In a cast iron skillet, start cooking the slices of chopped bacon. You can season with spices if you’d like.

Continue cooking it, covering the pan with a grease catcher – this stuff will get seriously messy without one!

Once the bacon is cooked, remove it from the pan and set aside on some paper towels to crisp up.

In a large mixing bowl, add the ground beef.

Add 2/3 of your bacon, chopped chives, minced garlic, black pepper, soy sauce, salt, onion powder, and Worcestershire sauce.

Mix the meat and spice mixture together well; make sure that all of the spices are evenly distributed in the meat.

Form patties with your hands. You should be able to get relatively large patties from this.

In a cast iron skillet, add the previously saved bacon fat. Wait until it gets hot and then add your burger patties. You can add 3-4 at a time.

Flip the burger patties after 3-5 minutes (depending on the done-ness you want) and continue to cook on the other side.

Serve with cheese, extra bacon, and onion if you’d like. Also, feel free to add a dash of sriracha over the top!