An air fryer masterpiece. The Cyclops burger is one of our newest recipes for air fryer hamburgers. It is a 1/2-pound burger loaded with crunchy potato sticks, bacon, cheese, pickles, BBQ sauce, and a fried egg as the eye of the cyclops. All prepared in my Ninja Foodi Air Fryer.
Call a friend, you may need assistance. Also crushes hangovers, just saying.
Shopping List
- Ground Beef
- Bacon
- Dill Pickle Chips
- American Cheese
- Eggs
- Buns
- BBQ Sauce
- Shoestring Potatoes
- This recipe calls for a small 6″ cast iron skillet that will fit in the basket of your air fryer.
A Serious Burger
This burger is not messing around. I am starting with 1/2 pound of 75/15 ground beef. That means 75% lean beef to 15% fat. A high fat ground beef holds up well in the volcanic cyclone of an air fryer.
I’m topping that with 3 strips of thick cut bacon and a technically, sunny side up egg.
Then all of that will be sitting on top of a BBQ sauce slathered bun, with a nest of crunchy potato sticks (like a potato chip but cut into a matchstick instead of a chip.), and a layer of good quality kosher dill pickle chips.
This is too much food for a reasonable person…
I am not a reasonable person.
Air Fryer Tetris
This recipe should work for any type of air fryer as far as time and temperature goes, give or take a minute. My air fryer gives me a good bit of space to make this work.
The hook is the mini cast iron skillet. I found mine at my local big chain grocery store for $10. It has become a must have accessory as far as I’m concerned. If you don’t have or can’t get one, you can fry up an egg the old-fashioned way on the stove top.
The Finale
This is a burger that should be served with a steak knife. I like to stab the knife through the top of the bun piercing the egg yolk and getting a nice runny egg situation to mop up all over my plate.
Now that I think of it, this would make a great Halloween recipe.
Air Fryer Hamburgers – The Cyclops Burger
Equipment
- Air Fryer
- 6" cast iron skillet
- Spatula
Ingredients
- 1/2 pound burger patty
- 3 strips thick cut bacon
- 1/4 cup fried potato sticks
- 5-7 kosher dill pickle chips
- 1 slice American cheese
- 1 large egg
- 1 hamburger bun
- BBQ sauce
Instructions
- Preheat air fryer to 400F or 202C.Place burger patty in basket and cook for 4 minutes, then patty and cook 2 more minutes.
- Make room and place cast iron skillet in with burger. This will preheat the cast iron. Continue cooking for 2 more minutes.
- Remove burger patty, spray cast iron skillet with cooking spray, and crack one egg into skillet. Place burger bun basket so it can toast without disturbing the egg.
- Cook for 2 minutes or till bread is toasted, and egg whites are cooked solid.
- Assemble any way you like. I like to build mine like this.(From the bottom up.)Bun heel, BBQ sauce, potato sticks, pickles, cheese, burger patty, bacon, bun crown.
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