My local Albertson’s has really good, thick sliced, bacon in the deli and butcher’s cases. Boar’s Head is pricey, but the best.
I agree with Arch Trout, bacon is best on the grill.
Bacon: Food of the Gods. Saturated fat heaven! I reccomend not every day, but I do have a half slice every morning and use the grease to fry my eggs in. Occasionally I’ll break down and have a BLT with four or five slices of bacon.
'specially these days when I’ve got fresh tomatoes up the ass. (So to speak)
I should know better than to open food threads when it’s two hours to dinner time…
Wright Brand Bacon is the best. Bar None.
I always microwave my bacon. It tastes better than pan fried and it’s less greasy because the paper towels soak up a lot of it. It’s crispier, and it lies flat so it’s better for bacon cheeseburgers.
I haven’t baked any yet.
Arch Trout: to an American, all bacon is “streaky bacon”, or bacon made from the pork belly. If you call anything else “bacon” we’ll just get confused. And remember, in America you’d get punched if you left any pink after cooking. Bacon here should be a deep brick red when done.
Yes, we know what “back bacon” is, except we call it Canadian bacon. But no one would dream of calling it bacon with no modifier. The unmodified word “bacon” can ONLY mean pork belly bacon in American English.
Well, thanks to this thread I had a terrible BLT craving. So I went to the grocery store for the fixins (no Boars Head so I got Oscar Mayer center cut) and I kept remembering other stuff I needed so I spent too much. But at least I had a nice BLT for dinner.
I was a little disappointed with the tomatoes, not enough perky and a little too mealy. Maybe the next thread should be the best way to find good perky tomatoes without growing them yourself.
You know, MLTs are amazing with perky tomatoes! 
food snob checking in here, with my lates bacon discovery:
I buy the cheaper bits, the ends and stuff; most grocery stores have them right in with the bacon. I get the triangle shaped bits that don’t make it into the regular packages.
Chop em up, fry em up, little crunch bacon nuggets. Mm mm. Spectacular to start a pot of beans or lentils with; the secret ingredient in my famous smoky chili.
I am detecting a distinctly immoral pattern in this thread of words like ‘drain’ and ‘soak up’.
The proper way to cook bacon is in a cast iron skillet, so that you can then cook your eggs and potatoes(and if you’re camping trout) in the grease.
I’ll admit to trying the new pre-cooked microwave bacon and I love it.
Basically by the time you will finish reading this post you could be enjoying some crispy bacon.
Instant bacon! Woo Hoo!
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That was worth repeating again.
If you’re lucky to have a Trader Joe’s in your area, that’s your best bet on where to get it. And yes, you will get what you pay for. That’s some damned fine bacon, there.
Forget bacon. At the risk of sounding like a food snob, get yr asses to some fancy Italian deli and buy yrself some pancetta or coppa (aka coppacolla). You won’t never need bacon again after that. Trust me.
But you don’t even cook that.
Plus it tastes totally different.
That’s like saying - just eat pork chops instead, they’re tastier. How that helps with what bacon to buy I don’t know.
I eat pancetta and bacon (and pork chops).
Eat fillet steak - you’ll never eat hamburger again.
Dumb.
Let’s get back to basics here and listen tp the Wolfman.
Proper way to cook bacon is in a cast iron skillet, and then you cook your eggs in the fat.
You don’t use turkey bacon.
You don’t use coppacolla.
You don’t microwave bacon.
You don’t use pre-cooked bacon.
Paper towels should never touch bacon.
I bake bacon, but there’s still a little part of me that knows it is wrong.
Don’t get me wrong – I still consider all of those things superior to TOFU, let
say. but it ain’t bacon the way the Big Fat Farmer in the Sky intended.
I’ll third that and add that you start with a cool skillet. Lay the pieces in and then light the fire. Never preheat the skillet. If you need lots of bacon, get a big cast iron griddle that goes across two burners.
I’ll second this. I get a lot of microwave bacon for my money, and it is so quick and easy to make. Also, cleanup is a breeze.
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Arrgh! Tofu is not a meat substitute! It tastes bad because Americans use it as a meat substitute. Comparing tofu and meat is worse than apples and oranges. More like apples and onions.
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