That's Dumb

Sometimes I do things just because they are stupid. I touch hot plates, I swim after eating and I make things like White Castle Casserole. My wife was at a wedding this weekend leaving me home alone and that is prime time for putting dumb ideas into action. This weekend I thought it might be fun to make a casserole…. out of Whiteys. It ended up being surprisingly good and certainly classed up the little burger (sort of) into what I feel would be a fun and acceptable party offering.

So here are all my ingredients:
• 16 White Castle burgers
• 1lb. bacon
• 10 eggs
• 1 can cream of mushroom soup
• 1 onion
• Cheese
• Dry mustard
• Garlic powder


My initial plan was to build this in a 9X13 baking dish but I didn’t have enough Whiteys for such a large container. 16 is plenty but I may or may not have but definitely did eat 5 on the way home. Shifting gears to an 8X8 dish used 9 tightly packed burgers leaving two for the cook’s treat!

The first step was to mix the eggs, cream of mushroom soup, dry mustard and garlic powder. After arranging the bottoms of my burgers in the dish pour about a third of the egg mixture over them and let it sit.


I slow cooked the bacon which rendered off a great deal of fat. Leaving the fat in my pan I tossed in the chopped onion and more or less fried that dude in bacon grease. It smelled AWESOME!


Cover the bottom of the Whiteys with the cooked onion and 2/3 of your chopped bacon. Return the lids and cover with another 1/3 of the egg mixture.

At this point I let it sit in the refrigerator for most of the day. Once you are ready to cook cover with cheese and bake at 350 for about an hour.


You will notice you have left over egg mixture and bacon. I whipped up a pretty mean scrambled egg dish with all of that. Again, cooking it in the bacon grease was insane!

White Castle Casserole baked nicely and I think the egg fluffed it up and made it feel a little lighter… which could be the reason I ate the entire thing. I used both American and cheddar cheese on top, next time I will stick with cheddar only.


Now I know I stated above that it classed the Whitey up. That was a lie. It’s still White Castle. However, I do feel that with a few small adjustments listed below, this absolutely is something fun to take to a party or tailgate.

Things I would do differently:
• Buy more White Castles
• Add peppers and maybe a few other veggies in with the onion. This might make the whole deal more appealing to people other than me
• Add cheese only for the final 20 minutes of cooking... like any other casserole. I don’t know what I was thinking, the cheese cooked far too long here
• Add more pickles and maybe even a little yellow mustard