We use a mild pork sausage to make our Grilled Ground Sausage Burgers. If you prefer a hot Italian sausage, that’s fine too. Pork sausage must be cooked to 160 F for safe consumption. If you choose a different type of sausage, this safe minimum cooking temperatures chart will let you know what temperature you need to cook your sausage to.

This recipe is called “ground sausage,” so, as the name implies, you should use ground sausage in it. A ground sausage log is perfect. You could also use sausage links that are ground inside with a thin casing on the outside. Just cut the casing and use the sausage.

Sausage links that are solid inside won’t work for this because you cannot use those to form patties.

This recipe is written as a propane grill recipe, but that’s only because a propane grill is so much easier for grilling. You just turn the propane grill on, let it reach temperature, and turn it off when you’re done.

When you’re using a charcoal grill, it takes a lot longer for the grill to come up to temperature. And it takes a lot longer for the grill to cool down too. So, to make life easier, I generally grill on our propane grill rather than our charcoal grill.

You can make Grilled Ground Sausage Burgers on either a propane or charcoal grill. You just may have to adjust your cooking time if you use a charcoal grill.

We prefer to cook Grilled Ground Sausage Burgers on a cookie sheet (or a baking pan, which is just a different way of saying the same thing) rather than directly on the grill, but again, that’s just a matter of preference.

When sausage cooks, it lets out a lot of grease. See, sausage is fatty. And when that fat gets heated, it lets out grease.

If you cook these sausage burgers on a cookie sheet, the grease is contained in the cookie sheet. If you cook directly on the grill grates, the grease will leak all over the grill and there will be a big mess to clean up.

Use the cookie sheet, and all you need to clean is the cookie sheet.

Just make sure to use a grill-safe cookie sheet. A solid metal cookie sheet or baking pan is your best bet. A glass or ceramic cookie sheet or baking pan can break at really high heat. And you want to avoid that.

Logically, no. You cannot cook grilled ground sausage burgers in the oven because then they wouldn’t be grilled.

But, realistically, you can cook ground sausage burgers in the oven. You can cook them at 350 F on a cookie sheet in the oven. Make sure to flip the burgers after 10 minutes, and then check the internal temperature a little sooner than you would if you used a grill.

You could also pan fry them, covered, on the stove top. But your cooking time will definitely vary if you cook ground sausage burgers on the stove top.

If you have any leftover Grilled Ground Sausage Burgers, you can store the burgers in the fridge in an air-tight container for about three to four days.

You can reheat leftovers easily in the oven. Just heat the oven to 350 F and reheat the leftover Grilled Ground Sausage Burgers on a cookie sheet for about three to five minutes.

You can also reheat the patty in the microwave on high for 60 to 90 seconds.