Monterey Melt
A double burger with Monterey Jack and American cheese, grilled peppers and onions and a creamy, spicy sauce. It tastes like a burger that wandered into a fajita restaurant. It has come and gone over the years and returns because Texans keep asking for it.
The story
Monterey Jack is one of the few cheeses America can claim outright. Spanish missionaries in Monterey, California, were making a soft young cheese long before statehood, and a businessman named David Jacks began selling it commercially in the 1880s under his own name, which is how it ended up as Jack’s cheese and then Monterey Jack. It melts cleanly and carries chilli well, which is why it turns up in Tex-Mex cooking constantly and why a Texas chain reaches for it the moment peppers are involved.
What’s inside
- 2 beef patties
- Monterey Jack cheese
- American cheese
- grilled peppers
- grilled onions
- creamy spicy sauce
- bun
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Monterey Melt yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, heat, cooked onions and cheese
Viral Bacon Spiral Burger - Shares beef, heat and cheese
Bet It All On Black Garlic - Shares beef, heat and cheese
Paratha Smash Burger - Shares beef, heat and cheese
Dean’s Breakfast Burger from Supernatural
Similar burgers at other chains
Built around the same things as the Monterey Melt.- Rekas Burgers · beef, cooked onions, cheese and a double stack
SignatureMalmö Smash - White Castle · beef, cooked onions, cheese and a double stack
Double Cheese Slider - Sunset Boulevard · beef, heat, cheese and a double stack
Hereford Triple Cheese - Bob's · beef, cooked onions, cheese and a double stack
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Harmon Dobson opened the first Whataburger in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1950 with a simple ambition: a burger so big it took two hands to hold and so good that people would say “What a burger!” when they bit into it. In 1961 he designed the orange-and-white striped A-frame buildings, inspired by his love of aviation, and they became as recognisable in Texas as the flag.
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