I am off work today. Naturally, I made bacon.
flickr.com/photos/29104250@N05/Posted Sep 11, 2008, 4:20 PM UTC
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how can something be so much better than porn without needing a NSFW tag?
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Am I the only one who popped a boner after seeing this delectable delight?
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A good choice of the use of a day off
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I think I'm going use the feedback form to submit a link to this image and show what a bacon ad is supposed to look like. Plus 1 bacon points for you.
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Why, thank you =)
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Mabye im a retard but I upvote every bacon reddit post I see
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Just found my new desktop background.
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looks so good...
Do you drain any of the fat off? sometimes when cooking bacon in the oven it doesnt get crispy for a long time, since its sitting in fat/oil
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I elevated the bacon slightly using foil snakes, as I did not have baking rack available. I didn't drain any oil off, during or after cooking, except for shaking the finished bacon a bit as I removed it from the tray.
After letting the bacon cool for 2-3 minutes, it became crispy to bite into, the fat dissolved on the tongue, and the meat lingered a bit, being somewhat chewy. The brown sugar helped to provide both crunch and chew, as well as sweetness, enhancing the bacon into super bacon.
The black pepper, disappointingly, didn't provide the sharp contrast and balance I was looking for, so I'll have to use more next time.
But, overall, It was some of the best bacon I've had in recent memory.
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The pepper may be more effective if you put it on afterwards. Also, I like using a garlic pepper.
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That makes sense. The essential oils probably evaporated off after so long at 400 degrees. I'll pepper them after they're done next time.
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Yeah I would guess that too, I've never cooked bacon in an oven though. I've always gone stove top in a frying pan, but I still don't like the pepper as much this way. I'll put a little in before hand just to spice it up a bit - but the majority of it I use after wards.
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you need a day off to cook bacon? i like bacon and its associated reddit as much as the next guy, but i was kinda let down assuming you did more than just cook 7 strips of bacon on a day off. just yesterday after a 12 hour shift i started my bacon brownies adventure. standard box of brownie mix, mixed in 2 strips of thick bacon cut into squares and mostly precooked. very tastey, but needs more bacon next time. i'm thinking double the bacon to 4 strips and it should be perfect.
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Bacon brownies? Pics or it didn't happen
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already ate em. had eaten some bacon chocolate from whole foods earlier in the day and my roomie farted. i said "somebody's bakin brownies" and had a eureka moment. hopefully the next bacon brownies turn out a little more bacony.
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Next time, pics please. Because bacon brownies sound too good to be true.
Sorry to let you down. I'll post something with at least twice as much bacony goodness in the future. To be fair, that was the last of my bacon, or I would have done something much grander.
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should be making the next batch this weekend with walnuts for some extra crunch. will take pics if i remember. sometimes i get a weird urge to cook goofy things and the urge to take pics doesn't usually go with it.
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Sorry that the image focus sucks. I used a crappy compact.
Here's the particular bacon I made today:
Needed:
Making:
Edit: The bacon was fucking amazing.
God damn, that looks fantastic. I hope you make it to the Annual Bacon meeetup!
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bacon/comments/70rbu/baconeers_the_first_annual_reddit_bacon_party_is/
I've never had bacon that crispy - would you recommend it?
I recommend all bacon. But yes, this bacon was good. For clarification though, those blackish spots you see are not burnt, they're concentrations of caramelized brown sugar.