r/Bacon

Sampled at the Bute Arms, Aberdare, South Wales.
3 sausage, 3 bacon, 3 eggs, 3 hash browns, 2 black pudding, 2 fried slice, mushrooms, beans, 2 tiger bread toast and a mug of tea, all for the princely sum of £12.

Made some Chocolate Covered Bacon Jerky

About 30 pounds Kurobota Pork Belly, cured and dried for a week, cold smoked for a day and Dried for another week

The investment of effort is high but fully worth it.

I lay the bacon on baking paper on an oven tray, then put it in the oven and set the temp to 190c on the fan forced setting. While that’s getting to temp I prepare the eggs for cooking. When the oven dings when it reaches the temp I turn the bacon, then cook the eggs in the microwave and put it on the plate. I then take the bacon out and put it on a plate with paper towel and dab it a little on top with more paper towel. Then I put it on the plate with the scrambled eggs, take a picture for posting later on reddit and it’s all done besides the eating.

Decided to go a little extra crispy this morning

Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Breakfast Bacon - I've never had anything like this bacon, so I really wanted to try it. It's basically just bacon that's been breaded with cracker crumbs, hmmmm, sound interesting...

• I went ahead and used 4 pieces of bacon for this. Made the egg wash mixture and went about crushing my crackers. I used a mix of saltines and ritz crackers and put them in a sandwich baggie and went about crushing them with a rolling pin.
• For the egg mixture I used Colman's Dry Mustard, cayenne pepper and apple cider vinegar.
• It took a lot more crackers than I thought to cover the 4 pieces of bacon and I kept having to make more cracker crumbs. I used maybe 15-20 crackers for this.
• I had the oven preheated to 350 convection and found a rack and roasting pan that looked it would work. Sprayed some cooking spray (Pam) on the rack.
• So i put the bacon in the oven and set the timer to 8 minutes and then I'd check to see how they were doing. Well, these ended up baking for about 30 minutes and took them out and drained them on paper towels.
• They were nice and crisp without shrinking much.
• I also prepared some hot buttered toast with Orange marmalade, coffee and fresh squeezed juice. I didn't have OJ, so I used grapefruit.
• The Orange marmalade was made from Bette Davis' recipe and we've been enjoying it for a few weeks.

I was pleasantly surprised at how good this bacon was! It was light, crispy, not too bacony or heavy. Very nice flavor with a hint of spice and really good with the grapefruit juice (or OJ).

This was a little bit of work to prepare, but not as time consuming as some other vintage recipes I've tried. The mess and time it took wasn't too bad. I'd make this again for a special occasion. They were darn good! We know Doug loved it, but do you think Joan ever ate this?

Raw there is no black spots… cook it and some black spots appear

An “exploded” bacon egg and cheese featuring some Italian bread.

Yep, made swordfish bacon using swordfish belly. I used a pork bacon cure I had on hand of kosher salt, brown sugar, black pepper, and #1. Let it cure for 48 hours, rinsed, and then smoked at 155 for an hour.

It was an experiment and I’d say a successful one at that. Tasted like bacon. It doesn’t replace bacon, but it was a fun experiment to try.