Hungry Jack's Bacon Deluxe Recipe (Copycat)

This Hungry Jack’s Bacon Deluxe recipe makes 2 homemade copies of the Australian burger in about 30 minutes. You grill 4 thin beef patties at 260°C / 500°F, melt a slice of cheese on top and add crisp eye bacon, tomato, iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise, all on a toasted 4-inch sesame bun. It is my unofficial copycat, not Hungry Jack’s own recipe. I built it from the chain’s official ingredient list (nutrition guide of 1 July 2025) and its Australian product page, both checked on 5 November 2026. Where the chain publishes nothing, the quantity is my estimate, and I flag it.

One warning first: this is not the Wendy’s Bacon Deluxe. Most search results, and Wikipedia’s “Bacon Deluxe” page, describe the Wendy’s burger, a different product launched in the United States in October 2009 with applewood bacon (Wikipedia). This recipe is about the Hungry Jack’s version sold in Australia.

What is in the Hungry Jack’s Bacon Deluxe?

The Hungry Jack’s Bacon Deluxe is a flame-grilled Aussie beef burger with fresh lettuce, ripe tomato, mayonnaise, premium eye bacon and a slice of cheese. That is the chain’s own wording on its Australian product page (Hungry Jack’s, Bacon Deluxe, checked 5 November 2026). It sits in the “Whopper & Beef Burgers” section of the current Australian menu, alongside the Whopper and Big Jack ranges, the Cowboy Whopper and the Grill Masters Angus burgers.

The official ingredient list in the 1 July 2025 nutrition guide goes further (Hungry Jack’s nutrition guide, July 2025):

• Beef patty, 4”: 100% beef
• Sesame glazed bun, 4”: wheat flour, sesame seeds, sugar, canola oil, soy flour, yeast
• Processed cheese: cow’s milk, emulsifying salts, paprika colour (E160c)
• Bacon: pork, water, salt, sugar, curing salts, wood smoke
• Tomato slice
• Iceberg lettuce
• Mayonnaise: soybean oil, egg yolk, distilled vinegar, corn syrup, salt, sugar, mustard flour

The guide lists the Bacon Deluxe as a permanent menu item and marks it as not halal. Declared allergens: wheat (gluten), egg, milk, sesame, soy and mustard, with possible added sulphites.

Hungry Jack’s is Burger King’s master franchisee in Australia. Jack Cowin founded it, and the first restaurant opened in Innaloo, Perth, in 1971 (Wikipedia). The full story is on our Hungry Jack’s brand profile.

How many patties are in a Bacon Deluxe? My deduction

Hungry Jack’s never gives a patty count, but its own nutrition figures point to 2 small 4-inch patties. The product page only says “flame-grilled Aussie beef”, and third-party descriptions disagree on one patty or two. So I went back to the chain’s July 2025 guide and set the Bacon Deluxe against its siblings.

Source: Hungry Jack’s nutrition guide, 1 July 2025, checked 5 November 2026.

Horizontal bar chart comparing Hungry Jack’s Bacon Deluxe weight and protein with the Cheeseburger and Cheeseburger Double: Cheeseburger 119 g / 15.6 g protein, Cheeseburger Double 165 g / 26 g, Bacon Deluxe 202 g / 29.3 g. Source: Hungry Jack’s Australia nutrition guide, 1 July 2025 (Chart: Burger Breton, data from Hungry Jack’s Australia nutrition guide (1 July 2025), https://www.hungryjacks.com.au/Upload/HJ/Media/Media/Nutritional-Guide-1-July-2025-Final-Whopper-Beef-Nutritionals.pdf)

The Bacon Deluxe weighs 202 g with 29.3 g of protein, more than the two-patty Cheeseburger Double (165 g, 26 g). Bacon, tomato and lettuce account for some of the extra weight. The protein is harder to explain away. With one patty, the bacon would have to add nearly 14 g of protein over the single Cheeseburger (15.6 g), more than the 10.4 g a whole second patty adds to the Double. Two patties is the only reading that adds up for me. It is still my deduction, not a Hungry Jack’s statement.

It also uses the 4-inch patty and 4-inch bun of the Cheeseburger, not the 5-inch Whopper patty and bun (nutrition guide; confirmed in an OzBargain thread). Think compact bacon cheeseburger, not a Whopper with bacon.

How many calories are in a Hungry Jack’s Bacon Deluxe?

The current Australian product page lists 2142 kJ per burger, about 512 kcal. It also gives 29.7 g protein, 38.7 g fat (14.8 g saturated), 27.1 g carbohydrates (5.2 g sugars) and 858 mg sodium (Hungry Jack’s, checked 5 November 2026).

The July 2025 PDF guide is slightly lower: 2047 kJ (about 489 kcal), 29.3 g protein, 36.2 g fat, 27.4 g carbohydrates and 852 mg sodium. The chain publishes both, so I give both; the web page is the more recent. Calories are converted at 1 kcal = 4.184 kJ. My homemade version has not been lab-tested, so I give no nutrition values for it.

Bacon Deluxe recipe: ingredients for 2 burgers

You need 240 g of beef mince, 4 rashers of eye bacon, 2 cheese slices, 2 small sesame buns, tomato, iceberg and mayonnaise. Hungry Jack’s does not publish patty weight, bacon count or topping quantities, so those are my estimates.

For the burgers

• 240 g (8.5 oz) beef mince, about 20% fat, cold
• 4 rashers eye bacon (short-cut bacon), 2 per burger (my choice)
• 2 slices processed cheese (American-style cheese slices)
• 2 sesame seed burger buns, about 10 cm (4 in) wide
• 1 ripe tomato, cut into 4 thin slices
• 30 g (1 oz) iceberg lettuce, shredded
• 30 g (2 tbsp) whole-egg mayonnaise
• Fine salt and freshly ground black pepper

Times: 15 minutes prep, about 12 minutes cooking, about 30 minutes in total.

What is eye bacon, and what can you use instead?

Eye bacon is the round, lean loin part of a bacon rasher, which Australian supermarkets sell as short-cut bacon. Hungry Jack’s calls its version “premium eye bacon” without naming the product it buys. In Australia, buy short-cut bacon and you are done.

Elsewhere it takes a little hunting. In the UK and Ireland, smoked back bacon is the closest match: trim off most of the fat tail. In the United States, use Canadian bacon or a thin-cut smoked back bacon if you can find it. Skip thick streaky bacon. It takes over and you end up with a different burger. These are my kitchen substitutions, not a sourced spec, but the official bacon is cured and wood-smoked, so whatever you buy should be smoked too.

What cheese should you use?

Use one slice of mild processed cheese per burger. The official list names processed cheese coloured with paprika, which is exactly what American-style slices are. One is enough: the chain’s own description says “a slice of cheese”. I would not swap in a sharp aged cheddar. It melts badly on thin patties and fights the bacon for attention.

Hungry Jack’s Bacon Deluxe recipe step by step

Grill 4 thin patties hot and fast, crisp the bacon first, then build each burger on a toasted 4-inch sesame bun. The times and temperatures are mine, since Hungry Jack’s publishes none. I use the same grill setting as my Double Big Jack recipe, so the whole Hungry Jack’s series cooks the same way.

1. Shape 4 thin patties

Divide the cold mince into 4 balls of 60 g (2.1 oz). Press each one between 2 sheets of baking paper into a disc about 11 cm (4.3 in) wide and 6 mm (¼ in) thick. It shrinks on the grill to roughly the 4-inch size of the official patty. Keep the discs in the fridge until the grill is hot.

2. Preheat the grill to 260°C / 500°F

Heat a gas or charcoal grill to 260°C / 500°F with the lid closed. The flame-grilled taste comes from fat dripping onto the fire, and the official patty is 100% beef with nothing else listed. So a real grill does more for this burger than any seasoning.

3. Grill the bacon

Grill the eye bacon for 2 to 3 minutes per side, until the edges crisp. Keep it warm on a plate. Some customer reviews of the original find the bacon too discreet (Tripadvisor), so I take mine a little further for more crunch and smoke. It is the same bacon method as in my Ultimate Double Whopper copycat.

A bacon rasher grilled crisp on a barbecue, with grill marks across it. This is a streaky rasher: Australian eye bacon (short-cut bacon) for the Bacon Deluxe is rounder and leaner, so trim off the fat tail if you use back bacon. Illustrative photo, not taken at Hungry Jack’s (Photo: Kelapstick, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bbq\_bacon\_002.JPG)

4. Toast the buns

Split the buns and toast the cut sides on the edge of the grill for 30 to 45 seconds, until golden. Don’t skip it. A small bun under tomato and mayo goes soggy fast, and the toasted face holds the line.

5. Flame-grill the patties and melt the cheese

Grill the patties over the hottest part of the grill for 2 minutes, flip, then cook 1 to 1½ minutes more. Lay a cheese slice on 2 of the patties right after flipping and close the lid so it melts. Do not press them: thin patties lose their juice fast.

Flame-grilled beef patties topped with melted American cheese slices, just off a gas grill, with grilled bread on the side: the patty-and-cheese stage of the homemade Bacon Deluxe. Illustrative photo, not taken at Hungry Jack’s (Photo: Poppy Thomas-Hill, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grilled\_Cheeseburger\_Patties.jpg)

6. Season after cooking

Season every patty with a pinch of salt and pepper as soon as it comes off the grill; on the 2 cheese patties, season the bare underside. The official list says only “Beef 100%”, so the seasoning is my choice, not the chain’s method. I salt late on purpose: salt on thin raw mince draws out moisture these patties cannot spare.

7. Assemble the Bacon Deluxe

Put a cheese patty on the bottom bun and set a plain patty on top, so the cheese melts between the 2 patties. Add 2 rashers of bacon, 2 tomato slices and the shredded lettuce. Spread 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise on the cut side of the top bun and close. Hungry Jack’s does not publish its stacking order. This one is mine: it locks the beef together and keeps the cold toppings off the hot meat.

Why this recipe tastes like the original Bacon Deluxe

This copycat uses every component on Hungry Jack’s official ingredient list, in the same small 4-inch format, with plain beef and a flame-grilled taste. The table sets what the chain publishes against the choices I made where it publishes nothing.

Closest to the original: the ratio of beef, cheese and bun. Two thin patties under one slice reproduce the beef-heavy weight of the real thing. Where it may drift: the patty count is my deduction, and supermarket bacon is not the chain’s supply.

My opinion: this is the best-balanced burger in the Hungry Jack’s beef range, and the one I would order first. It carries less bread than a Whopper and less sauce than a Big Jack, which leaves room for the two flavours that matter here, the bacon and the char. Want it heavier? My Double Whopper with Cheese copycat uses the same grill method on 5-inch patties, and the Big Jack Angus recipe goes bigger still. The chain’s base burger is broken down in what’s in a Whopper, with a copycat recipe, and every other copycat lives on the Burger Breton recipes hub.

Bacon Deluxe FAQ

What is in a Hungry Jack’s Bacon Deluxe?

Flame-grilled 100% beef on a 4-inch sesame bun, with a slice of processed cheese, premium eye bacon, a tomato slice, iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise, according to Hungry Jack’s official ingredient list (July 2025 guide).

How many patties are in a Hungry Jack’s Bacon Deluxe?

Hungry Jack’s does not say. Its official weight and protein figures (202 g, 29.3 g) are higher than the two-patty Cheeseburger Double (165 g, 26 g), which points to 2 small 4-inch patties. That is my deduction, not an official fact.

How many calories are in a Bacon Deluxe?

The Australian product page lists 2142 kJ, about 512 kcal, per burger (checked 5 November 2026). The July 2025 nutrition guide gives 2047 kJ, about 489 kcal.

What is the difference between the Hungry Jack’s and Wendy’s Bacon Deluxe?

They are separate products. The Hungry Jack’s Bacon Deluxe is an Australian flame-grilled burger with eye bacon. The Wendy’s Bacon Deluxe was launched in the United States in October 2009 with applewood bacon.

What is eye bacon, and what can I use instead?

Eye bacon is the lean, round loin part of the rasher, sold as short-cut bacon in Australia. My substitutes are trimmed smoked back bacon in the UK and Canadian bacon in the US. That is kitchen advice, not the chain’s spec.

Is the Hungry Jack’s Bacon Deluxe halal?

No. The July 2025 nutrition guide lists it as not halal, and it contains pork bacon.

How do I get a flame-grilled taste without a barbecue?

Use a smoking-hot cast-iron grill pan. It gives thin patties char marks and a crust, though it will never fully match fat dripping onto open flame.

How much does a Bacon Deluxe cost in Australia?

I could not verify a price on an official Hungry Jack’s source. It varies by restaurant, so check the Hungry Jack’s app for your local store.

Can I buy a Bacon Deluxe at Burger King outside Australia?

I could not confirm that it is sold outside Australia, in New Zealand or at Burger King elsewhere. Cooking it at home is the reliable way to try it.