Bacon: A love story

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

My one beef with F&Herd is that they don't do unsmoked streaky bacon. I don't like back either.

[maxxi]

I like collar bacon when i can get it, grilled slowly so the fat renders off (great for fried bread or the start of a leek and potato soup), otherwise I'm in the streaky camp too.

Bought a bacon iron a while back for when I want the whole flat-crispy-bacon thing

[Seabag]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> My one beef with F&Herd is that they don't do

> unsmoked streaky bacon. I don't like back either.

PGC

Make your own, it's a thing of joy

The River Cottage (smoking and curing) book has a simple fridge method

I'm so smitten, im buying a proper slicer an' all that

I've also got a Bacon Cookbook, which tells you how to make 'Buffins' (bacon muffins)

Fekkin joy of joy

[Robert Poste's Child]

I had no idea there was such a thing as a bacon iron. Wonder of wonders.

[Seabag]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> I had no idea there was such a thing as a bacon

> iron. Wonder of wonders.

Oh GOD RPC, I just looked at that

I'm ordering one, feel free to ask to borrow in future

(my impulse buying is getting slightly out of hand, yesterday I ordered a Deep Fried Tukey making thing from the U.S.A)

[Loz]

Seabag Wrote:

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> yesterday I ordered a Deep Fried Tukey making thing from the U.S.A)

Otherwise known as one of America's favourite ways to set fire to your house, garden and probably yourself.

http://www.eater.com/2013/11/27/6326737/watch-11-explosive-deep-fried-turkey-disaster-videos

[Robert Poste's Child]

Like all food* to come out of the New World, turkey is wrong and has no place in a right-thinking person's festive menu, but I can see the deep fryer would add the fat that it lacks if you cook it normally.

*except potatoes.

[maxxi]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Like all food* to come out of the New World,

> turkey is wrong and has no place in a

> right-thinking person's festive menu,

No chocolate!?

Harsh.

[Robert Poste's Child]

OK, and chocolate, though if they'd left that well alone I'd be a size smaller.

To return to the topic, does gammon count? I suppose it straddles the porky border between bacon and ham.

[maxxi]

I think Gammon counts as long as it's not too thick and salty - and that benefits from a good bacon iron too - no need to snip the edges. Now a bacon chop - that's a horse of a different kidney.

[numbers]

I'm going to go against the grain here and say I am thoroughly sick of bacon.

It doesn't cure (ha) everything.

I don't like it in: a bloody mary, a burger, macaroni cheese, cheese on toast, anything with kale.

Much as I enjoy reading fabulous food blogger, Niamh Shields of Eat Like a Girl fame, I switched off during Project Bacon. Bacon jam was the buzzword on twitter a few years ago, drove me nuts.

Cup of Assam or strong builders and a good bacon sandwich has its place though. I miss Homemade on Barry Road for that.

PS: Don't start me on bastard "candied bacon" either. *grumps off*

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numbers Wrote:

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> I'm going to go against the grain here and say I

> am thoroughly sick of bacon.

>

> It doesn't cure (ha) everything.

> I don't like it in: a bloody mary, a burger,

> macaroni cheese, cheese on toast, anything with

> kale.

>

> Much as I enjoy reading fabulous food blogger,

> Niamh Shields of Eat Like a Girl fame, I switched

> off during Project Bacon. Bacon jam was the

> buzzword on twitter a few years ago, drove me

> nuts.

>

> Cup of Assam or strong builders and a good bacon

> sandwich has its place though. I miss Homemade on

> Barry Road for that.

>

> PS: Don't start me on bastard "candied bacon"

> either. *grumps off*

You deffo need 'Buffins'

But then 'Buffins' are the future

Unlike BitCoins

[Otta]

Numbers, I'm with you on bacon in burgers.

And bacon in Bloody Marys? What sort of total cunt has bacon in a bloody Mary?

Personally a bloody mary would make me hurl anyway, but if I saw someone having one with bacon I really would want to go all Goodfallas on them and start bashing their head against the bar.

[steveo]

I love Bloody Marys but you don't want to get sick on the buggers, you think you're having a hemorrhage.

The two I had in Belfast the other day had sherry in them.

No bacon though

[Jeremy]

steveo Wrote:

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> The two I had in Belfast the other day had sherry in them.

Yeah, apparently that's a "thing". A glug of red wine is not unheard of either...

[Lowlander]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Like all food* to come out of the New World,

> turkey is wrong and has no place in a

> right-thinking person's festive menu, but I can

> see the deep fryer would add the fat that it lacks

> if you cook it normally.

>

>

> *except potatoes.

And tomatoes, chillies, corn, avocadoes, peppers, strawberries, peanuts, pineapples, vanilla...

[fishbiscuits]

Don't forget the egg-and-bacon sandwich.

2 slices of "eggy bread"

Streaky bacon, basted with maple syrup

Peanut butter

Melted Cadburys Creme egg

http://fishfingersarnie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/easter-eating-pt1-creme-egg-and-bacon.html

[Dopamine1979]

fishbiscuits Wrote:

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> Don't forget the egg-and-bacon sandwich.

>

> 2 slices of "eggy bread"

> Streaky bacon, basted with maple syrup

> Peanut butter

> Melted Cadburys Creme egg

>

> http://fishfingersarnie.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/eas

> ter-eating-pt1-creme-egg-and-bacon.html

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[Robert Poste's Child]

Lowlander Wrote:

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> Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> > Like all food* to come out of the New World,

> > turkey is wrong and has no place in a

> > right-thinking person's festive menu, but I can

> > see the deep fryer would add the fat that it

> lacks

> > if you cook it normally.

> >

> >

> > *except potatoes.

>

>

> And tomatoes, chillies, corn, avocadoes, peppers,

> strawberries, peanuts, pineapples, vanilla...

OK, avocados, tomatoes and corn, I grant you. And peppers and strawberries, yes. And maybe vanilla. But what else has America ever done for us food-wise?

[Lowlander]

Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> Lowlander Wrote:

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> > Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> > -----

> > > Like all food* to come out of the New World,

> > > turkey is wrong and has no place in a

> > > right-thinking person's festive menu, but I

> can

> > > see the deep fryer would add the fat that it

> > lacks

> > > if you cook it normally.

> > >

> > >

> > > *except potatoes.

> >

> >

> > And tomatoes, chillies, corn, avocadoes,

> peppers,

> > strawberries, peanuts, pineapples, vanilla...

>

> OK, avocados, tomatoes and corn, I grant you. And

> peppers and strawberries, yes. And maybe vanilla.

> But what else has America ever done for us

> food-wise?

Not the turkey! At least it's just once a year.

[uncleglen]

Pork is great (especially with bramley apple sauce...)- bacon is a waste of frying pan space!

[Otta]

Nearly every vegetarian I know that was once a meat eater has told me they miss bacon snadwiches.

[Salsaboy]

What's a snadwich?

[speedbird]

aquarius moon Wrote:

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> Quorn meat-free bacon rashers from Sainsbury's :)

Hahahahahaha!

[Seabag]

Crispy streaky

Now think of that

Nuff said