I just tried to eat a bacon and cheese omelet that was made with soggy, greasy, bacon. It seems as if everyone that I talk to prefers (demands!) crispy bacon but most places use the aforementioned limp bacon. Does anyone like this?
Posted May 14, 2010, 1:51 PM UTC
soggy where the fat is still white and its clearly undercooked = WRONG.
Crispy dark brown where you can pick up the bacon and snap it in half like a cracker = ALSO WRONG.
Correctly cooked bacon should be somewhere in the middle. Firm and chewy with slightly crispy edges and fat that has just started to brown so its all tasty and flavorful.
Upvote for being the voice of reason.
Upvoted because I just woke up from a dream about eating bacon (food porn, I guess), and you just described the perfect bacon of my dreams.
you had me at "bacon of my dreams"
I do. I prefer "chewy" bacon over crispy.
Its not soggy, it's cooked properly.
I'll never understand America's fascination with streaky bacon, why do you choose to eat the stuff that's mostly fat? Have you not sampled the wonders of Back Bacon?
Maybe they just haven't tried it yet. Once you go back, you'll never go back!
If it's thick.
I don't like it cooked to death crispy. Slightly crispy to barely crispy when ordering at a Restaurant I order it medium. A good short order cook will do this right.
chewy is better than crispy.
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Soggy greasy bacon is the best kind of bacon. You can't wrap crispy bacon around other things, like shrimp, or asparagus, or various meats, or salads. And that is a bad thing.
Is this some kind of sexual act? If so, please inform me of the steps in which to perform said act and the implications.
"Yea I totally soggied her bacon."
Soggy bacon is an abomination, and is punishable by a lifetime of having to eat at McDonalds.
I love thick, crisp bacon. The taste and the texture is almost orgasmic.
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Do any of you save your bacon grease? If so, what kinda cool stuff do you do with it?
I cook breaded chicken in it for my chicken parmesan, also fried green tomatoes or fried pickles. Sinfully good.
i don't put it to one side
but if having a full welsh breakfast* I do like to fry some seaweed in it
*bacon, sausage, fried, poached or scrambled eggs, hash browns, mushrooms, seaweed, toast or fried bread, beans, black pudding,
fry eggs in it
bake your bacon! set at 350 and just keep an eye on it till you find the your happy place. your bacon doesn't curl either.
i'm a bacon-lover and i approve this message
There's only two kinds of bacon: good and great
Chewy.
All you pro-soggy bacon people disgust me. You know who liked soggy bacon??!?
Hitler.
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I'm with you there, crispy bacon just tastes like charcoal to me. Bacon should be nicely browned all over, but will not crack in two if you bend it.
exactly, all I taste in crispy bacon is 'burnt'.
I would have to agree.
I am with you on this one. We should create a club. Most diners always overcook their bacon and force me to make a special request.
I find the opposite - most diners generally undercook it.
I don't know about having no bacon, but crispy freakin sucks. Bacon should not crunch.
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Yes! Bacon should not sound like potato chips when eaten.
You need you some country ham. All the deliciousness of bacon but with a more robust texture and less chance that it will be gut-busting greasy like soggy bacon.
You know you can put soggy bacon on some paper towels so they're not greasy, right?
WHO HAS THE TIME? Yeah I know but undercooked bacon is just a risk I don't like to take.