# Can you laminate bacon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 13, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031 "2010-10-13T19:09:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031/41 "2010-10-15T22:19:52Z")
Polyurathane ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031/42 "2010-10-15T22:42:41Z")
> [@Wilbo523](#): > > What if you encase the bacon slice in [lucite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucite)? I’ve seen [insects](http://www.boneroom.com/insects/lucite.html) and other things encased in lucite and they do not appear to be rotting. I would guess that the squishy, wet insides have rotted. The chitinous exoskeletons of insects don’t really rot under any conditions I can think of right now. A dead ant kept in saline solution and exposed to the environment will still look like an ant. However, I do know it is possible to preserve human organs and such in lucite. But, I believe they have to be soaked in preservative for a long time first in order to drive out all the water. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031/43 "2010-10-15T23:42:29Z")
> [@ducati](#): > > Clearly the OP wants a bacon bookmark. Sadly, retailers have missed this important niche, so I shall steal the idea, patent it, and make dozens of dollars. > > 'til then, may I suggest a better [bacon encasement plan?](http://foodisforeating.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/baconpancakes.jpg) OMG. WANT! Both the bookmark, and those beautiful bacon cakes, which I will make this weekend! ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031/44 "2010-10-15T23:44:54Z")
Also, see what McDonald’s secret is. Apparantly their food can hang around quite a while before deterioriating. [http://digg.com/news/lifestyle/McDonald\_s\_Food\_will\_decompose\_your\_body\_but\_not\_itself\_sick](http://digg.com/news/lifestyle/McDonald_s_Food_will_decompose_your_body_but_not_itself_sick) ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2010, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031/45 "2010-10-15T23:45:40Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > A Google search for “bacon plywood” brought up nothing, but it’s a great idea! I think I may make a gingerbread house sometime for breakfast. It’s been done, though only the roof is bacon: [http://www.easyjo.com/wpg2-2?g2\_itemId=5245](http://www.easyjo.com/wpg2-2?g2_itemId=5245) better site with descriptions: > **[The Meat House](https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2669292)** > > The Meat House ---
**Author:** ![Lazlo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lazlo/32/9678_2.png) [@Lazlo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lazlo)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031/46 "2010-10-16T03:13:47Z")
> [@Taomist](#): > > Also, see what McDonald’s secret is. Apparantly their food can hang around quite a while before deterioriating. > > [http://digg.com/news/lifestyle/McDonald\_s\_Food\_will\_decompose\_your\_body\_but\_not\_itself\_sick](http://digg.com/news/lifestyle/McDonald_s_Food_will_decompose_your_body_but_not_itself_sick) Salt. It’s fucking salt. You know, the stuff that has been used for millennia to preserve food. I want to bitchslap all those blogging and reblogging halfwits and especially that stupid fucking photographer that started it all. ---
**Author:** ![Big\_Fat\_Harry\_Deal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f475e1/32.png) [@Big\_Fat\_Harry\_Deal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Big_Fat_Harry_Deal)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031/47 "2010-10-16T06:15:49Z")
Sitchensis in post #18 has created a great new word: botchulism. I’m guessing the definition is a blunder that results in a deadly disease. Thanks, Sitch. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2010, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031/48 "2010-10-16T06:41:50Z")
You know I actually checked my spelling on Google and the first web page up was [emedtv.com](http://emedtv.com). If I would have actually clicked on the link I would have read the first words of the site are “Are you looking for botulism? botchulism is a common misspelling…” Oh well live and learn there is actually a pretty funny definition for botchulism in the [urban dictionary](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=botchulism):smack: ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031/49 "2010-10-21T21:18:43Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > You could irradiate it after encasing in plastic, to kill the microbes etc. Irradiation is actually a pretty common method of food preservation in areas of the world with skimpy access to electricity and refrigeration. But with industrial-strength access to sources of ionizing radiation? Although I suspect it’s easier to maintain a food processing line with a Cobalt-60 gamma source then an entire national power infrastructure. But the consequences of a [mismanaged radiological source](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident) are pretty grim on a local scale. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031/50 "2010-10-22T02:18:08Z")
> [@descendingsnow](#): > > My friend and i are debating about what would happen if you were to try and laminate a slice of bacon. would it rot as normal or become immortal? > > It’s a stupid question, but we gotta know. If you are using C# 3.0, you can use extension methods: public static void Laminate(this Bacon laminatable) { …implement the method } … ``` Bacon myBacon = new BackBacon(GRADE_A); myBacon.Laminate(); ``` ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031/51 "2010-10-22T03:22:02Z")
> [@Johnny\_Angel](#): > > …In any case, if salt and fat make food immortal, bacon has a pretty good head start. But just to be safe, you could try dipping it in lard and rolling it in salt… …And then, wrap it in bacon! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-laminate-bacon/557031.md?page=2)