Crispy Bacon, or Fatty Bacon?

Do you like your bacon crisp or fatty? Some like it cooked until it is dry and crispy, almost burnt. Some like it firm but bendy, with a little moisture. Some like it fatty and succulent with lots of moisture.

I like all bacon, but lately I am tending toward fatty and juicy.

PTF

Dry and crisp! So does Madame P.

Our daughter and grandson like it firm and bendy.

The son-in-law wants it fatty.

Bacon can be problematic at Chateau Pepperwinkle.

Perfect bacon is cooked until it’s just shy of being burnt. Though I usually take it off somewhat before that, because I don’t trust myself to get the timing perfect.

Yes.

Cook until it’s about to be burnt but not letting it get there.

Depends on what it’s for. Crispy is best when it’s a breakfast side dish; anything but crispy when used in a sandwich.

Huh. I like crispy bacon best in a sandwich: the crunch gives a different texture that I can’t get in the sandwich without potato chips, and that’s just weird.

As breakfast, I generally cook it to just-shy-of-burnt, but sometimes I’m not so shy. My goal is slightly bendy.

Yeah, any of the first three are fine with me. It’s bacon, very difficult to make it bad.

Try not using limp lettuce. :wink:

Last time we made BLTs, I accidentally made the bacon crispy and we ended up with bacon pieces everywhere.

Fatty, crispy bacon for me please,


With a side of bacon.

It’s gotta be at least bendy. When you cook it 'til it’s hard and crisp, most of the flavor’s gone. And a BLT with crispy bacon - might as well just make it a LT. I want bacon, not cardboard that tastes like bac-o-bits.

Middle of the road, here

Another fan of just shy of burnt. Damn. Now I have to go fry some bacon.

I’m with you. soft, chewy bacon in a sandwich resists the cutting power of the incisors, and you risk pulling the bacon out of the sandwich and dropping it in your lap.

I also like the crunch contrast to the melted cheese and scrambled egg.

I like it crispy. My husband likes it limp, so he can pull the fat away from the meat. He throws away the fatty parts, so “fatty and succulent” isn’t what he is going for.

No option for both?

I like it best when it can be crumbled and added to the omelet that is being cooked in the bacon grease. Yum!

Ditto. As an ingredient, I want it crispy. As plain bacon, I want it medium. Not limp, but not to the point that it’s an improvised shiv. On a burger or such, it needs to be crispy enough that you don’t pull the whole rasher out when you bite it.

Where is the option for both? Bacon fried, bacon baked, bacon burnt, it’s bacon!

I always save my bacon grease, but I run out sometimes. Would be nice to have a gallon on hand. That is 7 pounds! Bacon cheesburgers fried in bacon grease!

Iceberg lettuce sucks in a sandwich. I want buttercrunch or romaine, which are fine, but not nearly as crunchy as bacon.