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[Darth Ender]

Proper bacon is a food of joy. Home curing also avoids having nitrites which are really for the pink colouration too.

Bacon butty and mugs of tea are a winner when there is a long day ahead.

you can buy bacon without nitrites being used in the curing process or buy uncured bacon. it's not expensive enough to have to make it yourself. 5 or 6 usd per pound. Thick cut with applewood smoked curing.

That's good bacon. But you dont just eat bacon. Or make a bacon sandwich. That sounds like the kind of thing a 5 year old would think up. Like candy for breakfast.

 

[Oztig]

To be Honest, I had to google to see what "American Bacon" actually looked like.
It just looks like our streaky bacon, but has obviously come from a naturally rectangular pig - are there no variations?

EDIT: Images please

 

[Darth Ender]

Raw it might look like a chop due to the cut used from above. But even the most thick slice is no more than a few mm in thickness.

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yup. wrong. should be in strips with a somewhat normalized width across the entire length. That's bacon.

 

[Rubbernuke]

you can buy bacon without nitrites being used in the curing process or buy uncured bacon. it's not expensive enough to have to make it yourself. 5 or 6 usd per pound. Thick cut with applewood smoked curing.

That's good bacon. But you dont just eat bacon. Or make a bacon sandwich. That sounds like the kind of thing a 5 year old would think up. Like candy for breakfast.

Then thats where UK and US thinking diverges.

 

[Rubbernuke]

yup. wrong. should be in strips with a somewhat normalized width across the entire length. That's bacon.

Streaky bacon perhaps, but in France and the UK (I think) is more often used to wrap sausages for 'pigs in blankets' or across roasting chicken or turkey meats to seal in moisture.

 

[Darth Ender]

To be Honest, I had to google to see what "American Bacon" actually looked like.
It just looks like our streaky bacon, but has obviously come from a naturally rectangular pig - are there no variations?

EDIT: Images please

why would there be variation? that's like saying that a cut of steak has no variation. it's a cut of steak. it exists because of it's cut.

bacon comes from slabs that are about the thickness of how wide bacon is (in the us). you then slice it vertically ...that's how each one comes out the same width across. Because the original cut is a given thickness.

 

[xzanfr]

I'm starving now.

 

[Rubbernuke]

Cuts of Bacon

The main cuts of bacon are: Side bacon, or streaky bacon, comes from pork belly. It is very fatty with long layers of fat running parallel to the rind. This is the most common form of bacon in the United States. Pancetta is Italian side bacon, smoked or "aqua" (unsmoked), with a strong flavor...

bacon.fandom.com

 

[Rubbernuke]

I'm starving now.

Do you need a diet Tango ?

 

[Oztig]

why would there be variation? that's like saying that a cut of steak has no variation. it's a cut of steak. it exists because of it's cut.

bacon comes from slabs that are about the thickness of how wide bacon is (in the us). you then slice it vertically ...that's how each one comes out the same width across. Because the original cut is a given thickness.

There's variation coz pigs come in different shapes and sizes !

 

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[Rubbernuke]

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What always makes me laugh is that an egg is really a liquid chicken.

 

[Darth Ender]

haha.. you guys eat canadian bacon and think that's good bacon. no wonder. at least according to the wiki.

Though, canadian bacon tends to be more normalized as well. . and less varied in shape.

basically eating fried ham cut real thin.

 

[Darth Ender]

What always makes me laugh is that an egg is really a liquid chicken.

just stay away from the in between state of chicken.

 

[Rubbernuke]

haha.. you guys eat canadian bacon and think that's good bacon. no wonder. at least according to the wiki.

Though, canadian bacon tends to be more normalized as well. . and less varied in shape.

basically eating fried ham cut real thin.

Well at least its meat. As opposed to eating fried fat strips with side bacon

 

[Darth Ender]

Well at least its meat. As opposed to eating fried fat strips with side bacon

if we want fried ham, we cook fried ham. Though, i'd probably go with pork roll vs straight fried ham.

pork roll is pretty localized to new jersey though. Think like a spiced 4-5 inch wide lean sausage type thing ... similar to bologna but only in probably how it looks uncooked. not in makeup or flavor or anything else.

cut in circles...thinly usually... fried like bacon.

 

[Darth Ender]

though, i can see why you are eating your bacon straight ...
other than the potential sodium from curing...it's just basically ham.

us bacon is more of a garnish because of it's fat content. We dont eat it straight unless you hate your body.

 

[Oztig]

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I presume this is supposed to be symbolic?
It's a close race, can't quite work out who becomes the father

 

[Rubbernuke]

I mean, not even a Scottish munchy box would fry strips of fat. A pizza, Creme Egg perhaps....but raw fat?

 

[Rat Catcher]

bacon isn't supposed to be the thing you are eating though

Yes, it is.... Naked is perfection...

But you dont just eat bacon

Yes, you do,,,,

Or make a bacon sandwich

Heresy! burn the HERETIC!