How Do You Cook Your Bacon?

[Guest The Doctor]

Simple really, and quite random but its just a poll to see how most people cook their bacon.

Also partly because grilled bacon is a pet hate of mine and i want to see how many of your are guilty of that crime :D

FRIED BACON ALL THE WAY! :D

Phil

Edited September 14, 2006 by The Doctor

[Guest mini_man]

Yup fried is alot nicer!

mmmmmm bacon

Sam

[Guest john.-h]

Yup fried is alot nicer!

mmmmmm bacon

Sam

fried is the only way. nice and crispy when the fat goes hard.well done just before it goes solid and burns.

[Guest Samsonite]

Grilling is best! we used to george foreman it, but it took ages.. dried it out a treat tho!! :D

if you need a slightly more moist sandwich, then slap in a nice fried egg.. all washed down with a bucket of tea!! the best breakfast on the planet!

frying is a nice change but its too wet for me, it sits in its own juices and a fatty slice is more poached in its own artery-furring goodness than heated from below with a hint of fat...

[Guest The Doctor]

it sits in its own juices and a fatty slice is more poached in its own artery-furring goodness than heated from below with a hint of fat...

ah but you see thats what makes it taste so nice :D

grilling i find is just too dry and salty.

Phil

[Guest mcwarre]

grilling i find is just too dry and salty.

Phil

That's why you should always have a nice cup of tea with your BS. Mmmmm, Tea. You can't beat it (makes no froth you see). :D :D

BTW. Bacon grilled, every time. Just like milk, semi-skimmed.

[Guest awarner (MVP)]

Enen if you do fry it you have to use lard and not of this vegetable oil rubbish.

If you don't use lard then you may as well grill it.

I do it both ways depending if I am at home at on a scout camp.

[Guest The Doctor]

Enen if you do fry it you have to use lard and not of this vegetable oil rubbish.

If you don't use lard then you may as well grill it.

I do it both ways depending if I am at home at on a scout camp.

I do mine in the sausage fat thats left in the frying pan. or olive oil it there isnt any sausage fat left.

Phil

[Guest Samsonite]

I do mine in the sausage fat thats left in the frying pan. or olive oil it there isnt any sausage fat left.

Phil

Fried Sausages!!!! now you're talking... take forever tho! gotta pay for proper butcher made snags too...

[Guest Disco Stu]

Enen if you do fry it you have to use lard and not of this vegetable oil rubbish.

If you don't use lard then you may as well grill it.

That's my man talking.

Fry it every time in proper beef dripping. If you get frothy white stuff in the pan then you need to buy better bacon. Go see your local butcher.

:D

[Guest mcwarre]

Beef dripping eh??? Eh up whippet n all :D

Lard is pig fat.

The frothy white bit is the water (salted) they have injected to cure it quicker and to add to the weight to reduce their costs. Always look for 'traditionally (or dry) cured' - this means no water hence no frothy white stuff. Do you notice that 'normal' bacon shrinks significantly when cooked? (that's the water evaporating) but dry cured doesn't?? It is probably about 20% more expensive but it doesn't have 20% water............

BTW if you do get frothy white stuff, increase heat in pan else you will boil it rather than fry it.

[Guest The Doctor]

Beef dripping eh??? Eh up whippet n all :D

Lard is pig fat.

The frothy white bit is the water (salted) they have injected to cure it quicker and to add to the weight to reduce their costs. Always look for 'traditionally (or dry) cured' - this means no water hence no frothy white stuff. Do you notice that 'normal' bacon shrinks significantly when cooked? (that's the water evaporating) but dry cured doesn't?? It is probably about 20% more expensive but it doesn't have 20% water............

BTW if you do get frothy white stuff, increase heat in pan else you will boil it rather than fry it.

beef dripping is the best when i manage to get my hands on it :D

as for the bacon its got to be thick sliced and dry cured. can't be dealing with wafer thin bacon. its just not substantial enough! it needs to be the thick stuff!

phil

[Guest Disco Stu]

Beef dripping eh??? Eh up whippet n all :D

If there's one thing me and t'whippet cannot abide it is tomato ketchup, or any other over-sweetened sauce. Sliced fresh tomatoes are preferred or perhaps some nice mushrooms. :D

[Guest nedge2k]

Has to be grilled and grilled until the fat turns yellow and crispy and the bacon is almost purple :D

Best uses of bacon:

Chicked, bacon (grilled first), garlic, herbs all fired up together.

Bacon, lettuce and cherry tomatoes in a nice sarnie (bit of mayo, no butter or ketchup!)

Bolognese or Lasagne with bacon.

Grilled bacon, grilled black pudding, fried white bread, beans, mushrooms fried in butter :D

[Guest travisb]

Preferably cooked by someone else, like the one I'm eating from the sandwich shop right now :D . Actually I'm a griller, so guilty as charged

[Guest chucky.egg]

Has to be grilled and grilled until the fat turns yellow and crispy and the bacon is almost purple :D

Spot on

[Guest richard_d]

Fried, but vegetarian 'bacon style rashers' for me :D

richard

[Guest mini_man]

Lol my mate eats Quorn Bacon Rashers and they have fake fat on them! lol.

[Guest fraser]

I use bacon in my bolognese as well Nedge, along with half a pinch of cinnanmon (try it!). That's the only time I fry bacon, it's grilled crispy bacon for sandwitches, none that stretchy fat mess when you take a bite!

Mmmm bacon tastes good...pork chops taste good...but a pig is still a dirty animal!

[Guest]

"fry fry fry", "fry fry fry"

then put them in a toasted sangwich wive cheese, onion and whatever else is lying around that doesn't have mold on it :D

[Guest Confucious]

I didn't know there was another way to cook it - it's what a frying pan is for!

[Guest scottb]

Lol my mate eats Quorn Bacon Rashers and they have fake fat on them! lol.

I'll have to try these.

Fried for me (that is, if I were to eat bacon).

[Guest genaldar]

Fried and I personally love bacon with fried eggs and toast. Course I have eaten a plate or 10 of nothing but bacon in my life. My buddies and I even refer to it as "love", i.e. let's go get breakfast I'm in the mood for love.

[Guest willieturnip]

neither...bbq for me :rolleyes:

[Guest bennish]

I just throw the pig into the deep fryer. GOOOOOOD EATIN'