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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!