The Bacon Thread
 

I love bacon. I know it's bad for me, has lots of fat and salt and all that... but it's so delicious!

Share your bacon tips, like how you get your bacon to be perfectly crispy (something I still haven't mastered), what dishes you like putting bacon in, etc.

** desperately craving crispy bacon in a hot roll with brown sauce **

When I have Christmas breakfast, I do the bacon in the oven on a cookie sheet. Bacon cooking in its own grease is best! I don't like it crispy, just thoroughly cooked-it should be slightly limp and not break apart into tiny pices; I tear it with my hands-not very mannerly, but fork and knife don't do the job well enough.
Bacon and eggs-food of the gods and best at dinner time.
Crmbled bacon(real, not those bits stuff) on spinach salad=heaven
Fantastic appetizer: Marinate large peeled shrimp overnight in salsa. Wrap it in slices of bacon and skewer with a toothpick, place on a cookie sheet, bake at 375 until bacon is cooked through.
Second great appetizer: Marinate water chestnuts in soy sauce or teryaki sauce for a couple of hours. Same as the shrimp, wrap bacon around each, skewer and bake.
Put crumbled bacon in Stove Top Stuffing.
Bacon on burgers rocks.
Those multipacks of bacon at Sam's club is one of the few real bargains there. You get 4 pounds for little more than the price of one anywhere else.
Oh yea...bacon...the second food group, after chocolate ;)


Oh, note the avatar: bacon's gone, there's some egg left. I need a perfect balance and will not eat any more eggs if the bacon goes first.

A dish without bacon is like a day with only one lunch.

I'm going to admit: I don't really like bacon anymore. I know too that it is bad for me, and despite its flavour, my good judgement has won out.

I will still eat it under certain circumstances, such as in classic recipes that require it. For example, I would eat it in coq au vin. I've never had it, but I really want to try it. God, it's chicken, wine, mushrooms, and lardons (which is basically bacon taken directly from the rendered fat on the pig's back...the French are geniuses, I'm telling you).

i've stopped eating bacon (and most meat) but man, i miss it sometimes.

bake the bacon on a rack in the oven at 400. it comes out full and flat and crispy, and you don't have to worry about grease splatters on the wall.

NEVER fry bacon without a shirt on. i had to learn this lesson more than once.

wrap a piece of firm white fish (cod or whatenot) in bacon and bake it. mmmm.

Bacon... good bacon is not easy to come by here. With all the halal establishments, there is a lot of "turkey bacon" and "chicken bacon". They are tolerable at best.

Going to the grocery store you can buy it but at 12 to 15 dollars per package it's a bit of a luxury.

I like bacon in a club sandwich (something else I can't get here).

I always hated the "bacon" in Singapore, then again, going to the UK I found out that I don't like them there either.

But mmmm nice thick bacon is yummy. I hate HATE HATE hotel sliced bacon.... it is the commericial cut of bacon it's too thin and barely has any flavor.

Wrap a potato in bacon, and toss it on the grill or bake. It is a nice crispy jacketed potato when it is done in about 1-1.5 hours.

as you pan fry, sprinkle some brown sugar over it and lots of black pepper, reduce the heat so it doesn't burn.

I don't eat bacon or real sausage any more because of the high fat content. So I like to eat Canadian Bacon instead. All the flavor, less fat. Yum.

Let's not forget filet mignon. God the French are geniuses. I'm telling you.

mmmm...bacon, the world's most perfect food.

Alton brown's 'recipe' for bacon in the oven:

With all due respect to my fellow TFP cooks and foodies... if you are responding to "The Bacon Thread" and your response is "I don't eat bacon," then it's time for you to have nice, big, hot cup of STFU.:shakehead:

Bacon isn't supposed to be a staple of a diet, but a beautiful and necessary escape for those who choose wisely to indulge with care. Besides, the human body REQUIRES both sodium and fats to properly operate. Can you think of a better way to get both? Besides, it's low carb!

With that said, Bacon wrapped jumbo sea scallops, add a little cajun seasoning and grill away. Best kabob ever.

Bacon... it's the 5th food group.

It's not that I don't love bacon, it's that I cannot eat it. Fat=GERD, and trust me, I don't want to waste an entire day in pain because I couldn't say no to bacon. Occasionally I indulge with one piece, but like I said, I usually just order Canadian bacon.

As for the bacon wrapped sea scallops...yum yum, one of my favorite appetizers! I definitely cannot resist bacon if it's wrapped around a scallop or pineapple--though I only have one.

I'm glad to see that Alton Brown's recipe for bacon was mentioned--it is by far the easiest way to prepare bacon imaginable. It allows for the perfect amount of crispiness to be attained.

On Radio Blowfish (the podcast), they had an interview with author/stripper Sarah Katherine Lewis. As a long aside, she had at one point asked herself, "Why am I never satisfied with the amount of bacon I eat?" So, she put it to the test, and found out that 4 pounds (uncooked weight) of bacon was the proper amount. Words to live by.

Rashers are God's gift to the GERD-affected public. That's the closest I can get without getting sick, too.

I love, love LOVE a good potato salad with blue cheese and real bacon crumbles. And a good BLT.

First of all, no one said you had to eat lots of bacon to be able to share your bacon tips on this thread. Second, let's be a bit more careful with how we perceive bacon's nutritional value.... Sure the body requires sodium, but the typical Western diet is already loaded with it outside of bacon intake. And a lot of the fat in bacon is saturated; 100g of it can have anywhere between 8g and 10g of saturated fat (back bacon being an exception), keeping in mind a healthful daily limit of this kind of fat is about 16g or less. The sodium in bacon is between 1500mg and 2000mg of sodium, with a RDA of 2400mg. Given a modest serving of bacon (30g), this is still at around 3g of saturated fat and 500mg of sodium. So if you had bacon for breakfast, you would need to consider the rest of your food intake for the day: no more than 13g of saturated fats and 1500mg of sodium. If you eat bacon daily and are a meat lover...this might be a concern. This serving of bacon has 11g fat and 11g of protein, but as a percentage of calories, this is 68% fat. There is a reason why bacon belongs in the fat group rather than the meat group. And what did you imply by low "carb"? The human body requires way more carbohydrates than both sodium and fat combined. So, yes, I can think of better ways to get fat and sodium in my diet. A cup of boiled spinach, for example, has over 500mg of sodium. To this, I would add 1tsp of olive oil, which has 6g of fat, less than 1g of which is saturated.

Delicious, yes. Quite. It is up there with other delicious substances such as hollandaise sauce. When you suggest "wise indulgence," I agree. I wouldn't eat bacon daily, for instance. Once or twice a week, maybe. But in my own case, once or twice a month is more than enough.

Oh, and btw, that is one hell of a kabob you recommend.

I admit to embellishing on the nutritional "value" of salted pork belly, but thanks anyway, Baraka. Take my first post with a grain of salt, as it was intended as a humorous over-reaction to the non-bacon eaters.

No worries, I found it humorous, myself. But you know how it is. It is sometimes difficult to read the tone of one's writing, and I can't speak for everyone.

Personally, I was just being an opportunist. I love engaging in topics on nutrition and health. I thought my post would be of interest to others.

Heh, grain of salt...good one. :) There's no trimming the fat when it comes to your humour, eh?

what this thread needs is more cowbell... I mean bacon!!!!
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I love bacon so much sometimes early on a saturday morning I will fry and entire pack and eat on it all weekend lol

I dont need to make anything with it, its the perfect food all by itself :lol:

http://thesiblog.blogspot.com/2006/1...acon-ever.html

EW EW EW EW EW!!!!!!!!!

Baraka, yeah I know what you mean. I have gotten in trouble more than once at work when the recipient of my e-mails read it the wrong way. No go eat some turkey bacon or something.:orly:

Quick snack:

Sprinkle colby jack inside a tortilla, add some jalapeno slices and then put in a few strips of microwave bacon roll it up and microwave a few seconds to melt the cheese.

I know everyone says to make bacon in the oven, but I have an ancient bacon press from my Grandmother, and nothing beats that thing. Good old cast iron to the rescue!

Ah, the George Foreman's ancestor's grill: the bacon press. Excellent cooking tool.

I'll bet Clavus got a story on this too :thumbsup:

AND just in case you think EVERYTHING should taste like bacon...

http://www.baconsalt.com/

does no one cook their bacon in a skillet over medium heat, turning every so often?

yes, all on a sheet in the oven is easy,
but the skillet method lets you keep an eye on it,
and you get to play with it while it cooks - pig fat is fun, kids!
AND then you can cook your eggs in all of that glorious bacon fat. :thumbsup:

just keep flipping until all (or most) of the white areas have some reddish/brown color to them and you've got crispy bacon.

personally, i prefer mine a little on the softer side.

and i think it was fredweena who mentioned bacon in a potato salad.
normal potato salad is pedestrian.
a potato salad with sour cream, bacon, and cheddar cheese is genius.

to quote pulp ficiton,
"bacon tastes good."

Not that it needs any more grease, but poutine with real bacon bits on top is heavenly.

you can weave the bacon into a cool "bacon pattie" like this:

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Shit. That would make a helluva BLT or bacon cheeseburger.

Add a touch of chives and you've got loaded baked potato salad--one of my favorite indulgences.

I like to use mine to cook pancakes, I drain it off after each batch of bacon then have enough to make a couple dozen skillet sized perfect pancakes =) Add OJ and real maple syrup and I'm in heaven. I don't do it very often anymore for health reasons but thanks to this thread I think I'll be doing in on Monday in celebration of the long weekend, I'll just have to take my son hiking to work off the calories =)

Buy a cookie sheet with a cooling rack that fits inside. Then use Alton Brown's method. But the time will vary by the thickness of your bacon and how long it takes to heat your oven. Starting cold does not seem to make that much difference. I like my bacon still medium rather than crispy. This method lets you cook a whole package and store the remains in the fridge for a few days. Heat up with 15-20 seconds in the microwave as needed. That is much cheaper than buying the microwave precooked bacon.

Bacon is obviously high in fat, but a little can go a long way in many recipes to give a feel and taste of meat. My favorite bacon recipe is German potato salad.

eh. the way I like bacon would probably make most bacon lovers smack me - i like it burnt to a crisp. (but also most meat, i like my meat ultra dead. lol)

my grandmother had a fairly high rack that she would put room temperature bacon on, then break into a cookie sheet a couple eggs that were nearly ready to freeze, tap the yolks, slice a room temperature tomato in half, set that cut side up with some shaved parmesan cheese and some fresh basil and a handful of boiled new potatoes cut in half , set the rack over them and slide it into a 400 degree preheated oven and cook till the bacon was crisp.

:lol:

Sorry, I'll go put my dirty mind back in the gutter where I had left it.

Oh wow that sounds amazing. I need to find a higher rack then and try this!

ROFLMAO....

actually - my grandmother would have gotten a big kick out of you finding that dirty, then she would have made you scrub some floors to "help you get your mind back on clean things."

come on now... bacon thread... bacon is tasty... but sexy... please... hehehe

ME ME ME!!!

That is pretty much breakfast for me most days, with either a waffle or some toast depending on mood. I usually don't get much of a lunch, so I give myself a good start instead.

Another thing is to do your bacon and eggs like usual, and toss on some grated cheddar, chives, tomatoes, and what have you into a tortilla and roll it up for a breakfast burrito.

At the risk of being branded a heretic (at least in this thread),
The Kids in the Hall Said it best:



/A shout out to my peeps Bob Evans and Jimmy Dean

now my tummy hurts at the thought.
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Bacon lovers dream come true...

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Six (yes, six) strips of bacon between 2 patties and a couple slices of cheese for good measure.

I had a friend who was eating a couple of these each week, so I decided to see what the big deal was. I ordered, I ate, I conquered...and I will never eat another Baconator again.

the only problem i have with these kinds of bacon products is that the bacon is hotel/food service sliced bacon. It's so they can still claim to give you X slices and not kill their profits. Bacon is expensive.

Hotel/Food service bacon is sliced so thin you can barely tell it is bacon even by flavor.

I know you have all been losing sleep over my lack of bacon here...

I just though I would let you all know that I have found a source of good, inexpensive bacon.

My taste buds are rejoicing.

American bacon? Canadian Bacon? Rashers? because that Singaporean bacon was god awful.

I bought it a Carrefour, the French "Hypermarket". They are WalMart's greatest global competitor. Interestingly, they are here and WalMart is not.

But I digress... they have packages of delicious "streaky bacon" for $5. Much more reasonable than the $12 to $15 I was seeing. I had some a couple of weeks ago and it was perfect.

Bacon in Singapore. How globalized we've become. Lucky for you, I guess! Just be careful about where that bacon comes from before it gets to Singapore.
I certainly hope Singapore is more cautious about its food imports than the United States.

Lately I've been enjoying my weekly ration of bacon in the chicken bacon panini at the coffeeshop next door. Yum.

Getting pork here was never a problem. You can't really have Chinese cuisine without pork. They love pork.

Bacon has been available it was just, to my mind, grossly overpriced or just not the right kind of bacon. This is more a result of supply and demand than anything else. While the Chinese population love their pork, they are not big consumers of bacon... Char Siew yes, bacon... not so much.

Its quite obvious the Jews and Muslims are wrong.

No god would be so cruel as to deny his people bacon.

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It's bacon!!!!

well not really but I just like how he exclaims it over and over!!!!

My brother and I always imitate the dog in this commercial whenever Dad cooks bacon for family breakfasts.

BACON POPCORN!!!

2TBLSP Rendered Bacon Fat (dice up cooked bacon for later)
2 handfuls of kernels
1 large stainless steel mixing bowl
splatter guard
oven mitts

heat bacon fat in steel mixing bowl over med flame til it ripples, toss in all the kernels and start moving the bowl around. No need for salt as bacon has already provided it. I use the splatter guard instead of a pot lid to allow steam to escape (instead of making the popcorn chewy). Keep moving the kernels to prevent burning. (You could also toss in 3-4 kernels and wait for them to pop before adding the rest of the kernels). Once it starts popping, keep it moving. I've been told to turn the heat down to low, but I haven't had any problems as long as I keep it moving. Once the popping subsides, remove from heat, top with diced bacon and dig in!

The bacon thread needs this addition from xkcd:

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Fortunately I am saved by living with a vegetarian. Bacon is a big stinky no-no in this house, though I make up for it by eating it when we go out--bacon cheeseburgers, club sandwiches, bacon with breakfast, bacon on the side just because.

Oh yes!

Now, My wife loves bacon, but cannot stand the way the house smells after our Sunday brunches, post bacon cooking. We've tried running the double fan 600 CFM range hood during cooking and after, closing all the doors in the upstairs etc, using the microwave, oven and stovetop methods for cooking, but to no avail.

Then it struck me. I have a perfectly good Weber propane bbq sitting on the back deck.

So, now, I line the grill with foil, shiny side up, and put the entire pack of bacon out on the foil. medium heat, turning around 5 min mark, and then pulling off just as it gets crispy putting into a serving bowl lined with paper towel. Just as good as indoors, with no smell in the house.

leave the foil on the BBQ until the grease congeals, fold up and through in the trash. Presto. No pan or cookie sheet to clean, or drains getting clogged. No wife complaining about cooking smell all day long. No windows opened wide to air out the house, especially in the dead of winter.

It's clearly a win-win situation.

Two words...Bacon Brittle.

Yes. As in peanut brittle, but with bacon (and pecans) instead of peanuts.

Mmmmmmmmmm

its funny you say that ustwo.. i was under the impression god/g_d was trying to wipe out the christians with coronorey heart disease..

Recipe?

There are two main options with bacon..

1)Bacon Baguette
Bacon + Baguette + HP Sauce (do you get this in America? If not, I suggest an import. It's amazing!)

2)Bacon + Egg bap.
Bacon + fried egg (pop the yolk so it hardens over the top, flip it if need be) + ketchup + bap.


Or man up and have a full English :D

HP Sauce is hard to find in the US, but not impossible.

It is???? Go figure. I had no idea. What about A1 Sauce? It's about the same.

This is why I don't eat bacon anymore:

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1 cup sugar
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 cup (about 2 ounces) chopped pecans
1/3 to 1/2 cup cooked bacon bits (6 to 8 ounces uncooked bacon)

Grease or butter a large nonstick baking sheet.

In a medium heavy saucepan, combine the sugar, corn syrup and water over medium heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves and the syrup comes to a boil. Attach a candy thermometer to the pan, increase the heat to high, and cook, without stirring, until the mixture reaches 290 degrees. Immediately remove from the heat.

Stir in the butter, vanilla, baking soda, pecans and bacon bits. Watch out, the mixture will foam. When the foam subsides, pour the hot mixture onto the prepared baking sheet as thinly as possible. Do not use a spatula.

Cool at least 10 minutes before breaking into pieces. Store in a covered container.

Nutrition facts per serving: 233 calories, 7 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 7 mg cholesterol, 41 g carbohydrates, 2 g protein, 327 mg sodium, 0 g fiber

From Everything Tastes Better With Bacon

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Looks delicious.

My initial reaction was one of disgust..

However, having tried chocolate coated salty pretzels and absolutely loving them.. I wouldn't mind giving them a try :p

having been at a food show and one supplier having bacon in one booth and the next booth being chocolate...

I can say.. MMMMMMMMMM it was freakin' YUMMY!

where did you find that available?

http://voodoodoughnut.com/doughnuts/bacon_maple_bar.jpg
Theres a store that sells donuts in Portland that sell this cray donut that has bacon on top of it. You might think it wouldn't taste good but its actually really good. The flavors blend really well.

Is that a maple glaze? Mmmmmm.......

kinda like having bacon with pancakes and maple syrup eh?

The VooDoo Donut Bacon maple bar!!!! Nothing soaks up half a bottle of whisky quite like it does!

Seriously though.

They are damn delicious, regardless of your level of sobriety.

i read it as cock covered bacon for some reason.. i had to so a 2nd take

yes quite dlishs:thumbsup:

kind of like putting cinammon in savoury dishes...I had a pasta meal on Friday where the sauce had pumpkin and cinnamon, plus butter and it was salty. It tasted really amazing...in a very weird way. I can't stop thinking about it because it tasted like nothing I have ever had!

I love bacon, but one of my favourites is an english style bacon sarnie. Just grill or fry bacon, get some fresh bread and open in half, rub cut halves in the bacon pan juices, stick the bacon inside, and slap on some mustard. Bring halves together and get eating! Yum :)

English style requires brown sauce, tippler. :)

I actually bought this very bar once. It was delicious!

Check this out - 50 ways to Use Bacon
http://startcooking.com/blog/395/50-Ways-to-Use-Bacon

Had a nice BLT this morning.

Wow!

I have started to cook my bacon in the oven, just so much easier and comes out perfect. Still eating a lot of turkey bacon over real bacon.

The oven method is the way to go. I like it because it allows me to attain that perfect level of crispiness. I should teach my roommate to cook his bacon in the oven; I imagine the smell would be more contained.

The Bacon Bra:

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http://www.loona.net/bacon/bacon2.html

Ewwwwwwwwwww! Microwave bacon, what the hell are you thinking.
Learn to use, either a frypan or cook it in the oven. Plus, no oil needed in the oven. Personally honeyed lardons and corn soup is bloody delicious. Or the best of the best, bacon and egg and salad burger. Its got fat, protein, carbohydrate and vegies. All good, but no microwave cookery.

around here there's a lunch truck that's got bacon jam. basically ground up bacon they spread on a sammich.

bacon would even make a rat kabob taste better.

Whole wheat English muffin(toasted) + One fried egg + 2 pieces of Canadian Bacon = Heaven.

Add some cheddar cheese to that and I'm all over it.

at the fancy food show in NYC we discovered this new product, Bacon Salt™: everything should taste like bacon.

OMFG!!! It's very tasty and tates like bacon.

I made some bacon out of sculpy
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he needs to be animated..... like Mr. Bill but call him Mr. Bacon, and have him walking about and then being eaten by someone.

I cook my bacon using the oven but always use the broiler rather than the oven settings. I like to keep the bacon elevated from the fat to keep it a little less greasy. I have never been too fond of the greasy odor that seems to permeate the air endlessly after preparing it and have found that this is resolved much more easily using the broiler. Generally I would get my bacon from the deli counter rather than those plastic package with the window. Better quality, the price really is not so bad and they cut the thickness to your liking. Regardless, I do not have it very often though this time of year with the fresh tomatoes from the farmers market. I just love BLTs, to me there simply could not be a better combination than a fresh juicy slice of tomato, crisp bacon, crisp lettuce on a nicely toasted bread.

I just toss a slice or two of bacon into a big pan that already has some hashbrowns cooking in it already seasoned and mostly cooked then when the bacon is part way cooked i throw in a egg to cook over easy in the same big pan. sure the grease gets in the egg and the hashbrowns but its all part of the flavor. toss some italian seasoning over the hashbrowns and a little hot sauce over the egg along with some lightly toasted buttered bread and im set for a day. Not healthy but... its so worth it to have a really good breakfast every now and then.

If not that a couple slices pan fried till nice and crispy then tossed on sour dough bread with some turkey lettace tomato and mayo. hell of a good sandwich.


If only someone could come up with healthy bacon and healthy peanut butter M&Ms.... oh what a wonderful world that would be.

think i need to give that baconsalt stuff a try

moved the post to the cookie thread.

Hmmmm..... B A C O N ! ! ! !

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OMG!!!! 1 Lb of bacon on my sandwich...

baconnaise.... I tasted this stuff at the last food show... it's AMAZINGLY good when bacon won't work in the recipe, but when does bacon NOT work in a recipe?

Baconnaise

Buffalo mozzarella, bacon, red onion. Bake on a crostini (baguette or brioche), top with fresh watermelon.

Not commonly known except to a few baconator physicists, Einstein actually postulated a parallel bacon universe...which I am still searching for

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this is in our physics lab, performing a government funded experiment searching for the bacon universe, a possible unlimited source of free alternative energy, or if not, at least it tastes good

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ThinkGeek :: Bacon Gumballs

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:) yum!

I know you've all heard recent reports of this.

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Chocolate-covered bacon on a stick, anyone?

our local candy shop makes such a thing, sans stick.

I almost forgot that I picked up some of this the other week...

An Effing Foodie: Lovin' in the LES: BaCorn @ Roni Sue's Chocolates, Pancake Month @ Clinton St. Bakery, NYCstuff was RIDICULOUSLY good.

Oh, we do have a bacon thread?

Thanks for bumping this back up people. I'll be back later with more greasy fat strips and tips.

I am miffed at myself. I thought I had already responded to this thread on it's inception, so I haven't further every time it's been resurrected. Shame on me, apparently I didn't (don't know why I scanned through the pages this time...).

I've said before that I think Bacon, Potatoes and Eggs are the world's perfect foods. I guess it wouldn't be a surprise that if I were on death row and requesting a last meal, it would be a full spread breakfast.

One of my absolute favorite ways to shove bacon down my gullet is the typical appy of rolling whole chestnuts in brown sugar, wrapping with a half strip of bacon, toothpicken' em and broiling for a bit until the bacon's crispy.

Cyn posted about Birch Run here in Michigan, I've been there a handfull of times and didn't know this bacon creature existed there. I couldn't possibly eat the thing but I find myself pulled towards it on my next visit.

For some reason, that play-doh bacon strip makes me think of Towely from South Park. "Hidey ho"! :wave: