McDonald's lineup of premium burgers is helping the fast-food giant's sales numbers, it said in April.

These premium burgers use select ingredients and are marketed as higher-quality menu options.

We tried them all and found that they are, on the whole, a higher quality than McDonald's classic burgers, and they have a price to match.

McDonald's is betting on better burgers.

In the company's most recent earnings call in April, McDonald's CFO Kevin Ozan said that sales are being buoyed, in part, by sales of the chain's Signature Crafted line of premium burgers, which are about $1-2 more expensive than the rest of McDonald's burger lineup.

The Signature Crafted line has experienced a rocky history. It started out as a highly customizable, create-your-own burger system called "Create Your Taste," which was rolled out with the ordering kiosks in 2016. It was an ambitious part of the chain's turnaround plan, but it never really ironed out the kinks that came with it — custom burgers slow down kitchens and complicate orders, leading to longer wait times.

McDonald's unceremoniously dumped the program later that year, turning it into the Signature Crafted menu, which kept a handful of the most popular burger builds but nixed the customization. As of this week, all of McDonald's Signature Crafted burgers are made with fresh beef, not frozen. You can also order them with chicken — grilled or fried — instead of beef.

But here, we're interested in a juicy burger. So how is this premium burger selection? If it's giving a boost to the chain's sales numbers, clearly there's something to it. We decided to try the Signature Crafted burgers to see what the fuss is all about: