Can you laminate bacon?

[carnut]

Polyurathane

[DocCathode]

@Wilbo523

What if you encase the bacon slice in lucite? I’ve seen insects 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.

[Taomist]

@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?

OMG.

WANT!

Both the bookmark, and those beautiful bacon cakes, which I will make this weekend!

[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

[Mama_Zappa]

@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

better site with descriptions:

The Meat House

[Lazlo]

@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

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.

[Big_Fat_Harry_Deal]

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.

[sitchensis]

You know I actually checked my spelling on Google and the first web page up was 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:smack:

[gnoitall]

@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 are pretty grim on a local scale.

[robert_columbia]

@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();

[Amblydoper]

@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!