How do you like your Bacon Cooked ?
 

Here we go , the Great Bacon debate ,
How do you like your bacon Cooked ??

by a naked woman in a frilly apron

. . . oh and what Jim said except insert "my" otherwise one could end up with . . .
http://americandigest.org/Granny-Clampett.jpg

laughing out loud

I was gonna go for the sexy woman line myself... maybe you should redo the poll.

Our bacon is different than Merkin bacon. I like mine still slightly soft with crispy rinds. When it gets all concertina'd up.
And in a white bread sandwich with brown sauce :yum:

We do have streaky bacon here (which i believe is the same as American bacon). But for the traditional cooked breakfast it's usually back bacon.

Looks more like ham to me.

If it's gooood bacon, I like it a little chewy. If it's regular or inferior bacon, I prefer it crisp-to-the-shattering-point.

Trader Joe's has Niman Ranch bacon. Worth every penny. I save the grease in a jar in the fridge to use in sautes, etc. :bacon:

http://www.mysteak.com/uploads/391200-91-01.jpg

Texture and taste are nothing like ham ::P

The word bacon comes from an old German word meaning buttock or behind. What you call 'bacon' and we calll 'streaky bacon' is cured slices of belly pork.

What we call bacon (or back bacon) is similar to what you call Canadian-style bacon. And is taken from the rump.

The curing method is pretty much the same, so it tastes very similar ((though with differences like smoked, or maplecured etc) and has a similar texture. the rind on backbacon if done to a crisp tastes very much like the streaks of fat in streaky bacon, and has a similar texture.

I most often get back bacon; but I do like to vary that and eat streaky bacon sometimes. If I'm having streaky bacon I have it very well done and crispy.

I voted medium well if that means that the meat has some tooth to it and the fat is crispy and juicy at the same time.

crispy but not burnt. bacon with limp fat still on it is gross.

I understand American ham = English gammon.
Texture and taste still different, but not by as much.

Ahhh.....I see.

What would they call our ham then, I wonder?

ham

lol @ monnie

I not only love bacon, I love baked pig skin. I might even love it more than I love bacon (sacrilege, I know!).


http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/i...g-skin-fin.jpg

Don't knock it until you've tried it. ;)

What's the difference between English gammon and English ham, then?

gammon is a steak. ham is like deli ham or spiral ham.

so the answer to my question was 'deli ham or spiral ham' :P

nah, 'cause they just say "ham" for both.

ahh. fairy nuff.

I actually don't eat bacon.

ya know how the Muslims say 'salaam a'laquim?' (or whatever)


greet all muslims you encounter with, 'Salami and Bacon' just to see what they say.

I actually do eat bacon, but no other pig stuff.

We have many middle eastern people working here and a Muslim isn't easily identifiable. I mean when you speak English and wear blue jeans I usually end up saying,"Have a nice day."

[pun]Only a racist pig is going to oink a salami greeting.[fail]


I wonder why taste and texture is different. Isn't a pig a pig?
and gammon sounds inedible for some reason.

You might change your mind if you had a chance to taste my bbq spare ribs. ;)

I really don't recommend that.

Spatters, people.

Well, unless it's a full coverage apron, which kind of defeats LJ's purpose.

what was that story about the lady giving her husband head in the kitchen, and him spilling hot bacon grease down her back some how, and then she bit down.... and he whacked her with the pan.....i tried to google it... no luck.

Little Johnny's parents are in the bedroom, sampling some afternoon delight. Dad walks out and Johnny asks what they'd been doing. "Making bacon!" Dad replies.

Next day it's Mum who comes out of the bedroom first.
"You've been making bacon" says little Johnny.
"Yes we have" replies Mum, "How can you tell?"

"The fat is running down your leg"

:eek::smack:

I know it! And when the ambulance comes to get them, the driver gets out and runs around to the back to open the door and there is a hook stuck in the door handle!
:p:

I love it cooked to a crisp. Not burnt but close.

I must be weird.

I prefer my bacon barely cooked until it's still flabby. No cripsiness needed. It keeps all it's natural flavor that way. Crisper bacon has proportionately less taste, IMO.

Oh and I keep bacon grease too, same as Pie does.

♪ ♫ They serve their chicken fried in bacon grease;
it's just down the road, down the road a piece ♪ ♫

Man, that joke is OLD! I think I heard it first in 7th grade. (tho' it referenced a turkey sandwich and mayonnaise.)

What's better than bacon wrapped bacon?

I like Canadian Bacon wrapped with Salt Pork wrapped with Pancetta wrapped with Prociutto wrapped with Double-Smoked Thick Sliced Bacon wrapped with Slab Bacon and topped with Bacon-bits.

Yeah, I'm serious about bacon.

We ordered takeout from this authentic Chinese place near us the other night. I got "Pork Soup with Chinese Pickles" and Mr. Clod got "Pork with Preserved Vegetables." The lady on the phone was extremely dubious--first she said, "You are Chinese?" Mr. Clod laughed and said he was about as white as they come, and she said, "Oh, your wife is Chinese then." He assured her I was not, but that we liked to eat interesting food, and we weren't scared. She was unconvinced. When I went to pick up the order, she again questioned me on what sort of experience we had eating real Chinese food, and you could tell she really, really wanted to just take the food back and bring me a nice container of fried rice and sesame chicken instead.

Anyway, I finally made it out of there, by now extremely curious about what crazy thing we'd committed ourselves to eating. Turns out that in both cases, where the menu said "pork" they really meant "bacon." Mr. Clod's dish was basically half a package of bacon, laid on top of this unidentifiable stuff that looked like very sauteed onions--like French Onion Soup without the soup. It tasted awesome. And my soup was essentially a clear broth with gigantic pieces of cabbage, and the other half of the package of bacon. Also delicious. I really don't understand why the lady thought we wouldn't like them; it's not like the flavors were strange or inaccessible.

Please invite me to your home for supper. :cool:

How do I like my bacon cooked?

In sets of ten.

Curing technique; otherwise a ham would come out indistinguishable from a pork shoulder, and bacon (streaky) from salt pork.
Perhaps this is why?

From a 101st Airborne page on equipment:

Scroll way down.

I'd always, because of this, understood gammons to be small hams, no bigger than both one's fists set together.

The gammon grenade developed as a less exciting/perilous alternative to that rather desperate antiarmor weapon, the Sticky Bomb -- a considerable charge of explosive encased in knit fabric impregnated with birdlime, the whole contraption protected in a handy hinged cover. You ran up to tanks and chucked it at them and it would stick, you see, to their presumable detriment when the fuse ran out. But do handle with care -- if it accidentally got stuck to your battledress in all the excitement, any problems with constipation just might be at an end.

Sticky Bomb (enlargeable images)

There must be a nitrite connection here somewhere...

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When I was n high school in the late 80s, there were two lads from Afghanistan who had been smuggled out when the Russians put prices on their heads. They had been approaching tanks to cell 'cigarettes' to the crew, and when the crew opened the hatch to buy them, would drop in a grenade.

No one messed with those kids.

right. should have wrapped the grenade in bacon.

In Afghanistan? :eyebrow: Tres haram, dude.

I wonder if Afghans like pastirma. It sort of gets used like bacon, and Afgh has the right dry windy climate for making it, old-school. Being beef, it's halal.

So I was thinking "ooh, an afghan made from bacon, I wonder if there's an image of that?". (Sort of like rule 34) So I googles "Afghan Bacon"...

and the very first image that came up was.....

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But I couldn't find an afghan made of bacon, so I had to make my own. I wonder if it's Ok to weave the squares rather than crochet them?

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Ooh, that's a bit big, sorry. Looks like one of those 3D images. I wonder what will pop out if you stare at it long enough with slightly crossed eye? I never could make those things work for me. :(

..although in this case that's probably a good thing -I'm sort of worried about what might pop out of that :eek:

Just looking at it makes my cholesterol level pop up.