"Thick cut" bacon is ham.

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April 03, 2019, 12:35 AM

bald1

quote:
Originally posted by arcwelder76:

quote:
Originally posted by bald1:
Sorry Arc, but I buy smoked bacon slabs and a friend who has a meat slicer cuts them up 1/4" thick for me. Only way to go.

Sorry, at 1/4, you're just in a rush to eat two slices of bacon that aren't cooked properly.

Again you're wrong. The thick bacon fries up perfectly in my cast iron pan with a cast iron press on top of the slices.

There's a reason bacon purveyors like Nueske's, Burgers Smokehouse, Bentons, and others sell 1/4" thick bacon for bacon lovers who don't want the trouble of slicing up slabs.

April 03, 2019, 12:53 AM

arcwelder

Mmm. Special equipment for your fetish.

You can have that quarter inch, but it's ruining regular bacon for normal people.

April 03, 2019, 02:23 AM

bald1

quote:
Originally posted by arcwelder76:
Mmm. Special equipment for your fetish.

You can have that quarter inch, but it's ruining regular bacon for normal people.

Arc, you really need to get out more.

Au contraire. Thicker IS better! Have a look here where these articles disagree with you big time. There are many others as well.

https://www.esquire.com/food-d...-of-bacon-thickness/

https://www.cooksillustrated.c...r-always-mean-better

And oh, the press I use in my cast iron pan isn't necessary at all, but I find it reduces splatter as well as ensuring the bacon is nicely flat.

April 03, 2019, 06:14 AM

fgwilliams1

Conecuh Sausage Company makes bacon. It comes to your front door.
Best use of a pig ever.

https://conecuhsausage.com/collections/bacon

April 03, 2019, 07:42 AM

92fstech

I couldn't agree more. Nothing ruins a good BLT like a soggy, floppy, tough piece of 1/4" "bacon". I want a pile of crispy thin strips on that sandwich that shatter into little pieces when I take a bite.

My wife and I actually had a discussion a few months ago about what kind of bacon is appropriate to bring into our home...and sadly, our experience is similar to the OPs in that the thick stuff seems to be taking over the shelves in the stores.

April 03, 2019, 09:43 AM

Dreamerx4

Bacon should not be transparent, if it just breaks apart, you are only tasting salt.

I want bacon to taste like meat, I love the thick or butcher cut as I have seen it called.

Can't stand it so thin it is like paper, just, yuk. I will still eat it, because, bacon... but it is wrong.

Can't say I have had it greater than 1/4 inch though, I would agree, Ham should only be that or bigger. :-)

April 03, 2019, 09:45 AM

Dreamerx4

Perhaps it is a northern thing to like it thinner sliced?

Maybe a poll would be interesting relating to geography?

April 03, 2019, 10:26 AM

lyman

quote:
Originally posted by arcwelder76:
quote:
Originally posted by smschulz:
Yeah, don't think you can define it by the thickness of the cut.

quote:
Originally posted by lyman:
exactly

Ham is the back leg,

I'm not an idiot, you two. I know what ham actually is. Thanks for failing to absorb the spirit of my post.

Bacon that is cut too thick, is "pork belly," at best. It might as well be any other cut of meat, so that's why I just call it ham.

Without that balance of proper thickness, it doesn't achieve that Bacon quality at which the cut is best served, in strip form, typically as a breakfast food.

Crispy bacon, isn't "crunchy" bacon. Crunchy bacon is burned. Correctly cooked bacon is firm and stands on its own, and melts in your mouth.

Floppy bacon is undercooked, and while not the sin of burned bacon, you're missing out on that melty crispy.

never said or implied you were,,

did think, for a second, about posting a note about thread title accuracy........

April 03, 2019, 03:41 PM

Fredward

Bacon and bourbon should be served stiff. I like bacon quite thin. I usually only eat it at Cracker Barrel these days. They'll cook it well and actually cook the scrambled eggs, too, if you ask.

April 03, 2019, 04:06 PM

ShouldBFishin

quote:
Originally posted by vthoky:
Good grief, y'all. This is easy.

1. Figure out how thick you'd like your slices to be.
2. Go to the meat shop and ask the butcher to please cut you a pound of bacon at that thickness.

Zip, pop, done. Easy, breezy. Nothing to complain about.

Bonus: you get your bacon freshly sliced, and in butcher paper instead of vacuum sealed into some funky plastic envelope.

Or maybe I'm wrong....

At my favorite family butcher shop - they've got this older automated machine that slices bacon - I should take a picture of it next time I'm in there. I'm mesmerized by it every time we go (and their bacon is the best I've ever had

April 03, 2019, 05:14 PM

2BobTanner

quote:
Originally posted by Fredward:
Bacon and bourbon should be served stiff. I like bacon quite thin. I usually only eat it at Cracker Barrel these days. They'll cook it well and actually cook the scrambled eggs, too, if you ask.

About a year ago, Wright brand had a limited-edition of bourbon infused bacon as a specialty. I bought a package and tried it; wasn’t too bad, kinda sweet flavor, but it sure did gunk-up my cast iron skillet.

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April 03, 2019, 11:11 PM

arcwelder

quote:
Originally posted by lyman:
did think, for a second, about posting a note about thread title accuracy........

If you didn't post a "note" about the thread title issue, perhaps not commenting at all would have been prudent.

I'm trying to have some fun with a ridiculous discussion about bacon, I don't appreciate being teased about honest efforts to make identifying and navigating threads useful and coherent.

If people find it inconvenient, I can find something better to do with my time.

Enough about that, kindly don't belabor the thread further with it. I would rather argue about bacon.

April 04, 2019, 09:39 AM

tatortodd

A fun pic to get us back to arguing about bacon

April 04, 2019, 05:42 PM

vthoky

April 05, 2019, 06:49 AM

bendable

The good news :
Costco carries reduced salt bacon at a great price.

the bad news : they slice it SO thin!
it's annoying as hell,

Bonnie won't cook it up , it's that bad!

April 07, 2019, 12:10 PM

BBMW

Arc,

If you're ever planning to come down to NYC (yeah, I know), and know several weeks in advance, make a reservation at Peter Lugar's. Among the things you should eat there (especially including the Porterhouse), is the bacon. If you want to know what thick cut back should and could be, eat this.

April 08, 2019, 04:52 PM

smschulz

Pig Math:
Thick cut bacon = ham
Thin cut ham = Prosciutto
Prosciutto = Bacon

April 08, 2019, 06:43 PM

Prefontaine

quote:
Originally posted by bendable:
The good news :
Costco carries reduced salt bacon at a great price.

the bad news : they slice it SO thin!
it's annoying as hell,

Bonnie won't cook it up , it's that bad!

They used to sell ham steak. I’d slice a piece off every morning for breakfast. Then they quit selling it