bacon is the greatest food ever.

Wendy's now has a sandwich called The Baconator. It is two 1/4 lb. beef patties, cheese, and 6 strips of hickory smoked bacon. And mayonnaise!
http://www.wendys.com/food/Product.jsp? ... &product=4

830 calories and 51 grams of fat.

Early on in the relationship I made breakfast in bed for a girlfriend. When she awoke to the aroma, she inhaled deeply and, quoting Homer Simpson, said, "Mmmmm, unexplained bacon..." This spontaneous bit of cleverness and fatty food appreciation provided enough momentum to sustain our poorly-suited relationship for about two years.

I enjoy bacon, but find myself cooking it less frequently because it's messy dealing with all of the grease. The pre-cooked bacon is disillusioning: seeing that a pound of raw bacon fries away to a few flimsy ounces.

bacon is one of the best food ever invented. so not crap it's not even funny. i tend to cook a pound at a time and eat it over a couple/three days cuz it's such a mess to cook.

i like it microwaved too, comes out chewy, like jerky, if you time it right.

Attention people bitching about the mess.
Listen up:

Take a baking sheet.
Line it with parchment paper
Lay strips of bacon across the whole thing. Not overlapping, but snug together.
Preheat over to 400
Insert pan.
Enjoy your coffee. Make your eggs. Whatever.
In about 6-7 minutes, you will notice the bacon has browned.
Remove pan, flip slices.
Return to oven until cooked to your liking, 4-8 minutes depending on your crispness requirements and quality of your oven.

It makes a lot at once (yeah!), the mess is minimal, and it tastes better than bacon prepared any other way. An EA list lurker's girlfriend showed me this, and she used to own part of a breakfast restaurant.

After you eat, peel the parchment paer off over a trashcan and most of your fat is cleaned up.

Now, go forth.

-A

Thank you for that.

You know, after years and years of being a huge bacon fan, I think I have to change my stance on bacon. The more I think about it the more I realise...bacon is NOT all that nice.
Actually, the only thing I can eat from pigs now is sausages, and there's a lot that factors into that too.

I already voted not crap ages ago. I guess I still stand by my 'NOT CRAP' decision, I just wouldn't choose to eat bacon anymore.

Alright, you may ridicule me now.

Darryl, if I ever meet you, I'm going to give you a wedgie.
Maybe even a bacon wedgie.
You are not right.

-A

Ladies and Gentlemen of the PRF, I present to you a fine marriage of sweet and meat: the bacon cookie:

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 cup flour
1/4 t. baking soda
8-10 strips bacon, fried crispy and chopped fine
2 cups corn flakes
1/2 cup raisins

mix the flour and soda
cream the butter and sugars
add the egg to the butter/sugar and beat well
add the flour and beat 'till it's combined
add the corn flakes, bacon and raisins and mix to combine

the dough is not going to be too dough-like because of the corn flakes, but should hold together enough to make balls. I like to use a 2 oz. ice cream scoop to make even portions. Put yer little balls of dough on a lightly greased backing sheet, then mash 'em down a bit into thick discs. Bake at 350 deg. for maybe 12 minutes or so. Best to store them tightly covered in the 'fridge.

I'm not kidding about this. These cookies are at once tasty and disturbing. They are clearly cookies. They obviously have bacon in them. But they are cookies. So strange. Enjoy...

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. Not crap.