BACON

[FLATU8ER]

Although I do not follow this girl, I did find this article interesting.
For Even Better Bacon, Chrissy Teigen Does This

I mean bacon and garlic
And I've never done bacon in the oven

 

[spressomon]

Once you cook bacon in the oven or even on the BBQ using a sheet pan with a wire rack/insert...you won't go back. Haven't tried garlic atop bacon though...can't be bad though!

 

[mudgudgeon]

Dammit! I've got no bacon in the fridge to try this

 

[FLATU8ER]

I'm gonna do this as one of the things I'll cook for the stupid bowl.
Thinking I will also try brown sugar, and candy the bacon.

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

For the last few years I've cooked all out bacon on my griddle on the grill. Heat the griddle to 500F. Turn off the gas. 3 minutes per side and can still get 3 eggs over easy as well.

Plus it seasons the hell out of the griddle for all other cooks. Nothing stick to that think now.

J

 

[mudgudgeon]

Dammit! I've got no bacon in the fridge to try this

Tasty pre dinner snack!

 

[spressomon]

Speaking of bacon ...other than when I used to make my own I've found all things Hempler's bacon offerings to be my favorite.

Your's?

 

[FLATU8ER]

I get thick cut at my local grocery, or at Costco.
We don't have different kinds, or should I say Brands. Just the regular Big Corporate names.
I would like to find a good mom n pop deli/meat shop to get mine from.

 

[FLATU8ER]

So mudgud, how was it ?
Looks good.

 

[mudgudgeon]

Tasty. 9/10. Would bake again.


Surprisingly sweet actually. Maybe crisp it up a little more. My boy liked it too.

 

[spressomon]

I get thick cut at my local grocery, or at Costco.
We don't have different kinds, or should I say Brands. Just the regular Big Corporate names.
I would like to find a good mom n pop deli/meat shop to get mine from.

Safeway and Raley's carry Hempler's up here...I keep waiting to find their Hatch Chile bacon; it just has to be good!

I wish they'd offer slab...I like thicker chunks for lardon, etc. But nobody offers slab. I guess they don't trust us to cut our own

 

[mudgudgeon]

I wish they'd offer slab...I like thicker chunks

I like speck. Don't know if you guys have it? It's basically chunks of the pork belly but cured as bacon.
I like being able to cut it in thick chunks. It makes a bacon and egg sammich next level.
Goes great in any review that calls for pieces of bacon

 

[spressomon]

^ I've had speck in Italy...you can find it in the larger cities in the US but not common as prosciutto and other dried meats. I also love lardo but non-existent outside major cities in the US. Ditto: Flat pancetta. All over Italy there are salumerias that have a mind boggling array of different dried/cured meats including stacks upon stacks of flat pancetta with different spice blends.

We're just so white here in the US

 

[TRAIL TAILOR]

I get thick cut at my local grocery, or at Costco.
We don't have different kinds, or should I say Brands. Just the regular Big Corporate names.
I would like to find a good mom n pop deli/meat shop to get mine from.

I prefer the local Farmer John's thick cut here; sold in a few stores. It reminds me of the old Decker brand we used to buy in Texas decades ago. Fries up well and not much "shrinkage". Pisses me off when a pound of bacon turns into 1/4 pound.

J

 

[FLATU8ER]

Well, I tried the bacon/garlic thing and it was so-so.
I tried the candied bacon, and it did not go over very well

 

[cruiserpilot]

I only know one thing about bacon...

You either like it, or you're wrong!!

 

[FLATU8ER]

I love me some bacon.
Cooking it in the oven is new to me, but a great way to do it.

Now I need to do a bacon wrapped something and grill it.

 

[spressomon]

A few years ago: Bacon Candy. We took a skin on pork belly, scored it into cubes, marinated overnight in a bulgogi sauce then roasted on the barbie. Insane.

 

[FLATU8ER]

I did find some Jalapeno apple wood smoked thick cut bacon, cooked it in the
oven on a rack/cookie sheet. It was good, but it was even better after it cooled down a bunch
as it made the chili really stand out.
Then I cut it up and put it in some potato skins.

 

[mudgudgeon]

Cooked up some speck this morning for breakfast. Had it with eggs and toast

This is what speck that I can find usually looks like

Sometimes fattier. I'd like to find it consistently with less fat, but sometimes for a recipe the fat is what I want.

Gonna have to try and find a butcher that has some that looks like this

Had to look up lardo. Too much fat for me