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Total Time: 27 minutes

Servings: 4 burgers

Cooking Hamburgers in the Oven is EASY and may become your new favorite dinner recipe! This recipe with the "melt-in-your-mouth" trick makes all the difference!

Quick overview: Cook these at 375° for 25 minutes, and then build burgers with buns and wrap in foil and bake another 2-3 minutes for the ULTIMATE, best burger at home!

Cooking Hamburgers in the Oven

Hamburgers in the oven - baked recipe with cheese

"Can I cook burgers in the oven?"

YES, and let me tell you… it may be your new favorite way to whip up this family favorite dinnertime go-to!

Not only does it make clean-up a breeze (no splattered grease popping all over the stovetop) but this recipe creates the juiciest burger, and has a trick that will keep you going back for more!

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Hamburger Recipe in the Oven

It's incredibly easy to make baked hamburgers… and the best part? With the trick I'll show you, you can even make these a little in advance in case you're serving a big crowd, (like for a burger bar) or aren't exactly sure what time dinner will actually be served.

How to Cook Hamburgers in the Oven

As always, there's a full, printable, recipe card at the bottom of this post, but I'd love to walk you through the recipe with photos and extra tips to help you make the best, baked hamburger recipe!

Preheat Oven:

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees, and spray non-stick cooking spray inside of a baking dish, large enough to hold 4 hamburger patties.

Note: When cooking, you can definitely do more at a time if you prefer! Just use a larger baking pan or dish — make sure to use one with raised sides so the juices don't pour out — and the cooking time will stay the same!

4 Beef Hamburger Patties

Using 1 lb. of ground beef, patty out 4 hamburger patties.

How to Season Hamburgers

In the BEST Cheeseburger recipe, you saw that I love to fry burgers in browned butter for flavoring and use salt and pepper to season.

HOWEVER, when it comes to baking hamburgers, I prefer to only use salt and pepper. BUT NOT JUST ANY salt and pepper…

Feel free to use what you have on hand, or your favorite salt and pepper, but I can't help but recommend my favorites.

Fine Grain Himalayan Salt – When I started researching different salts for healthier options, my friend recommends this salt and I haven't looked back. It is "saltier" so I don't have to add as much when cooking, but it is also really tasty! I'm a big fan!
However, feel free to use my other favorite, kosher salt, or any type of sea salt/table salt.
Peppercorn Medley – Oh my favorite pepper in all the land! I love using this with the BEST oven baked steak recipe, and anything "beef" related. You'd be surprised at how much flavor this pepper has over regular black pepper. HOWEVER, feel free to use regular ground black pepper too! It's tasty too!

Seasoned hamburger patties with salt and pepper — I actually used regular black pepper for this photo, because I ran out of my favorite peppercorn medley earlier that day!

Season on Both Sides

Over the years, I've learned that I prefer when burgers are GENEROUSLY seasoned with salt and pepper.
(If I had to guess, I'd say I probably use a total of about 2 teaspoon of salt for the four burgers, and then I just make sure I can SEE black pepper all over my burgers.)

Just when you think it may be too much salt and pepper (because let's face it… you can always add more, but you can't really take it away) you can finally actually taste it.

So season as you desire, but if you find that your burgers didn't have much flavor this time, add a little bit more next time.

When you've seasoned one side of the burgers, flip the seasoned side down in to the prepared baking dish and season the other side.

Flip the seasoned burgers over in to the baking dish and season the other side

How Long to Cook Burgers in the Oven

Bake, uncovered in the preheated oven for 20 minutes, or until an inserted thermometer reaches 160 degrees.

(For the trick that makes all of the difference when cooking burgers in the oven, scroll down! You won't regret it!)

For Cheeseburgers

If you love cheese on your burgers, grab a slice of American cheese (or your favorite kind) and place one slice on each burger.

Place back in the oven for about one minute, or until the cheese has melted!

The Trick for Melt-in-Your-Mouth Oven-Baked Burgers

When I started doing this for my burgers, I feel like I changed my family's burger-lovin' life.

When the cheese has melted, remove the baking dish from the oven.

Tear off 4 squares of aluminum foil (just large enough to wrap each individual burger).

Place the bottom portions of each bun on each sheet of foil, and build the burgers, WITHOUT the extra toppings. Just meat and cheese for now!

Build the cheeseburger and wrap in aluminum foil

Wrap up each burger, and place either in a different baking dish, a cookie sheet or even directly on the oven rack… and let heat in the oven for a 2-3 minutes.

Wrap cheeseburger in aluminum foil and place in oven to steam

This will allow the cheese and bun to steam/toast, to create the ooey-gooeyness that has become so hard to live without!

Cooking Hamburgers in Advance

If you're cooking for a large crowd, or just want to make a batch early and keep warm until dinnertime, it's easy!

Make the burgers like I've suggested, and keep the aluminum foil-wrapped burgers in the oven on warm. (Just don't get the oven too hot, or your buns will get TOO toasty and become hard.)

When it's cattle working day on my parent's farm, I LOVE making these cheeseburgers, because even after making them at house, they're still warm and delicious by the time I get them delivered to the cattle workers for lunchtime!

Toppings for Burgers

Feel free to top your burgers with your favorite toppings! Honestly, when they're cooked like this, I love them plain, with just cheese! (Unless I have some of the french fry seasoning that I've shared with you, under the recipe.)

But some of the standard favorite toppings are:

mustard
ketchup
onion
tomato
lettuce
pickles
mayo
bacon

French Fry Seasoning

I don't know what it is exactly, but this seasoning rocks my world, and I love to put it on just about anything. Especially side dishes like my garlic roasted broccoli and the baked potato wedges.

So when I have some on hand, I love sprinkling this on my cheeseburgers too! Just be cautious of adding salt, because seasoning like this can have a lot of salt in it!

French Fry Seasoning - a great spice for burgers

Sides to Go with Burgers

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Instant Pot Sweet Potatoes
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Fried Mushrooms

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The BEST Hamburgers in the Oven – With a TRICK!

Cooking Hamburgers in the Oven is EASY: And may leave you never wanting to make them any other way! This recipe with the "melt-in-your-mouth" trick that makes all the difference!

Prep Time 5 mins

Cook Time 20 mins

Optional Toasting 2 mins

Total Time 27 mins

Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Servings 4 burgers

Calories 428 kcal

▢ 4 beef patties I use 1lb. of ground beef to make 4 patties
▢ salt as desired – see blog post for tips
▢ pepper as desired – see blog post for tips
▢ 4 slices yellow American cheese if desired
▢ 4 hamburger buns

Optional – For Toasting

▢ aluminum foil

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Preheat oven to 375 degrees and spray baking dish with non-stick cooking spray
Generously season one side of the burgers with salt and pepper
Place burger patties in baking dish, spice side down.
Sprinkle more salt and pepper on each hamburger (or use a preferred seasoning) if you like!
Bake in oven for 25 minutes.
If desired, place one slice of cheese on each burger and bake an additional minute or until cheese has melted.

The TRICK for Ooey Gooey Cheese & a Toasted Bun

Build each burger (without toppings) on a bun and wrap each burger in aluminum foil. (Just enough to wrap the burger completely.
Place back in oven for 2-3 minutes to allow the cheese to melt in and for the bun to get warm and toasty!
Serve and top with any toppings desired!

Why the Extra "Toasting" Step? Placing the burgers in aluminum foil and baking for a few minutes, allows the cheese to melt in and the bun to toast! This creates almost a steamy, soft… yet toasty bun that is to die for!

Making burgers for a large crowd? Make them in advance and wrap in aluminum foil like this and keep on warm until ready to serve!

Salt and Pepper: My favorite salt to use is fine grain Himalayan and my favorite pepper to use is Peppercorn Medley!

Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary with brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes and more.

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