The Definitive Bacon Poll

[Fnord5]

How do you like it cooked?

[htownmmm]

golden,crunchy,and chewy-oh yeah.


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[Brodirt]

I used to like it pink and rubbery but as I grew older and wiser I change to brown and crisp. It can't be too crisp though, it still has to have some pliability to it. This, in my experience, is the true art in cooking bacon...when to pull it from the pan so that it reaches the plate in that perfect state as it does continue to cook for a while out of the pan.

[GoldenMonkey]

Preferably thick cut, pretty lean, peppered, apple wood smoked, and somewhere between chewy and crunchy. Chewy as in meaty though, not chewy-fatty...

[Kratos]

Second! On both BroDirt and htown. That's how it's done! Black!? Acrid?! Those words have no business anywhere near bacon. A waste of meat, I say.

[Fnord5]

Second! On both BroDirt and htown. That's how it's done! Black!? Acrid?! Those words have no business anywhere near bacon. A waste of meat, I say.

Well, if anyone votes for it, we get to shun them

I do know some people that like it that way. makes me sad.

[Obsessed]

However they do it at Peter Luger is the epitome of bacon-ness. The Platonic Form of bacon.

[cricky101]

How do you all cook it? I used to just pan fry, but really like using the oven now on a fairly low temperature.

It takes a while, but cooks really nice and evenly and doesn't splatter grease all over my kitchen.

[GoldenMonkey]

How do you all cook it? I used to just pan fry, but really like using the oven now on a fairly low temperature.

It takes a while, but cooks really nice and evenly and doesn't splatter grease all over my kitchen.

Yup, in the oven. I take foil and crunch it up and spread it out again, leaving lots of peaks and valleys, line a pan with that, layer the bacon on it and spread coarse ground pepper over it, then do it in the oven at 350 for however long it takes. Awesome evenly cooked bacon...I learned this in a restaurant where I used to be a cook...we went through BLT's like crazy...

[Seraphim]

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KNFz0ckcOM[/YOUTUBE]

[_JP_]

My preference is not on the poll. Bacon should be cooked until it is brown and crispy. Crunchy would be too hard, and chewy it should not be. Pork side meat is chewy, but not bacon. For crispy the bacon must have a very high fat content. The lean is what makes it hard and crunchy.

[Kratos]

Well, if anyone votes for it, we get to shun them

I do know some people that like it that way. makes me sad.

Those poor, poor souls.

[strat1117]

I prefer it golden/crunch/chewy, but the truth is, I like it however it comes, even out of the microwave!

[Fnord5]

I prefer it golden/crunch/chewy, but the truth is, I like it however it comes, even out of the microwave!

How about fresh off the pig?

[Wishoot]

Cooked? Who needs it cooked?

[TimmyBoston]

You didn't put candied bacon on there. It is quite possibly the world's only perfect food.

[sapito318]

What about bacon bits? Those are 'da best for the salad!

[Djupis]

Sheesh, now I feel like having some bacon.

[OldSaw]

Crunchy, but not crumbly.

[moonshine44]

There's nothing on there about "in vodka". I read yesterday that there's a distillery in Washington making bacon-flavored vodka...