top.
It is a site specific problem. Ads are something that the owner of the website intentionally creates space for so that they can make money—every time someone clicks an ad on their website, the issuer of the ad pays the owner of the website a little bit of money. The owner of the website has complete control over where and how often these ads appear.
That’s why I basked them too. Hate cleaning a greasy, messy stove top.
Burgers we alright stop fighting over stupid nonsence
Lol! I wouldn’t even comment if i hadn’t just read 2 years worth of sh*t talking that had nothing to do with the recipe.
Thank you, Justice!
The burgers were very tasty.
Someone questioned the inclusion behind the vegan/dairy free cheese: it’s a suggestion; not part of the recipe.
That is the best advice I seen on this entire thread. Looking forward to trying the oven burgers.
I haven’t seen a single pop-up ad since being on this website or webpage!!! To the people who are having problems with pop-up ads, I believe the problem is with YOU and not this website!!!
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I agree that all the flying hearts are seriously annoying. I’ll move on to another site.
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Im rating just the comment. I agree. The stupid pop ups are annoying. I always just jump to the recipe and look at the ingredients. I can figure the rest out from there. As for the browser choice, it makes no difference. It happens with both.
I look at the ingredients as well. I cannot figure out why it calls for vegan cheese but it is ground beef???
Vegan cheese is automatically dairy free, since vegans do not eat dairy. This recipe, the blog and my family are dairy free but not all of my recipes are necessarily vegan.
I’m also dairy free but not vegan. I appreciate your content!
on my lap top and the pop ups are off to the side so no problem.
I made these burgers today and they were really good. The seasonings went together quite well. The only issue I had was that the grease splattered and made the house quite smokey, but I did put a layer of paper towels on the baking sheet and that really helped. Make it thick enough that it absorbs most off the grease but not hanging over the sides. I also will reduce the heat from 425 to 400 and see if that makes a difference. However I only used 1 pound of burger.I will make these again. Thank you Melissa for sharing.
I just made these burgers for lunch. I used parchment paper to control the grease drippings and splatter, but my cheese is all over the grid of the cooling rack. Any recommendations on how to scrape it off without damagong the cooling rack?
My favorite trick for soaking things is dishwasher detergent mixed with dish soap and water. Let it soak with the cooling rack in your sheet pan and it should come off pretty easily. Otherwise oven cleaner is always a good option!
Take them out lay them in the driveway run over them with your humvee a couple times slap um against a tree then throw them in the trash go to Walmart get some new ones.
Mike, you made my day! Still chuckling! 😊
You are hillarious!! You had me in tears laughing. We need more people like you.
Keep it uup!!
I found that spraying the rack with cooking spray helps some, buy still need to scrub some.
Not sure how old your comment is but I’d let the rack cool, scrape off as much cheese as possible and put the racks in the dishwasher. The dishwasher is the only way mine get clean.
One burger absolutely does not give you 65 grams of protein. Ever. That is an insane statement.
If you have a 300+ gram patty is does. 😉
In this case, it agree that is probably a mistake. He uses 3 pounds of beef, about 1400 grams. Serves 12, so 116 grams a person. 116 grams of lean beef (which hamburger meat isn’t) gives us about 25 grams of protein.
So unless he uses two other patties for buns, you are right.
I never thought about baking hamburgers in the oven and end up with a delicious burger. My friends will come in the holiday season and we would like to make a barbecue to spend time together. It would be great to visit a restaurant to make sure I learn a good way to make delicious hamburgers.
On 45 minutes for the burgers and they are still red…have the oven at 425*.
That really can’t be. 45 minutes should have made them as hard as bricks. Either your burgers are way to big or there is something wrong with your oven. I’m sorry it didn’t work for you!
I believe 155 F its a typo?
I am reading what you said :
‘Bake your burgers. Place the patties onto the cooling rack and bake for about 15 minutes. Use a meat thermometer to check for doneness. I like to cook my burgers to about 155˚F – 160˚F for medium. They burgers will continue to cook a little when you take them out of the oven. If you want your burgers to be well done, you may need to cook them for a bit more than 15 minutes.
155-165F is internal temperature not oven temperature. It is stated oven should be at 425.
It also says to let them sit for 5 mins to finish cooking. If you don’t disturb meat it will cook after you take it out of whatever you’re using to cook it.
I’ve been cooking my burgers in the oven for yrs now they come out so delicious.
I had this same problem!!! it baked for almost an hour and were still pink in the middle and the thermometer was reading 135.
Sounds perfect to me…
Yes, 15 minutes and it’s still raw. Must be a typo.
I also had an issue with the cook time in a toaster oven. It may be helpful to indicate that 15 minutes gives more of a medium temperature.
I prefer ground meats to be darker. I added about 5 minutes to the cook time and let rest. This resulted in medium well.
My guess is that this would take longer in a full size oven.
If it ain’t done, put it back in!!
Baked 8 burgers from frozen at 425 for 15 mins. Set off every fire alarm in my apartment lol.
Oh my goodness. Are you sure there wasn’t something else that went wrong on your end? 15 minutes in the oven from frozen should not have caused a fire. Did you use an oven proof cooling rack and/or did you possibly use wax paper instead of parchment?
I always cook burgers stovetop so I tried your recipe last night. The burgers came out EXCELLENT. The only issue was smoke which caused fire alarm to go off 😩 any advice? Had to open windows to air out the 🏠
I believe some of these folks are being wise guys. Apparently the others are setting their ovens to 155-160 degrees instead of 425 for 15 min. They are not understanding the 155 is for the internal temperature of the burgers, NOT THE OVEN. Good grief.
Now I am ready to get baking with my oven preheated to 425. People! 😂
LMAOOOO
I opted for 3 oz. burgers, so I baked mine for less time than the recipe called for (between 10 and 12 minutes). They turned out wonderfully, and I will definitely be making these again. Thank you for sharing!
These turned out great! I lined a cookie sheet with foil, then placed cooling rack on top. It was perfect and I made 6 patties from 1.3 pounds of hamburger. I made a divot on each one and placed a pat of butter as my hamburger was quite lean. I baked for 20 minutes at 425 and they were perfect! Will be making again.
GREAT RECIPE! However, I will say I didnt expect so much smoke. I had to “air” out the house. My house is pretty spacious one story 2700 sq feet. The burgers created a lot of smoke when I opened the oven :/ The burgers did come out delicious not dry at all. Family loved it and had seconds! 🙂
I used my own seasonings and followed the cooking steps of baking the burger. Talk about juicy burger! I baked mine for about 25minutes on 415 and came out perfect! Thank you for sharing.