# Bacon Explosion! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966 "2008-12-28T16:21:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/1 "2008-12-28T16:21:11Z")
Paging all SDMB bacon lovers, take a look [here](http://www.bbqaddicts.com/blog/recipes/bacon-explosion/) for the latest in bacony goodness. I think I heard my arteries slam shut, and my heart start to cavitate when I read this recipe. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/2 "2008-12-28T16:26:11Z")
And I think I hear cardiologists’ pagers going off all over the country… wow ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/3 "2008-12-28T22:24:30Z")
Ummmmmmmrrrrrrrrr…the only phrase that comes to mind is “too much of a good thing.” Way, way too much. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/4 "2008-12-28T22:25:24Z")
Open thread. Receive Bacon! ---
**Author:** ![Waffle\_Decider](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/77aa72/32.png) [@Waffle\_Decider](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waffle_Decider)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/5 "2008-12-28T23:25:43Z")
I heartily recommend serving this with [Scotch eggs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_egg) on the side. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/6 "2008-12-28T23:46:29Z")
Mmmm… Breakfast sausage rather than Italian since I’m not a fan of Italian sausage. But placing slices in a biscuit could only be improved by pouring some sausage gravy over the whole mess. Then a bypass. Followed by more bacon! ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/7 "2008-12-29T00:54:43Z")
Could we get a rough estimate of a calorie count for one of those suckers? ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/8 "2008-12-29T01:00:45Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > Could we get a rough estimate of a calorie count for one of those suckers? Our math is not sufficiently advanced. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/9 "2008-12-29T01:04:30Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > Could we get a rough estimate of a calorie count for one of those suckers? I put 2lb bacon and 2lb Italian sausage into my fitday log. [Here](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v204/varishna/Baconlog.jpg)’s what came up. That doesn’t account for fat loss during cooking, but I am guessing that whatever calories are lost through that are replaced by the whole jar of bbq sauce. I recently swore off pork, and this helps a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/10 "2008-12-29T02:12:00Z")
About the same as a Big Mac & lg fries ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/11 "2008-12-29T03:18:30Z")
> [@Queen\_Bruin](#): > > I recently swore off pork, and this helps a lot. You’re missing a “doesn’t” in there. Right? ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/12 "2008-12-29T03:29:13Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > Our math is not sufficiently advanced. It’s the real purpose of the LHC experiment. There are less decimal places in Pi than there are calories in that thing. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/13 "2008-12-29T15:38:24Z")
I am so going to make one out of veggie meat & bacon. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/14 "2008-12-29T16:38:43Z")
I think this may be the first food product that leaves the real number calorie line and drifts over into the complex real/imaginary number calorie plane 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/15 "2008-12-29T16:59:44Z")
Can we start some sort of fund, donation based, to be given to anyone that makes one of those close enough to the directions and eats the whole thing within a day and videotape the whole thing? When the amount reaches _some_ large amount _someone_ will take a shot at it. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/16 "2008-12-29T17:06:51Z")
I’m fairly sure there are laws against paying someone to suicide, so we probably shouldn’t pursue that 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/17 "2008-12-31T03:33:21Z")
[Here](http://www.2old2play.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=46597&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0)is a bacon-y thread going on for 16 pages of delightfulness on another board. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/18 "2008-12-31T09:13:36Z")
There are advantages to having my gout recently decide that any pork product is too much pork. I can’t convince myself that the bacon explosion would be worth the week of agony it would engender. And so my heart is actually feeling healthier, since it feels (rightly) that it’s dodged a bullet there. I’m almost tempted to make one anyways to feed to other people just so I could smell it. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2008, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/19 "2008-12-31T11:55:07Z")
I thought a bacon explosion was an unfortunate side effect of cooking [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfbTO0GlONU). ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2009, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966/20 "2009-01-02T00:36:20Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > I thought a bacon explosion was an unfortunate side effect of cooking [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfbTO0GlONU). Want! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bacon-explosion/478966.md?page=2)